YouTube Music tests AI hosts that share trivia and commentary

YouTube Music’s new AI hosts are currently being tested through YouTube Labs, the platform’s new hub for AI experiments.

As people look for ways to make new friends, here are the apps promising to help

We’ve compiled a list of friendship apps, from friend discovery platforms like BFF to event-focused ones like Timeleft.

Electronic Arts will reportedly be acquired for $50B

The rumored buyers of EA include investors like Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.

‘The Social Network’ sequel will focus on Haugen leaks, with Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg

Fifteen years after “The Social Network,” director Aaron Sorkin is making a sequel film about Facebook called “The Social Reckoning.”

Checkout.com’s new $12B valuation is a glass half-full situation  

Checkout.com is boosting its valuation as part of an employee stock buy-back program, and now says it’s profitable.

What’s behind the massive AI data center headlines?

This week on Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff go beyond the headlines to break down what’s really going on in these AI infrastructure deals.

Famed roboticist says humanoid robot bubble is doomed to burst

Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying to teach robots dexterity by showing them videos of humans doing tasks. In a new essay, he calls this approach “pure fantasy thinking.”

Vibe coding: Hype or new reality? Only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Lauri Moore (Bessemer), David Cramer (Sentry), and Zach Lloyd (Warp) join the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 to debate what founders really need from their first engineering hires — and how AI tooling fits into the equation.

From $100B OpenAI deals to $100K visa fees

From $100 billion OpenAI commitments to $100,000 visa fees, this week showed just how much the tech landscape is shifting. On the latest episode of Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff unpack the AI infrastructure gold rush and tech’s talent shuffle. Listen to the full episode to hear about:   Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast, produced… Continua a leggere From $100B OpenAI deals to $100K visa fees

From $100B OpenAI deals to $100K visa fees

From $100 billion OpenAI commitments to $100,000 visa fees, this week showed just how much the tech landscape is shifting. On the latest episode of Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff unpack the AI infrastructure gold rush and tech’s talent shuffle. Listen to the full episode to hear about:   Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast, produced… Continua a leggere From $100B OpenAI deals to $100K visa fees