Industry Breakdown: Where Generative AI Is Gaining Ground
More employees across different sectors are using generative AI tools to complete tasks. This shift has moved quickly over the past year. Based on new data from McKinsey most industries…
A top designer was banned from Dribbble. Now he’s building his own competitor.
Dribbble has permanently banned dozens of designers from its platform following a new effort to pivot to a marketplace and chase monetization. This includes one of the platform’s most well…
Google says its AI-based bug hunter found 20 security vulnerabilities
Google’s AI-powered bug hunter has just reported its first batch of security vulnerabilities. Heather Adkins, Google’s vice president of security, announced Monday that its LLM-based vulnerability researcher Big Sleep found…
Foxconn sells former GM factory to mystery buyer after failing to make EVs
Foxconn has sold the former GM factory it has owned for three years after failing to stand up any meaningful, large-scale electric vehicle production there. The pivot marks the second…
Rivian sues to sell its EVs directly in Ohio
Rivian has filed a lawsuit in Ohio to be able sell its electric vehicles directly to consumers in the state — the latest swing in a perpetual fight between up-and-coming…
NVIDIA Triton Bugs Let Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Code and Hijack AI Servers
Aug 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananAI Security / Vulnerability A newly disclosed set of security flaws in NVIDIA’s Triton Inference Server for Windows and Linux, an open-source platform for running artificial intelligence…
TechCrunch Mobility: Tesla’s ride-hailing gambit
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Tesla CEO…
Vietnamese Hackers Use PXA Stealer, Hit 4,000 IPs and Steal 200,000 Passwords Globally
Aug 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Browser Security Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new wave of campaigns distributing a Python-based information stealer called PXA Stealer. The malicious activity has…
Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping
AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, Cloudflare published…
OpenAI says ChatGPT is on track to reach 700M weekly users
ChatGPT’s impressive growth as a consumer app continues as the chatbot is on track to hit 700 million weekly active users this week, the company says. The app had earlier…