Agriculture consumes a vast amount of water, and some countries are under more stress than others. Instacrops pivoted to AI to help farmers cut water use by 30%.

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Instacrops will demo its water-saving, crop-boosting AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch

Agriculture consumes a vast amount of water, and some countries are under more stress than others. Instacrops pivoted to AI to help farmers cut wat...

OpenAI may be reversing course on how it approaches copyright and intellectual property in its new video app Sora.

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Sam Altman says Sora will add ‘granular,’ opt-in copyright controls | TechCrunch

OpenAI may be reversing course on how it approaches copyright and intellectual property in its new video app Sora.

The event planning startup, which has raised over $27M from a16z and others, fixed the bug after TechCrunch found that Partiful was not removing granular location data from users' profile photos.

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Exclusive: Event startup Partiful wasn't stripping GPS locations from user-uploaded photos

The event planning startup, which has raised over $27M from a16z and others, fixed the bug after TechCrunch found that Partiful was not removing gr...

California's Department of Insurance has been warning Tesla to fix its claims process since 2022, but consumer complaints have skyrocketed anyways.

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Tesla's insurance arm accused of 'egregious delays' and 'systemic failures' by CA regulator | TechCrunch

California's Department of Insurance has been warning Tesla to fix its claims process since 2022, but consumer complaints have skyrocketed any...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos made a rare public appearance at Italian Tech Week in Turin on Friday and used the opportunity to predict that millions of people will be living in space “in the next couple of decades,” the Financial Times reports. Speaking with John Elkann, a scion of Italy’s Agnelli dynasty, Bezos, who also […]

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Bezos predicts that millions will live in space in 'couple of decades' | TechCrunch

Bezos was equally bullish on other fronts, defending the AI investment boom as a "good" kind of bubble given that it's "industrial" rather tha...

OpenAI is acquiring the CEO of Roi, an AI financial companion. Roi will sunset its service as its talent heads to OpenAI, ostensibly to help boost revenue in consumer apps.

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With its latest acqui-hire, OpenAI is doubling down on personalized consumer AI  | TechCrunch

OpenAI is acquiring the CEO of Roi, an AI financial companion. Roi will sunset its service as its talent heads to OpenAI, ostensibly to help boost ...

Former Databricks AI chief is raising $1 billion to build a Nvidia rival through a novel approach.

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Exclusive: Naveen Rao’s new AI hardware startup targets $5B valuation with backing from a16z, sources say

Former Databricks AI chief is raising $1 billion to build an Nvidia rival through a novel approach.

OpenAI's third-ever developer conference is around the corner, and it's shaping up to be the company's biggest yet.

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What to expect at OpenAI's DevDay 2025, and how to watch it | TechCrunch

OpenAI's third developer conference is around the corner, and it's shaping up to be the company's biggest yet.

If your Memories exceed the new limit, you will need to either export them or sign up for one of Snapchat's new Memories Storage plans in order to preserve them.

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Snapchat is going to charge for storage — here’s how to save your Memories for free | TechCrunch

If your Memories exceed the new limit, you will need to either export them or sign up for one of Snapchat's new Memories Storage plans in orde...

Google's Gemini AI app is getting a redesign with suggested prompts, a reverse engineer finds.

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Google's Gemini AI app could soon be getting a big makeover | TechCrunch

The company is seemingly experimenting with a new user interface that would shift the app from having a chatbot-style look and feel to one offering...