there is nothinga hardware company backed by Tiger Global, opens its first retail store in India, its largest market. The store is located in Bengaluru, where most of Nothing’s user base in India is concentrated, the company said. The new…
A security blunder by one of India’s largest pharmacy chains allowed outsiders to gain full administrative control over its platform, exposing customer order data and sensitive drug control functions, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The issue affects DavaIndia Pharmacy, the pharmacy…
Airbnb has taken its time to roll out AI features in the app, but CEO Brian Chesky said on Friday that the company is now planning to create a feature powered by a big language model that will help users…
Airbnb says that custom-made AI agents currently handles about a third of customer support issues in North America, and is preparing to roll out the feature globally. If successful, the company believes that within a year, more than 30% of…
AI companies have been hemorrhaging in recent weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company – some on their own, others through “restructuring” – while OpenAI faces its own shakeups, from recently from its mission alignment team to…
Figure Technology, a blockchain-based lending company, confirmed to have experienced a data breach. Friday, Picture Spokeswoman Alethea Jadick told TechCrunch in a statement that the breach began when employees were tricked into using a social engineering attack that allowed hackers…
Sex toy maker Tenga notified customers of a data breach on Friday, according to an email obtained by TechCrunch. In the message, the Japanese company said that “an unauthorized party gained access to the professional email account of one of…
Ring, a home security company owned by Amazon, declare some will never partner again Safety Flockmaker of AI-powered surveillance cameras that share footage with law enforcement. The two companies announced agreement in October that will allow Ring doorbell users to…
Starting Friday, OpenAI will stop giving access up to five legacy ChatGPT models, including the popular but controversial GPT-4o model. The 4o model is already in the middle of the range lawsuit about user self-harm, delusional behavior, and AI psychosis.…
Anthropic Super Bowl ads – which features darkly comedic scenarios where people who ask chatbots for advice, only to be directed to “cougar” dating sites and height-enhancing insoles – have paid off. In the days since, Anthropic AI chatbot Claude…