Semiconductor giant Nvidia is facing unexpected new U.S. export controls on its H20 chips. In a filing Tuesday, Nvidia said it was informed by the U.S. government that it will need a license to export its H20 AI chips to China. This license will be required indefinitely, according to the filing the U.S. government []

Design software startup Figma announced Tuesday it has filed its confidential paperwork for an IPO. We wont know more until that paperwork becomes public, which, best-case scenario would be in about a month. However, with the stock market in groundhog mode seeing its shadow with every new gyration of the Trump administrations trade policies []

Former Y Combinator startup telli is helping companies alleviate the bottleneck that occurs when a high-volume of customers try to, for example, book appointments. Its AI voice agents kick in and handle basic operations while handing off more-complex processes to human operators. The Berlin-based startup has now raised $3.6 million in a pre-seed fundinground led []

The update comes months after Apple pushed its own inactivity reboot feature.

As TikTok continues to build out its search experience, the social network is now surfacing reviews for select places right within the comments tab of a video. The new feature, which appears to be a test, eliminates the need to conduct a new search or open up Google when you come across a place on []

You could say that TikTok is ruining our attention spans, and yet, viewers around the world are tuning in to watch a monotonous livestream from a Swedish TV station that theyve probably never heard of. Its time for the Great Moose Migration. For thousands of years, moose have crossed the ngerman River each spring, trekking []

In an update to its Preparedness Framework, the internal framework OpenAI uses to decide whether AI models are safe and what safeguards, if any, are needed during development and release, OpenAI said that it may adjust its requirements if a rival AI lab releases a high-risk system without comparable safeguards. The change reflects the increasing []

Indias market regulator launched a probe Tuesday into Gensol Engineering after finding alleged misuse of electric vehicle loans. BluSmart, a ride-hailing startup connected to Gensol that was once seen as an emerging Uber rival in the South Asian market, has also been swept up into the investigation. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) []

We may be witnessing the makings of a new tech industry feud between competitors. Figma has sent a cease-and-desist letter to popular no-code AI startup Lovable, Figma confirmed to TechCrunch. The letter tells Lovable to stop using the term Dev Mode for a new product feature. Figma, which also has a feature called Dev Mode, []

Context.ai, a startup building evaluations and analytics for AI models, announced Tuesday that its co-founders will join OpenAI. Context.ai plans to wind down its products following the acqui-hire, per a message on the companys website. When reached for comment, OpenAI declined to reveal the terms of the deal. Evals are a requirement to building high-performing []

Swedish company Baseload Capital is developing the project.

In a sign of Anthropics increasingly cozy relationship with Amazon, Anthropic has formed a new team to recruit AWS customers to use its AI products. The team, which Anthropic appears to have begun hiring several months ago, aims to accelerate the adoption of Anthropics AI among AWS accounts by building programs that [] scale across []

Publishing platform Medium says its still committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), even as many other U.S. tech companies have scaled back their efforts in this space to appease the Trump administration. In a blog post published on Monday, Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine backed the companys diverse community, saying that businesses shouldnt have to []

Anthropic announced on Tuesday that its AI chatbot, Claude, now integrates with Google Workspace, allowing it to search and reference your emails in Gmail, scheduled events in Google Calendar, and documents in Google Docs. The integration is rolling out in beta first to subscribers to Anthropics Max, Team, Enterprise, and Pro plans. Administrators managing multi-user []

Google is bringing its Veo 2 video-generating AI model to users who pay for Gemini Advanced, the companys premium AI plan. The expansion comes as Google looks to deliver an answer to OpenAIs Sora video generation platform, and as competition in the space grows fiercer. Two weeks ago, one of the more formidable synthetic media []

The infamous website was taken down and working intermittently, while hackers leaked alleged data like moderators email addresses, and source code.

Ripplings efforts to serve Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz have been significantly complicated by the fact that Bouaziz and his lawyer are now in Dubai, according to internal correspondence seen by TechCrunch. The UAE is a country with a reputation of being a safe haven for those wanting to avoid extradition. Rippling is trying to serve []

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OpenAI is building its own X-like social media network, according to a new report from The Verge. The project is still in the early stages, but theres an internal prototype focused onChatGPTs image generation that contains a social feed. The report states that its unknown if OpenAI plans to launch the social network as a []

On Monday, OpenAI launched a new family of AI models, GPT-4.1, which the company said outperformed some of its existing models on certain tests, particularly benchmarks for programming. However, GPT-4.1 didnt ship with the safety report that typically accompanies OpenAIs model releases, known as a model or system card. As of Tuesday morning, OpenAI had []

Tesla famously struggled to scale up production of the Model 3 sedan in 2018 so much so that CEO Elon Musk said his company was weeks away from collapsing. That near-death experience helped spawn a whole new company called Atomic thats built around using AI to streamline supply chains. Co-founded by former Tesla employees []

Pacific Fusion also announced the hiring of a key executive from competitor Helion.

Peter Thiels Founders Fund has completed the raise of its third growth fund, according to an SEC filing. Beyond the sum which is a big step up from its last previous$3.4 billion growth fundclosed in early 2022 theres a couple of other interesting things to note about this raise. For one, its more []

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg once considered deleting everyones Facebook friends in an effort to boost the social networks cultural relevance. This potentially crazy idea, as the exec called it at the time, was revealed on Monday as a part of the evidence introduced during the first day of the U.S. governments antitrust trial against Meta. []

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Notion released Notion Mail, an AI-powered email client for Gmail that integrates with the rest of Notions workflow management platform, on Tuesday. Notion Mail connects to Notion users Gmail accounts and uses AI to help users organize their emails, draft responses, schedule meetings, and search across messages. Any Notion user can sign up, and Notion []

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Lucid has spent years working on its second EV a plush van-like SUV designed to be the category killer that could take market share from the likes of other luxury EV and internal combustion people haulers like the Rivian R1S, Cadillac Escalade IQ, BMW X7, and Audi Q8. The Saudi-backed companys aim was to []

Hexium has emerged from stealth with $8 million in seed funding.

The science fiction trope of humans superpowered by computer and bionic implants is fast becoming a reality, and today, a startup hoping for a role in how that plays out is announcing some funding. Phantom Neuro, which is developing a wristband-like device that gets implanted under the skin to let a person control prosthetic limbs, []

In the wake of criticism over the underwhelming performance of its AI products, especially in areas like notification summaries, Apple on Monday detailed how it is trying to improve its AI models by analyzing user data privately with the aid of synthetic data. Using an approach called differential privacy, the company said it would first []

Uber is inviting customers in Atlanta to join a list if theyre interested in hailing a Waymo robotaxi as the companies prepare to launch a commercial service in the city. Uber and Waymo last September announced plans to offer a robotaxi service in Austin and Atlanta in early 2025 as part of an expanded partnership. []

Reshma Saujani, founder of the non-profit Girls Who Code, got straight to the point. If I had applied to be the CEO of Girls Who Code, I wouldnt have gotten the job, she told Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, on the latest episode of the duchess podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder. I didnt code, Saujani []

U.K. startup Marshmallow has blown up over the years by using innovations in data science to build car insurance policies for immigrants and other consumers who have been overlooked or priced out of traditional insurance. Now, with a million drivers insured and a profitable annual revenue run rate of $500 million, Marshmallow has raised a []

As robotics has advanced, industry has steadily adopted more robots to automate away many kinds of grunt work. More than 540,000 new industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2023, taking the number of total industrial robots active to above 4 million, per IFR. Industrial robots typically excel at repetitive tasks, but they find it challenging []

Not even Pokmon is safe from AI benchmarking controversy. Last week, a post on X went viral, claiming that Googles latest Gemini model surpassed Anthropics flagship Claude model in the original Pokmon video game trilogy. Reportedly, Gemini had reached Lavendar Town in a developers Twitch stream; Claude was stuck at Mount Moon as of late []

Shared micromobility company Lime has reached an agreement to send batteries used in its scooters and e-bikes to Redwood Materials, which will extract and recycle critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, and copper. The agreement announced Monday makes Redwood Materials the exclusive battery recycling partner for Limes shared scooters and e-bikes located in cities []

HR tech startup Rippling is trying to serve Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz with papers as part of a blockbuster lawsuit against its competitor. Theres just one problem: French bailiffs hired by Rippling cant seem to find Bouaziz, Irish newspaper Business Post reports. Rippling sued Deel earlier this year in Ireland alleging the company paid one []

The Trump trade war has gone viral on TikTok, pushing a Chinese e-commerce app, DHgate, to the top of the U.S. App Store. After Trump increased U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports by 145%, numerous Chinese suppliers and manufacturers began making TikTok videos explaining to consumers how the global luxury goods market actually works. The clothing, []

Neptune is one of the newest short-form video apps on the block seeking to compete with major players like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. The app, currently in beta, has attracted attention from hundreds of thousands of users, with 970 testers participating and 400,000 people on the waitlist, per the company. Neptune announced Monday []

The car rental giant attributed the breach to Cleo, whose customers had data stolen by a ransomware gang in 2024.

OpenAI said on Monday that it would soon wind down the availability of GPT-4.5, its largest-ever AI model, via its API. GPT-4.5 was released only in late February. Developers will have access to GPT-4.5 via OpenAIs API until July 14, after which theyll have to transition to another model in OpenAIs catalog, the company says. []

OpenAI on Monday launched a new family of models called GPT-4.1. Yes, 4.1 as if the companys nomenclature wasnt confusing enough already. Theres GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano, all of which OpenAI says excel at coding and instruction following. Available through OpenAIs API but not ChatGPT, the multimodal models have a 1-million-token context []

Googles AI research lab, Google DeepMind, says that it has created an AI model that can help decipher dolphin vocalizations, supporting research efforts to better understand how dolphins communicate. The model, called DolphinGemma, was trained using data from the Wild Dolphin Project (WDP), a nonprofit that studies Atlantic spotted dolphins and their behaviors. Built on []

Google Classroom introduced a new AI-powered feature designed to help teachers generate questions. Launched on Monday, this tool lets educators create a list of questions based on specific text input. Using this text-dependent question generation tool, which utilizes Gemini, teachers can either upload files from Google Drive or manually enter text for the AI to []

Jeff Bezos space company, Blue Origin, successfully launched its New Shepard rocket at around 9:30 a.m. ET on Monday, as it seeks to challenge Elon Musks SpaceX in the space tourism industry. What stands out most about this mission is that it featured the first all-female space crew since 1963, when Soviet astronaut Valentina Tereshkova []

Chipolo, the maker of AirTag-like devices, on Monday introduced the latest version of its product. Now, instead of offering models that only work with either Apple or Googles lost-item finding technology, the new Chipolo POP devices work with both companies finding networks out of the box. By combining these different functionalities into one device, Chipolo []

Meta announced on Monday that its going to train its AI models on public content, such as posts and comments on Facebook and Instagram, in the EU after previously pausing its plans to do so in response to regulatory pressure due to to data privacy concerns. The company will start training its AI on users []

AI dev platform Hugging Face has acquired Pollen Robotics, a robotics startup based in France, for an undisclosed amount. Wired reports that Hugging Face plans to sell Pollens humanoid robot, Reachy 2, and let developers download and suggest improvements to its code. Pollen Robotics, which aims to bring affordable humanoid robots to the home, was []

Self-driving truck startup Kodiak Robotics plans to go public via a merger with special purpose acquisition company Ares Acquisition Corporation II. The transaction values Kodiak, which has raised around $243 million to date, at about $2.5 billion pre-money. New and existing Kodiak institutional investors, like Soros Fund Management, ARK Investments, and Ares, have funded or []