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ChatGPT's mobile app has generated $2B to date, earns $2.91 per install | TechCrunch

ChatGPT’s mobile app is raking in the revenue. Since launching in May 2023, ChatGPT’s app for iOS and Android devices has reached $2 billion in global consumer spending, according to a new analysis by

发布时间:2025-08-14来源:TechCrunch
US government is reportedly in discussions to take stake in Intel | TechCrunch

The Trump administration continues to meddle with semiconductor giant Intel. The U.S. government is reportedly in discussions to take a stake in Intel, according to reporting from Bloomberg. This deal

发布时间:2025-08-13来源:TechCrunch
Sen. Hawley to probe Meta after report finds its AI chatbots flirt with kids | TechCrunch

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said he intends to investigate whether Meta’s generative AI products exploit, deceive, or harm children, after leaked internal documents showed the company’s chatbots were allo

发布时间:2025-08-14来源:TechCrunch
Sam Altman, over bread rolls, explores life after GPT-5 | TechCrunch

I’m looking out at Alcatraz Island from a Mediterranean restaurant in San Francisco with hundred-dollar fish entrées on the menu. As I make small talk with other reporters, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman jumps

发布时间:2025-08-14来源:TechCrunch
Anthropic says some Claude models can now end ‘harmful or abusive’ conversations  | TechCrunch

Anthropic has announced new capabilities that will allow some of its newest, largest models to end conversations in what the company describes as “rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusiv

发布时间:2025-08-15来源:TechCrunch
AI-powered stuffed animals are coming for your kids | TechCrunch

Do AI chatbots packaged inside cute-looking plushies offer a viable alternative to screen time for kids? That’s how the companies selling these AI-powered kiddie companions are marketing them, but The

发布时间:2025-08-15来源:TechCrunch
GPT-5 is supposed to be nicer now | TechCrunch

OpenAI announced late Friday that it’s updating its latest model to be “warmer and friendlier.” The company recently launched the much-anticipated GPT-5 in a process that CEO Sam Altman admitted was “

发布时间:2025-08-16来源:TechCrunch
Duolingo CEO says controversial AI memo was misunderstood | TechCrunch

While Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn was loudly criticized this year after declaring that Duolingo would become an “AI-first company,” he suggested in a new interview the real issue was that he “did not gi

发布时间:2025-08-16来源:TechCrunch
Grammarly gets a design overhaul, multiple AI features | TechCrunch

Grammarly now has a new document-based interface, built on the back of Coda, the productivity startup it acquired last year. The interface also sports an AI assistant, as well as a few AI tools meant

发布时间:2025-08-17来源:TechCrunch
Perplexity now supports live earnings call transcripts for Indian stocks | TechCrunch

AI startup Perplexity is augmenting its Finance dashboard with live transcriptions of Indian public companies’ quarterly earnings calls, as well as a calendar to show schedules for post-results confer

发布时间:2025-08-17来源:TechCrunch
'Crazy conspiracist' and 'unhinged comedian': Grok's AI persona prompts exposed | TechCrunch

The website for xAI’s Grok chatbot is exposing the system prompts for several of its AI personas, including a “crazy conspiracist” that seems designed to handhold a user into beliefs that “a secret gl

发布时间:2025-08-17来源:TechCrunch
Why Paradigm built a spreadsheet with an AI agent in every cell | TechCrunch

Anna Monaco has been building AI agents since before the term “AI agents” was even a thing. After building numerous chatbots, she started looking for other types of interfaces that made sense for AI a

发布时间:2025-08-17来源:TechCrunch
Texas attorney general accuses Meta, Character.AI of misleading kids with mental health claims | TechCrunch

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into both Meta AI Studio and Character.AI for “potentially engaging in deceptive trade practices and misleadingly marketing themselves a

发布时间:2025-08-17来源:TechCrunch
OpenAI launches a sub-$5 ChatGPT plan in India | TechCrunch

OpenAI today launched a new, cheaper ChatGPT paid subscription plan in India called ChatGPT GO, priced at ₹399 per month ($4.60), which is more affordable than the ₹1,999 (about $23) per month Plus Pl

发布时间:2025-08-17来源:TechCrunch
Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google | TechCrunch

Hundreds of thousands of conversations that users had with Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok are easily accessible through Google Search, reports Forbes. Whenever a Grok user clicks the “share” button on a

发布时间:2025-08-19来源:TechCrunch