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TechCrunch All Stage – Altimate Founder Summit – is becoming a powerhouse event where 1,200 founders and VCs come together across all stages to create meaningful connections and quickly gain actionable insights to apply to expanding their startups. Join the Sowa Power Plant in Boston on July 15th. Be part of your conversation with a scaling expert. And now is the perfect time to attend. For a limited time, you will be taking your Investor Pass to just $250 and your Founder Pass to just $155. Both are over 60% from the regular price. Registering in more than four groups…

Google is launching a new experimental app called DOPPL, which uses AI to visualize how different outfits look to you, the company announced Thursday. This app is available on iOS and Android in the US DOPPL is designed to allow you to virtually try out the costumes in your own digital version. This app works by having your full body photo uploaded first. From there you can effectively try it out, using photos and screenshots of different outfits. These images can be pictures of costumes seen by thrift stores and friends, or even screenshots of costumes seen when scrolling through…

TechCrunch All Stage, our big event for startup founders at every stage of fundraising (see what we did there?) will be appearing at the Sova Power Plant in Boston on July 15th. And we are pleased to announce that Underscore VC investment partner Chris Gardner will be joining the loaded lineup of speakers by leading a breakout session entitled “Age of Ai: What and Bot and When Not Not.” Spoiler: Expect to learn a lot about using AI for minimal, viable products. And for a very limited time, we have started discounts for investors and founder passes, making learning easy…

On Thursday, Apple announced a series of updates to its developer policy to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA). The expected news arrived in time for the June 26th deadline. The iPhone maker then risks a new fine. The changes include both the way app developers communicate with customers and Apple's fees. EU regulators previously forced Apple to fine 500 million euros for breaching the DMA, threatening to impose further penalties, and forcing Apple's hands. Regarding Apple's new “stomping” rules directing customer communication, EU app developers will be able to link to subscriptions and other in-app purchase alternatives…

Threads, which are meta competitors to X, have their own hidden word settings that work separately from Instagram. This feature allows you to filter posts that contain words, phrases, or emojis that you don't want to see in your feed, search, profile, or replies. Previously, hidden words were tied to Instagram, so the filters you enter apply to content on both platforms. Now you can create a separate list of hidden words on the thread to further personalize the content that appears on the platform without affecting what is displayed on Instagram. The thread also announced that it can set…

After Google temporarily suspending the deployment of its buggy AI-powered Ask Photos feature in Google Photos, the company announced that it has improved the ability to return search results quickly. The AI ​​feature first introduced last year at Google's I/O Developer Conference allows users to search across their entire collection of digital photos using natural language queries. Tap AI powers when leveraging Google's Gemini to understand photo content and other metadata. However, users complained that AI features are unreliable and that responses often slow while AI is “thinking.” Addressing these concerns, Google Photos Product Manager Jamie Aspinall wrote to X…

US and French authorities have confirmed the arrests of five hackers who were accused of being part of the infamous cybercrime forum behind several major hacks. On Thursday, the US Department of Justice announced the indictment of British National Kaiwest, accusing him of being a “serial hacker” at age 25, known as Intelbroker. US authorities have caused more than $25 million in damages by targeting more than 40 victims, including telecommunications companies, city healthcare providers and internet service providers, while West is behind a “year-long hacking scheme.” For healthcare providers, the DOJ alleges that West tried to sell sensitive patient…

A breaking news published Sunday in U.S. Homeland Security said it hopes Iranian government-backed hackers will launch an attack on the US network amid the ongoing conflict between the US, Israel and Iran. The National Terrorism Advisory System Breaking News said low-level cyberattacks by hacktivists were “highly likely,” saying that hattivists and government-related hackers “were targeting them on a daily basis,” adding that they “were targeting” internet-connected devices to cause destruction. The breaking news comes days after Israeli Airlines targeted a series of US and Iran's nuclear programs. This appeared to coincide with the destructive hacking carried out by a…

YouTube is rolling out new AI-powered features that help users find content and information more easily, the company announced Thursday. The platform launches Carousel with AI-powered search results similar to Google's AI overview, testing conversational AI with more users. New AI-powered search results available only to premium US YouTube users Carousel, offers videos suggestions and displays simple AI-generated topic descriptions to help users find what they're looking for faster. According to YouTube, Carousel AI-powered search results will appear in searches related to shopping, locations, or doing things in a particular location. For example, if you search for something like “the…

Founders are often told to follow the fit of the product market more than anything else, but what if the scale is too fast and too fast, actually hindering them? At TechCrunch All Stage 2025, held in Boston on July 15th, Jon McNeill, CEO and co-founder of DVX Ventures (and former president of Tesla and COO at Lyft), will take the scale stage to flip through scripts with traditional startup growth advice. His session, “Operators' Playbook for Building and Expansion of Sustainable Enterprises,” explores why the next generation of persistent companies are built differently by operators who test both their…