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Unforgetful is a new reminders app for people who can’t stop hitting snooze

Unforgetful, the latest app from longtime indie developer Marco Arment, is designed to make reminders harder to ignore — or accidentally dismiss.

Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations

Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file

Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release lande...

Elon Musk reveals $900 billion SpaceX stake, massive voting power

Elon Musk on Thursday revealed his massive SpaceX holdings, reporting a nearly 50% stake worth more than $900 billion. SpaceX stock rose early Friday after the filing. Musk, in a filing with the ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX gears up to take on rivals OpenAI, Anthropic with $60 billion acquisition of AI startup Cursor

SpaceX has completed a $60 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence coding startup Cursor, a key part of Elon Musk’s ...

Possible 2028 GOP candidate mocks ex-Trump insider Elon Musk over failed DOGE

DeSantis, who ran against Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential primary, took a swipe at the now-defunct Department of ...

Trump Reportedly Says His Relationship With Musk Will Never Be The Same After Epic Fallout

Artificial intelligence, China and world events are prominent topics for Musk and Trump, according to the Wall Street Journal.

'What I Want People to Be Scared Of': Cyber Expert Warns Elon Musk's DOGE Merged Secret Data Into DHS

A new Government Accountability Office report accuses Elon Musk's cost‑cutting agency DOGE of overstating savings as experts ...

Trump secretly admits his feelings got hurt by Elon Musk

President Donald Trump has privately admitted he was hurt by Elon Musk after their nuclear fallout, according to a new report ...

Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store

Apple is asking a federal judge to allow it to charge commissions of up to 15% on purchases made through external links in iOS apps.

Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs

The idea that GPUs are poorly suited for agentic workflows may be a misconception, according to French startup Kog.

US courts will start publishing how often the government uses spyware

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts told TechCrunch that it will start disclosing how many times judges authorized the use of spyware to wiretap suspected criminals.

Lightspeed is selling its OpenAI stake to a fund it will also run

The firm calls the deal Project Mercury, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with it. It gathers assets from two Lightspeed funds, Select V and Opportunity II, plus a separately managed account. OpenAI is the anchor. Coller Capital is the lead...

Meta removed 756,000 Australian accounts. Its real ask is that Apple does the checking

Representatives of Meta, TikTok, Google and Snap give evidence to an Australian parliamentary inquiry on Friday, Reuters reported. Regulators and government officials appear too. Meta went first, and it went alone. On Wednesday it published its enfor...

Uber and Pony.ai plan to bring 2,000 robotaxis to Europe

The partnership is expanding beyond the initial market of Zagreb, Croatia to four additional European cities.

SpaceX’s Starbase is getting a few monuments dedicated to Elon Musk. Not all will be flattering.

Fans and critics of Elon Musk have shared plans to erect a monument dedicated to the CEO near SpaceX's Starbase complex.

Thrive Capital’s first investor letter shows how completely OpenAI has come to define it

Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has sent its first formal letter to investors, and the standout figure captures the AI era in miniature. One of its funds has swelled to about $3.7bn in value, driven overwhelmingly by early bets on OpenAI and SpaceX....

A Massachusetts teen is charged with killing his mother and brother, and prosecutors point to ChatGPT

A 17-year-old in Massachusetts has been charged with murdering his mother and younger brother, and prosecutors say that in the period before the deaths he had used ChatGPT to explore what they described as fantasy scenarios about killing his family....

Weather drones are filling the data blind spot that armies and traders both need

The artificial-intelligence weather boom has a dirty secret. For all the talk of models that see storms days ahead, an AI forecaster is only as good as the observations that feed it, and lately those have run thin. According to Bloomberg, drones are...

Cl0p claims a mass hack of Shell, Philips, and dozens more

The Russia-linked ransomware group Cl0p has claimed a fresh wave of cyberattacks, naming Shell and Philips among its victims and, by some counts, dragging close to 50 companies into the mess. It is a familiar sort of headline, and one that reads more...