DuckDuckGo makes its ‘no-AI’ search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
Alternative search engine DuckDuckGo launches ‘no AI’ web extensions for Chrome and Firefox users.
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Microsoft to unveil new AI models and Windows improvements at Build
Microsoft is heading to San Francisco this week in a bid to win back developers at its Build conference. I’ve been attending Build since the days when Microsoft called it the Professional Developers Conference, and I can’t remember a more pivotal moment. As Microsoft continues to reshuffle its entire business around AI, it’s moving Build […]
AI is blowing up music. How should the Grammys handle it?
Today I’m talking with Harvey Mason Jr., who is CEO of the Recording Academy — that’s the outfit that puts on the Grammy Awards. I last talked to Harvey in 2024, when it was obvious that generative AI would upend the music industry, but still not exactly clear how that would happen. Well, it’s been […]
Strava blames zero-code AI apps and scrapers as it tightens API access
The popular fitness-tracking platform, Strava, is restricting access to its API as part of efforts to clamp down on AI scraping, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Developers who want to build an app using Strava’s features now need to pay for a flat $11.99 / month subscription. In an update on its developer hub, Strava […]
Erin Brockovich takes aim at data center secrecy
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission.
Making sense of the debate over AI psychosis
On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether tech CEOs are “uniquely prone to AI psychosis.”
I went looking for the AI weed vape that gives you Bitcoin for smoking
The crypto weed vape found me on 4/20, the high holiday of cannabis enthusiasts everywhere. It arrived over Slack with the thumbnail of a man exhaling a plume of vapor, the words “every hit delivers Bitcoin” emblazoned across it. It claimed to be advertising a device called Gudtrip, and I thought everything about it sounded […]
SoftBank says it will invest up to €75 billion to build French data centers
The goal, the firm said, is to develop and operate up to 5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity.
‘What a joke’: Github Copilot’s new token-based billing spurs consternation among devs
The golden age of Microsoft’s Github Copilot appears to be at an end.
