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Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by…

Share to FacebookShare to LinkedinElon Musk Getty Images The Tesla chief was overtaken for the third time in two days by Bernard Arnault of French luxury conglomerate LVMH. Note: When U.S. markets closed at 4:00 p.m ET, Musk still ranked as the world’s second richest person, with an estimated net worth of $185 billion—$1.2 billion…

Hello again! Greg here again with Week in Review. WiR is the newsletter where we take the most read TechCrunch stories from the last seven days and wrap them up in as few words as possible — no fluff, no nonsense,* just a quick blast of everything you probably want to know about in tech…

After many delays, Audi has a new E-Tron on the market. It’s the Q4, a little SUV based on the same MEB platform that sits beneath the Volkswagen ID.4’s skin. That means a similar layout and, most significantly, the identical 82-kWh battery pack here wrapped with a much more premium look and feel to match…

W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. It seems like everyone has been talking about Lensa AI this week, but a less obvious point of this AI-enabled chart topper caught…

Kite, a startup developing an AI-powered coding assistant, abruptly shut down last month. Despite securing tens of millions of dollars in VC backing, Kite struggled to pay the bills, founder Adam Smith revealed in a postmortem blog post, running into engineering headwinds that made finding a product-market fit essentially impossible. “We failed to deliver our vision…

When Elon Musk tweets, people listen. The billionaire Tesla  (TSLA) – Get Free Report CEO and recent Twitter owner tends to stir things up whenever he lets his fingers do the talking.  His Twitter takeover has courted seemingly no end of controversy with mass layoffs, the reinstatement of former President Donald Trump’s account, and the elimination…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinElon Musk Getty Images After losing the top spot on Forbes’ ranking of the world’s richest people Thursday, the Tesla chief overtook Bernard Arnault of French luxury conglomerate LVMH Friday morning. Tesla chief Elon Musk added $5 billion to his fortune since Thursday’s stock market close, as of noon…

Elon Musk’s desire to stir conspiratorial shit up by giving select outsiders aligned with his conservative agenda access to Twitter systems and data could land the world’s richest man in some serious doodoo with regulators on both sides of the Atlantic. In recent days, this access granted by Musk to a few external reporters has…

Amazon is ending support for a program that allowed patients to share HIPAA-protected health information with healthcare organizations through Alexa. The news was first reported by Voicebot.ai. The invite-only program, which first launched in 2019, allowed select developers to create and launch HIPAA-compliant healthcare skills for Alexa (skills are the third-party voice apps that run…