Rivian CEO takes top marketing role in shakeup ahead of R2 launch
Founder and CEO RJ Scaringe will be wearing yet another hat as the company preps for arguably its most important vehicle launch — the mass market R2 SUV — in…
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YouTube paid out $8B to the music industry in 12 months
The milestone marks a new record for the platform, as YouTube’s annual music industry payout increased by $2 billion since 2022.
20-year-old dropouts built AI notetaker Turbo AI to 5 million users
Rudy Arora and Sarthak Dhawan, two 20-year-old college dropouts, grew an AI note-taker app to five million users and an eight-figure ARR, they say.
Instagram users can now use Meta AI editing tools directly in IG Stories
Meta AI’s photo editing tools can be found in Instagram Stories when tapping the paintbrush icon. Users can describe what they want to add, remove, or change.
‘War on Crypto Is Over’: Donald Trump Pardons Binance Founder CZ
After serving a federal prison sentence for violating anti-money-laundering laws and US sanctions, former crypto exchange CEO Changpeng Zhao has been pardoned by US president Donald Trump.
Introducing Build Mode: TechCrunch’s new podcast for founders
Build Mode is our new podcast that will be a survival guide for early-stage founders navigating the messy, high-stakes chaos of building a company from scratch, hosted by Startup Battlefield…
Two days after OpenAI’s Atlas, Microsoft launches a nearly identical AI browser
CoPilot Mode of Microsoft’s Edge browser is the company’s take on the long-hyped AI browser category.
Microsoft’s Mico is a ‘Clippy’ for the AI era
Microsoft has unveiled “Mico,” a new animated avatar for its Copilot AI that brings back shades of Clippy. The expressive blob acts as a friendly, customizable face for the chatbot.
A Coding Guide to Build a Fully Functional Multi-Agent Marketplace Using uAgent
In this tutorial, we explore how to build a small yet functional multi-agent system using the uAgents framework. We set up three agents — Directory, Seller, and Buyer — that…
UltraCUA: A Foundation Computer-Use Agents Model that Bridges the Gap between General-Purpose GUI Agents and Specialized API-based Agents
Computer-use agents have been limited to primitives. They click, they type, they scroll. Long action chains amplify grounding errors and waste steps. Apple Researchers introduce UltraCUA, a foundation model that…