Apple Intelligence registered in China for use on iPads and Macs
Apple’s AI service, Apple Intelligence, has been cleared for use on tablets and laptops in China. The cyberspace regulator in Shanghai made the change on Monday, Reuters reported.…
Automattic debuts a platform to deploy vibe coding apps amid a changing internet
Automattic aims to compete with likes of Lovable with Spacefast
Meet Drops, the new music app bringing back the fun of sharing songs with friends
The new music discovery app lets users scroll through 10-to-30-second snippets of songs, comment, and share with friends.
Musk says Tesla will refund some Cybertruck deposits, defends decision to end production
Elon Musk defended the company's decision to stop making the Cybertruck, which will go out of production in around 8 months.
Meta’s Dave Wehner leaves to become CFO of AI start-up Fireworks
Dave Wehner has spent 14 years at Meta, more than eight of them as chief financial officer. On Friday, he announced that he is leaving his role as chief strategy officer to become…
EU sues IBM, Atos and Leonardo over border system delays, FT reports
The European Union has sued IBM, French IT group Atos and Italian defence company Leonardo over years of delays in developing its new biometric border system, the Financial Times …
Tesla to refund many Cybertruck deposits before production ends, Musk says
Tesla will have to refund deposits to many Cybertruck customers because orders far exceed what it can build, chief executive Elon Musk said on Monday, in a post on X. The Cybertru…
Gal Shafir on why the SOC of 2030 will run like a software team
For two decades, the SIEM was the Security Operations Center (SOC). One platform ingested the data, parsed it, stored it, normalized it, enriched it, ran the detections and suppor…
SoftBank faces questions on AI strategy ahead of earnings after selloff
SoftBank Group will report quarterly results on Tuesday, as investors look for signs that its AI strategy is still on track. A sharp fall in AI stocks and a blocked robotics deal …
Tesla expands robotaxi service to San Antonio
This will be the fourth Texas city in which Tesla will launch robotaxis.
Google warns Australian safety bill could block teens from Gmail
Google has warned that a proposed Australian online safety law could force it to block under-18s from Gmail. A company policy chief raised the concern at a Senate hearing on Monda…
Onodrim raises $300M to buy European defence and industrial firms
Onodrim Industries, a defence group based in Amsterdam, has raised $300M in a round led by Lux Capital. The deal values the firm at $1.3bn, Onodrim said in a statement on Monday. …
Nvidia investigates after CEO admits affair linked to spy reports
Nvidia’s board has opened an independent investigation after chief executive Jensen Huang admitted on Sunday to a relationship with Alice Huang, a former executive at Nvidia custo…
Dundee biotech PhaSER wins $2.7M Gates grant for infectious disease drugs
Scottish biotech PhaSER Biomedical has won a $2.7M (£2m) grant from the Gates Foundation to help find new drugs for diseases such as TB and malaria. The company announced the awar…
$1bn start-up Rillet makes London its first European base
Rillet, a US start-up that makes accounting software with built-in AI agents, has opened an office in central London. It is the company’s first major move into Europe, Rillet said…
Is Jensen Huang’s job on the line? Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld estimates it’s “about a 50-50”
Nvidia’s board is investigating Jensen Huang over his relationship with a suspected Chinese spy, and Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld thinks it’s roughly a coin flip whether Huang stays …
Apps to distract you from the endless cycle of doomscrolling
It's hard to break the cycle of doomscrolling, but there are plenty of apps that can help you spend more time on content that’s engaging and productive.
Nvidia will investigate CEO Jensen Huang’s relationship with possible Chinese spy
In a memo to the company, Huang admitted that he had an affair.
If Snap’s Specs are still ridiculously expensive, they’re also a lot more comfortable than they used to be
Snap's Specs, which have been in development for many years now, are going to market this fall. Will they be a hit with users?
Coordinated disturbances haunt grids worldwide. Here’s how researchers solved the mystery.
Mystery solved: Coordinated power drops have been haunting power grid worldwide, but a team of researchers in Germany found the culprit.
Sequoia partners reportedly blindsided when Roelof Botha joined SpaceX board
A new report claims Sequoia's recent changes undo the legacy of the firm's former steward.
SNL has a new impression of Elon Musk, ‘the worst thing South Africa has ever done’
SNL seems to have its knives out for tech executives.
He arrested a hacker, then spent 18 months clearing his own name. Now he’s a cybersecurity VC.
Stephen Ward, a former Secret Service agent and Home Depot CISO, is preparing a second fund of roughly $250 million for Brightmind Partners.
TechCrunch Mobility: The Cybertruck experiment is over
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.