Amazon DNS outage destroys large portions of the Internet
An outage that affected web hosting giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) brought down vast swathes of the web, including websites, banks, and some government services. Amazon announced Monday morning that the outage had been “fully alleviated” and that most services were returning to normal after a several-hour period in which much of the internet was […]
Scale AI Alumni Raises $9M for AI Serving Critical Industries in MENA
Bilal Abu Ghazaleh had just moved to London a few days before our visit and was splitting his time between London and Dubai. After nearly a decade in the US, including a stint at Scale AI, he brings that experience to his next venture, 1001 AI. 1001 AI is a company that builds AI infrastructure […]
The man who bet everything on AI and Bill Belichick
Lee Roberts met me Friday morning at the San Francisco University Club. That was just hours before his football team lost to Cal in heartbreaking fashion on a goal-line fumble. Because Bill Belichick and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s expensive experiment didn’t go according to script. But UNC Chairman Roberts doesn’t know […]
OpenAI’s “Embarrassing” Mathematics | Tech Crunch
“Holded by its own GPTard.” Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta, described the fightback after OpenAI researchers took a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed mathematical breakthrough. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added: “This is embarrassing.” In a since-deleted tweet, OpenAI Vice President Kevin Weil declared, “GPT-5 has found solutions to 10 (!) previously unresolved […]
TechCrunch Mobility: An acquisition that may not be hostile
Welcome to TechCrunch Mobility. A central hub for news and insight on the future of transportation. Need another reason to get this free in your inbox? The email version of this newsletter includes polls, including this week’s one asking readers what they think is the best business model for self-driving technology. Have an opinion on […]
Whitehouse is already one of the most blocked accounts on Bluesky
The Trump administration has unleashed an unexpected social media attack on Democratic opponents, with the White House and many other government agencies joining in on Blue Sky on Friday. In its first post, the new White House account uploaded a highlight reel of footage and memes of President Trump with the message: “What’s up, Blue […]
Wikipedia says AI search summaries and social videos are causing traffic decline
Wikipedia is often touted as the last good website on an internet increasingly populated by toxic social media and AI slop. But online encyclopedias aren’t completely immune to broader trends, with human pageviews down 8% year-over-year, according to a new blog post from Wikimedia Foundation’s Marshall Miller. The foundation works to differentiate between traffic from […]
This top VC bets nearly 20% of its money on teenagers – here’s why
Kevin Hurts tends to be the first through the door. In 2001, he co-founded Xoom. Those were the days when you had to wait in line at Western Union to send money across the border. The company went public in 2013, and PayPal paid $1.1 billion for it in 2015. Four years after launching Xoom, […]
YouTubers are no longer dependent on ad revenue — how some YouTubers are diversifying
YouTube has become the largest platform and offers creators many opportunities to make a living. In June, the company reported that the creative ecosystem has increased U.S. GDP by more than $55 billion and created more than 490,000 full-time jobs. However, many YouTubers are reducing their reliance on ad revenue and brand deals. There are […]
Too burnt out to travel? This new app will fake your summer vacation photos
At a time when startup hustle culture is back and “locked-in” tech founders are even embracing the “996” working style (9am to 9pm, 6 days a week), there’s something dystopian about using an AI app to generate a fake vacation photo of yourself. Still, here we are. Product designer Laurent Del Rey, who recently joined […]