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Intel has appointed Lip-Bu Tan as its new CEO, following a turbulent period for the semiconductor company under former CEO Pat Gelsinger, with hopes of revitalizing its strategy and operations.
Google DeepMind has introduced new AI models, Gemini Robotics, designed to enhance robot interaction capabilities and facilitate complex tasks, showcasing the growing integration of AI in physical applications.
An investigation by UK authorities has deemed the Apple-Google mobile browser duopoly as detrimental to innovation, highlighting concerns that their policies restrict market competition and consumer choice.
Food delivery startup Wonder is acquiring media company Tastemade for $90 million, signaling a trend where tech companies diversify their portfolios by integrating content production within their services.
In the gaming sector, Niantic has sold its game division to Saudi-owned Scopely for $3.5 billion, marking a significant shift in the augmented reality gaming landscape and highlighting the increasing financial interest in gaming from international investors.

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As Intel welcomes a new CEO, a look at where the company stands techcrunch.com an hour ago by Rebecca Szkutak
AI, Enterprise, AI chips, Intel, Pat Gelsinger, semiconductors
Semiconductor giant Intel hired semiconductor veteran Lip-Bu Tan to be its new CEO. This news comes three months after Pat Gelsinger retired a…
Anthropic CEO says spies are after $100M AI secrets in a ‘few lines of code’ techcrunch.com 4 hours ago by Charles Rollet
AI, Startups, China, Anthropic
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is worried about spies getting their hands on costly "algorithmic secrets" from the U.S.' top AI companies. © 2024…
Intel appoints Lip-Bu Tan as its next CEO techcrunch.com 4 hours ago by Kyle Wiggers
Hardware, Intel
Intel has appointed Lip-Bu Tan, a major figure in the semiconductor industry, as CEO, the company announced late Wednesday. Tan succeeds inter…
Food delivery startup Wonder acquires media company Tastemade for $90M techcrunch.com 4 hours ago by Aisha Malik
Media & Entertainment, Startups, In Brief, Marc Lore, tastemade, wonder
Food delivery startup Wonder is acquiring media company Tastemade for around $90 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. Founded in 202…
FBI, EPA, and Treasury told Citibank to freeze funds as Trump administration tries to claw back climate money techcrunch.com 4 hours ago by Tim De Chant
Climate, Government & Policy, Environmental Protection Agency, green bank, inflation reduction act
The accounts were frozen in February, but documents filed today make public details which had previously been unknown. © 2024 TechCrunch. All…
How to watch Nvidia GTC 2025, including CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote techcrunch.com 4 hours ago by Kyle Wiggers
AI, Enterprise, Transportation, GTC, nvidia
GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, will return starting Monday in San Jose. If you can’t make it in person, don’t sweat it. TechCru…
Nvidia GTC 2025: What to expect from this year’s show techcrunch.com 4 hours ago by Kyle Wiggers
AI, Enterprise, Transportation, GTC, nvidia
GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, begins Monday and runs till Friday in San Jose. TechCrunch will be on the ground covering the ne…
Google DeepMind unveils new AI models for controlling robots techcrunch.com 4 hours ago by Kyle Wiggers
AI, Hardware, Robotics, gemini robotics, Google, google deepmind, In Brief, robotics
Google DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, on Wednesday announced new AI models called Gemini Robotics designed to enable real-world machines …
The people in Elon Musk’s DOGE universe techcrunch.com 5 hours ago by Kirsten Korosec, Zack Whittaker, Charles Rollet, Sean O'Kane, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Security, Government & Policy, Department of Government Efficiency, doge, Elon Musk, evergreens, SpaceX, Tesla, Trump Administration, us government
Meet the DOGE staffers and senior advisors in Elon Musk's inner circle, and how they got there. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For p…
Browser Use, one of the tools powering Manus, is also going viral techcrunch.com 5 hours ago by Kyle Wiggers
AI, AI agents, manus, browser use
Manus, the viral AI “agent” platform from Chinese startup Butterfly Effect, has had an unintended side effect: raising the profile of another …
UK competition probe of mobile browsers finds Apple-Google duopoly is ‘anti-innovation’ techcrunch.com 7 hours ago by Natasha Lomas
Government & Policy, Apple, CMA, Google
A U.K. competition authority investigation of Apple and Google’s mobile browsers has concluded that the mobile duopoly’s policies are “holding…
Donald Trump Jr. has been boosting MAGA-related startups techcrunch.com 7 hours ago by Dominic-Madori Davis
Government & Policy, Startups, Donald Trump Jr.
Since Donald Trump Jr. joined VC firm 1789 Capital after his father won the election, he’s been busy monetizing the Make America Great Again (…
OpenStack comes to the Linux Foundation techcrunch.com 7 hours ago by Frederic Lardinois
Enterprise, TC, linux foundation, OpenInfra, openstack
Back in 2010, Rackspace and NASA launched a project called OpenStack, which was meant to become an open source option for running an AWS-style…
A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs techcrunch.com 8 hours ago by Cody Corrall, Alyssa Stringer
Startups, Venture, evergreens, Layoffs, tech layoffs, TechCrunch 2023 Recap
A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rig…
Dapr’s microservices runtime now supports AI agents techcrunch.com 8 hours ago by Frederic Lardinois
AI, Enterprise, TC, agents, AI agents, dapr, open source
Back in 2019, Microsoft open sourced Dapr, a new runtime for making building distributed microservice-based applications easier. At the time, …
Sakana claims its AI-generated paper passed peer review — but it’s a bit more nuanced than that techcrunch.com 9 hours ago by Kyle Wiggers
AI, Startups, research, sakana
Japanese AI startup Sakana said that its AI generated one of the first peer-reviewed scientific publications. But while the claim isn’t necess…
Moonvalley releases a video generator it claims was trained on licensed content techcrunch.com 9 hours ago by Kyle Wiggers
AI, Media & Entertainment, moonvalley, video generator
Los Angeles-based startup Moonvalley has launched an AI video-generating model it claims is one of the few trained on openly licensed — not co…
Snap introduces AI Video Lenses powered by its in-house generative model techcrunch.com 9 hours ago by Aisha Malik
AI, Apps, Social, Exclusive, Generative AI, Snap, Snapchat
Snapchat is introducing its first-ever video generative AI Lenses, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The Lenses are powered by Snap’s i…
Garantex administrator arrested in India at request of US authorities techcrunch.com 9 hours ago by Jagmeet Singh, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Crypto, Security, Bitcoin, cybercrime, Exclusive, Garantex, India, money laundering, russia, tether
Garantex co-founder Aleksej Besciokov was arrested in India's Kerala on Tuesday, U.S. and Indian officials tell TechCrunch. © 2024 TechCrunch…
Why Onyx thinks its open source solution will win enterprise search techcrunch.com 10 hours ago by Rebecca Szkutak
AI, Enterprise, Startups, artificial intelligence, Exclusive, Khosla Ventures, Onyx, open source
Enterprises have troves of internal data and information that employees need to complete their tasks or answer questions for potential custome…