Lensrentals acquires BorrowLenses
Lensrentals, a titan in the online rental service for photo, video, audio and lighting equipment, has announced its acquisition of BorrowLenses, a key competitor in the...
Zack Snyder Continues to Insist That a Batman That Won’t Kill Is ‘Irrelevant’
It’s one of the oldest debates in the character’s 85-year history: should Batman kill people in his quest to safeguard Gotham City? Although time and time...
Bitcoin hits highs, Binance launches a crypto perfume and Coachella partners with OpenSea
Welcome back to TechCrunch Crypto. It was an eventful week: bitcoin’s price hit a new high, Spain’s data protection authority banned Worldcoin and Binance raised eyebrows...
ChatGPT Is More Likely to Sentence People Who Speak African American English to Death, Researchers Say
A new paper found that large language models from OpenAI, Meta, and Google, including multiple versions of ChatGPT, can be covertly racist against African Americans when...
Elon Almost Did a Good Thing
Last week, it almost seemed like Elon Musk was going to do a good thing. The eccentric, loud-mouthed billionaire announced he would be suing OpenAI, the...
Apple will make it easier to move to Android by fall 2025
Apple says it plans to make it easier for customers to switch to Android as a result of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which went...
AI2 Incubator scores $200M in compute to feed needy AI startups
AI2 Incubator, spun out of the Allen Institute for AI in 2022, has secured a windfall $200 million in compute that startups going through its program...
Rivian takes the wraps off $45K R2 SUV, its biggest bet yet
As customers, VIP guests and media milled into the Rivian South Coast Theater in Laguna Beach on Thursday — the Pacific Ocean crashing on the beach...
TikTok begs users to tell Congress not to ban it
When some American users opened TikTok on Thursday morning, they were met with a full-screen message encouraging them to call Congress and say no to a...
Walton Goggins Lifts the Lid on His Mysterious Fallout Anti-Hero
One of the first, and arguably still most, intriguing things about Amazon’s Fallout adaptation was the news that Walton Goggins would appear in the series—with the...
