OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video generation app. “We’re saying goodbye to Sora,” the company wrote in a X post published Tuesday afternoon. For now, OpenAI has yet to say when the app and its related API service would become unavailable. Instead, promising to share those details at a later date. “We’ve decided to discontinue Sora in the consumer …
Read More »Anthropic hands Claude Code more control, but keeps it on a leash | TechCrunch
For developers using AI, “vibe coding” right now comes down to babysitting every action or risking letting the model run unchecked. Anthropic says its latest update to Claude aims to eliminate that choice by letting the AI decide which actions are safe to take on its own — with some limits. The move reflects a broader shift across the industry, …
Read More »Spotify tests new tool to stop AI slop from being attributed to real artists | TechCrunch
At a time when AI slop is flooding music streaming platforms, Spotify is beta testing a new “Artist Profile Protection” feature that allows artists to review releases before they go live on their profiles. The idea behind the new tool is to give artists more control over which tracks are associated with their name on the streaming service. “Music has …
Read More »Crusoe makes big battery buys for its data centers | TechCrunch
Data center developer Crusoe is ramping up its energy storage capacity with battery buys from Form Energy and Redwood Energy. The company said it will buy 12 gigawatt-hours of Form Energy’s 100-hour batteries. It’s the second large sale made by Form, which last month said it would build a 30 gigawatt-hour battery for Google in Minnesota. That deal was worth …
Read More »Databricks bought two startups to underpin its new AI security product | TechCrunch
With an overflowing war chest from its $5 billion raise that closed last month (not to mention billions in revenue), Databricks is acquiring. The company, best known for its cloud data analytics platform, announced on Tuesday that it was launching a new security product called Lakewatch. Lakewatch takes Databricks’ ability to store massive amounts of data and performs classic Security …
Read More »Apple could give Siri a standalone app and an ‘Ask Siri’ button in iOS 27
Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman has been sharing every incremental update about what Apple’s long-awaited Siri overhaul will and won’t include. His latest article claims that the AI assistant will have a standalone app and will introduce an “Ask Siri” feature that could mark a decidedly different direction in how users will interact with the platform. Gurman reports that Siri is being …
Read More »Brinc unveils Guardian, a Starlink-connected drone that could ‘replace the police helicopter’
Blake Resnick, founder and CEO of Brinc Drones, with the company’s new Guardian public safety drone in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Brinc Drones founder and CEO Blake Resnick has a big vision for what the company’s largest-ever drone can accomplish. “To replace the police helicopter,” Resnick said with a smile when asked about his goal for the device. …
Read More »Drone home: Brinc moving to massive new HQ and factory in Seattle amid startup’s rapid growth
The main floor of the new Brinc Drones factory and headquarters location in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Brinc Drones, the Seattle-based maker of public safety drones for first responders, is moving its headquarters and factory space to a massive development not far from its current Fremont neighborhood location. Brinc is taking over 35,000 square feet …
Read More »Zoox is bringing its robotaxi to new cities and expanding coverage in Las Vegas and San Francisco
Zoox has announced plans to bring its robotaxi to Austin, Texas and Miami, Florida for the first time, along with offering expanded service in San Francisco and Las Vegas. The company formally launched its robotaxi service in September 2025, and shared earlier in March that it would begin testing in Dallas and Phoenix. A “Zoox retrofitted testing fleet” has been …
Read More »Arm is releasing its first in-house chip in its 35-year history | TechCrunch
Storied semiconductor and software company Arm Holdings is starting to make its own chips after nearly 36 years of licensing its designs to companies like Nvidia and Apple. At an event Tuesday in San Francisco, the company revealed the Arm AGI CPU, a production-ready chip built for running inference in an AI data center. The UK-based company developed the chip …
Read More »OpenAI’s plans to make ChatGPT more like Amazon aren’t going so well | TechCrunch
OpenAI’s plans to make ChatGPT into an e-commerce hub aren’t exactly panning out—at least, not yet. In an announcement on Tuesday, the company revealed that it’s pivoting away from a recently launched feature that let users buy items directly from the chatbot’s interface. OpenAI originally launched buying capabilities in ChatGPT last year—positioning itself as a “shopping assistant” that could connect …
Read More »AccuWeather is now available inside ChatGPT
Who among us hasn’t tormented over the burden of having to exit an AI app to check the weather? Well, I haven’t, and I’m guessing you haven’t either. But AccuWeather has a solution regardless. On Tuesday, the company rolled out a ChatGPT app to spare… someone that pain. Snark aside, there may be a few niche situations where this provides …
Read More »Splitgate’s 1047 Games is starting work on a Titanfall-style movement shooter
At the close of a video announcing the second season of Splitgate: Arena Reloaded, the company’s co-founder and CEO Ian Proulx revealed that “a small section of the team” has started work on a new game. He said that the next project will be a movement shooter in the style of Titanfall and Black Ops 3. Those two tidbits are …
Read More »Eid Al-Fitr carnival for children held in Gaza under UAE’s Chivalrous Knight 3
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Read More »Google TV’s new Gemini features keep fans updated on sports teams and more | TechCrunch
Google unveiled three Gemini-powered features for Google TV on Tuesday, including AI-powered visual responses, the ability to deep dive into virtually any topic, and narrated overviews of sports games. A particularly noteworthy addition is the introduction of visual responses. For example, requesting the current score for the Warriors game will result in live scorecards, alongside information on where to view …
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