December 25, 2025

AI Wrapped: The 14 AI terms you couldn’t avoid in 2025

If the past 12 months have taught us anything, it’s that the AI hype train is showing no signs of slowing. It’s hard to believe that at the beginning of the year, DeepSeek had yet to turn the entire industry on its head, Meta was better known for trying (and failing) to make the metaverse…

Shein and Temu the latest China tech targets in Congress body’s sights

April 18, 2023

As the U.S. becomes increasingly wary of China’s growing influence on the Western tech stage, internet platforms from TikTok to Shein are finding themselves in Washington’s sights. As a Chinese saying goes: the first bird that pokes its head out gets shot. In recent months, lawmakers in the U.S. have escalated efforts to ban TikTok. […]

Shein and Temu the latest China tech targets in Congress body’s sights by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

Ada releases new automated generative AI-driven customer service suite

April 18, 2023

Ada, a Toronto-based customer service automation startup, has been around long enough to predate the use of large language models in its solutions, but today the company is announcing a new suite of tools powered by generative AI with the goal of taking that automation to another level. Company co-founder and CEO Mike Murchison says […]

Ada releases new automated generative AI-driven customer service suite by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

The quest to build wildfire-resistant homes

April 18, 2023
The first sparks that ignited in the Montecito hills above Santa Barbara, California, on November 13, 2008, were stoked by ferocious sundowner winds gusting at up to 85 miles per hour, pushing the flames down into the densely populated canyon. Troy Harris, then the director of institutional resilience at Westmont College in Montecito, rushed from…

Generative AI risks concentrating Big Tech’s power. Here’s how to stop it

April 18, 2023
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. If regulators don’t act now, the generative AI boom will concentrate Big Tech’s power even further. That’s the central argument of a new report from research institute AI Now. And it makes sense. To…

XPeng’s G6 SUV aims to be a premium EV for the masses

April 18, 2023

Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng debuted its G6 coupe SUV, the fifth car in its lineup, at Auto Shanghai Tuesday. The company is marketing the G6 vehicle as a premium EV but without the premium price tag. It’s got a futuristic, sleek body, a smart infotainment system and it can be equipped with XNGP, XPeng’s […]

XPeng’s G6 SUV aims to be a premium EV for the masses by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Cosmonic launches its WebAssembly PaaS into open beta

April 18, 2023

Cosmonic, the company behind the open-source wasmCloud project, today announced that its WebAssembly (Wasm) Platform-as-a-Service offering is now in public beta. In this open beta, Cosmonic is also introducing a number of new features that aim to make integrating Wasm into existing applications easier, including Cosmonic Connect Kubernetes, which makes integrating existing Kubernetes clusters and […]

Cosmonic launches its WebAssembly PaaS into open beta by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Remote working means this startup can use brains in emerging markets to disrupt management consultants

April 18, 2023

The global management consulting industry is worth billions of dollars but to this day it’s been tough to disrupt with technology. Traditional consulting firms provide high-quality services but the cost a lot and have rigid terms. And while there are plenty of portals offering low-quality freelance consulting services, these are generally unsupervised that would never […]

Remote working means this startup can use brains in emerging markets to disrupt management consultants by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

Slim.AI helps developers optimize and secure their containers

April 18, 2023

Slim.AI, a startup specializing in software supply chain security, helps businesses optimize and secure their software containers, today announced the launch of its automated container hardening feature at the CNCF’s KubeCon/CloudNativeCon Europe. With this, Slim can now automatically scan a company’s containers for vulnerabilities and remove unnecessary files, libraries and other attack surfaces. Built into […]

Slim.AI helps developers optimize and secure their containers by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Apple opens its first retail store in India but customer challenges persist

April 18, 2023

Apple is making headlines this week as it opens its first retail store in India, a significant milestone roughly 25 years after entering the South Asian market. CEO Tim Cook is visiting the country, planning meetings with prominent business leaders, including Reliance’s Mukesh Ambani and Tata Group’s Natarajan Chandrasekaran, as well as Prime Minister Narendra […]

Apple opens its first retail store in India but customer challenges persist by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch