The iPhone 15 gets USB-C, a redesigned Cybertruck surfaces and California considers banning AV trucks

Hey, friendly people, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that aggregates the top tech news over the past few days. It’s our humble opinion that there’s no better place to get caught up on the industry’s happenings, whether you’re a news junkie or simply among the tech-curious. In this edition of … Read more

Tiny French chip startup challenges mighty Amazon to produce formidable quantum chip – inspired by a famous cat

Quantum computers have shown amazing promise in recent years, with companies from IBM to Google building increasingly powerful machines that are expected to many areas fundamentally, from encryption to medical research. Quibits – quantum bits that occupy a superposition of both 1 and 0 at the same time – are the building blocks of quantum … Read more

OpenAI CEO: AI is working just fine…for now

The CEO of OpenAI has admitted that he is surprised by how well the technology is working, especially in the face of extreme excitement and hype. Speaking at Dreamforce 2023, Sam Altman and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff discussed a wide number of AI topics, but the OpenAI founder admitted to some pleasant shocks at how … Read more

Apple could the big winner of Intel’s Thunderbolt 5 announcement – here’s why

Intel has announced Thunderbolt 5 connectivity will be available in 2024 on Windows-based PCs, most likely those equipped with Core and Xeon processors rather than AMD’s Ryzen and Threadripper ones. But the real winner in this announcement could be Apple. It’s easy to forget that the iPhone maker is the company behind Thunderbolt, and there … Read more