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I’ve been running Gemini Spark, Google’s 24/7 AI Assistant, and it’s actually pretty useful

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✨ Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: TC,AI,Apps,Google,gemini,AI assistant,gemini ai,Gemini Spark 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Gemini Spark is Google's new 24/7 agent assistant, designed to help you "navigate your digital life," which basically means getting your tasks done online, summarizing things you don't have time to read (like your entire inbox), or organizing something that would otherwise require a lot of manual, screen-time-filled work, like a personal expenses spreadsheet. The service was first introduced at Google's annual developer conference in May, where CEO Sundar Pichai joked that Spark, running on virtual machines in the cloud, meant that…

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‘What a joke’: Github Copilot’s new token-based billing sparks panic among developers

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✨ Read this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Microsoft 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The golden age of Microsoft's Github Copilot appears to have come to an end — for the little guy, at least. The company is shifting its billing system from a fixed subscription rate to a token usage system that has the ability to bill users at a much higher rate. Larger companies may still have the power to make this happen, but small businesses and workers may find themselves wondering how to balance a monthly budget. The changes, which will be made on June 1,…

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Snap Alums Unveils Ghost Angels Fund

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💥 Read this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups,Venture,Ghost Angels,Max Rivera 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A group of 20 Snap alumni have come together to launch a fund called Ghost Angels to support the next generation of social media. The fund refused to disclose the amount it has raised so far, but it says it has supported at least five companies and plans to deploy the remaining capital over the next year in at least 15 companies. Max Rivera, who led global partnerships at Snap, started the fund in 2025 to formalize Snap's already growing alumni angel investing…

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Erin Brockovich takes aim at data center secrecy

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🔥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Government & Policy,data centers,erin brockovich 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission: to bring more transparency to the construction of data centers and the impact those data centers have on neighboring communities. Brockovich - played by Julia Roberts in the film depicting her legal case against Pacific Gas & Electric - has launched a website containing a map of data centers across the United States. The site describes the map as a “work in progress” and includes data centers reported by members of the…

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The two biggest movies this weekend were directed by YouTubers

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🔥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Media & Entertainment,backrooms,Curry Barker,Kane parsons,obsession,YouTube 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The horror pipeline from YouTube to prestige looks pretty strong this weekend. No. 1 at the box office is "Backrooms," a feature film expansion of Kane Parsons' YouTube video series featuring bizarre found footage of a mysterious office space (taken from a 4chan thread) that defies physics. Backrooms, directed by Parsons, is expected to gross an estimated $81 million at the domestic box office this weekend alone. This is the biggest opening ever for independent studio A24 - the previous…

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“This is good” artist KC Green reaches agreement with artificial intelligence startup Artisan

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✨ Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Media & Entertainment,Startups,artisan,kc green 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: After criticizing a startup called Artisan for misusing his work, artist KC Green — creator of the popular "This is Fine" meme — said he has reached an agreement with Artisan. The dispute arose after the startup appeared to be using a version of Green's art to promote its AI assistant Ava. In Artisan's bus and subway ads, Green's signature dog sat amidst recognizable flames, but instead of saying "That's good," he announced, "My pipeline's on fire," while the ad urged…

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Understanding the controversy surrounding AI psychosis

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🔥 Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups,AI,Google,Aaron Levie,DuckDuckGo,Equity podcast,ai psychosis 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Box founder Aaron Levy got us talking this week with a social media post suggesting that tech CEOs are “uniquely vulnerable to AI psychosis.” In the latest episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosik, Sean O'Kane, and I did our best to explain Levy's comment. For one thing, we note that he does not disavow AI tools, but merely insists that CEOs actually need them is used Those tools to understand. This is a relatively mild note of skepticism compared to other…

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TechCrunch Mobility: It doesn’t matter that people hate Ferrari Los

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✨ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,Ferrari,jony ive,Waymo,Rivian,robotaxis,techcrunch mobility,slate auto ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation, and now, more than ever, how AI plays a role. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free – just click TechCrunch Mobility! If you're a fan of electric cars or sports cars, you've surely seen the fight over Ferrari The first fully electric car, Los. Reaction has been swift and scathing for the five-seat electric car designed by an Apple veteran Jony Ive Its price is…

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Black founders raise the largest amount of quarterly funding since 2022, but there’s a problem

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🚀 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups,Venture,black founders,DEI ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: According to the latest Crunchbase data on Black founders, $643 million has flowed into Black-founded startups in the US since the beginning of the year — an amount not seen since 2022, when Black founders raised $653 million in funding. For context, Black founders raised $942 million in total venture funds last year (that's 0.32% of the total $290 billion, according to Crunchbase estimates). This means that in just a few months, Black founders have already raised nearly 70% of what they raised…

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The two biggest movies this weekend were directed by YouTubers

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✨ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Media & Entertainment,backrooms,Curry Barker,Kane parsons,obsession,YouTube 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The horror pipeline from YouTube to prestige looks pretty strong this weekend. No. 1 at the box office is "Backrooms," a feature film expansion of Kane Parsons' YouTube video series featuring bizarre found footage of a mysterious office space (taken from a 4chan thread) that defies physics. Parsons' "Backrooms" grossed $38 million on Friday and is expected to gross $80 million to $90 million at the domestic box office this weekend alone. For independent studio A24, this is its biggest opening…

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