Amazon kills ‘Inspire,’ its TikTok-style feed for discovering products
Amazon kills ‘Inspire,’ its TikTok-style feed for discovering products Amazon is shutting down “Inspire,” its TikTok-like, short-form video and photo feed that was previously available in its mobile app. The…
OpenAI may give board special voting rights to ward off takeover attempts
OpenAI may give board special voting rights to ward off takeover attempts To fend off future hostile takeover attempts, OpenAI is considering giving its non-profit board special voting rights, according…
Hackers planted a Steam game with malware to steal gamers’ passwords
Hackers planted a Steam game with malware to steal gamers’ passwords Researchers found that PirateFI was never designed to be a real game, but a vehicle to infect gamers with…
The people in Elon Musk’s DOGE universe
The people in Elon Musk’s DOGE universe Meet the DOGE staffers and senior advisors in Elon Musk's inner circle, and how they got there. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.…
X challenges German court order granting data access to election researchers
X challenges German court order granting data access to election researchers Earlier this month, a Berlin court ordered Elon Musk-owned X to provide immediate access to public platform data to…
Meta announces LlamaCon, its first generative AI dev conference
Meta announces LlamaCon, its first generative AI dev conference Meta on Tuesday announced that it’ll host its first-ever dev conference dedicated to generative AI. Called LlamaCon after Meta’s Llama family…
Bluesky adds a ‘followers only’ reply option
Bluesky adds a ‘followers only’ reply option The new feature lets users limit their conversations to connections of their own choosing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use…
Fetii’s group rideshare app for young people attracts funding from Mark Cuban, YC
Fetii’s group rideshare app for young people attracts funding from Mark Cuban, YC When he was a senior studying at Texas A&M University, Matthew Iommi realized that there were no…
Hightouch raises $80M on a $1.2B valuation for marketing tools powered by AI
Hightouch raises $80M on a $1.2B valuation for marketing tools powered by AI Last decade, companies like Segment rewrote the book on how organizations used APIs to merge data from…
Lingo.dev is an app localization engine for developers
Lingo.dev is an app localization engine for developers Monolinguists wanting to communicate with the global masses have never had it so easy. Trusty old Google Translate can convert the content…