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iPhone had its best quarter ever

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✨ Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Hardware,Apple,China,iPhone,Tim Cook 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Apple had a great performance in the first quarter, although iPhone sales were the best. The company reported that its premium device had its best quarter ever, thanks in part to increased sales in regions such as China and India. “iPhone had its best quarter ever driven by unprecedented demand, with all-time records set in every geographic segment,” CEO Tim Cook said during the company's earnings call on Thursday. Apple's earnings report shows that the company sold $85 billion worth of iPhones during…

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI are reportedly in talks to merge

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💥 Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Space,Elon Musk,Mergers and Acquisitions,SpaceX,Tesla,xAI 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Three of Elon Musk's companies — SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla — are vying for a potential merger. While the talks appear to be at an early stage, according to reports from Bloomberg and Reuters, they could eventually lead to at least one company joining SpaceX. Two scenarios are being broken down. In one, SpaceX and Tesla will merge, according to Bloomberg, citing unnamed insiders. In another case, SpaceX and aXI (which already owns Musk's social media platform X) will merge. According to…

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Amazon is reportedly in talks to invest $50 billion in OpenAI

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💥 Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Amazon,Anthropic,Microsoft,OpenAI,sam altman ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: OpenAI, a company already valued at $500 billion, announced that it is looking for another $100 billion in investment. This funding round could take the company's valuation to a whopping $830 billion. The Wall Street Journal has now reported that Amazon may contribute at least $50 billion of this record investment. Not much is known about the potential deal, although the newspaper notes that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is currently leading negotiations with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. TechCrunch has reached out to Amazon and…

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Nadella says Microsoft will not stop buying AI chips from Nvidia and AMD, even after launching its own chips.

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Enterprise,Hardware,TC,AI,AI chips,Microsoft,nvidia ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Microsoft this week deployed its first crop of homegrown AI chips in one of its data centers, with plans to roll out more in the coming months, it says. The chip, called the Maia 200, is designed to be what Microsoft calls an “AI inference powerhouse,” meaning it's optimized for the compute-intensive work of running AI models in production. The company released some impressive processing speed specs for Maia, saying it outperforms Amazon's latest Trainium chips and Google's latest Tensor Processing Units (TPU). The…

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Satya Nadella insists that people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI software a lot

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💥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Enterprise,TC ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Microsoft delivered a strong earnings report on Wednesday with revenue for the quarter of $81.3 billion (up 17%), a net income gain of $38.3 billion (up 21%), and record Microsoft cloud revenue of more than $50 billion. But the stock took a beating on Thursday as investors worried about how much the tech giant had spent building its cloud and questioned whether that investment would pay off. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says yes, and he spent a lot of time on the earnings call…

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Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai as AI race heats up

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✨ Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Hardware,Startups,Apple,In Brief,Mergers and Acquisitions ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Apple, Meta, and Google are locked in a fierce battle to lead the next wave of AI, and they've recently increased their focus on hardware. With its recent acquisition of AI startup Q.ai, Apple aims to gain an advantage, especially in the audio sector. As first reported by Reuters, Apple has acquired Q.ai, an Israeli startup that specializes in imaging and machine learning, particularly technologies that enable devices to interpret whispered speech and improve audio in noisy environments. Apple is adding new…

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Waymo robotaxis is now providing rides to and from San Francisco International Airport

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💥 Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,robotaxis,Waymo 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: After years of negotiations and false starts, Waymo can now operate a robotaxi service to and from San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The Alphabet-owned company said in a blog post on Thursday that it will begin offering access to SFO to a select number of riders before offering it to all customers in the coming months. Pickups and drop-offs will be made at the SFO Rental Car Center, accessible via AirTrain. Waymo said it plans to serve additional airport locations in the future. Waymo's SFO…

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OpenAI’s Sora app is struggling after its impressive launch

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🔥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,Social,ai apps,OpenAI,sora 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: After rocketing to the top of the App Store in October, OpenAI's video creation app Sora is now struggling. New data suggests the app is seeing a decline in both app downloads and consumer spending, as early hype around the AI-powered video social network fades. Powered by OpenAI's Sora 2 video creation model, the iOS version surpassed 100,000 installs on day one, despite being an invitation-only experience. It quickly reached number one in the US App Store, reaching 1 million downloads faster than…

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India teaches Google how to scale AI in education

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Education AI,gemini,Google,google gemini 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: As artificial intelligence accelerates into classrooms around the world, Google has found that the hardest lessons on how to actually scale the technology are not coming from Silicon Valley, but from Indian schools. India has become a proving ground for Google's educational AI amid stiff competition from rivals, including OpenAI and Microsoft. With more than a billion Internet users, the country now represents the highest global use of Gemini for learning, according to Chris Phillips, Google's vice president and general manager of education,…

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Tesla’s energy storage business is growing faster than any other part of the company

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🔥 Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Climate,Transportation,Batteries,energy storage,Megapack,Powerwall,Tesla 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Tesla's energy storage business saved a dismal earnings report from turning into a dire one. Last year, the company's profits fell by 45% compared to 2024, due in large part to declining sales of its electric vehicles. Investors expected sales to decline, but Tesla still beat Wall Street's earnings and revenue thanks to its energy storage business. Tesla deployed a record 46.7 gigawatt-hours of energy storage products in 2025, an increase of 48% from last year, according to official company filings. Large, stationary batteries…

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