Tesla’s profitable Supercharger network is in limbo after Musk axed the entire team (techcrunch.com)
After Elon Musk fired Tesla's Supercharger team, the fate of the EV charging network is unknown. There are 25,000 charging ports in the U.S. alone.
This Week in AI: OpenAI considers allowing AI porn | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
By the way, the earlier posted article https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain had an update starting at the paragraph with title Update: Statement from Proton and additional commentary
Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract (techcrunch.com)
The newly announced "Public Content Policy" will now join Reddit's existing privacy policy and content policy to guide how Reddit's data is being accessed and used by commercial entities and other partners.
Reddit tests automatic, whole-site translation into French using LLM-based AI (techcrunch.com)
In its first-ever earnings call as a public company, Reddit talked about user growth in non-U.S. countries using LLMs for automatic translations.
Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men (techcrunch.com)
Stack Overflow signs deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models (techcrunch.com)
Stack Overflow, the developer Q&A site, has inked a licensing agreement with OpenAI to supply data to its models.
Samsung’s operating profit soars 930% as AI tailwinds drive demand for memory chips (techcrunch.com)
Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board. (techcrunch.com)
Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Jack Dorsey says he’s no longer on the Bluesky board (techcrunch.com)
It sounds like Bluesky’s most prominent backer is no longer on its board. On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his
Why NASA is betting on a 36-pixel camera (techcrunch.com)
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is making strides in astronomy with its 122-megapixel primarily infrared photos taken 1.5 million kilometers away from
President Biden vetoes crypto custody bill (techcrunch.com)
President Joe Biden has vetoed H.J.Res. 109, a congressional resolution that would have overturned the Securities and Exchange Commission's current
Stripe curbs its India ambitions over regulatory situation (techcrunch.com)
Stripe, the world's most valuable fintech startup, said on Friday that it will temporarily move to an invite-only model for new account sign-ups in India, Stripe is temporarily moving to an invite-only model for new account sign-ups in India.
Spain bans Meta from launching election features on Facebook, Instagram over privacy fears (techcrunch.com)
Meta has been banned from launching features on Facebook and Instagram that would have collected data on voters in Spain using the social networks ahead of next month’s European Elections.
Google admits its AI Overviews need work, but we're all helping it beta test (techcrunch.com)
Google is embarrassed about its AI Overviews, too. After a deluge of dunks and memes over the past week, which cracked on the poor quality and outright
Hugging Face says it detected 'unauthorized access' to its AI model hosting platform | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
AI startup Hugging Face says that it detected a possible breach of its platform for hosting AI models, data sets and more.
Spotify hikes subscription price in France by 1.2% to match new music-streaming tax (techcrunch.com)
Spotify has hiked its premium subscription in France by an eye-watering €0.13, in response to a new music-streaming tax.
YouTube's free games catalog 'Playables' rolls out to all users (techcrunch.com)
YouTube's free Playables don't directly challenge the app store model or break Apple's rules. However, they do compete with the App Store's free games.
Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead to head up new team (techcrunch.com)
Jan Leike, a former OpenAI AI safety team lead, has joined Anthropic to spin up a new safety-focused team.
US pharma giant Cencora says Americans' health information stolen in data breach (techcrunch.com)
About half a million patients have been notified so far, but the number of affected individuals is likely far higher.
US pharma giant Cencora says Americans' health information stolen in data breach (techcrunch.com)
About half a million patients have been notified so far, but the number of affected individuals is likely far higher.
[Interview] Signal's Meredith Whittaker on the Telegram security clash and the 'edge lords' at OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
Among other things, Whittaker is concerned about the concentration of power in the five main social media platforms.
Feds add nine more incidents to Waymo robotaxi investigation (techcrunch.com)
U.S. federal safety regulators have added nine more incidents involving Waymo robotaxis to an investigation it launched earlier this month.
Google to build first subsea fiber-optic cable connecting Africa with Australia (techcrunch.com)
Google is set to build Umoja, the first subsea fibre optic cable connecting the continents of Africa and Australia.
