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After criticizing a startup called Artisan for misusing his work, artist KC Green — creator of the famous “This is fine” meme — said he’s reached an agreement with Artisan. The dispute arose after the startup appeared to use a version of Green’s art to promote its AI assistant Av

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! If you’re into EVs or sports cars, then you surely saw the kerfuffl

Nvidia's long-awaited N1/N1X SoC specs leak ahead of Computex launch — N1 to feature up to 20 Arm-based cores, standard N1 equipped with 12- and 10-core configs The top-end N1X SKU is essentially a rebranded GB10. It's finally happening — Nvidia is set to launch the N1 family of

Box founder Aaron Levie got us talking this week with a social media post suggesting that tech CEOs are “uniquely prone to AI psychosis.” On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I did our best to unpack Levie’s comment. For one thin

Core i7-14700F gaming PC with RTX 5060, 32GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage gets $470 discount — Newegg's ABS Cyclone Aqua prebuilt is $1,329 with code Solid value for your money. Bundle deals are often the easiest way to sidestep today's inflated pricing of memory, SSDs, and GPUs. H

According to Crunchbase’s latest data around black founders, $643 million has poured into US Black-founded startups since the beginning of the year — an amount not seen since 2022, when Black founders raised $653 million in funding. For context, Black founders raised $942 million

SoftBank to spend up to $87 billion on French AI data centers — country offers ample nuclear grid that US sites lack The initial $52 billion phase targets 3.1 GW in Hauts-de-France by 2031. SoftBank Group will commit as much as €75 billion ($87 billion) to build five gigawatts of

New one-meter-cubed 3D printer pumps out large-scale prints at 3kg an hour — Modix MAMA-1000 also needs a big wallet with prices starting at $35,000 Design uses a Canadian-made DYZE Design Pulsar pellet print head. If you want to 3D print industrial-sized, large-scale models, lik

Tom's Hardware Verdict Lenovo’s Yoga Slim 7x makes a strong case for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite. It’s fast, lasts forever on a charge, and doesn’t feel overpriced for what it delivers. The standard OLED screen is solid, but the 2880 x 1800 option is tempting. If your apps run

Microsoft veteran recalls the last time Nvidia and Arm was the future of Windows — shares a video of ‘the first time Windows ran on Nvidia Tegra Arm’ from 2010 History repeats 16 years later, this time with an AI cherry on top. Some people are pretty excited that we are on the cu

The crypto weed vape found me on 4/20, the high holiday of cannabis enthusiasts everywhere. It arrived over Slack with the thumbnail of a man exhaling a plume of vapor, the words “every hit delivers Bitcoin” emblazoned across it. It claimed to be advertising a device called Gudtr

I am sitting in the sweltering Nevada heat watching a man struggle to lift a bar over his head. If the man manages to do it, he will win $250,000. The man is Boady Santavy — a two-time Olympic weight-lifting contestant from Canada — and he has muscles that look culled from the Ma

New AI-compute cryptocurrency Pearl sparks a GPU mining rush but profitability is already sliding — RTX 5090 daily revenue has halved to $17.19 since April Mining returns are already falling as difficulty climbs. A new cryptocurrency called Pearl (ticker PRL), which secures its b

The 'ultimate mosquito killer' uses lasers and AI — custom model trained to detect and lock lasers on these pests The working prototype took computer vision and robotics enthusiast four months to create. A computer vision and robotics expert has created and trained what he boasts

Orpheus II ISA soundcard returns due to ‘popular demand’ — aimed at DOS and early Windows users, this card includes hardware to support every major audio standard Get a Sound Blaster, Gravis UltraSound, OPL3 FM synthesis, and MPU-401 MIDI all on one card for your DOS and early Wi

You can still run the original Nvidia Control Panel by grabbing it from the Microsoft Store today — app remains useful to adjust a handful of RTX Pro and Quadro features, and may be handy for troubleshooting Is this control panel old yet gold, or did you bid it good riddance? Ear

Forty years ago, the future seemed just around the corner—and the vehicle that was going to take us there was NASA’s Space Shuttle. Originally envisioned as part of a larger integrated space transportation system, the shuttle was billed as a fully reusable vehicle, totally unlike

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As Silicon Valley races to build humanoid robots that can fold laundry and pour a latte, at least one start-up sees a very different use for the technology: war or other potentially hazardous and deadly jobs. Meet Foundation Future Industries, a San Francisco-based robotics compa

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