​Meta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused offerings under its broader “Meta One” subscription brand.  

​Thea Energy’s pixel-inspired magnets could give its power plant plans a boost. The fusion startup hopes to get a commercial reactor working by 2034.  

​Cybercriminals used the Glassworm botnet to infect open source software projects with malware, and in turn hack the developers and companies that use that software.  

​As Cognition reaches $492 million in annualized revenue run rate, it more than doubled its valuation in eight months, it says.  

​Starship is grounded until SpaceX finds out why the first V3 booster failed during its first test flight.  

​Today is the final day to apply or nominate a startup for Startup Battlefield 200. Once the clock strikes 11:59 p.m. PT, the window closes on your chance to compete for $100,000 in equity-free funding, gain global visibility, connect directly with investors, and launch on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage.  

​ElevenLabs’ new model will let users regenerate a section of a song without affecting rest of the track  

​With the new scissors icon, you can clip favorite moments from podcasts and share them with your audience.  

​Google I/O made it official: AI-generated answers are now front and center in search, and most brands have almost no visibility into how AI is describing them to their customers. For anyone who has spent years building a strategy around 10 blue links, the rules just changed in a pretty significant way.  On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca […]  

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