June 23, 2025

Court filings reveal OpenAI and io’s early work on an AI device

Legal filings submitted earlier this month from lawyers representing OpenAI and Jony Ive’s io reveal new details about the companies’ efforts to build a mass-market AI hardware device. The filings are part of a trademark dispute lawsuit filed this month by iyO, a Google-backed hardware startup developing custom-molded earpieces that connect to other devices. Over […]

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Mortgage Refinancing: How Does It Work?

March 29, 2024
Mortgage rates started to climb in late 2021. As a result, refinance activity decreased gradually and subsided altogether by 2023. During the initial quarter of 2023, the number of new…

The final countdown: Early Stage 2024 ticket savings end tonight

March 29, 2024

The final countdown is on! Today, March 29, marks the final opportunity to grab your early-bird savings for TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 — a one-day event set to ignite your entrepreneurial journey on April 25 in Boston. Don’t miss out on this exclusive opportunity to gain invaluable insights, resources, and connections to propel your startup […]

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Palmsy is a device-only “social network” to satisfy your posting itch

March 29, 2024

When you sign up to a new social network, you have zero friend, zero follower, zero like. But as you start posting content, you might get more and more likes and comments. That could lead to new followers. And that dopamine boost will encourage you to post even more. A new app called Palmsy is […]

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Google hints that Apple is set to support RCS by this fall

March 29, 2024

Google briefly showed a section on the new Google Messages page claiming that Apple is set to roll out Rich Communication Services (RCS) support for iPhones this fall. This indicates that the iPhone maker is likely to extend RCS support in with the upcoming iOS 18 update. The page, spotted first by 9to5Google, had details […]

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Byju’s founder floats share offer to make peace with estranged investors

March 29, 2024

Byju Raveendran, the founder of embattling edtech group Byju’s, has made a last-ditch attempt to placate the Indian startup’s disgruntled investors, informing them that the board is weighing an offer of renounced shares to prevent dilution of their holdings. In an email to shareholders Friday morning, a copy of which TechCrunch has reviewed, Raveendran said […]

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X’s Grok chatbot will soon get an upgraded model, Grok-1.5

March 29, 2024

X.ai, Elon Musk’s AI startup, has revealed its latest generative AI model, Grok-1.5. Set to power social network X’s Grok chatbot in the not-to-distant future (“in the coming days,” X.ai writes in a blog post), Grok-1.5 appears to be a measurable upgrade over its predecessor, Grok-1 — at least judging by the benchmark results and […]

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Apple dismisses Microsoft monopoly comparisons

March 28, 2024

A week after finding itself at the business end of a landmark lawsuit from the United States Department of Justice, Apple is staunchly denying any parallels between itself and Microsoft in the 1990s. It’s a comparison into which the U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland leaned heavily in last week’s filing. While portions of the United […]

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