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Dynatrace Named a Leader in the 2025 GigaOm Radar Report for Cloud Observability

March 20, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: Company also named an Outperformer, reflecting its ability to deliver the highest value to customers with leading AI-powered observability

Michael Seibel is leaving Y Combinator

March 20, 2025

Michael Seibel announced late Wednesday on X that after more than 12 years at Y Combinator, he is transitioning to a “partner emeritus” role. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan shared the news separately in a company blog post, highlighting Seibel’s long history with the accelerator. Seibel first joined YC as a founder, going through the…

SoftBank to acquire semiconductor designer Ampere in $6.5B all-cash deal

March 19, 2025

SoftBank Group announced on Wednesday that it will acquire Ampere Computing, a chip designer founded by former Intel executive Renee James, through a $6.5 billion all-cash deal as a strategic move to broaden its investment in AI infrastructure. Ampere will be operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of SoftBank after the deal, which is expected to…

How a $6M bet on Wiz turned into a massive 200x return for one early backer

March 19, 2025

Wiz’s $32 billion all-cash acquisition by Google parent Alphabet promises a colossal payday for the cybersecurity startup’s early-stage investors. The deal is a big win for Sequoia, one of the best-known VC firms, which stands to make $3 billion, about 25x the money it invested in the company, Bloomberg reported. Despite substantial returns for Sequoia’s…

OpenAI’s o1-pro is the company’s most expensive AI model yet

March 19, 2025

OpenAI has launched a more powerful version of its o1 “reasoning” AI model, o1-pro, in its developer API. According to OpenAI, o1-pro uses more computing than o1 to provide “consistently better responses.” Currently, it’s only available to select developers — those who’ve spent at least $5 on OpenAI API services — and it’s pricey. Very…

Hacked, leaked, exposed: Why you should never use stalkerware apps

March 19, 2025

Data breach at stalkerware SpyX affects close to 2 million, including thousands of Apple users

March 19, 2025

X users treating Grok like a fact-checker spark concerns over misinformation

March 19, 2025

Sequoia shutters D.C. office, lets go of policy team

March 19, 2025

Sequoia will shutter its D.C. office as well as part ways with the policy team there at the end of March, TechCrunch has confirmed. The news comes — and is somewhat in contrast — with the other prominent VC firms in Silicon Valley strengthening their ties with Capitol Hill and the new Trump administration. Andreessen…

OpenAI research lead Noam Brown thinks AI ‘reasoning’ models could’ve arrived decades ago

March 19, 2025

Noam Brown, who leads AI reasoning research at OpenAI, says “reasoning” AI models like OpenAI’s o1 could’ve arrived 20 years earlier had researchers “known [the right] approach” and algorithms. “There were various reasons why this research direction was neglected,” Brown said during a panel at Nvidia’s GTC conference in San Jose on Wednesday. “I noticed…

SoftBank develops Large Telecom Model using genAI

March 19, 2025

Japanese telecoms provider SoftBank has developed a new Large Telecom Model (LTM), which it describes as a generative AI foundation for the telecom industry.

Nvidia reportedly acquires synthetic data startup Gretel

March 19, 2025

Nvidia has reportedly acquired Gretel, a San Diego-based startup that’s developed a platform to generate synthetic AI training data. Terms of the acquisition are unknown. The price tag is reportedly nine figures and exceeds Gretel’s most recent valuation of $320 million, according to Wired. Gretel and its team of roughly 80 employees will be folded…

Nvidia, Cisco, T-Mobile team to develop AI-Native wireless networks for 6G

March 19, 2025

GPU and AI semiconductors vendor Nvidia has unveiled partnerships with several ICT industry players, including telecoms provider T-Mobile and networking giant Cisco, among other participants working on R&D for AI-native wireless networks for 6G.

AWS generative AI exec leaves to launch startup

March 19, 2025

Raj Aggarwal is leaving AWS after nearly three years as the company’s GM of generative AI and revenue acceleration, according to a LinkedIn post Aggarwal published Wednesday. “I’m proud of the pioneering work our team did in generative AI from its earliest days,” Aggarwal said in his post. “We built what might be the world’s…

Group co-led by Fei-Fei Li suggests that AI safety laws should anticipate future risks

March 19, 2025

In a new report, a California-based policy group co-led by Fei-Fei Li, an AI pioneer, suggests that lawmakers should consider AI risks that “have not yet been observed in the world” when crafting AI regulatory policies. The 41-page interim report released on Tuesday comes from the Joint California Policy Working Group on Frontier AI Models,…

A key DeepMind robotics researcher left Google and Nvidia has already backed his stealth startup

March 19, 2025

How to apply for a credit card against your fixed deposit

March 19, 2025

GUEST OPINION: Traditional Credit Card applications often pose challenges, particularly for individuals with limited credit history, income constraints, or other financial barriers.

Bluesky made more money selling t-shirts mocking Zuckerberg than custom domains

March 19, 2025

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber made a splash at SXSW last week, showing up at her keynote event in a t-shirt that subtly poked fun at Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg. Or, at least it seemed like it was subtle. But so many people appreciated the jab that users convinced Bluesky to reproduce and sell Graber’s shirt…

NICE named a leader in 2024 IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Conversational Intelligence and Analytics Vendor Assessment

March 19, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: NICE’s breadth of offering and customer/market perception of innovation were highlighted as strengths.

xAI launches an API for generating images

March 19, 2025

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has added image generation capabilities to its API. Only one model is available in the API at the moment, “grok-2-image-1212.” Given a caption, the model can generate up to 10 images per request (limited to 5 requests per second) in JPG format, priced at $0.07 per image. For comparison, AI…

Telegram founder Pavel Durov says app now has 1B users, calls WhatsApp a ‘cheap, watered down imitation’

March 19, 2025

Telegram founder Pavel Durov said today that the service now has more than 1 billion active users. This number is up from last year’s reported 950 million monthly active users. Durov also noted that the company registered $547 million in profits last year. He had announced the company’s profitability in December but hadn’t provided any…

Elon Musk’s X reportedly bounces back to $44B valuation

March 19, 2025

Social media site X’s valuation has bounced back to $44 billion, according to a new report from the Financial Times. Elon Musk purchased the platform, formerly known as Twitter, for $44 billion back in 2022. However, a report from Bloomberg states that X has raised close to $1 billion from investors in a deal that…

Judge orders Citibank to release nonprofit funds, rejects EPA’s arguments

March 19, 2025

In another good sign for fintech, Ribbit Capital is raising a new $500M fund

March 19, 2025

GM, Gatik, Torc team up with Nvidia to accelerate self-driving

March 19, 2025

NVIDIA’s GTC conference kicked off with a series of announcements highlighting its role in advancing autonomous driving technology. The chipmaker provides automakers and autonomous vehicle companies with a handful of Nvidia-branded tools to help power self-driving cars and create digital twins of factories. On Tuesday, companies including Torc, Gatik, and even General Motors announced plans…

Analytics company Dataminr secures $85M to fund growth

March 19, 2025

Dataminr, a data analytics company that counts NATO and OpenAI among its customers, has raised $85 million in a combination of convertible financing and credit, Dataminr announced on Wednesday. It’s chump change for Dataminr, which closed a $475 million round at a $4.1 billion valuation in 2021. But the company has seen its fair share…

Unpacking the power of personalisation in your tech stack

March 19, 2025

GUEST OPINION: Personalisation has become the most exciting and important driver of customer loyalty. Powered by AI, personalisation is becoming more than just the engine behind modern loyalty programs, but a major engine for business profitability as well.

Streamer Plex raises subscription price for the first time in a decade

March 19, 2025

Streaming service and software maker Plex is raising its prices. The company announced on Wednesday its first price increase in a decade for its premium subscription service Plex Pass, which offers power users a variety of additional features, like offline access, themes, hardware transcoding, and other advanced settings. The service will now cost $6.99 per…

EPA was ‘arbitrary and capricious’ when it froze nonprofits’ Citibank accounts, judge finds

March 19, 2025

Arkeus secures an additional AU$5 million to accelerate sovereign defence AI capabilities

March 19, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: Defence technology company, Arkeus, has successfully secured AU$5 million raise allowing it to accelerate expansion and meet considerable market demand.

Researchers say they’ve discovered a new method of ‘scaling up’ AI, but there’s reason to be skeptical

March 19, 2025

Have researchers discovered a new AI “scaling law”? That’s what some buzz on social media suggests — but experts are skeptical. AI scaling laws, a bit of an informal concept, describe how the performance of AI models improves as the size of the datasets and computing resources used to train them increases. Until roughly a…

Unlock the power of information to innovate enterprise experiences

March 19, 2025

GUEST OPINION: Effective information management has become a cornerstone of competitiveness in today’s digital landscape with businesses handling more data than ever. As digital transformation accelerates, streamlined data management empowers better decision-making, boosts operational efficiency, and enhances customer engagement, letting businesses craft personalised enterprise experiences with tailored, best-of-breed solutions.

Unlock the power of information to innovate enterprise experiences

March 19, 2025

Tera AI comes out of stealth with $7.8M to provide visual navigation for robots

March 19, 2025

Robots are part of an exciting new frontier in tech, but here’s the challenge: robots rely on arrays of sensors, external signals like GPS and Wi-Fi, and customized software to navigate their environments. Further, robotics often involves expensive, ready-made hardware solutions that include built-in software and sensors designed for specific tasks, like estimating relative motion.…

US teachers’ union says hackers stole sensitive personal data on over 500,000 members

March 19, 2025

New KnowBe4 Report Finds Education Sector Unprepared for Escalating Cyberattacks

March 19, 2025

GUEST RESEARCH: Most educational institutions lack resources for robust and comprehensive cybersecurity programs

‘The Last of Us’ to stream in American Sign Language on Max

March 19, 2025

Max announced on Wednesday that the HBO series “The Last of Us” will be available to stream in American Sign Language (ASL). Season 2 premieres on April 13. Notably, this is the first time HBO’s original content will be accessible for streaming in ASL on the service, representing a step towards inclusivity for deaf and…

A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs

March 19, 2025

Hugging Face’s new iOS app taps AI to describe what you’re looking at

March 19, 2025

AI startup Hugging Face has released a new app for iOS that only does one thing: uses offline, local AI to describe what’s in view of your iPhone’s camera. The app, called HuggingSnap, taps Hugging Face’s in-house vision model, smolvlm2, to analyze what your phone sees in real-time without sending data off to the cloud.…

DJI Delivers Next-Level Intelligent Smartphone Photography with Osmo Mobile 7 Series

March 19, 2025

New Flagship Phone Gimbal Features Seventh Generation DJI Stabilisation Technology and ActiveTrack 7.0 Technology

Mortgage as an employee benefit? Kleiner Perkins leads $23.5M Series A for Multiply Mortgage

March 19, 2025

After hitting record lows at the start of the pandemic, mortgage rates began to climb in 2022 and haven’t come down significantly since. With 30-year mortgage rates hovering at over 6.5% today (they were as low as 2.49% in 2020!), buying a home is simply not that attainable for many people. One Denver-based startup is…

Hunted Labs lands $3M to find suspicious open source contributors

March 19, 2025

Former NSA deputy director George Barnes has made his first investment as a venture capitalist for his new job at the VC incubation studio Red Cell Partners. It’s a $3 million seed deal in an open source cybersecurity startup called Hunted Labs, he told TechCrunch exclusively. Barnes spent his entire 35-year career at the spy agency,…

The AI leaders bringing the AGI debate down to Earth

March 19, 2025

During a recent dinner with business leaders in San Francisco, a comment I made cast a chill over the room. I hadn’t asked my dining companions anything I considered to be extremely faux pas: simply whether they thought today’s AI could someday achieve human-like intelligence (i.e. AGI) or beyond. It’s a more controversial topic than…

Why Decarbonisation, AI and Collaboration are the focus of Australian Industry this year

March 19, 2025

GUEST OPINION: While it may feel as if the nation is only discussing such big-ticket items as social media bans, interest rates and a forthcoming election, Australian industry instead is focusing on three mega-trends that are re-shaping their business models on the fly.

Google unveils redesigned $499 Pixel 9a

March 19, 2025

Google has officially unveiled the Pixel 9a smartphone, its new midrange phone that will retail for $499. The A-series smartphone’s biggest change is its appearance, as the latest model ditches the camera bar on the back of the phone. The smartphone is getting a chip upgrade, as the new model features Google’s Tensor G4 processor,…

New Research Unveils Key Success Factors for Retailers in Unified Commerce Excellence

March 19, 2025

Leaders Achieve Up to 3X Revenue Growth and 1.7X Customer Lifetime Value

Zoox recalls 258 self-driving cars over unexpected braking

March 19, 2025

Zoox, Amazon’s autonomous driving unit, has issued a voluntary recall for 258 vehicles due to issues with its autonomous driving system that could cause unexpected hard breaking. The recall follows a preliminary investigation from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) last May after the agency received two reports of incidents in which motorcyclists collided…

Cape opens $99/month beta of its privacy-first mobile plan, inks Proton deal, raises $30M

March 19, 2025

Mobile networks continue to be a major target for cybersecurity breaches, and Chinese hacking group Salt Typhoon‘s persistent attacks on multiple carriers are only the latest known examples. The mobile carrier startup Cape is taking a novel approach to addressing the problem: it has built a service it says can provide a more secure, private…

A Million Phishing-as-a-Service Attacks in Two Months Highlight a Fast-Evolving Threat

March 19, 2025

In the first two months of 2025, Barracuda detection systems blocked over a million phishing attacks by prominent Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platforms. A new report on the tools and techniques used in the attacks highlights how PhaaS platforms are evolving rapidly to become more dangerous and evasive. Many target users of popular cloud-based platforms such as…

Let your voice be heard! Vote for who you want to see at TechCrunch Sessions: AI

March 19, 2025

TechCrunch Sessions: AI is nearly upon us, and you have the power to decide who you want to see lead a dynamic breakout session. We have whittled speaker applications down to six incredible finalists to take the stage on June 5 in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley. Who do you want to see share their…

Upgraded NBN fixed wireless network delivers ‘faster internet speeds’

March 19, 2025

Australians on NBN Co’s Fixed Wireless Plus plan have experienced further improvements to their broadband speeds following the completion of the company’s fixed wireless upgrade program, the competition watchdog, the ACCC’s latest Measuring Broadband Australia report has found.

Tenable Research Reveals Popular AI Tools Used in Cloud Environments are Highly Vulnerable

March 19, 2025

GUEST RESEARCH: Analysis finds 70% of cloud workloads using AI services contain unresolved vulnerabilities

LogicMonitor doubles down on data centre transformation with new AI enhancements

March 19, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: Smarter workloads, faster insights, and autonomous IT operations deliver unparalleled observability across complex technology environments.

UiPath to Unveil Latest Agentic Automation Solutions at Agentic AI Summit

March 19, 2025

UiPath to hold Agentic AI Summit on March 25 to demonstrate its latest agentic automation innovations and how UiPath customers are achieving transformational outcomes with these solutions

Why Auguria is Betting Big on Channel to Scale Security

March 19, 2025

Auguria is a fairly new vendor focused on using technology to cut through the noise created by data and bring security risks to the attention of experts faster. The company went all-in on the channel from its inception, and co-founder and CEO Keith Palumbo sat down with Channel Insider to explain why. Leveraging the channel…

Coralogix Launches AI Center for Cross-Stack Observability

March 19, 2025

Coralogix, a full-stack observability platform, is leveraging its acquisition of Aporia to launch an AI Center. This center will enable organizations to gain real-time visibility into their AI applications. Centralized AI management provides governance, quality, and performance guardrails The AI Center will allow businesses to accelerate their AI adoption and manage AI agents by providing…

Dryad Networks launches in Australia and New Zealand to combat bushfires with AI-driven early detection

March 19, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: Dryad Networks, a leader in ultra-early wildfire detection, is setting up its first office in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) to help tackle the region’s growing bushfire crisis. Based in Macquarie Park, New South Wales, the new hub strengthens Dryad’s ability to work directly with governments, emergency services, and industry partners to prevent…

Agentic AI startup AMT aims to be ‘Google Adwords for influencers,’ raises seed round

March 19, 2025

Booking an ad campaign with social media influencers is currently not exactly easy. For starters, influencers’ approaches to marketing can be unconventional, and there’s no standard way to engage with them. On the other side, marketing agencies that employ hosts of people to book and track brand campaigns are limited by how many influencers they…

Wavelink launches 5thWave to revolutionise asset and customer lifecycle management

March 19, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: Wavelink, an Infinigate Group company and a leader in technology distribution, services, and business development in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), has launched 5thWave, a powerful asset and customer lifecycle management service designed to help partners optimise renewals, upgrades, and technology refresh cycles.

Researchers name several countries as potential Paragon spyware customers

March 19, 2025

Shopify transfers its US listing from the NYSE to the Nasdaq

March 19, 2025

Nearly 10 years after filing to go public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Toronto Stock Exchange, Canadian e-commerce platform Shopify has announced that it’s transitioning its U.S. listing to the Nasdaq. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday, Shopify said it is removing its Class A shares…

Academics accuse AI startups of co-opting peer review for publicity

March 19, 2025

There’s a controversy brewing over “AI-generated” studies submitted to this year’s ICLR, a long-running academic conference focused on AI. At least three AI labs — Sakana, Intology, and Autoscience — claim to have used AI to generate studies that were accepted to ICLR workshops. At conferences like ICLR, workshop organizers typically review studies for publication…

Prezent raises $20M to build AI for slide decks

March 19, 2025

Prezent has raised $20 million in an all-equity funding to build specialized presentation models and expand its footprint into new markets. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

US paid music subscribers cross 100 million mark for the first time

March 19, 2025

The U.S. crossed the 100 million paid subscriber mark for music streaming services for the first time ever last year, as per a new report by the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA). The subscriber number was up from 96.8 million in 2023, with year-on-year growth of roughly 3%. RIAA’s report said that these numbers…

Aletiq secures $6.5M for its SaaS tool focused on product lifecycle management

March 19, 2025

Aletiq has raised a €6 million funding round led by Point Nine a few months ago (around $6.5 million at current exchange rates). The French startup is announcing the founding round today. Aletiq has been developing product lifecycle management (PLM) software for manufacturing industrial companies working in aerospace, automotive, electronics, luxury and more. When you…

Factorial snaps up $120M from General Catalyst to boost its HR sales and marketing

March 19, 2025

While Rippling and Deel duke it out in the field and in the courtroom alleging illegal sales and marketing tactics, here’s another way to boost business growth: pick up a massive sum of cash to expand your operations in those areas. Factorial, the Barcelona-based “unicorn” startup that provides an all-in-one HR platform in the cloud…

A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs

March 19, 2025

Trump fires FTC commissioners, setting up a legal battle

March 18, 2025

President Trump fired the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, setting up a challenge to a 1935 Supreme Court precedent prohibiting the firing of FTC commissioners for reasons other than “good cause.” The White House terminated commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya earlier Tuesday, The New York Times reported. In…

New $5M deep tech fund aims to lure founders from universities

March 18, 2025

Critical Venture Partners is betting that young founders plucked fresh from universities can solve some of the world’s most intractable problems. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

NASA astronauts return from long Space Station stay prompted by Boeing problems

March 18, 2025

Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore have returned to Earth after a nine-month stay on the International Space Station — a trip that lasted far longer than originally planned thanks to leaks and thruster problems on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft they used to get there. Williams and Wilmore splashed down in the Gulf of…

What Tesla can and can’t do in California with its new passenger transportation permit

March 18, 2025

Tesla received a permit Tuesday from the California Public Utilities Commission to operate a transportation service in the state, the beginning of a long regulatory road that could eventually lead to the company getting the OK to operate a robotaxi service there. The permit, which Tesla applied for in November 2024, doesn’t cover autonomous vehicle…

An AI model from over a decade ago sparked Nvidia’s investment in autonomous vehicles

March 18, 2025

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote Tuesday at the company’s GTC 2025 conference stuck with tradition and was chock full of announcements. But the company also snuck in a little history lesson. During the automotive portion of his speech, Huang referred to AlexNet, a neural network architecture that gained widespread attention in 2012 when it won…

Nvidia announces two ‘personal AI supercomputers’

March 18, 2025

Nvidia at GTC 2025 announced a new lineup of “AI personal supercomputers” powered by the company’s Grace Blackwell chip platform. Jensen Huang, the semiconductor company’s founder and CEO, unveiled the two new machines, DGX Spark (previously called Project Digits) and DGX Station, during his keynote on Tuesday. The computers will allow users to prototype, fine-tune,…

NTT Data to commission MIST India-SEA submarine cable by June

March 18, 2025

Japanese data centre provider NTT DATA has announced the commissioning of its Malaysia, India, Singapore Transit (MIST) submarine cable system by June 2025.

FTC removes posts critical of big tech from its website

March 18, 2025

The FTC has removed over 300 blog posts published during the agency’s leadership under former chair Lina Khan, Wired reports. These include posts that are critical of companies like Amazon and Microsoft for their handling of customer data. The FTC did not respond to a request for comment. As FTC chair during the Biden years,…

GM teams up with Nvidia to bring AI to robots, factories, and self-driving cars

March 18, 2025

General Motors is turning to Nvidia to help bring AI to the physical world in an expanded collaboration designed to touch every aspect of the automaker’s business, including factories, robots, and self-driving cars. Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang, who announced the partnership Tuesday during his keynote at the company’s GTC conference in San Jose,…

Nvidia announces Groot N1, a foundation model for humanoid robotics

March 18, 2025

Nvidia is releasing what it’s calling an AI foundation model for humanoid robotics. Announced at GTC 2025 in San Jose, the model, dubbed Groot N1, is a “generalist” model, trained on both synthetic and real data. Nvidia claims that Groot N1 features a “dual system architecture” for “thinking fast and slow,” inspired by human cognitive…

Here’s why Google pitched its $32B Wiz acquisition as ‘multicloud’

March 18, 2025

Tuesday’s big news that Google is acquiring security startup Wiz for a record-breaking $32 billion comes with a very big qualifier. Google says it will position Wiz as a “multicloud” offering, meaning Wiz will not be a Google-only shop. The reality is that Google had no choice but to do this, and a closer look…

Swiss govt allocates US$830M to expand broadband infrastructure

March 18, 2025

The Swiss government has initiated consultation lasting until 23 June 2025 on a programme to expand high-speed internet throughout Switzerland.

Nvidia announces new GPUs at GTC 2025, including Vera Rubin

March 18, 2025

On stage at Nvidia GTC 2025 in San Jose, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a slew of new GPUs coming down the company’s product pipeline in the next several months. Perhaps the most significant was Vera Rubin. Vera Rubin, which is set to be released in the second half of 2026, will feature up to…

Tesla and Rivian charging networks have fewest problems by far, according to Consumer Reports

March 18, 2025

The most problem-free EV charging networks in the U.S. right now are the ones built by Tesla and Rivian, according to a new survey from Consumer Reports. The publication surveyed 1,230 owners on their EV charging experiences between March 2024 and February 2024, and just 4% of the respondents said they experienced problems at Tesla’s…

Bolt’s former CEO is launching a new e-commerce startup

March 18, 2025

Maju Kuruvilla, who left the CEO role of controversial one-click checkout startup Bolt last year, is back. He’s launching his own startup, focused on a different problem for online shoppers: what he calls “check-in.” When you click on an ad for something like a t-shirt, the experience afterwards can feel a little clunky. The website…

Pure Storage Integrates NVIDIA AI Data Platform into FlashBlade to Fuel Enterprise AI Innovation

March 18, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: FlashBlade, now certified for NVIDIA Cloud Partner and Enterprise deployments, transforms data into knowledge in near real-time to fast-track agentic AI reasoning.

SAP Concur delivers Joule, American Express integration at Fusion 2025

March 18, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: At SAP Concur Fusion 2025, we are bringing together customers and partners to explore how SAP Concur delivers artificial intelligence (AI), and greater visibility, to travel and expense management.

Pebble creator unveils the first new Pebble-inspired smartwatches

March 18, 2025

It looks like a Pebble, it works like a Pebble, but don’t call it a Pebble. Eric Migicovsky, the original creator of the Pebble smartwatch, just unveiled two new smartwatches — the Core 2 Duo and the Core Time 2. Those spiritual successors to the Pebble smartwatches are available for pre-orders for $149 and $225…

Stability AI’s new AI model turns photos into 3D scenes

March 18, 2025

Stability AI has released a new AI model, Stable Virtual Camera, that the company says can transform 2D images into “immersive” videos with realistic depth and perspective. Virtual cameras are tools often used in digital filmmaking and 3D animation to capture and navigate scenes in real-time. With Stable Virtual Camera, Stability sought to add generative…

How to watch Nvidia GTC 2025, including CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote

March 18, 2025

GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, returns this week, with the biggest announcements probably coming Tuesday. If you can’t make it in person, don’t sweat it. TechCrunch will be on the ground covering the major developments, and we’ve made it easy for you to follow along. Many of the biggest presentations, talks, and panels…

Google brings a ‘canvas’ feature to Gemini, plus Audio Overview

March 18, 2025

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and Google seems to agree. On Tuesday, the company added a feature to its AI-powered Gemini chatbot that the company is calling Canvas. Similar in concept to OpenAI’s identically-named Canvas tool for ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Artifacts, Canvas provides Gemini users with an interactive space where they…

CISA scrambles to contact fired employees after court rules layoffs ‘unlawful’

March 18, 2025

Al Gore’s Just Climate fund raises $175M from Microsoft and CalSTRS for nature-based climate investments

March 18, 2025

Anthropic-backed AI-powered code review platform Graphite raises cash

March 18, 2025

AI coding assistants are becoming wildly popular, with the vast majority of respondents in GitHub’s latest poll saying that they’ve adopted AI tools in some form. Y Combinator partner Jared Friedman recently claimed that a quarter of YC’s W25 startup batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI. Sensing an opportunity, VCs are rushing to back startups developing…

Arcade raises $12M from Perplexity co-founder’s new fund to make AI agents less awful

March 18, 2025

Arcade, an AI agent infrastructure startup founded by former Okta exec Alex Salazar and former Redis engineer Sam Partee, has raised $12 million from Laude Ventures. Laude is the new fund launched in 2024 by Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski, the UC Berkeley computer scientist who also co-founded Databricks. This isn’t the only check Laude has cut. But it…

Nasuni Integrates With CrowdStrike Falcon Security Platform

March 18, 2025

Nasuni, a unified file data platform for hybrid cloud environments, announced that it will debut a new integration with the CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity platform. The new integration, available on the CrowdStrike Marketplace, will deliver real-time threat detection and enhanced data recovery by sharing actionable intelligence, strengthening data protection, and minimizing downtime after an attack. Nasuni…

Mark Zuckerberg says that Meta’s Llama models have hit 1B downloads

March 18, 2025

In a brief message Tuesday morning on Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company’s “open” AI model family, Llama, hit 1 billion downloads. That’s up from 650 million downloads as of early December 2024 — a 153% increase over a roughly-three-month period. Llama, which powers Meta’s AI assistant, Meta AI, across the tech giant’s…

LogicMonitor signs strategic collaboration agreement with AWS to simplify VMware migrations and modernise data centres

March 18, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: LogicMonitor’s AI-powered observability capabilities help enterprises seamlessly transition VMware workloads and optimise cloud performance in complex IT environments.

Motorola Solutions ‘resilient communications’ power the Australasian Police & Emergency Services Games

March 18, 2025

TasGRN network reaches 400 sites, boosting safety, security and resilience throughout Tasmania and 2025 Games sites COMPANY NEWS: As competitors take to the field for the Australasian Police & Emergency Services Games (AP&ES Games) this week, the Tasmanian Government Radio Network’s (TasGRN) gold-standard emergency communications will help keep first responders and host communities safe.

Make your choice! Vote for the speaker you want to see at TechCrunch Sessions: AI

March 18, 2025

It’s time to make your voice heard. After receiving an overwhelming amount of applications for speakers at TechCrunch Sessions: AI, we have chosen six incredible finalists. TC Sessions: AI takes place on June 5 in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley — and you have the power to decide who you want to take the stage…

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