Google and PayPal team up on agentic commerce
PayPal and Google are teaming up on agentic commerce.
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US House committee summons CEOs of Discord, Twitch, Reddit to testify on online radicalization
The House Oversight Committee has requested that the CEOs of Discord, gaming platform Steam, Twitch, and Reddit testify on October 8th about online radicalization.
US House Oversight Committee summons CEOs of Discord, Twitch, Reddit to testify on online radicalization
In a statement, Rep. James Comer referenced the murder of Charlie Kirk and “other acts of politically motivated violence” as reasons why Congress has a “duty to oversee the online platforms that radicals have used to advance political violence.”
Nvidia buys $5 billion stake in Intel, planning AI chip collaboration
Nvidia has agreed to invest $5 billion in Intel as part of a broader deal to together develop “multiple generations” of data center and PC products. Nvidia will buy Intel stock.
From scrappy challenger to IPO: Chris Britt brings Chime’s playbook to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Chris Britt brings Chime’s playbook to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in October. Whether you’re building in fintech or another fast-moving sector, this is a rare opportunity to hear firsthand how to scale with resilience, discipline, and purpose. Register now before Regular Bird rates go up in a week.
You can turn off iOS 26’s obtrusive new screenshot previews
One of the many unpublicized changes introduced with the iOS 26 update released earlier this week is that screenshots now automatically open into a full-screen preview. The new approach provides immediate access to a handful of useful tools for editing a screenshot, but they now dominate your iPhone’s screen when captured, instead of shrinking into […]
How chatbots — and their makers — are enabling AI psychosis
The explosive growth of AI chatbots in the past three years, since ChatGPT launched in 2022, has started to have some really noticeable, profound, and honestly disturbing effects on some users. There’s a lot to unpack there — it can be pretty complicated. So I’m very excited to talk with today’s guest, New York Times […]
Building the future of Open AI with Thomas Wolf at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf joins Disrupt 2025 to share how open science and moonshot projects are shaping the future of AI. October 27–29, Moscone West, San Francisco.
Google will use hashes to find and remove nonconsensual intimate imagery from Search
On Wednesday, Google announced a partnership with StopNCII.org to combat the spread of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), the company announced today. Over the next few months, Google will start using StopNCII’s hashes to proactively identify nonconsensual images in search results and remove them. Hashes are algorithmically-generated unique identifiers that allow services to identify and block […]
Corsair’s new gaming mouse is as lightweight as $.35 in nickels
Corsair wasn’t joking around when it named the new $99.99 Sabre V2 Pro Ultralight Wireless gaming mouse. At 36 grams, it weighs just a bit more than seven US nickels. Is that too light? Maybe. Most of Corsair’s competitors haven’t shipped a mouse much below 50 grams (Sony’s new Inzone mouse is 48 grams). I […]