Kyle Wiggers

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Technology journalist. Senior AI/Enterprise Reporter @TechCrunch ([email protected]). Signal: kyle.901 Pronouns: he/him.

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Google I/O 2025: What to expect, including updates to Gemini and Android 16

5 days ago | techcrunch.com | Kyle Wiggers

Google I/O, Google’s biggest developer conference of the year, is nearly upon us. Scheduled for May 20 to 21 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, I/O will showcase product announcements from across Google’s portfolio. Expect plenty of news relating to Android, Chrome, Google Search, YouTube, and — of course — Google’s AI-powered chatbot, Gemini. Here’s what to expect.
DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app

5 days ago | techcrunch.com | Kyle Wiggers

DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its lead in the AI race and whether the demand for AI chips will sustain.
SoundCloud changes policies to allow AI training on user content

5 days ago | techcrunch.com | Kyle Wiggers

SoundCloud appears to have quietly changed its terms of use to allow the company to train AI on audio that users upload to its platform. As spotted by tech ethicist Ed Newton-Rex, the latest version of SoundCloud’s terms include a provision giving the platform permission to use uploaded content to “inform, train, [or] develop” AI.
DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app

5 days ago | flipboard.com | Kyle Wiggers

4 hours agoThese entrepreneurs are working to harness tidal power as a reliable, scalable source of energy. But there’s one big problem. During the pandemic, for about a year, New Yorkers looking over the East River were part of a pilot project that could have revolutionized the future of energy: a series of …
Microsoft Build 2025: How to watch this year's conference

5 days ago | techcrunch.com | Kyle Wiggers

Microsoft Build, Microsoft’s biggest event of the year, is on the horizon. It’s scheduled to start May 19 at the Seattle Convention Center, and it’ll run through May 22. The keynote address featuring Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and CTO Kevin Scott will take place May 19 at 9:05 a.m. PT. That’ll be followed by a deep dive with executives Charles Lamanna (CVP of business and industry Copilot) and Scott Guthrie (EVP of cloud and AI) on May 20 at 9 a.m. PT.
X timelines aren't updating for many users

5 days ago | techcrunch.com | Kyle Wiggers

Sometime Thursday night, timelines stopped updating for a number of users on X, the social network owned by billionaire Elon Musk. Many users report that their notifications stopped working yesterday, meaning they aren’t being alerted to new posts by the people they follow on X. This reporter is experiencing the issue, as well. My X timeline hasn’t updated in 15 hours, since around 6 p.m. Eastern on May 8. It appears to be a server-side bug.
ChatGPT's deep research tool gets a GitHub connector to answer questions about code

6 days ago | techcrunch.com | Kyle Wiggers

OpenAI is enhancing its AI-powered “deep research” feature with the ability to analyze codebases on GitHub. On Thursday, OpenAI announced what it’s calling the first “connector” for ChatGPT deep research, the company’s tool that searches across the web and other sources to compile thorough research reports on a topic. Now, ChatGPT deep research can link to GitHub (in beta), allowing developers to ask questions about a codebase and engineering documents.
ChatGPT’s deep research tool gets a GitHub connector to answer questions about code

6 days ago | flipboard.com | Kyle Wiggers

NowYour LinkedIn success depends on more than just your posts. You need to write good comments. Without playing the commenting game, you’re just broadcasting away, missing out on connection. You wouldn’t show up to a party and talk loudly at everyone, without asking questions or hearing what they had …
Google launches 'implicit caching' to make accessing its latest AI models cheaper

6 days ago | techcrunch.com | Kyle Wiggers

Google is rolling out a feature in its Gemini API that the company claims will make its latest AI models cheaper for third-party developers. Google calls the feature “implicit caching” and says it can deliver 75% savings on “repetitive context” passed to models via the Gemini API. It supports Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and 2.5 Flash models. That’s likely to be welcome news to developers as the cost of using frontier models continues to grow.
OpenAI launches a data residency program in Asia

6 days ago | sg.finance.yahoo.com | Kyle Wiggers

Kyle Wiggers Thu, 8 May 2025 at 10:34 am GMT-4 1 min read OpenAI is introducing a new data residency program in Asia, the company announced Thursday, following the rollout of its data residency program in Europe in February. The new program, which is available for OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, and the OpenAI API, aims to help Asia-based organizations meet local data sovereignty requirements while using the AI company’s products.