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A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs

Cody Corrall, Alyssa Stringer — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 23:10:00 +0000

The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has already seen 60,000 job cuts across 254 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Companies like Tesla, Amazon, Google, TikTok, Snap and Microsoft have conducted sizable layoffs in the first months of 2024. Smaller-sized […]

ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

Kyle Wiggers, Cody Corrall, Alyssa Stringer — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:45:00 +0000

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies. That growth has propelled OpenAI itself into […]

OpenAI comes for Google with SearchGPT

Cody Corrall — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 17:05:00 +0000

OpenAI is testing SearchGPT, a new AI search experience to compete directly with Google. The feature aims to elevate search queries with “timely answers” from across the internet and allows the user to ask follow-up questions. The temporary prototype is currently only available to a small group of users and its publisher partners for testing […]

CrowdStrike’s update fail causes global outages and travel chaos

Cody Corrall — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 20:15:00 +0000

This week saw one of the most widespread IT disruptions in recent years linked to a faulty software update from popular cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. Businesses across the world reported IT outages, including Windows “blue screen of death” errors on their computers, impacting airlines, banks, retailers, brokerage houses, media companies and railway networks. OpenAI released GPT-4o […]

If you’re an AT&T customer, your data has likely been stolen

Cody Corrall — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:15:00 +0000

This week, AT&T confirmed it will begin notifying around 110 million AT&T customers about a data breach that allowed cybercriminals to steal the phone records of “nearly all” of its customers. The stolen data contains phone numbers and AT&T records of calls and text messages during a six-month period in 2022, the company says. If […]

Figma pauses its new AI feature after Apple controversy

Cody Corrall — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 20:16:00 +0000

Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. This week, Figma CEO Dylan Field said the company will temporarily disable its “Make Design” AI feature after it was accused of “heavily” training the tool on existing apps. The […]

Apple finally supports RCS in iOS 18 update

Cody Corrall — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 20:15:00 +0000

Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. This week, Apple finally added support for Rich Communication Services (RCS) to Messages as part of the second developer beta of iOS 18. Until now, iPhone users could only send […]

Ilya Sutskever isn’t done working on AI safety

Cody Corrall — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 20:15:00 +0000

Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. This week, Ilya Sutskever launched a new AI company, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), just one month after formally leaving OpenAI. Sutskever, alongside Jan Leike, was integral to OpenAI’s efforts to […]

Apple ushers in a new era with Apple Intelligence

Cody Corrall — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 20:15:00 +0000

Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference had a sizable focus on AI. Apple unveiled its generative AI offering, Apple Intelligence, which will be available in iOS later this year. iOS 18 will […]

How India’s most valuable startup ended up being worth nothing

Cody Corrall — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 20:15:00 +0000

Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. There’s more bad news for Byju’s. In a research note, HSBC estimates that the Indian edtech giant, once valued at $22 billion, is now worth nothing. The write-down in its […]

Elon Musk’s X: A complete timeline of what Twitter has become

Amanda Silberling, Cody Corrall, Alyssa Stringer — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 20:45:00 +0000

Welcome to Elon Musk’s X. The social network formerly known as Twitter where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter. Or do they? The Tesla and SpaceX CEO announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free speech. Musk […]

Fisker collapsed under the weight of its founder’s promises

Cody Corrall — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 20:15:00 +0000

Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Over the past eight years, famed vehicle designer Henrik Fisker suggested his EV startup would deliver on a lot of promises, but none came true. As Fisker looks for an […]

Scarlett Johansson brought receipts to the OpenAI controversy

Cody Corrall — Sat, 25 May 2024 20:15:00 +0000

Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. OpenAI announced this week that it’s removing Sky, one of the voices used by its new GPT-4o model, after users found it sounded eerily similar to Scarlett Johansson’s AI character […]

OpenAI and Google lay out their competing AI visions

Cody Corrall — Sat, 18 May 2024 20:15:00 +0000

Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review. This week had two major events from OpenAI and Google. OpenAI’s spring update event saw the reveal of its new model, GPT-4o, which has voice and vision capabilities that can turn ChatGPT into a virtual assistant seemingly aspiring to be “Her.” Hot off OpenAI’s tail, Google’s I/O conference […]

Why Apple’s ‘Crush’ ad is so misguided

Cody Corrall — Sat, 11 May 2024 20:15:00 +0000

Welcome to Week in Review: TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. This week Apple unveiled new iPad models at its Let Loose event, including a new 13-inch display for the iPad Air, as well as Tandem OLED and a new M4 chip for the iPad Pro. But its ad for the new iPad Pro […]

A comprehensive archive of 2023 tech layoffs

Cody Corrall, Alyssa Stringer — Wed, 01 May 2024 12:00:43 +0000

A tech-wide reckoning that began in 2022 and ran throughout into 2023. Though 2024 has gotten off to a rough start, it has yet to reach the peak of the prior year’s substantial cutbacks. This post serves as a record of those layoffs, and the coverage of the reasons behind them, ranging from duplicative roles, […]

What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the app trying to replace Twitter

Amanda Silberling, Alyssa Stringer, Cody Corrall — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:00:31 +0000

Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been more than a year since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up shop on alternative platforms. Mastodon, Post, Pebble (which has already shuttered operations) and Spill have been presented as potential […]

Apple Vision Pro: How to buy or test out the $3,500 headset

Cody Corrall — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 16:40:18 +0000

The much-hyped Apple Vision Pro headset has begun arriving for those who preordered it, or is available for a test drive for those wanting to give it an in-person demo. Billed as the future of spatial computing, the AR/VR headset might not be for everyone based on its hefty $3,499 price tag and lack of […]

CES 2024: The weirdest tech, gadgets and AI claims from Las Vegas

Cody Corrall — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 22:45:35 +0000

CES 2024 is in full swing in Las Vegas. We’re on the ground giving you the most talked about news and announcements from the event, but much of the fun is to be found in the weirder margins of the show floor. In an era of CES where companies are all-in on the AI hype […]

CES 2024: Follow along with TechCrunch’s coverage from Las Vegas

Cody Corrall — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 20:00:20 +0000

CES 2024 is finally upon us, and a team of TechCrunch reporters and experts are on the ground in Las Vegas to give you the biggest news out of the consumer electronics show. Though CES’s influence has ebbed and flowed over the years, we’re still expecting a bunch of announcements, especially when it comes to […]