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If you’re in the top 25% of users who visit a certain place, you’ll see your ranking on the Snap Map and can choose to share it with others.

Google wants AI startups on its cloud and has showcased a long list of them at its annual conference.

Duolingo is opening up its advanced language learning content offering to free users, allowing them to acquire skills that were previously reserved to paid subscribers.

Generative AI is being infused into Google’s popular feature within Maps.

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab has signed a multi-billion-dollar deal with Google Cloud for AI infrastructure powered by Nvidia’s latest GB300 chips, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.

Isegye Idol If you thought K-pop was weird, virtual idols—humans who perform as anime-style digital characters via motion capture—will blow your mind. My favorite is a girl group called Isegye Idol, created by Woowakgood, a Korean VTuber (a streamer who likewise performs as a digital persona). Isegye Idol’s six members are anonymous, which seems to…

The company is restructuring some teams to accommodate a booming energy storage business, according to emails viewed by TechCrunch.

Meta says that it has a new internal tool that is converting mouse movements and button clicks into data that can train its AI models.

Anthropic told TechCrunch it is investigating the claims, but maintains that there is no evidence that its systems have been impacted.

Only Elon would do this before an IPO.