Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces ‘dislikes’ beta
Social network Bluesky, which on Friday announced a new milestone of 40 million users, will soon start testing “dislikes” as a way to improve personalization on its main Discover feed…
Meta bought 1 GW of solar this week
Meta signed three deals this week to procure nearly 1 gigawatt of solar power as it races to power its lofty AI ambitions. The trio of agreements brings Meta’s total…
AI mania tanks CoreWeave’s Core Scientific acquisition; it buys Python notebook Marimo
Core Scientific shareholders on Thursday voted down an all-stock acquisition offer from partner and competitor CoreWeave that was valued at the time at $9 billion. They did so following a…
AWS exceeds Wall Street’s expectations as demand for cloud infra remains high
Amazon’s cloud infrastructure service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), is on track to record its strongest year of growth in three years, fueled by the AI industry’s unprecedented demand for computing…
Government hackers breached telecom giant Ribbon for months before getting caught
U.S. telecommunications giant Ribbon has confirmed that government-backed hackers had access to its network for almost a year before getting caught, according to a public filing. The telco giant said…
Perplexity strikes multi-year licensing deal with Getty Images
AI search startup Perplexity has signed a multi-year licensing deal with Getty Images, which gives it permission to display images from Getty across its AI-powered search and discovery tools. The…
Tim Cook says Apple is open to M&A on the AI front
Apple CEO Tim Cook signaled to investors the company is still open to acquisitions and partnerships to move things forward on the AI front. The comments were made this week…
Luminar is cutting jobs, losing its CFO, and warning of a cash shortage
Lidar-maker Luminar is warning shareholders that it will run out of cash in early 2026 and has announced a 25% cut to its workforce to help staunch the bleeding —…
YC alum Adam raises $4.1M to turn viral text-to-3D tool into AI copilot
Adam, one of the most viral startups in Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch, has raised a $4.1 million seed round to power its next steps, TechCrunch learned exclusively. After generating…
Reddit CEO says chatbots are not a traffic driver
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said AI chatbots aren’t a major traffic driver for the social platform despite companies like OpenAI and Google having seen progress in people using AI for…