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Why a Y Combinator startup tackling AI agents for Windows gave up and pivoted | TechCrunch
A startup called Pig.dev that participated in Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch was working on a potential revolutionary idea: AI agentic tech to control...
Ex-Google CEO: ‘AI’s natural limit is electricity, not chips’
It seems every company under the sun these days is leveraging, investing in, or using AI in some way or another. The value of...
Microsoft is buying tons of carbon removal from Xprize startup Vaulted Deep | TechCrunch
Microsoft is building data centers as fast as it can, and that’s killing its carbon balance sheet. Since 2020, its carbon emissions have grown...
Tech layoffs 2025: How Microsoft, Google, and Meta are plotting for the AI era
Six months into 2025, the tech industry has seen thousands of layoffs as giants such as Microsoft, Google, Meta, IBM, PwC, and Chegg Inc....
Microsoft shares $500M in AI savings internally days after cutting 9,000 jobs | TechCrunch
Microsoft’s chief commercial officer Judson Althoff said during a presentation this week that AI tools are boosting productivity across sales, customer service, and software...
Photos: Sam Altman, Tim Cook and Silicon Valley’s elite arrive at the ‘summer camp for billionaires’
Within the resort town of Sun Valley, Idaho, a small group of the world’s richest people are beginning to gather for Allen & Company’s...
Activision took down Call of Duty game after PC players hacked, says source | TechCrunch
Games giant Activision took down “Call of Duty: WWII” due to hackers exploiting a flaw in a specific PC version of the game, which...
Teachers union partners with Anthropic, Microsoft and OpenAI to launch AI-training academy
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) on Tuesday announced the fall launch of the National Academy for AI Instruction, a...
Bill Gates gave so much money away last year that his former assistant now has a bigger net worth than him
Bill Gates was once the richest man in the world for 18 years, and currently boasts a jealousy-inducing net worth of $124 billion from...
Microsoft, OpenAI, and a US Teachers’ Union Are Hatching a Plan to ‘Bring AI into the Classroom’
Microsoft and OpenAI are planning to announce Tuesday that they are helping to launch an AI training center for members of the second-largest teachers’...