This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside India’s scramble for AI independence Despite its status as a global tech hub, India lags far behind the likes of the US and China when it comes to homegrown AI. That gap…
Bad news could be brewing for Apple in France where the national competition authority has issued a statement of objections related to how it tracks iOS users. The watchdog, L’Autorité de la Concurrence, said today that it suspects the iPhone maker of abusing a dominant position by implementing what it described as “discriminatory, non-objective and […]
With Alphabet and Microsoft reporting their quarterly results today, there’s going to be a lot of scrutiny on the ability of their investments in new AI tech to drive growth.
Popular flight tracking app Flighty, a 2023 Apple Design Award winner, is launching a new version that turns its handy flight information resource into something more akin to a private social network for close friends and family who want to track each others’ travels. With today’s launch of Flighty 3.0, users will have a new […]
As we covered in April, Israel has become convulsed by “reforms” to the judiciary, proposed by the Benjamin Netanyahu-led government, which passed yesterday. There is now deep concern that the judiciary’s 75-year history as an institution independent and separate from the government, could be limited by the ruling political party of the day. Critics of […]
TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 takes place on September 19–21 in San Francisco, and it’s our biggest Disrupt ever. More than 10,000 attendees, seven new industry-specific programming stages (we just added the Space Stage), the Disrupt Stage, the Builder Stage, the expo floor featuring the Startup Battlefield 200, plus dozens of breakout sessions and roundtables. My point? […]