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Google Dreambeans
AI

Google takes Dreambeans to India in bid to bring AI-generated personal stories to the masses | TechCrunch

Google has launched its experimental AI app Dreambeans in India, its first market outside the U.S., as the...

Apple Debuts New Products At Los Angeles Event
TC

Apple may try to increase revenue by doing…something with third-party AI apps | TechCrunch

Apple’s services business remains at record levels, but it’s facing growing pressure. The central part of that business,...

Startups

Y Combinator’s Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens | TechCrunch

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan has, in the past, jokingly admitted that he’s suffered from “cyber psychosis” and...

Hinge app
Apps

Hinge tests a cheaper plan as users become more fed up paying for dating apps | TechCrunch

Hinge is testing a cheaper subscription plan as its parent company Match Group looks for new ways to...

iPhone Duo
Hardware

Apple says it’s ‘hard to predict’ when iPhone Duo constraints will improve | TechCrunch

Apple Chief Operating Officer Sabih Khan acknowledged the shipping delays plaguing the new iPhone Duo during the company’s...

Human History

Here’s What the Inca Gave Children Before Sacrificing Them on Volcanoes

From the ritual, the Inca believed the children would become the intermediary between them and the gods—and these...

AI

Trajectory raises $45M to make AI model training accessible to nontechnical experts | TechCrunch

Whether developed by OpenAI, Anthropic, or built on open-source alternatives, current AI models share a critical limitation: they...

In this photo illustration, the logo of Apple Inc. is displayed on a smartphone screen, with the company's iconic black apple symbol visible in the background.
Hardware

Apple’s inventory surges 154% as memory chip costs climb | TechCrunch

Apple’s stockpiling of inventory, particularly computer memory, continued in its fiscal fourth-quarter, according to earnings reported Monday. The...

Recursive AI, neural network
AI

Anthropic warns that it’s very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI | TechCrunch

While much attention has focused on the updated financials Anthropic revealed in its revised S-1A on Monday, (revenue...

Commerce

Web host Squarespace lays off 19% of its employees | TechCrunch

Squarespace, the web company that helps customers build and host their own websites, is laying off about one-fifth...