TechCrunch Daily Crunch
Today’s biggest tech headlines in a flash from TechCrunch.
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- 1640
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Trump says Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok
Plus - Eric Schmidt says DeepSeek marks a ‘turning point’ for the global AI race; Waymo begins testing robotaxis on LA freeways
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00:06:57 |
Wed 29 Jan 2025
Sam Altman’s World now wants to link AI agents to your digital identity
Plus - Flip, the TikTok Shop rival, launches a creator fund that grants up to $100M of equity; Kodiak has made its first driverless truck deliveries to customer Atlas Energy
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00:06:14 |
Sat 25 Jan 2025
OpenAI launches Operator
Plus - Threads rolls out a post scheduler, ‘markup’ feature, and more; X sees a jump in consumer spending on mobile, despite decline in daily active users
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00:08:06 |
Fri 24 Jan 2025
Scale AI is facing a third worker lawsuit in about a month
In 2015, the blogging site Tumblr launched a GIF discovery feature called Tumblr TV as an experimental product. Now, with the U.S. TikTok ban leaving the fate of the short-form video app uncertain, T…
00:04:34 |
Thu 23 Jan 2025
Meta lures TikTok creators with $5K bonuses
Plus - Meta is building Oakley smart glasses for athletes; Spotify’s educational audio courses could be coming to US
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00:07:20 |
Wed 22 Jan 2025
TikTok competitors claim the top of the App Store
Plus - Meta confirms it will keep fact-checkers outside the U.S. ‘for now’; DeepSeek claims its reasoning model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarks
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00:07:05 |
Tue 21 Jan 2025
Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban
Plus, OpenAI is trying to extend human life, with help from a longevity startup.
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00:07:07 |
Sat 18 Jan 2025
Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative
Plus - Threads might let you add music to your posts in the future; TikTok ban poised to be delayed as Trump explores ways to extend deadline
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00:08:37 |
Fri 17 Jan 2025
Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app
Google raises the price of Workspace plans, includes its AI features for free; LinkedIn adds free AI tools for job hunters and recruiters
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00:08:36 |
Thu 16 Jan 2025
TikTok users’ attempted migration to Chinese app RedNote isn’t going too well
Plus, Meta cuts 5% of its workforce.
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00:07:15 |
Wed 15 Jan 2025
The Biden administration proposes sweeping new restrictions on exporting AI chips
Plus - eBay acquires Caramel to reduce risk and complexity of online car sales; Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are slamming Meta over its fact-checking policy
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00:08:49 |
Tue 14 Jan 2025
TikTok warns of looming shutdown as Supreme Court weighs sell-or-ban law
Plus, Meta eliminates its DEI programs.
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00:07:33 |
Sat 11 Jan 2025
Comcast and other TV streamers are now chasing YouTube’s ad dollars
Plus - Google folds more AI teams into DeepMind to ‘accelerate the research to developer pipeline’; Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram explode after Meta ends fact-checking
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00:08:49 |
Fri 10 Jan 2025
Watch Duty surpasses ChatGPT as top free app on App Store
Watch Duty surpasses ChatGPT as top free app on App Store; Mastodon CEO calls Meta’s moderation changes ‘deeply troubling
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00:08:08 |
Thu 09 Jan 2025
Uber teams up with Nvidia to scale autonomous driving faster
Plus - Telegram reports spike in sharing user data with law enforcement; Feds investigate Tesla’s ‘Actual Smart Summon’
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00:07:55 |
Wed 08 Jan 2025
Google is forming a new team to build AI that can simulate the physical world
Plus - Online spending grew 3% to a record $1.2T over holiday period; Samsung says its home robot will roll out this year
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00:08:11 |
Tue 07 Jan 2025
xAI’s next-gen AI model didn’t arrive on time
Spotify’s partner program for podcast hosts is now available Telegram rolls out third-party account verification, filters
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00:06:51 |
Fri 03 Jan 2025
Nonprofit group joins Elon Musk’s effort to block OpenAI’s for-profit transition
Plus, Apple TV+ is free this weekend.
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00:07:07 |
Tue 31 Dec 2024
OpenAI just announces new o3 models
"Plus, Google is expanding Gemini’s in-depth research mode to 40 languages."
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00:07:50 |
Sat 21 Dec 2024
Tesla is courting Texas cities to test its promised robotaxi service
Instagram teases AI tools for editing appearances, backgrounds in videos; Google releases its own ‘reasoning’ AI model
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00:07:29 |
Fri 20 Dec 2024
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