Ted Schlein’s Ballistic Ventures is raising $100M for a new fund
Ted Schlein’s Ballistic Ventures is raising $100M for a new fund Ted Schlein's cybersecurity-focused Ballistic Ventures is raising $100 million for a new fund, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. Ted Schlein's…
Teen with 4.0 GPA who built the viral Cal AI app was rejected by 15 top universities
Teen with 4.0 GPA who built the viral Cal AI app was rejected by 15 top universities Zach Yadegari, the high school teen co-founder of Cal AI, is being hammered…
TikTok quietly launches a new ‘TikTok for Artists’ platform
TikTok quietly launches a new ‘TikTok for Artists’ platform As TikTok’s fate in the United States remains uncertain, the tech giant has quietly started testing a new “TikTok for Artists”…
Devin, the viral coding AI agent, gets a new pay-as-you-go plan
Devin, the viral coding AI agent, gets a new pay-as-you-go plan Cognition, the startup behind the viral AI programming tool Devin, has introduced a new low-cost plan to incentivize sign-ups.…
Microsoft reportedly pulls back on its data center plans
Microsoft reportedly pulls back on its data center plans Microsoft has pulled back on data center projects around the world, Bloomberg reports, suggesting that the company is wary of expanding…
X may soon start selling inactive usernames to Verified Organizations starting at $10K, code reveals
X may soon start selling inactive usernames to Verified Organizations starting at $10K, code reveals X’s plan to boost revenue by selling off dormant usernames on its service is starting…
Studio Ghibli hasn’t commented on OpenAI’s onslaught of AI copies, but the fan subreddit has
Studio Ghibli hasn’t commented on OpenAI’s onslaught of AI copies, but the fan subreddit has When OpenAI debuted its image-generation feature in ChatGPT last week, social media exploded when users…
Apple loses $250B market value as tariffs tank tech stocks
Apple loses $250B market value as tariffs tank tech stocks Apple lost more than $250 billion in market value Thursday, with shares down as much as 8.5% as a result…
Google is shipping Gemini models faster than its AI safety reports
Google is shipping Gemini models faster than its AI safety reports More than two years after Google was caught flat-footed by the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the company has dramatically…
YouTube Shorts takes on TikTok with new creation tools
YouTube Shorts takes on TikTok with new creation tools As YouTube Shorts continues to compete with TikTok, the platform is announcing new upcoming features to help creators publish engaging short-form…