Innovation
Spotify to label AI music, filter spam and more in AI policy change | TechCrunch
Spotify on Thursday announced a series of updates to its AI policy, designed to better indicate when AI is being used to make music, to cut down on spam,...
Disney Is Getting Sued Over Just How Much Mickey Mouse Counts as Public Domain
Last year, Mickey Mouse’s appearance in Steamboat Willie became public domain, ushering in tons of horror parodies of Disney’s iconic mascot. The Walt Disney Company gave films such as...
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Revolutionized Windows Laptops. Here Comes the Second Act
Perhaps the most exciting part of the chip is the graphics performance: The Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme both use a new Adreno GPU architecture. Qualcomm says...
Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms | TechCrunch
A new app offering to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell the data to AI companies is, unbelievably, the No. 2...
Trump’s Hurricane Helene Fund Raised Millions. Good Luck Finding the Receipts
On a dusty, warm day last October, nearly a month after Hurricane Helene tore across the southeastern United States, Donald Trump stood behind a podium in Swannanoa, North Carolina,...
Coke Designed a Plastic Bottle to Sell Us All More Soda
McWhorter polled consumers, who indicated that they’d prefer contour bottles over straight-walled ones by a margin of five to one.Younger consumers saw the bottle as modern and different, while...
Nothing Ear 3 Review: Super Sounding Wireless Earbuds, Not-So-Super Mic
From the start, Nothing was designed to be an antidote to Apple and its omnipresent AirPods. While Apple focused on a sort of all-purpose minimalism, Nothing adopted a hallmark...
OpenAI is building five new Stargate data centers with Oracle and SoftBank | TechCrunch
OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it plans to build five new AI data centers across the United States with partners Oracle and SoftBank through its Stargate project. The new...
‘SIM Farms’ Are a Spam Plague. A Giant One in New York Threatened US Infrastructure, Feds Say
The phenomenon of SIM farms, even at the scale found in this instance around New York, is far from new. Cybercriminals have long used the massive collections of centrally...
Mercor CEO explains how AI affects who gets hired next | TechCrunch
The future of work is no longer on the horizon — it’s being redefined in real time. On the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Mercor co-founder and CEO...
