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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is prioritizing AI initiatives over traditional media, as seen in his shift from podcasts to utilizing the Copilot AI assistant.
MIT is disavowing a controversial paper by a doctoral student that claimed AI boosts productivity, raising questions about academic integrity in the tech space.
Epic Games intensifies its legal battle with Apple, seeking to compel the tech giant to approve Fortnite's return to the App Store after winning a courtroom victory.
OpenAI is planning a massive data center in Abu Dhabi, set to be one of the largest AI infrastructure projects globally, solidifying its role in the AI race.
The U.S. Department of Energy reports a significant advancement in laser-powered fusion technology, more than doubling its power output in recent experiments.

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Microsoft’s Satya Nadella is choosing chatbots over podcasts techcrunch.com 6 hours ago by Anthony Ha
AI, Media & Entertainment, Microsoft, Satya Nadella
While Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says he likes podcasts, he might not actually be listening to them anymore. That tidbit comes towards the en…
MIT disavows doctoral student paper on AI’s productivity benefits techcrunch.com 7 hours ago by Anthony Ha
AI, TC, MIT
MIT says that due to concerns about the “integrity” of a high-profile paper about the effects of artificial intelligence on research and innov…
Laser-powered fusion experiment more than doubles its power output techcrunch.com 7 hours ago by Tim De Chant
Climate, Government & Policy, Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, Exclusive, scoop, nuclear fusion, fusion power
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Ignition Facility increased the yield of the experiment in recent attempts.
TechCrunch Week in Review: Coinbase gets hacked techcrunch.com 9 hours ago by Karyne Levy
Social, Microsoft, Layoffs, Uber, Week in Review, coinbase
Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got tons of news for you this week, including a hack at Coinbase; YC thinks Google is a ‘monopolist’; la…
Epic Games asks judge to force Apple to approve Fortnite techcrunch.com 10 hours ago by Anthony Ha
Apps, Gaming, Government & Policy, Apple, Epic Games
Epic Games is escalating its efforts to pressure Apple to allow its game Fortnite into its App Store, with a new court filing asking Judge Yvo…
Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employees techcrunch.com 11 hours ago by Julie Bort
AI, Startups, AI agents, Exclusive, Y Combinator
Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is back on the hunt for AI agent employees, after a previous attempt to hire one didn't go as planned.
Build, don’t bind: Accel’s Sonali De Rycker on Europe’s AI crossroads techcrunch.com a day ago by Connie Loizos
TC, Venture, Accel, Perplexity, sonali de rycker, Speak
Sonali De Rycker, a general partner at Accel and one of Europe’s most influential venture capitalists, is bullish about the continent’s prospe…
OpenAI’s planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco techcrunch.com a day ago by Connie Loizos
AI, abu dhabi, OpenAI
OpenAI is poised to help develop a staggering 5-gigawatt data center campus in Abu Dhabi, positioning the company as a primary anchor tenant i…
Google I/O 2025: What to expect, including updates to Gemini and Android 16 techcrunch.com a day ago by Kyle Wiggers
AI, Apps, Hardware, Google, Google I/O
Google I/O, Google’s biggest developer conference of the year, is nearly upon us. Scheduled for May 20 to 21 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in …
Thousands of people have embarked on a virtual road trip via Google Street View techcrunch.com a day ago by Amanda Silberling
Social, internet culture, internet roadtrip, neal agrawal
It’s Friday afternoon and I’m listening to Bowdoin College’s radio station, interspersed with ambient car honking noises. I am not in Maine. I…
How Silicon Valley’s influence in Washington benefits the tech elite techcrunch.com a day ago by Rebecca Bellan
Government & Policy, Venture, anduril, doge, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, Palantir, Palmer Luckey, Peter Thiel, SpaceX
Since Donald Trump took office, more than three dozen employees, allies, and investors of Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and Palmer Lucke…
US man who hacked SEC’s X account to spike Bitcoin price sentenced to prison techcrunch.com a day ago by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Security, cybercrime, cybersecurity, In Brief, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, SIM Swap, SIM swapping, Twitter, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, X
The Department of Justice announced Eric Council Jr. was sentenced to 14 months in prison for the hack.
AI startup Cohere acquires Ottogrid, a platform for conducting market research techcrunch.com a day ago by Kyle Wiggers
AI, Enterprise, Fundraising, Startups, acquisition, Cohere
AI startup Cohere has acquired Ottogrid, a Vancouver-based platform that develops enterprise tools for automating certain kinds of high-level …
Arc’s new 24-foot electric boat is its cheapest yet techcrunch.com a day ago by Sean O'Kane
Transportation, Arc, electric boats, electric vehicles, EVs
Electric boat startup Arc has a new model that is its cheapest and most approachable watercraft yet. The new boat is called the Arc Coast, and…
TechCrunch Mobility: Google’s Gemini is coming to your car, chaos comes for Luminar, and the Amazonification of Uber 2.0 techcrunch.com a day ago by Kirsten Korosec
Transportation, Amazon, Uber, Luminar, google gemini, techcrunch mobility
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just cli…
The Nuclear Company raises $51M to develop massive reactor sites techcrunch.com a day ago by Tim De Chant
Climate, Enterprise, Fundraising, Startups, data centers, Exclusive, fission, nuclear fission, nuclear power, scoop
The funding round arrives as tech companies and utilities are struggling to secure power for data centers.
AI video startup Moonvalley lands $53M, according to filing techcrunch.com a day ago by Kyle Wiggers
Startups, Media & Entertainment, AI, Fundraising, Generative AI, moonvalley
Roughly a month after Moonvalley, a Los Angeles-based startup developing AI tools for video creation, said it secured $43 million in new fundi…
TechCrunch and VivaTech partner for the VivaTech Innovation of the Year techcrunch.com a day ago by Cindy Zackney
Startups, Vivatech
TechCrunch is joining forces with VivaTech, Europe’s biggest startup and tech event, to select startups for the prestigious VivaTech Innovatio…
Spotify responds to backlash over public podcast play counts techcrunch.com a day ago by Amanda Silberling
Media & Entertainment, podcast, Spotify
Spotify announced last week that it would roll out public play counts on all podcasts as a way of “helping attract new fans.” But podcasters s…
OpenAI launches Codex, an AI coding agent, in ChatGPT techcrunch.com a day ago by Maxwell Zeff
AI, ai coding, OpenAI
OpenAI announced on Friday it’s launching a research preview of Codex, the company’s most capable AI coding agent yet. Codex is powered by cod…