China’s Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation as demand for open-source AI skyrockets
Moonshot’s annualized recurring revenue topped $200 million in April, driven by rapid growth in paid subscriptions and API usage.
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Inside Dreame’s wild launch event — packed with products no one can buy
Hundreds of influencers, media folks, and a few C-list celebs (sorry, Woz) filled the cavernous halls of the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts last week. They were assembled for Dreame’s launch event, ostensibly into both America and a much bigger ecosystem of products. Across the four-day showcase, the Chinese robot vacuum company pitched an […]
Spotify wants to become the home for AI-generated personal audio
Users will be able to create a podcast from Codex or Claude Code and import it to Spotify
Spotify’s AI DJ now supports French, German, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese
Spotify’s AI DJ feature now supports French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese.
Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off
Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with TechCrunch about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole architecture that undergirds the tech is wrong.
Musk’s biggest loyalist became his biggest liability
I sat down in the Musk v. Altman trial courtroom today, painfully aware that no one was going to ask Shivon Zilis the question on everyone’s minds: Girl, what the fuck are you doing? Zilis, who testified under oath that she is the mother of four of Musk’s children, was… what’s the best way to […]
A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing from Lachy Groom
The investment comes as Pronto scales to 26,000 daily bookings and the market heads toward a potential $18 billion size.
Nintendo announces a new Star Fox for the Switch 2
It turns out Fox McCloud’s appearance in the Super Mario Galaxy Movie was a tease of things to come: Nintendo just surprise announced the first new Star Fox game in two decades. The game is called, simply, Star Fox, and it’s out very soon, launching on June 25th. Nintendo says that it’s “based” on the […]
Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.
Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.
Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’
The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity’s AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.