π₯ Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch π π **Category**: AI,Apps,ai apps,Anthropic,Claude π **What Youβll Learn**: The number of daily active users of Claude on mobile devices, as well as new app installations, are on the rise, in the wake of the company's fallout with the Pentagon. After Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused to allow the government to use its AI systems for mass surveillance of Americans or to operate fully autonomous weapons, the AI ββmodel provider behind Cloud has been labeled a supply chain risk. However, the data suggests that Anthropic's position has led many consumers to prefer this…
β¨ Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch π π **Category**: Government & Policy,Social,Indonesia,social media bans π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: Indonesia will soon become the latest country to pass laws restricting children's access to social media, following in the footsteps of Australia and neighboring Malaysia. But unlike Australia, which has banned users under 16 from social media altogether, Indonesia takes a more age-specific approach to its restrictions. Indonesia's Ministry of Communications and Digital said on Friday it would delay children's access to social media platforms: Children aged 13 or older will be able to use platforms the country deems "lower risk,"…
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**What Youβll Learn**: Over the past few months, several countries have announced plans to restrict children and teens' access to social media. Australia became the first country to implement such measures at the end of last year, setting a precedent that other countries are now closely monitoring. The Australian regulations, along with proposals from other countries, aim to reduce the pressures and risks young users may face on social media, which include cyberbullying, addiction, mental health issues and exposure to predators. Of course,…
π₯ Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch π π **Category**: Biotech & Health,Security,cognizant,cybersecurity,data breach,trizetto π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: Health tech giant TriZetto has confirmed that the personal and health information of more than 3.4 million people was stolen in a 2024 cyberattack, which the company failed to detect for nearly a year. The technology company, owned by multinational company Cognizant, serves about 200 million people across 875,000 health care providers across the United States, according to its website. Physician offices and healthcare providers use TriZetto to evaluate patients' insurance for medical treatment. TriZetto said in a filing with the Maine…
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**What Youβll Learn**: City Detect, a company that uses vision AI to help local governments monitor the health of buildings and neighborhoods, on Friday announced a $13 million funding round led by Prudence Venture Capital. The startup launched in 2021, and Gavin Baum Blake, the remaining co-founder, serves as CEO. He said the company was founded in part because cities were struggling to deal with "urban blight and decay." The idea was to use advanced computer vision and artificial intelligence technology to help cities track and fix such…
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**What Youβll Learn**: Anthropic's $200 million contract with the Department of Defense (DOD) collapsed last week after the two parties failed to reach an agreement on how much the military would have unfettered access to Anthropic's artificial intelligence. When the Department of Defense struck a deal with OpenAI instead, it looked like the Army's relationship with Anthropic would be coming to an end β but new reports from the Financial Times and Bloomberg say Amodei has resumed negotiations with Pentagon official Emil Michael. These…
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**What Youβll Learn**: Meta is facing a new lawsuit over its AI-powered smart glasses and their lack of privacy, after a Swedish newspaper investigation found that workers at a Kenya-based subcontracting company were reviewing screenshots of customers' glasses, which included sensitive content, such as nudity, people having sex, and toilet use. Reports indicated that Meta claimed to blur faces in images, but sources doubted that this blurring worked consistently. The news prompted the UK regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office, to investigate the matter. Now…
β¨ Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch π π **Category**: AI,ChatGPT,foundation models,launch,OpenAI π **What Youβll Learn**: OpenAI on Thursday released GPT-5.4, a new core model described as βthe most capable and efficient frontier model we have for professional work.β In addition to the standard version, GPT-5.4 is also available as a thinking model (GPT-5.4 Thinking) or enhanced for high performance (GPT-5.4 Pro). The API version of the model will be available with context windows of up to 1 million tokens, the largest context window ever available from OpenAI. OpenAI also emphasized improving token efficiency, saying that GPT-5.4 was able to…
π₯ Read this trending post from TechCrunch π π **Category**: Enterprise,Security,cyberattack,cybersecurity,firewall,vpn β
**What Youβll Learn**: A new report from Google found that about half of the zero-day bugs it tracked last year exploited enterprise devices, marking a new high for hackers who are increasingly finding new ways to target large companies and steal their data. According to the research and security giant's annual report, 48% of zero-day zero-day vulnerabilities β software vulnerabilities unknown to their maker at the time of exploitation β are found in technologies used by enterprises and large enterprises. About half of those zero days exploited the…
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**What Youβll Learn**: Hey, thanks as always for reading TechCrunch. We want to talk to you quickly about something important. There are a growing number of scammers posing as TechCrunch reporters, editors, and event leaders and reaching out to companies, pretending to be our employees when they're not at all. (Here's a list of all our actual employees.) These bad actors use our name and reputation to try to scam unsuspecting businesses. It drives us crazy and infuriates us on your behalf. Judging by the increasing…
