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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/bluesky-GettyImages-2185144073.jpg?w=1024″] After adding support for longer videos just yesterday, open social network Bluesky on Thursday introduced a new algorithmic opt-out feature that allows users to stop their posts from appearing in the app’s main Discover feed. That algorithmic feed can currently surface any post on Bluesky’s network, as posts on the network are…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2242441443.jpg?resize=1200,800″] YouTube announced on Thursday that eligible creators in the U.S. can now tag Amazon products in their content and receive a cut of sales. Creators can link Amazon products in their shorts, long-form videos, and livestreams. The update turns product recommendations into a more direct revenue stream for creators, and for Amazon,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/google-logo.jpg?resize=1200,800″] The game of musical chairs for AI executives continues. Barret Zoph, a co-founder of the AI startup Thinking Machines who left the company earlier this year to rejoin OpenAI, has found yet another job. Zoph spent two years at OpenAI and left in October 2024 to co-found Thinking Machines with Mira Murati,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/atf-police-1233760688.jpg?w=1024″] The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, says a cyberattack on one of its systems has been declared a “major incident,” a formal, legally defined classification that prompts a formal notification to lawmakers in Congress. ATF said in a statement that it’s responding to the cyberattack on a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/claude-app-centered-in-ai-apps-GettyImages-2167861906.jpg?resize=1200,801″] Over a hundred tech companies — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft — have signed an open letter urging both the private and public sectors to work together to defend themselves from AI-related cyber threats. The letter — which was also signed by prominent cyber firms like CrowdStrike, Okta, and Fortinet, as…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Pokemon_Fitbit_Air.png?w=1200″] Google is giving Pokémon fans a new reason to wear a Fitbit. The company announced Thursday a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with Pokémon Sleep, combining Fitbit’s health and fitness tracking and the sleep-focused Pokémon game. The announcement comes as Pokémon celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Pokémon Sleep launched in 2023,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Atoire.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Fashion startup Atorie announced Thursday a $9.5 million seed round with investors, including a16z speedrun, Night Capital, and Lightspeed Ventures’ Jeremy Liew. The company says shoppers can visit the Atorie website and buy handbags or clothes made from the same materials — and in the same factories — that high-end manufacturers use.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Hoomanely-Executives_Harshal-Hinger-COO_Sai-Supriya-Sharath-CEO_Vipin-Ravindran-CTO.jpeg?resize=1200,800″] Dogs are amazing. But as many pet parents will tell you, they can be remarkably good at hiding when something is wrong. My Labrador-Great Dane mix, for example, contracted tick fever several times over his 14 long years, and it was always at least a couple of weeks before I suspected something…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/tc-backlight-e1689786273147.png?w=1200″] Loading the player… Eventbrite has survived nearly every kind of challenge a startup can face: launching into a financial crisis, raising venture capital after 27 rejections, going public, watching its core business disappear during COVID, and eventually leaving the public markets after nearly two decades of building. In this episode of Build Mode,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ai-mode-google.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Google is adding new ways for users to plan and book trips through AI Mode, its conversational search experience, the company announced on Thursday. Users will now be able to ask AI Mode to track flight prices, book hotels, and see the cost of flights and hotels in points or miles. The…