<p>We were blown away by the incredible interest in speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 at Moscone West in San Francisco.  After a thorough review, we’ve narrowed it down to 20 standout finalists — 10 for breakout sessions and 10 for roundtables. Now it’s your turn to decide. Audience Choice voting is open [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Telegram CEO Pavel Durov on Wednesday said Elon Musk&#8217;s AI company, xAI, is investing $300 million worth of cash and equity in the chat app.</p>

<p>Instacart announced on Wednesday that its chief business officer, Chris Rogers, has been appointed as the company&#8217;s new CEO. The appointment is effective August 15. Rogers will also join Instacart&#8217;s board of directors. The announcement comes a few weeks after Instacart CEO Fidji Simo shared that she&#8217;s stepping down to join OpenAI as CEO of Applications. Simo [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Opera&#8217;s new browser, called Opera Neon, will focus on AI workflows and performing tasks for you, like shopping, coding and generating reports.</p>

<p>Anthropic has begun to roll out a &#8220;voice mode&#8221; for its Claude chatbot apps. The voice mode (in beta for now) allows Claude mobile app users to have &#8220;complete spoken conversations with Claude,&#8221; and will arrive in English over the next few weeks, according to Anthropic&#8217;s official account on X and updated documentation on the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI is exploring ways for users to sign in to third-party apps using their ChatGPT account, the company noted on a web page published Tuesday. OpenAI is currently gauging interest from developers who might want to integrate this service into their apps. ChatGPT is quickly becoming one of the largest consumer applications in the world, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Pocket users have until October 8, 2025, to export their saved articles and other items, including lists, archives, favorites, notes, and highlights.</p>

<p>WhatsApp is officially available on iPad, Meta announced on Tuesday. The new iPad app allows you to make video and audio calls with up to 32 people, share your screen, and use both front and back cameras. Up until now, if you wanted to use WhatsApp on your iPad, you had to use the web [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple said it has prevented more than $9 billion in fraudulent transactions over the past five years, $2 billion of which it blocked in 2024.</p>

<p>Bluesky on Thursday quietly opened the doors to those who want to become verified on its social networking service. In a post published by the Bluesky Safety account, the company announced that &#8220;notable and authentic&#8221; accounts can now apply for verification through a new online form. Plus, organizations can request to become a Trusted Verifier [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Mozilla announced on Thursday that it&#8217;s shutting down Pocket, a read-it-later app it acquired in 2017, on July 8. The company is also shutting down Fakespot, its browser extension that helps users identify unreliable reviews. &#8220;Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading,&#8221; Mozilla said in a blog post. &#8220;But the way [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The social fitness app Strava has made two acquisitions over the last month and change: On Thursday, Strava acquired cycling app The Breakaway, following its acquisition of Runna last month. Incubated in Y Combinator&#8217;s Summer 2021 class, The Breakaway uses AI to create personalized training plans for cyclists working toward specific goals. Runna, a U.K.-based [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Signal said today that it is updating its Windows app to prevent the system from capturing screenshots, thereby protecting the content that is on display. The company said that this new &#8220;screen security&#8221; setting is enabled by default on Windows 11. Signal said that this new feature is designed to protect users&#8217; privacy from Microsoft&#8217;s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Spotify says its ability to direct its customers to external payment links in its iOS app has already had a positive impact on sales. In a newly filed amicus brief in support of Epic Games in its ongoing legal battle with Apple over external payments on the App Store, Spotify claims its internal data indicates [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Spotify is launching a new hub dedicated to keeping users informed about soon-to-be-released albums, the company announced on Wednesday. The hub, called &#8220;Upcoming Releases,&#8221; will feature personalized recommendations based on a user&#8217;s listening history. Users will be able to access it through the Search tab on mobile in the &#8220;Browse all&#8221; section. The hub will [&hellip;]</p>

<p>An increasing number of meetings have an AI note-taker present that transcribes the call and provides action items. Siro wants to do the same for sales folks who are on the ground and talking to customers face-to-face. The company on Wednesday announced it has secured $50 million in a Series B round led by SignalFire [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With TikTok still facing the possibility of a ban in the U.S., the popularity of short-form video content continues to grow. The latest company to enter this space is TED, the non-profit best known for its TED Talks featuring prominent figures like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the late Pope Francis.&nbsp; On Wednesday, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Popular battle royale game Fortnite has finally returned to the U.S. App Store amid game maker Epic Games&#8217; lengthy legal skirmish with Apple. As of Tuesday, Fortnite is also available on the Epic Games Store and AltStore in the EU. It&#8217;ll show up in App Store searches soon, Epic said in a post on X. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google&#8217;s AI Mode, the experimental Google Search feature that lets users ask complex, multi-part questions via an AI interface, will roll out to everyone in the U.S. starting this week, the company announced at its annual developer conference, Google I/O 2025, on Tuesday. The feature builds on Google&#8217;s existing AI-powered search experience, AI Overviews, which [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google announced at Google I/O 2025 that it&#8217;s bringing real-time speech translation to Google Meet. The feature leverages a large language audio model from Google DeepMind to allow for a natural, free-flowing conversation with someone in a different language, Google says. Speech translation in Meet translates spoken words into the listener&#8217;s preferred language in real [&hellip;]</p>