Meta releases Llama 4, a new crop of flagship AI models

Meta has released a new collection of AI models, Llama 4, in its Llama family — on a Saturday, no less. There are four new models in total: Llama 4 Scout, Llama 4 Maverick, and Llama 4 Behemoth. All were trained on “large amounts of unlabeled text, image, and video data” to give them “broad […]

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Deel’s comms chief departs amidst spying lawsuit from Rippling

Elisabeth Diana, head of communications at human resources Deel, is no longer with the company, according to her LinkedIn profile. Bloomberg first reported the news that Diana had resigned from Deel, which was recently accused of planting a spy at rival company Rippling. TechCrunch reached out to Diana but had not heard back at the […]

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‘A Minecraft Movie’ is on-track for a $135M opening weekend

The big screen adaptation of video game mega-franchise Minecraft brought in $58 million on Friday, putting it on-track for a $135 million opening weekend domestically — or potentially even more. That would give “A Minecraft Movie” the biggest opening of the year, beating out “Captain America: Brave New World” (which earned $88.8 million during its […]

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Week in Review: Nintendo unveils the Switch 2

Welcome back to Week in Review! Tons of stuff for you today, including Nintendo’s Switch 2; capacity issues at OpenAI; a story that deserves the Hollywood treatment; and much, much more. Let’s go! It’s finally (almost) here: After almost 10 years, Nintendo finally released its Switch successor, the Switch 2. According to TechCrunch’s Amanda Silberling, […]

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SF Mayor Lurie to tech CEOs: ‘How can we get you back?’

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie wants to bring his city back to its glory days. And he’s convinced tech leaders — who often pitch utopian ideals of their own — can help him deliver. “I’m a mayor that is picking up the phone and calling CEOs,” said Lurie during TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event on Thursday night. […]

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Tesla’s June robotaxi deadline looms as political backlash builds over Elon Musk

CNBC took multiple rides with Tesla owners using Full Self-Driving (Supervised), experiencing its strengths, weaknesses and ongoing evolution.

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Silicon Valley’s early return on Trump investment: Plunging valuations, delayed IPOs

With the Nasdaq closing its worst week since the Covid pandemic and several tech companies delaying IPOs, Silicon Valley’s Trump bet is looking shaky.

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Trump’s Tariffs Are Threatening the US Semiconductor Revival

While the White House carved out a narrow exemption for some semiconductor imports, President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs still apply to GPUs and chipmaking equipment.

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ChatGPT adoption skyrockets in India, but monetization may be trailing

ChatGPT has seen India as its largest market by monthly active users and the second largest by downloads, per the external data seen by TechCrunch.

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Microsoft AI chief Suleyman sees advantage in building models ‘3 or 6 months behind’

Training the top models in the world is very expensive and can duplicate previous work, said Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of artificial intelligence at Microsoft.

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