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TikTok’s advertising team is undergoing another big shake-up. Loading audio narration… Khartoon Weiss, the lead exec for TikTok’s North American ads business, is exiting the company, four people familiar with the matter told Business Insider.Weiss, who pitched TikTok’s suite of ad products to marketers onstage at its NewFronts event last month, joined the company almost six years ago from Spotify. She oversaw TikTok’s global agency and accounts teams before being promoted to lead the North America division of the global business solutions team in March 2025, following the departure of advertising head Blake Chandlee.Digiday first reported on Weiss’ exit.Weiss’ exit is…

On Tuesday, Amazon announced that Uber was expanding its contract for AWS cloud services to run more of its ride-sharing features on Amazon’s chips. Uber will particularly expand its use of AWS’s Graviton (a low-power, ARM-based server CPU) and start a new trial testing Trainium3, AWS’s Nvidia competitor AI chip. This deal is a bit less about a long-term threat to Nvidia than it is a thorough thumbing of the nose by Amazon at AWS’s cloud competitors, Google and Oracle. While Uber historically ran its own data centers, back in 2023, the ride-hailing company famously signed giant, multi-year cloud computing…

After years of development, Sony has finally taken the wraps off its latest advancement in TV technology. The tech, called True RGB, will be used in new Sony TVs coming later this spring. True RGB promises big gains in picture quality over regular old Mini LED and QLED sets. It even has a leg up over OLED in a few areas, particularly color and brightness.At the core of True RGB is its advanced backlight system, which uses red, green, and blue LEDs to produce a wider, purer, and brighter range of colors than typical TVs that use only white or blue light.…

AI research lab Anthropic announced Monday that it signed a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for increased processing and compute capacity to power its Claude AI models. This reworking of its compute deals comes as demand for its AI models continues to soar. The deals would expand Anthropic’s use of Google Cloud’s tensor processing units, or TPUs, the company’s advanced AI chips, and is an expansion of the deal the companies struck in October 2025 for more than a gigawatt of compute capacity. This new compute capacity will come online in 2027, Anthropic said in the blog post. The…

Google is rolling out new features to make it easier for users to contribute local knowledge to Maps, the company announced on Tuesday. Most notably, Gemini can now create captions when users are looking to share a photo or video about a place. Once users select photos that they want to share, Gemini will analyze the images to create captions. Users can then choose to edit or remove the caption. The company says the new tool is designed to give users a head start on captions when sharing content. Caption suggestions are available now in English on iOS in the…

Before Melanie Turner joined Oakland’s Rooted program, she was house hopping and couch surfing, moving between the homes of families and friends with her preschool-age son in tow. Pursuing a career in education while trying to afford a place to live in Oakland took a toll.“It was a hard reality for me to grasp as a parent that I was not able to provide for my child in the way that I expected to,” she said. Then she found the Rooted marketplace, which offers teachers and school staff housing at discounted rates in buildings across the city. On Thursday, Turner…

We’re down to 4 days left to save up to $482 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass. These low rates will disappear on April 10 at 11:59 p.m. PT. If you’ve been mapping out your 2026 tech event calendar, this isn’t the moment to wait. Register now to lock in your savings before prices increase. What to expect at Disrupt Each year, Disrupt brings together 10,000+ founders, tech leaders, and VCs at San Francisco’s Moscone West. From October 13–15, you’ll gain valuable takeaways and curated networking opportunities designed to elevate your startup trajectory, accelerate your career, or strengthen your portfolio. Key insights from today’s tech heavyweights Last year, Disrupt featured 200+ on-stage conversations with 250+ top voices…

Elon Musk’s chipbuilding megaproject has a new partner: Intel. Loading audio narration… The US chipmaker said on Tuesday it would join SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to help build Terafab, an ambitious plan to construct a series of enormous semiconductor fabs to produce chips for robotaxis, humanoid robots, and solar-powered data centers in Space.”Our ability to design, fabricate, and package ultra-high-performance chips at scale will help accelerate Terafab’s aim to produce 1 terawatt a year of compute to power future advances in AI and robotics,” Intel wrote in a post on X.Intel’s share price was up as much as nearly 5%…

Cloudflare and GoDaddy are teaming up to tackle a growing problem at the heart of the internet: the collapse of the web’s traditional business model in the age of AI. Loading audio narration… A new partnership between the two companies aims to address this imbalance.GoDaddy will integrate Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control into its web hosting site, allowing site owners to control how AI bots interact with their content. They can give AI bot crawlers access, block them, or potentially charge for access. These bots, run by giant AI companies, crawl the web, sucking up content for free to power chatbot…

For decades, buying stock in a hot startup meant being allowed to invest in the funds run by the top VCs. But with the AI boom causing an investment frenzy, more family offices and private wealth are skipping the VC middlemen to get directly onto the cap table.  “Companies are staying private longer, and there are fewer IPOs now than we’ve seen historically,” Mitch Stein, founder of Arena Private Wealth, an investment advisory firm for high-net-worth individuals, told TechCrunch on a recent episode of Equity. “A lot of money is being made well before companies go public, and right now the…