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Users will be able to download their data or migrate their account to another Mastodon instance, if they choose.

Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December

Mistral AI launched a new free tier to let developers fine tune and build test apps with the startup’s AI models, the company announced in a blog post Tuesday. The…

Mistral launches a free tier for developers to test its AI models

Ursa Major, a startup that produces rocket motors through 3D printing, received a $12.5 million grant to develop new solid fuel rocket engines

Ursa Major nabs $12.5M from U.S. Navy, DoD for 3D printed rocket motors

Do you remember what life was like before the cloud? Before this AI revolution? Prukalpa Sankar, the co-founder and CEO of Atlan sat down with the…

Prukalpa Sankar on why empathy is her company’s greatest asset

AWS’ weird AI-powered keyboard experiment, DeepComposer, is no more. In a blog post today, the company announced it’s shutting down the 5-year-old DeepComposer, a physical MIDI piano and AWS service…

AWS shuts down DeepComposer, its MIDI keyboard for AI music

Snap, Snapchat’s parent company, is expanding its suite of AI tools for creators. At this year’s Snap Partner Summit in Santa Monica, California, Snap announced a new feature, Easy Lens,…

Snap’s new AI feature lets you create Snapchat Lenses by simply describing them

At Tuesday’s annual Snap Partner Summit, the Snapchat maker unveiled new tools for creators designed to bring its app more in line with its competitors, like TikTok and Instagram. The…

Snapchat launches video comments and tools for creators seeking brand deals

At its annual Snap Partner Summit on Tuesday, the Snapchat maker announced a series of new AI features coming to its app. Most notably, the app’s My AI chatbot is…

Snapchat’s My AI chatbot is getting new Google Lens-like features 

At its annual Snap Partner Summit on Tuesday, Snapchat announced that it’s introducing a new AI video-generation tool for creators. The tool will allow select creators to generate AI videos…

Snap is introducing an AI video-generation tool for creators

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Snapchat is rolling out a simplified version of the app to some users, the company announced on Tuesday during its Snap Partner Summit, as part of a test to make…

Snapchat tests ‘simple’ version of the app without Snap Map or Stories tab

Just a day after third-party app stores were officially allowed on the iPad in the European Union, Epic Games announced on X that the Epic Games Store can now be…

Epic Games Store — and Fortnite — now available on iPad in the EU

Tuesday’s announcement follows IBM’s $4.3 billion acquisition of Apptio in 2023, another company in the FinOps space.

IBM acquires Kubernetes cost optimization startup Kubecost

Google says that it plans to roll out changes to Google Search to make clearer which images in results were AI-generated — or edited by AI tools. In the next…

Google will begin flagging AI-generated images in Search later this year

A pair of friends turned founders, Thomas Magnano and Benoit Herbreteau, have created a service that can make your life a little easier if you…

TechCrunch Minute: It’s never been easier to migrate your Spotify playlists to Apple Music

With iOS 18, users can replace the default camera app on the lock screen with a third-party app. Halide and Obscura — two popular camera apps designed as alternatives to…

iOS 18 lets you replace Apple’s camera app with Halide or Obscura on the lock screen: Here’s how

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A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs

A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024.

A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs

A joint pilot by Apian, Alphabet’s drone company Wing, and the U.K.’s NHS will see drones used to fly urgent blood samples between two hospitals in London. 

Londoners will soon see drones ferrying blood between hospitals

We’re incredibly excited to announce the final agenda for our dedicated Fintech Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. It joins Space, SaaS, AI and Builders as the other industry-focused stages —…

Announcing the final agenda for the Fintech Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Are we at peak social media yet? It’s an interesting question to ponder after the launch of an iOS app offering a social media experience just for one. At a…

SocialAI offers a Twitter-like diary where AI bots respond to your posts