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Hardware

Apple to pay $250M to settle lawsuit over Siri’s delayed AI features | TechCrunch

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit over how it marketed its...

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Social

Meta now lets AI agents handle the boring parts of WhatsApp Business setup | TechCrunch

Alongside news of its new AI-focused subscription plans, Meta announced on Tuesday that it will now allow AI...

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. Meta Platforms Inc. debuted its first pair of augmented reality glasses, devices that show a combined view of the digital and physical worlds, a key step in Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg's goal of one day offering a hands-free alternative to the smartphone. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Apps

Meta says AI is making it easier to build new apps — and more are coming | TechCrunch

Meta is using AI to quickly launch apps, and more are on the way. During this week’s second-quarter...

AI

The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it | TechCrunch

Relay, an AI-powered workflow automation tool built as an alternative to Zapier, shut down entirely on Monday. The...

Patronus team
Venture

Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents | TechCrunch

AI agents are becoming more sophisticated. They are evolving from answering questions to autonomously executing multi-step complex tasks.But...

Cognition founder and CEO Scott Wu
In Brief

AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation | TechCrunch

Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, is reportedly already talking to investors about raising another funding...

Apple Mac Mini M4
Hardware

Apple was surprised by AI-driven demand for Macs | TechCrunch

Apple’s iPhone sales and Services revenue were the stars of the show in the tech giant’s most recent...

Flared natural gas is burned off at Apache Corporations operations at the Deadwood natural gas plant in the Permian Basin.
Climate

US data centers could consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035 | TechCrunch

The AI race has grown so frenzied that, by 2035, U.S. data centers are projected to consume more...

AI Chatbot receives a thumbs down for negative feedback
AI

AI agents now have a place to snitch | TechCrunch

“If you see something, say something” is no longer limited to human beings. Two new AI hotlines have...

Claw holding weight
AI

Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym | TechCrunch

By now, we all realize that Silicon Valley’s AI labs have built the world’s best hackers in the...