AI startup Rocket delivers vibe McKinsey-style reporting at a fraction of the cost
Indian startup Rocket is betting that the next big opportunity is before vibecoding: letting AI help people decide what to build. We have launched a platform that creates consulting-type product strategies. The Surat, India-based startup on Tuesday launched Rocket 1.0, a platform that connects research, product building, and competitive intelligence in a single workflow. The […]
Picsart now lets creators earn money from their designs
Picsart, an AI-powered design platform, is launching a creator monetization program, the company exclusively tells TechCrunch. The program is open to all creators and requires no invite list or minimum audience size. The program allows creators to create original content using Picsart tools for specific campaigns, share it on social channels, and earn money based […]
OpenAI alumni are quietly investing from a new fund that could be worth $100 million
A new venture capital fund with deep ties to OpenAI has hit its $100 million goal for the first time, founders tell TechCrunch. The partners have already written several checks. The fund is called Zero Shot (a play on an AI training term), and its co-founder team includes several OpenAI OGs who became VCs almost […]
Gasoline prices are not the only factor driving used EV sales
The latest electric vehicle sales data shows a bleak picture, at least for new EVs. According to Cox Automotive, sales of new electric vehicles in the first quarter fell by about 28% from a year earlier, a significant drop after the Trump administration ended the $7,500 consumer tax credit. Used EVs are moving in the […]
Google secretly released an AI dictation app that works offline
Google on Monday quietly released an offline-first dictation app called Google AI Edge Eloquent on iOS to compete with Wispr Flow, SuperWhisper, Willow and others. The app is free to download, and once you download the Gemma-based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model, you can start dictating on your phone. In the app, you can check […]
Why safety regulators closed investigation into Tesla’s remote parking feature
U.S. auto safety regulators have ended an investigation into Tesla’s remote parking feature, known as “Actually Smart Summon,” after crashes were found to be rare, low-speed and non-serious. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said in an update Friday that closing the investigation does not certify that there are no safety-related deficiencies and that […]
Iran threatens ‘Stargate’ AI data center
Iran has warned of further attacks on data centers across the Middle East in response to continued threats and airstrikes from the United States. The Iranian military said if the United States follows through on its threat to attack civilian infrastructure, Iran will retaliate with its own attacks on American energy and technology infrastructure in […]
Apple takes its battle with the App Store back to the Supreme Court
Apple is preparing to take the App Store and Epic Games dispute back to the Supreme Court. The iPhone maker said in a new filing that it plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider another aspect of the long-running lawsuit over App Store fees. Meanwhile, Apple is seeking a stay of an appeals […]
North Korea’s hijacking of one of the most used open source projects on the web has likely been in the works for weeks.
The North Korean cyberattack that briefly hijacked one of the web’s most widely used open source projects last Monday took weeks to execute as part of a long campaign targeting the code’s top developers. The March 31 hijacking of the Axios project was successful in part because it relied on well-resourced hackers building relationships and […]
OpenAI’s vision for the AI economy: public wealth funds, robot taxes, and a four-day work week
As governments grapple with how to manage the economic impact of super-intelligent machines, OpenAI has published a set of policy proposals outlining how to reshape wealth and work in the “age of intelligence.” This idea combines traditional left-wing mechanisms such as public wealth funds and expanded social safety nets with a fundamentally capitalist, market-driven economic […]