This year, the whimsical holiday app comes to iPhone and adds a snow effect for Mac users.
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Monday, December 1, 2025
OpenAI’s investment into Thrive Holdings is its latest circular deal
Analysts will be watching to see if Thrive-owned firms actually succeed in building long-term profitable businesses using OpenAI’s tech, or if the result is really just pumped up valuations based on speculative market potential.
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Amazon’s AI chatbot Rufus drove sales on Black Friday
On Black Friday, Amazon sessions that resulted in a sale were up 100% in the U.S. when the AI chatbot Rufus was used. They only increased by 20% when Rufus wasn't used.
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Deezer rolls out ‘My Deezer Year 2025,’ its Spotify Wrapped clone
Deezer launched its version of Spotify Wrapped to give listeners an overview of their top tracks and artists.
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Nvidia’s $2B Synopsys bet tightens its grip on the chip-design stack
The $2 billion investment in Synopsys, which makes software and components for designing semiconductor chips, deepens their existing partnership at a time when analysts scrutinize circular AI-industry deals and warn of a potential bubble.
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How AI PR startup Clipbook won Mark Cuban’s investment from a cold email
Adam Joseph was shocked when Mark Cuban replied to his email with an inquisition full of questions.
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Black Forest Labs raises $300M at $3.25B valuation
The round was co-led by Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha (AMP), and saw participation from a16z, NVIDIA, Northzone, Creandum, Earlybird VC, BroadLight Capital, General Catalyst, Temasek, Bain Capital Ventures, Air Street Capital, Visionaries Club, Canva and Figma Ventures.
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Korea’s Coupang says data breach exposed nearly 34M customers’ personal information
E-commerce company Coupang has confirmed a massive data breach affecting 33.7 million customer accounts in South Korea.
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Sunday, November 30, 2025
Varda says it has proven space manufacturing works — now it wants to make it boring
CEO Will Bruey says people often get Varda wrong. The company isn't "in the space industry; we're in-space industry," he said. Space is "just another place to ship to."
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‘Avatar’ director James Cameron says generative AI is ‘horrifying’
James Cameron’s movies are often at the cutting edge of visual effects technology, but that doesn't make him a fan of generative AI.
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New report examines how David Sacks might profit from Trump administration role
David Sacks’ role as President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence and crypto czar could work out very well for his investments, according to a new report. However, Sacks fired back, calling the story a "nothing burger."
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ChatGPT launched three years ago today
It’s no hyperbole to suggest that ChatGPT subsequently transformed the worlds of business and tech.
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Behind the scenes of drone food delivery in Finland
TechCrunch went behind the scenes of a three-party partnership between Irish drone delivery company Manna, Doordash-owned food delivery platform Wolt, and food startup Huuva.
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Saturday, November 29, 2025
Black Friday sets online spending record of $11.8B, Adobe says
American consumers spent $11.8 billion online on Black Friday, according to data from Adobe Analytics, which says it tracks more than 1 trillion visits to U.S. retail websites.
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Airbus orders software fix to thousands of planes due to solar radiation risk
Flights were delayed and cancelled globally after Airbus ordered fixes to 6,000 of its A320 series planes, according to The Guardian. The company said it’s taking action because “analysis of a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.” Citing […]
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