July 28, 2025

Meet the minds shaping AI: TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 AI Stage revealed

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, the AI Stage comes alive with the voices shaping the future of technology, creativity, and security. Top VCs reveal what it takes to win funding in a rapidly evolving landscape, as they place bets on the next wave of AI founders. Hear groundbreaking insights from leaders at visionary startups like Apptronik, […]

The Download: digital hide-and-seek, and AI for African languages

November 20, 2023
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. This viral game in China reinvents hide-and-seek for the digital age The “cat-and-mouse game” has gone viral in China this year, drawing thousands of people across the country to events every week. It’s a fun…

A controversial US surveillance program is up for renewal. Critics are speaking out.

November 20, 2023
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. For the past week my social feeds have been filled with a pretty important tech policy debate that I want to key you in on:…

3 Semiconductor Stocks Shifting Gears for Success

November 20, 2023
The ongoing expansion in the semiconductor industry is driven by the escalating chip requirements from different sectors, significant technological advancements, and massive government investments. Given this backdrop, quality semiconductor stocks…

Tinder redesigns profile pages with prompts, info tags and quiz

November 20, 2023

Tinder is revamping its profile pages to make them more informative and create easier starting points for conversations. The company is launching features like profile prompts as conversation starters, profile quizzes, basic info tags, and dark mode. Let’s look at these new features in details. The Match-group-owned app is rolling out profile prompts so that […]

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Open source Notion alternative AppFlowy gets big-name backers and lands on the cloud

November 20, 2023

A new startup is targeting the lucrative workplace productivity space with an open source approach to project and knowledge management — and it has received backing from a who’s who of investors from across the technology spectrum. AppFlowy, as the company is called, has raised $6.4 million in funding from a slew of renowned founders […]

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This viral game in China reinvents hide-and-seek for the digital age

November 20, 2023
On a late October evening, I found myself hiding in the shadows of a tree in a Hong Kong park. I was on high alert, warily eyeing everyone walking toward me. I was checking my phone every few seconds, watching the locations of dozens of people who were trying to hunt me down. I wasn’t…

OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to join Microsoft

November 20, 2023

Sam Altman and Greg Brockman and many of their former OpenAI colleagues will join Microsoft, the software conglomerate’s chief Satya Nadella said Monday, capping an intense three days of discussions following the AI startup’s board abruptly firing Altman. Following the departure of Altman, many OpenAI employees, including the co-founder Brockman, left the firm in protest. At […]

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Altman won’t return as OpenAI’s CEO after all

November 20, 2023

Capping off a tumultuous weekend at OpenAI that culminated in investors — and a contingent of employees — attempting to convince the company’s board to hire back former Y Combinator president Sam Altman after firing him on Friday, Altman won’t be returning as CEO, according to a report in The Information. Citing an internal memo […]

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