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Meta plans to automate many of its product risk assessments

An AI-powered system could soon take responsibility for evaluating the potential harms and privacy risks of up to 90% of updates made to...

Yep, X was down again

Elon Musk’s X experienced an outage on Friday, according to user reports and crowdsourced data from sites like Downdetector. From what TechCrunch staff...

X hits pause on its encrypted DMs feature

Social network X said on Thursday that it is pausing its encrypted DMs feature as it works to make some improvements. In...

Week in Review: Notorious hacking group tied to the Spanish government

Welcome back to Week in Review! Tons of news from this week for you, including a hacking group that’s linked to the Spanish...

Grok says its skeptical about Holocaust death toll, then blames programming error

Grok, the AI-powered chatbot created by xAI and widely deployed across its new corporate sibling X, wasn’t just obsessed with white genocide this...

TechCrunch Week in Review: Coinbase gets hacked

Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got tons of news for you this week, including a hack at Coinbase; YC thinks Google...

Thousands of people have embarked on a virtual road trip via Google Street View

It’s Friday afternoon and I’m listening to Bowdoin College’s radio station, interspersed with ambient car honking noises. I am not in Maine. I...

xAI blames Groks obsession with white genocide on an unauthorized modification

xAI blamed an “unauthorized modification” for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to “white genocide in...

TikTok launches TikTok AI Alive, a new image-to-video tool

TikTok is launching its first image-to-video AI feature, the company announced on Tuesday. The new feature is called “TikTok AI Alive” and allows...

Trump says hes willing to delay TikTok ban again

President Donald Trump has already delayed a TikTok ban twice, and he said Sunday that he’s willing to do it again. Axios...

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