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Yesterday, Instagram globally released a new feature called “Instants” that’s designed for sharing authentic, disappearing photos. While the Meta-owned social network billed Instants as a new format to share real-life moments as they’re happening, many users are looking for a way to turn off the feature, especially those who have ended up accidentally sending images to others, not fully understanding how the feature works. When you open up Instagram’s new Instants section for the first time by tapping the mini photo stack in the bottom-right corner of your inbox, the app opens up a brief introduction about the feature that…
As I expand my writing career, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that I need to make a business website to showcase my talent and present my past projects. The problem is, although I love testing gadgets for WIRED, I’m definitely not a coder. Figuring out where to begin when building a website is daunting. How do I know the host is legit? How can I ensure my site is user-friendly? How much are annual costs, really? All of these questions and more have stopped me from taking the plunge and building my own website. That’s where Hostinger steps in to help.For…
Short-form video is a format that’s built for mobile — these vertically oriented videos are designed to fit the shape of a smartphone. But according to YouTube, this kind of content has become quite popular on the big screen. It seems counterintuitive, but the data is hard to argue against: YouTube viewers watch over 2 billion hours of YouTube Shorts — the platform’s clips that run up to three minutes — on TVs each month. “The living room is YouTube’s fastest-growing screen, and the Shorts experience is further helping connect viewers with the world’s most active creator community from the…
Silicon Valley’s tokenmaxxing era now has its own hardware. A new open source project brings your Claude Code utilization stats into a tiny desktop dashboard, allowing AI power users to keep an eye on their usage. Sure, you can track Claude Code usage directly in the terminal using commands or other external tools and apps, but that’s not as fun as seeing a pixel-art version of the Clawd sprite dance on a screen before showing at-a-glance token usage info, is it? The “Clawdmeter,” as the device is called, is both a fun side project for AI power users and a…
Richard Socher has been a major figure in AI for some time, best known for founding the early chatbot startup You.com and, before that, his work on ImageNet. Now he’s joining the current generation of research-focused AI startups with Recursive Superintelligence, a San Francisco-based startup that came out of stealth on Wednesday with $650 million in funding. Socher is joined in the new venture by a cohort of prominent AI researchers, including Peter Norvig and Cresta co-founder Tim Shi. Together, they’re working to create a recursively self-improving AI model, one that can autonomously identify its own weaknesses and redesign itself…
The Cerebras Systems IPO was a smash hit on Thursday, generating billions for itself, its founders, and its major investors. Among the big winners is major shareholder Benchmark, which owns 9.5% of the company. One of the firm’s general partners, Eric Vishria, has been a Cerebras board member since 2016, the year the AI chip maker was founded, having co-led its $25 million Series A round. But these billions only happened for Benchmark because Vishria met with the startup almost against his will, he told TechCrunch. “It was five founders and a deck, and it was our first hardware investment…
Attorneys delivered closing arguments in the Musk v. Altman trial on Thursday in a final attempt to convince a judge and jury that their respective clients, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, are the most well-intentioned, truth-telling stewards of OpenAI’s founding nonprofit mission. A judgement could be delivered as soon as next week, ending a decade-long battle between two of the technology industry’s most influential entrepreneurs.But regardless of the outcome, there is a wide set of losers in this case. Based on ample amounts of evidence, it appears that the people worst off are the employees, policy makers, and members of…
Codex is going mobile. The coding tool — which OpenAI launched approximately a year ago — has now been integrated into the ChatGPT app, allowing users to monitor and manage their development workflows remotely. The new function allows users to see their Codex live environments in any devices where it is running. The company announced the changes Thursday; the update, which is currently in preview, is now available to all plans on iOS and Android. “This is more than the ability to remotely control a single task or dispatch new tasks to your computer,” OpenAI said in a statement. “From…
In this episode of Adspeak by ADWEEK, chief brand and community officer Jenny Rooney speaks with Jason White, board member at Caldera Arts; Lina Polimeni, SVP and CMO at Eli Lilly and Company; and lifestyle content creator Nita Danielle about how health brands can earn trust in a skeptical, consumer-driven world. The conversation explores why pharmaceutical marketing must move beyond clinical messaging toward authentic storytelling, cultural relevance, and human-centered brand building. The guests discuss how AI can support personalization and operational efficiency without sacrificing authenticity, and why brands should participate in unexpected cultural spaces like sports, fashion, and entertainment to make health…
Nine California jurors are now deliberating over the future of OpenAI, the world-leading artificial intelligence lab. While the trial exploring Elon Musk’s case against OpenAI’s other cofounders and Microsoft has covered territory ranging from the breakup of the founders in 2018 to Altman’s firing and rehiring in 2023, the jurors will be considering a set of fairly narrow questions. Breach of charitable trust — essentially, did OpenAI and cofounders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman violate a specific agreement with Musk to use his donations to OpenAI for a specific, charitable purpose and not general use by the non-profit? Unjust enrichment — did…
Meta’s decision to track employee keystrokes and mouse data is causing an uproar within the company. “Selfishly, I don’t want my screen scraped because it feels like an invasion of my privacy,” wrote an engineer in an internal post seen by nearly 20,000 coworkers this week. “But zooming out, I don’t want to live in a world where humans—employees or otherwise—are exploited for their training data.”The message aimed to rally support for a petition circulating inside the company since last Thursday that demands an end to what Meta calls the Model Capability Initiative. It’s a piece of mandatory software that…
The three evening newscasts experienced viewership declines in both total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo during the first full week of May.ABC World News Tonight with David Muir continued to be the evening news leader in both categories. However, for the second week in a row, over 70,000 demo viewers separated WNT and NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas.Note: The weekly average of ABC World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, and CBS Evening News is based on four days. Tuesday’s (05/05/2026) CBS News’ broadcast was retitled to CBS Evening Nws. Wednesday’s (05/06/2026) NBC News broadcast was retitled NBC Nitely…
Elon Musk’s newly rebranded SpaceXAI is reportedly losing top talent, with more than 50 researchers and engineers departing since February, according to The Information. The exits include key leaders across coding, world models, and Grok voice. Rivals like Meta and Thinking Machine Labs are reportedly scooping up former staff, with the company’s core pre-training team dwindling to just a handful of people. Since February, at least 11 xAI employees have defected to Meta, according to The Information’s report. At least seven have left to join Mira Murati’s Thinking Machine Labs. TechCrunch has previously reported on 11 of the xAI departures announced…
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is monitoring 41 people in the US for the Andes hantavirus after a cruise ship was hit with a rare outbreak, but the risk to the public remains low, according to health officials.This includes a group of 18 passengers from the cruise ship who are now in quarantine facilities in Nebraska and Georgia. The agency is also monitoring passengers who returned home before the outbreak was identified and others who were exposed during travel, specifically on flights where a symptomatic case was present.“Most people under monitoring are considered high-risk exposures, and CDC…
Ad revenue from retail media has already overtaken linear TV, but maybe it’s not so binary: in recent months, retail media has become a bigger part of TV ad buys. This is largely happening because of Amazon and Walmart—the two biggest retail media players—because both are harnessing their smart TV infrastructure. Amazon has pitched TV ad buyers on its offerings for several years, but Walmart made its first joint pitch with Vizio during the NewFronts this year.They’re doing it in different ways, though.Amazon is pitching heavily on AI-powered intelligence and a bulky slate of new ad inventory, vp of global ad…
Lovable, the AI-powered app-building platform, has backed a Danish hardware startup, Atech, that wants to introduce “vibe coding” to the process of creating hardware. Lovable was part of an $800,000 pre-seed round that also included a16z’s scout fund, Sequoia Scout Fund, and Nordic Makers. In a chat with TechCrunch, Atech’s head of customer experience, Gustav Hugod, said the platform’s workings are quite simple. Users buy a starter hardware kit for whatever they are trying to build from Atech’s site. Then, they open a tab at the site, talk to an AI chatbot, describe the hardware concept they’re trying to build,…