Memory shortage could cause smartphone shipments to drop the most in over 10 years
The growing need for computers and data centers to power AI has led to significant RAM shortages and skyrocketing memory prices. Analyst firm IDC now predicts this will cause smartphone shipments to plummet 12.9% this year, the biggest single-year drop in more than a decade. Earlier this year, IDC reported that manufacturers shipped 1.26 billion […]
Read AI launches email-based “digital twin” to help with scheduling and answers
Read AI, a meeting note-taking company, on Thursday announced Ada, an AI-powered email-based assistant that helps users manage their schedules, answer questions based on a company’s knowledge base, and respond to out-of-office emails. The company calls Ada a “digital twin” that handles tasks on your behalf 24 hours a day. Read AI says the assistant […]
Bumble adds AI-powered photo feedback and profile guidance tools
Bumble announced Thursday that it is adding a series of AI-driven features aimed at turning matches into lasting connections, including the ability to provide feedback and guidance on users’ profiles, photos, and prompts. The dating app’s new AI-suggested profile guidance tool will be rolled out globally and will provide “personalized, actionable feedback” to users’ backgrounds […]
Cisco says hackers have been exploiting critical bugs to infiltrate large customer networks since 2023
Cisco said hackers have been exploiting a bug in one of its popular networking products used by large companies for at least three years, prompting the U.S. government and its allies to urge organizations to take action. The bug, with a maximum rated vulnerability severity score of 10.0, allows hackers to remotely infiltrate networks running […]
Venture capitalists and some big-name programmers are trying to solve the open source funding problem for good
A group of prominent open source programmers are teaming up with venture capital investors to launch a nonprofit organization called the Open Source Endowment in hopes of permanently solving the eternal challenge of open source software development: financing. Open Source Endowment backers include Thomas Dohmke, the former GitHub CEO who raised a record $60 million […]
Google launches Nano Banana 2 model with faster image generation
Google today announced Nano Banana 2, the latest version of its popular image generation model. Technically a Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, this new model can create more realistic images than its predecessor. This model will also be the default for Fast, Thinking, and Pro modes in the Gemini app. The company first launched Nano Banana […]
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How to avoid bad hires in early-stage startups
This week on TechCrunch’s founder-focused podcast Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen is joined by Sarah Lucena, CEO and co-founder of Mappa, a behavioral intelligence platform that uses voice AI to decipher human behavior in under 60 seconds. Lucena came up with the idea for Mappa after trying to start a marketing team but kept feeling like […]
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: This isn’t our first SaaSpocalypse
When Salesforce released its fourth-quarter results on Wednesday, it went out of its way to convince investors that the AI revolution won’t spell its death. Salesforce reported a strong quarter with revenue of $10.7 billion, up 13% year over year. For the year, it reported revenue of $41.5 billion, up 10% from a year earlier, […]
Anthropic acquires computer AI startup Vercept after Meta poachs one of its founders
Anthropic announced Wednesday that it has acquired Vercept, an AI startup with deep roots among the big names in Seattle’s tech scene. The acquisition is the latest since Anthropic acquired coding agent engine Bun in December to help expand Claude Code. Vercept had been creating tools for more complex agent tasks, such as Vy, a […]