- March 13, 2025
Bria lands new funding for AI models trained on licensed data
AI-powered image generators, which are at the center of a number of copyright lawsuits against AI companies, are frequently trained on massive amounts of data
Xiaomi to preinstall PhonePe’s app store on smartphones sold in India
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi said on Thursday that its Android smartphones sold in India will come preinstalled with Indian fintech company PhonePe’s app store. Xiaomi’s
Garantex administrator arrested in India at request of US authorities
Indian police have arrested the co-founder of Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the European Union and the U.S. government, under India’s extradition law,
Moonvalley releases a video generator it claims was trained on licensed content
Los Angeles-based startup Moonvalley has launched an AI video-generating model it claims is one of the few trained on openly licensed — not copyrighted —
Google DeepMind unveils new AI models for controlling robots
Google DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, on Wednesday announced new AI models called Gemini Robotics designed to enable real-world machines to interact with objects, navigate
Nvidia GTC 2025: What to expect from this year’s show
GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, begins Monday and runs till Friday in San Jose. TechCrunch will be on the ground covering the news
FBI, EPA, and Treasury told Citibank to freeze funds as Trump administration tries to claw back climate money
Citibank revealed in court filings on Wednesday that the FBI, the EPA, the EPA Inspector General, and the Treasury Department have all requested that the
Anthropic CEO says spies are after $100M AI secrets in a ‘few lines of code’
Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei is worried that spies, likely from China, are getting their hands on costly “algorithmic secrets” from the U.S.’s top AI companies
Browser Use, one of the tools powering Manus, is also going viral
Manus, the viral AI “agent” platform from Chinese startup Butterfly Effect, has had an unintended side effect: raising the profile of another AI tool called
A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs
The tech layoff wave is still kicking in 2025. Last year saw more than 150,000 job cuts across 549 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker