Amazon just scored a major coup with Meta thanks, once again, to Amazon’s own homegrown chips. Meta has signed a deal to adopt millions of AWS Graviton chips to power its growing AI needs, Amazon revealed Friday. Note that the AWS Graviton is an ARM-based CPU, (a central processing unit, the chip that handles general […]

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has launched two preview versions of its newest large language model, DeepSeek V4, a much-awaited update to last year’s V3.2 model and the accompanying R1 reasoning model that took the AI planet by storm. The organization says both DeepSeek V4 Flash and V4 Pro are mixture-of-experts models with context windows of […]

In the last few years, AI-powered dictation tools have taken off. Besides existing dictation apps like Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, Willow, and Monologue, novel ones are being launched every week. On Thursday, hardware firm Nothing launched a competitive product of its own, called Essential Voice. The core idea is similar to other dictation apps, as Essential […]

Surprise! StrictlyVC San Francisco, which will kick off this year’s events lineup for TechCrunch on April 30 at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center, is getting a recent addition to its increasingly stacked roster of speakers. Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga will join us to discuss, you guessed it, operating at scale in the age of […]

Ternus may be inheriting one of the most durable businesses in tech, but he’s also stepping into a very different ecosystemthan the one Cook spent decades shaping. The App Store’s 30% cut is under pressure, the behind-the-scenes power Apple once held over developers is being challenged, and vibe-coded apps are changing what it means to build on Apple’s platform.  Watch as […]

Yet another government spyware maker has been caught after its customers used fake Android apps to install its surveillance software on targets, according to a updated report. On Thursday, Osservatorio Nessuno, an Italian digital rights organization that researches spyware, published a report on a novel malware it calls Morpheus. The spyware, which masquerades as a […]