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The mobile app for Deepseek, a Chinese AI lab, has risen to the top spot in app stores around the world this weekend, breaking through the United States -based AI chatbot, Chatgpt. In iOS, according to Appfigures, a Mobile App Analytics company, Deepseek is currently the first free app in the United States and 51 countries in iOS. The rapid rise of DeepSeek on the App Stores top chart will continue to increase the popular meteor of the week, due to the release of a series of main products of Openai and Google and competitive open AI models. However, compared…
1X acquired a kind humanoid, Norwegian robot startup told TechCrunch on Monday. This transaction shows a small but important integration for the humanoid Robot Industry at the brink of the major moment of 2025. TechCrunch talked to Kind Humanoid in October. The three startups at the time have announced that they have participated in the famous designer Evehal to support the creation of the first commercial robot. The story had all the charms expected from the grumpy startup formed by the Silicon Valley Garage. Former Google Robotics Researcher CHRISTOPH KOHSTALL has provided a simple tour of East Bay Headquarters, which…
Social network Bluesky is focusing on videos. Last week, the company announced a new TIKTOK -style custom video feed last week after receiving the ban on popular video apps in the United States (currently suspended), and announced that it will add a new video tab to the Bluesky user profile on Monday. 。 In this tab, you can introduce the video uploaded to Bluesky, whether it is an original content, or from other social networks, including Tiktok. However, not only pursuing the possibility of social activities based on video, but also the spread of videos may provide another source of…
Deepseek, a Chinese AI startup that caused the open source R1 model in the AI world last week, has paused to sign up a new user. According to CNBC reports, the company temporarily suspended new user registration for cyber attacks this morning. Existing users can access the account without any problems. TechCrunch reaches out to DeepSeek for comments, and updates the story if there is a reply. This is a few days after DeepSeek became a topic of the AI world promoted by the excitement of the industry for the R1 model. DeepSeek claims that the inference model has broken…
Meta says it is rolling out improvements to its cross-platform chatbot, Meta AI, including the ability to have the bot “remember” details from conversations. In a post on Meta's official blog, the company said that in chatting with Meta AI on Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp on iOS and Android in the US and Canada, users can ask Meta AI to remember such specific things. He said he could give instructions. They love to travel and learn new languages. According to Meta, the memory feature, similar to that of Openai's ChatGpt and Google's Gemini, allows Meta AI to pick up “important…
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A February 2024 ransomware attack on UnitedHealth-owned health tech company Change Healthcare stands as the largest data breach of health and medical data in U.S. history. Change Healthcare confirmed in January 2025 that its data breach affects approximately 190 million people in America, almost double the company’s previous estimate. The company said it has notified millions of individuals by mail that their personal and health information was stolen by cybercriminals, and published a separate public notice for anyone whose contact information could not be found. Change Healthcare processes billing and insurance for hundreds of thousands of hospitals, pharmacies and medical…
Jet fuel is a modern mystery, commercial airplanes can carry hundreds of passengers around the world, and military aircraft can regularly break the sound speed. However, the jet fuel we know may be in the chopping block because the world is trying to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. Commercial Airlines is in charge of 2.5 % of all carbon pollution. This is a share that is likely to grow as other industries electrify, and is an option that cannot be not absent on long -distance flights. However, if jet fuel can be made from carbon dioxide, there is a possibility that…
If you follow the AI industry, Mistral should be a familiar name by now. The French AI startup with a $6 billion valuation is arguably the largest AI company working on the foundation model in Europe. Alan, on the other hand, is less well known. The health insurance unicorn is quietly growing and has become your digital companion for your health. More than 680,000 people in a small number of countries are covered by Alan's insurance. The link between these two companies is Jean-Charles Samourian Werbe, co-founder CEO of Alain and co-founding advisor of Mistral. Bloomberg published a strange story…
British telecoms giant TalkTalk has confirmed it is investigating a data breach after hackers claimed to have stolen the personal information of millions of customers. In a post on a popular cybercrime forum seen by TechCrunch, an individual using the alias “B0ND” claimed to have stolen the personal data of more than 18.8 million current and former TalkTalk subscribers. This data that threat actors are offering for sale likely includes customer names, email addresses, IP addresses, phone numbers, and subscriber pins. In a statement to TechCrunch, TalkTalk spokesperson Liz Holloway confirmed that the company is investigating the data breach, but…