How to stream Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day 2025

Donald Trump will take the presidential oath of office on Monday in front of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., once again. The event takes place at noon ET and is expected to attract considerable attention from both supporters and opponents. How to stream Trump’s inauguration You can watch the inauguration live with cable or […]

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Bluesky launches a custom feed for vertical videos

With TikTok’s future in the U.S. uncertain, it feels like major social media platforms are working overtime to ship features to attract the millions of people who may want to switch: Bluesky said on Sunday that it is launching a custom feed for vertical videos in its app. Bluesky’s mobile app now has a trending videos […]

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How African VC firm Oui Capital returned its first fund with Moniepoint’s unicorn exit

At a recent investor meeting, early-stage African investor Oui Capital informed limited partners that it had returned its $4 million debut fund following the sale of some shares in the business banking platform Moniepoint. The African fintech unicorn has so far proven to be a standout investment for five-year-old Oui Capital. When it launched its […]

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X is rolling out a dedicated vertical video feed for US users

Social network X is trying to capitalize on the uncertainty surrounding ByteDance apps like TikTok and Lemon8 by launching a dedicated vertical video feed. The company is adding a video tab in the app’s bottom bar for users in the U.S. to let them quickly access video content on the platform. “An immersive new home […]

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Blinkit signals costly battle ahead in Indian quick commerce market

Zomato’s quick-commerce business, Blinkit, is accelerating its expansion in India, but it expects losses to continue piling up as competition intensifies in India’s instant delivery market. Blinkit now aims to have up to 2,000 dark stores (small warehouses in residential areas that exclusively service online orders), a year ahead of its previous forecast. The company […]

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Confirmed: AI vision startup Metropolis acquires Oosto (formerly known as AnyVision) for just $125M

The general hype around all things AI is not lifting all boats, as certain startups continue to struggle and look for exits. In one of the latest developments, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Metropolis, an AI-powered parking platform, has acquired Oosto, the controversial computer vision company that used to be known as AnyVision. TechCrunch […]

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Source: TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/20/sources-ai-vision-startup-metropolis-is-buying-oosto-formerly-known-as-anyvision-for-just-125m/

Here are the types of AI companies enterprise VCs want to back in 2025

The AI startup market is sprawling, from companies looking to develop new chips, to those using AI to build robots, to others looking to use AI to create niche solutions for industry-specific workflows. There are a lot of potential areas for venture capitalists to invest in, but there are clearly a few subsectors they are […]

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Meta confirms it will keep fact-checkers outside the U.S. ‘for now’

Meta says it plans to keep its fact-checking program in place outside the U.S. for the time being, though it could eventually expand it elsewhere. “We’ll see how that goes as we move it out over the years,” Meta’s head of global business Nicola Mendelsohn told Bloomberg in a report from Davos on Monday. “So […]

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Source: TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/20/meta-confirms-it-will-keep-fact-checkers-outside-the-u-s-for-now/

RedNote, Flip, Clapper and Likee claim the top of the App Store as TikTok comes back online

TikTok may be back, but that hasn’t prevented other Chinese competitors from gaining users. In the lead up to a ban on TikTok — which kicked off Sunday and lasted a day — a number of other video apps rose through the ranks and now dominate the App Store’s Top Charts. The Chinese app RedNote […]

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Source: TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/20/rednote-flip-clapper-and-likee-claim-the-top-of-the-app-store-as-tiktok-comes-back-online/

DeepSeek claims its reasoning model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarks

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released an open version of DeepSeek-R1, its so-called reasoning model, that it claims performs as well as OpenAI’s o1 on certain AI benchmarks. R1 is available from the AI dev platform Hugging Face under an MIT license, meaning it can be used commercially without restrictions. According to DeepSeek, R1 beats […]

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Source: TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/20/deepseek-claims-its-reasoning-model-beats-openais-o1-on-certain-benchmarks/