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Last 90 daysFor years, Elon Musk has been making big promises to Tesla owners about unsupervised autonomous driving and the ability to add their own vehicles to the company’s robotaxi fleet . During today’s third-quarter earnings call, the company finally gave itself a deadline.
On Tuesday, I published a story about how YouTube appeared to be testing hiding the dislike button on videos, with at least two users on X sharing screenshots of the dislike button moved into the three-dot menu. But a YouTube spokesperson, in a Wednesday statement to The Verge , confirmed that YouTube is “not testing hiding the dislike button on YouTube…
A rush of new data centers could bring air pollution roaring back to levels not seen since the 2000s in Texas, which has become ground zero for the physical infrastructure behind generative AI. New and proposed data centers are demanding a tremendous amount of electricity.
Private equity giant Blackstone is putting itself at the center of the AI boom, firm veteran Jas Khaira discussed last week on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. It is writing checks via various strategies, ranging from offering massive loans to data centers to investing in frontier AI models and applications.
Meta said during its third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday that its AI app Muse has been adopted by more than 10 million users, confirming estimates released earlier this week by market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. But it is how people are using it and how much they’re spending that has caught CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s attention.
TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders across all stages connect with top VCs and experienced entrepreneurs to gain tactical insights on building and scaling their companies. It’s the latest in our long line of founder-centric events, which are smaller and more hands-on than Disrupt.
Meta says it’s issuing a new class of shares to fund its AI initiatives. As part of its third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday , the company says the non-voting stock will also go toward potential acquisitions and employee compensation, with trading beginning in 2027.
Recursive , an AI startup founded last year, is starting to live up to its name. The company, which is trying to build AI that can improve itself, released its first model, Flint , on Wednesday.
Bose announced today it has acquired Skullcandy. Although the two companies are competitors in the consumer audio space, Skullcandy recently partnered with its new owner to bring several of Bose’s audio technologies — including its head-tracking spatial audio and excellent active noise cancellation (ANC) — to products like the Skullcandy Crusher 1080 ANC…
As the smoke clears from its outrageous Roadster demo , Tesla reported Q3 earnings on Wednesday — and the cold reality is that revenue has flatlined. Tesla said it earned $1.7 billion in net income on $28.0 billion in revenue in the quarter that ended in September 2026.
Two bugs found with AI are behind major issues today for 4chan, DeviantArt, Wikipedia , and the blog where the bar around the corner posts pictures of people’s dogs. The “critical vulnerabilities” were discovered in the PHP programming language, which underpins much of the internet, including any site built on WordPress.
Meta had to shell out $9.89 billion to pay for a chunk of the child safety settlement it reached with US attorneys general. That’s according to the company’s third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday , which says Meta’s income from operations would have been $22.89 billion without the settlement.
It remains to be seen if people really want to watch vertical content on horizontal TV screens, but many filmmakers and creators were confident that their latest projects would play well at Alza — New York City’s first microdrama film festival . Founded by former Tribeca Festival chief operating officer Pete Torres, Alza, which took place October 16th…
Walmart is embracing agentic commerce with the launch of its own Agent Gateway to manage transactions and other new features aimed at customers using AI agents, the retailer announced on Wednesday. The move comes shortly after Walmart’s top competitor, Amazon, began blocking AI agents from making purchases on behalf of online shoppers.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal has come back to haunt Meta after a New Mexico judge ordered it to pay $25 billion in penalties for more than 43 million violations of the state’s unfair practices law. The ruling marks the biggest legal hit Meta has taken this year, even as it’s faced several other losses or settlements.
Walmart will soon let AI agents shop on its website for you. Next month, the retail giant will allow you to connect your own AI agent to the site, with systems in place to let you approve and review purchases and set spending limits.
TL;DR NVIDIA Kumo Relational is a pre-trained relational foundation model that makes predictions directly on enterprise databases. Given a predictive query, it gathers historical examples as context examples and predicts outcomes such as churn, demand, or fraud in a single forward pass.
General Motors is still very much in the business of selling gas-guzzling trucks and massive SUVs. But if you listen to its leadership, the Detroit giant is rapidly transforming into a nimble, software-defined tech player with a tightened grip on AI.
TP-Link, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of consumer Wi-Fi routers, is in a precarious position in the US. The company just launched its first Wi-Fi 8 routers , but can’t bring them here because of President Donald Trump’s foreign router ban .
If you’ve been curious about Star Wars Zero Company , the XCOM -like strategy game set in the Star Wars universe, Amazon has both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X physical editions on sale for $47.99 and $49.99, respectively. The game usually sells for $59.99.
Microsoft asked its employees to return to the office three days per week last year , and it’s now upping this requirement to four days a week for most Xbox employees. An internal memo, seen by The Verge , describes the change as a “need to create more opportunities for people to work together” after feedback from Xbox employees.
Added Cross-Platform Mod Support, powered by mod.io, a first step into cross-platform modding that allows you to easily browse and install a selection of player-created mods directly from the in-game menu. More mods will become available over time.