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Amazon on Thursday unveiled its revamped game-streaming service, Amazon Luna, which now includes new beginner-friendly multiplayer games that can be controlled with your phone. Amazon Luna is available at no extra cost for Prime members. The biggest change to the service is the addition of GameNight, a collection of more than 25 local multiplayer games that Amazon says are “designed to bring friends and family together in the living room.” GameNight will feature exclusive titles developed by Amazon Game Studios, starting with “Courtroom Chaos: Starring Snoop Dogg,” an AI voice-driven improv courtroom game where players invent absurd characters, spin wild…

With TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 less than 4 days away, we’re gearing up for an incredible three-day event packed with interactive sessions at Moscone West in San Francisco. Roundtable sessions return for another year with dynamic conversations led by top founders, investors, and operators — offering you a rare chance to engage directly with experts and attendees in small-group settings. Don’t miss your chance to pocket ticket savings and participate in these roundtables. Register now to lock in up to $444 in savings on your pass, plus 60% off your guest ticket before prices go up at the door. These savings…

ISTANBUL (AP) — On the streets of Istanbul, porters hauling massive sacks wrapped in white plastic — on their backs or in handcarts — are a ubiquitous yet often overlooked part of the city’s fabric. Known as hamallık in Turkish, porterage is a profession that has endured from the Ottoman Empire to the present day.It remains especially common in Istanbul’s historic trade quarters — the Egyptian Bazaar, the Grand Bazaar, and the Eminönü district — where traditional commercial buildings known as hans contain workshops and businesses that produce jewelry, textiles and other goods. Porters haul loads up the stairway in…

London-based AI creative studio Wonder Studios has raised $12 million in seed funding to scale production amid a push to bring AI-generated content into the entertainment industry.  The round was led by Atomico, alongside existing investors LocalGlobe and Blackbird, and builds on Wonder’s pre-seed investment, which included executives from ElevenLabs, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI.  Wonder will use the fresh funds to double its engineering team and accelerate its push into IP ownership and original content production. The team recently produced an AI music video for Lewis Capaldi’s “Something in the Heavens,” created with DeepMind, YouTube, and Universal Music Group. Wonder also…

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Conservationists and students cheered as three rescued sea turtles, endangered in this part of the world, made their way back into the ocean at a private beach in Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos. Weeks after the turtles were rescued from fishermen, they were released back into the ocean becoming the latest of dozens of sea turtles saved by the Greenfingers Wildlife Conservation Initiative in recent years. This batch was released last weekend.“For fishermen, they are just food,” Chinedu Mogbo, founder of the Greenfingers group told The Associated Press. “There is no knowledge out there of wildlife.”…

The stakes don’t get higher than this. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, the Startup Battlefield 200 finalists will take the stage one last time to compete for the $100,000 equity-free prize. Deciding their fate will be a select group of the most respected and influential investors in the industry — our final round judges. These are the leaders who sit at the very top of venture capital, and they’ll make the ultimate call on who takes home the title of Startup Battlefield champion.  Don’t miss a minute of one of the most intense and anticipated startup pitch competitions of the year, live on the Disrupt Stage. Register now to save…

Cluely’s Roy Lee isn’t afraid to stir the pot — and he’s taking that bold energy to the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. He’ll dive into how he’s building one of the most talked-about startups in AI, why courting controversy can be a growth strategy, and what it takes to stand out in a noisy consumer tech market. Don’t miss this chance to see Roy Lee shake things up at Disrupt. Register here to save up to $444 on your pass, and get 60% off a second. How Roy Lee’s rage-baiting built a $15 million AI startup Roy Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Cluely, an AI meeting assistant…

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — It was the middle of the day when Omar Diaw, known by his artist name “Chimere” — French for chimera — approached a blank wall off the main thoroughfare in Guinea ‘s capital and started spray-painting.“They know who I am,” he said confidently. Though it wasn’t clear who ”they” were, civilians and police didn’t bat an eye as Diaw’s fellow artists unloaded dozens of paint cans onto the roadside in Conakry.Graffiti has thrived for years in Diaw’s native Senegal, where the modern urban street art first took off in West Africa. But when he moved to…

OpenAI is teasing a series of updates coming to its viral app for AI-generated videos, Sora, which recently shot to the top of the App Store after a late September launch. The app, which remains at No. 1 in the U.S. and Canada, will introduce video editing tools, offer the ability for users to create character “cameos” of pets and other objects, improve social features, and more. Plus, the company says the Android version of the app is “actually coming soon.” The announcement was made on X by Sora head Bill Peebles, who says the new creation tools will arrive…

Palantir said on Thursday it had struck a partnership with Lumen Technologies that will see the telecommunications company using the data management company’s AI software to build capabilities to support enterprise AI services. The companies are calling the deal “a multi-year, multi-million-dollar strategic partnership,” but Bloomberg reports, citing anonymous sources, that Lumen is going to spend over $200 million on Palantir’s tech over the course of several years. The agreement will see Lumen pairing Palantir’s Foundry and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) with its own edge computing, broadband infrastructure, and other digital services. The partnership comes as Lumen tries to transform…