Leading defense tech startup Anduril has developed a new product designed to take-on the proliferation of low-cost, high-powered aerial thre...
Thursday, November 30, 2023
After keeping some key specs close to its proverbial chest, Tesla is finally sharing more details about the final production versions of the...
Defense startup Epirus, Inc. is getting new leadership. Staff were told at an all-hands meeting this morning that CEO Ken Bedingfield was le...
Bad news: If you had your heart set on a sub-$40,000 Cybertruck, it ain’t coming next year, if ever. Though Tesla plans to ramp up productio...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Sam Altman is officially back as OpenAI’s CEO after a tumultuous week and change. And OpenAI officially has a new board of directors, replac...
In Western markets, freight forwarders are well into digitizing their operations, but the same doesn’t hold true in Southeast Asia, say the ...
SpaceX is known for its vertical integration, but one component it’s been outsourcing is parachutes – until earlier this month, when the com...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Uber has secured another win over the struggling taxi industry. Soon, riders in London will be able to hail an iconic black cab in the city....
A leaked document shines new light on the fund's relationship with Mastercard and the embattled grant program. © 2023 TechCrunch. All r...
The notorious ransomware gang LockBit has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack targeting India’s state-owned aerospace research lab. On ...
Monday, November 27, 2023
Cyber Monday is upon us, but the hottest deals in town are at the AI Garage Sale, where you can try to convince an AI to sell you some worth...
Last week, the Ukrainian government fired two of its top cybersecurity officials, who are accused of embezzlement. Now, one of them has been...
Social media giant Reddit is once again reportedly testing the IPO waters. Bloomberg reported on Monday that Reddit “is holding talks with p...
If you’re looking for a gift for someone but don’t want to break the bank, there are a number of great gadgets you can choose from. This lis...
A lot of the buzz these days in artificial intelligence is around generative AI and how AI is being used to accelerate software and products...
Sunday, November 26, 2023
Anil Goel, the CTO of Byju’s, is leaving the edtech giant, he informed some colleagues amid a broader restructuring at the Bengaluru-headqua...
EMotorad, an Indian startup manufacturing electric bikes, raised $20 million in a Series B round as it aims to disrupt China’s market domina...
“What controversy?” said the journalist from a global mainstream television outlet to me at the Web Summit Media Dinner, earlier this month ...
David Blumberg, founder and managing partner at Blumberg Ventures, explains how early-stage startups can look to their investors for help wi...
Now that the OpenAI leadership saga has died down, startup founders building with AI can get back to work building the future. If that’s you...
Saturday, November 25, 2023
Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular recap of the past few days in tech. The headlines have been dominated — na...
A rush of deep discounts and the growth of flexible payment options were the drivers behind $9.8 billion in online sales in the U.S. on Blac...
Neuralink, the Elon Musk-founded company developing implantable chips that can read brain waves, has raised an additional $43 million in ven...
On a weekday afternoon at Red Rock Coffee, the cafe known for spotting venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, one is likely to overhear a fe...
Friday, November 24, 2023
Raphael Ouzan Contributor Share on X Raphael Ouzan is the founder and CEO of A.Team, a future-of-work company pioneering the world’s first A...
Berkshire Hathaway sold its shares in the Paytm-parent firm One97 Communications Friday, booking a loss of about 40% on the investment it ma...
Saviu Ventures, a VC firm targeting startups in Francophone Africa, has made an initial close of €12 million for its second fund with the ba...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Luko's parent company, Demain ES, will be put for sale via a legal notice in the newspaper after Admiral abandoned ship. © 2023 TechCru...
The geographic isolation of Australia and New Zealand creates a sense of hustle, if not urgency, around raising funds and building a global ...
As the holiday season approaches, I, like everyone else with the means and mental bandwidth, am brainstorming what to get the loved ones in ...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Kinterra Capital, a Canadian private equity firm, has closed its $565 million debut fund dedicated to securing critical mineral assets for b...
There’s no doubt the STEM toys category has lost a bit of its magic. The hype that started about a decade ago, powering a wave of startups t...
Have you ever puked and had diarrhea at the same time? I have, and when it happened, I was listening to a fan-made audiobook version of Harr...
Tiger Global Management is going through a major management change. Per a message from founder Chase Coleman sent this afternoon to investor...
Monday, November 20, 2023
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It may be difficult for just any company to court OpenAI employees even if compensation packages are eye-poppingly high because of loyalty t...
OpenAI was never quite like other generative AI startups — or other startups period, for that matter. Its governance structure is unique and...
For a lot of companies, Scope 3 emissions make up the bulk of their carbon footprint, but are time-consuming and expensive for them to track...
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman and many of their former OpenAI colleagues will join Microsoft, the software conglomerate’s chief Satya Nadella...
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Capping off a tumultuous weekend at OpenAI that culminated in investors — and a contingent of employees — attempting to convince the company...
Kyle Vogt, the serial entrepreneur who co-founded and led Cruise from a startup in a garage through its acquisition and ownership by General...
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In 2018, I wrote a TechCrunch article stating that 2018 was “the year social networks were no longer social.” Reflecting on that article, I’...
In India, few events garner as much attention as a cricket game. And there’s no match for a World Cup final. The Sunday game, which began ju...
Saturday, November 18, 2023
On Friday, the board of OpenAI, the AI startup behind ChatGPT and other viral AI-powered hits, did something unexpected but seemingly well w...
Friday, November 17, 2023
OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has quit the firm, he said Friday, hours after the Microsoft-backed giant abruptly fired its c...
In perhaps the most unexpected tech news of the year, billionaire Sam Altman has been ejected from his CEO role at OpenAI by the company’s b...
Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been more than a year since Elon Musk purc...
In a surprising move, OpenAI today abruptly fired Sam Altman, its CEO and a member of its board of directors, and installed CTO Mira Murati ...
Thursday, November 16, 2023
BrightDrop, the commercial EV subsidiary of General Motors that launched in 2021, is being swallowed up by its parent company. GM said Thurs...
Microsoft’s Ignite 2023 event came with a lot of updates, and AI product reveals and expansions were front and center as the company laid ou...
The founders of IRL, Abraham Shafi and Genrikh Khachatryan, are suing their investors, claiming that they intentionally sabotaged the compan...
In the name of transparency and accessibility, Twitch launched its new Privacy Center to educate users, after conducting “extensive research...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
A microtargeted advertising controversy which has implicated European Union lawmakers in privacy-hostile practices banned by laws they had a...
The Australian government recently set new packaging regulations after an official review found just 18% of plastic packaging is recycled, f...
In Q3 2023, Jumia reported its adjusted EBITDA loss at $15 million, marking the lowest since its IPO in 2019 (outperforming the $27 million ...
A crucial knock-out cricket match between India and New Zealand shattered all previous on-demand video streaming records Wednesday, attracti...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
General Motors is taking a more active role in shaping the safety culture at Cruise, following a string of incidents that prompted Californi...
In-space propulsion developer Morpheus Space unveiled its first software product today, a mission simulation and design platform called Jour...
The Tesla Cyberquad for Kids, a $1,900 mini on-road ATV inspired by the yet-to-be delivered Cybertruck, is once again available to purchase ...
Monday, November 13, 2023
To stream as their ethereal alter ego, Mai, a VTuber known as M41H41, typically had to juggle at least four to seven different programs. Run...
If you’re looking for a gift for someone but don’t want to break the bank, there are a number of great gadgets you can choose from. This lis...
The World Economic Forum states that Africa has an average annual demand for 2.4 million cars and 300,000 commercial vehicles. This demand i...
Sunday, November 12, 2023
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For years, any time someone asked what brand of headphones they should buy for a flight, the answer was a simple one syllable: Bose. The com...
What if a little bit of investment, a splash of mentoring and practical support, a slew of introductions, and a whole lot of belief could be...
The sheer number of non-economic mistakes made by VCs due to their human nature is seriously underestimated. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights ...
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[A version of this Q&A first appeared in TechCrunch’s weekly robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here.] Over the next few weeks, Te...
Saturday, November 11, 2023
Samara raised $41 million "to bring high quality ADUs to every backyard in California and beyond." ADUs refer to accessory dwellin...
There is a growing group of startups looking to expand the BNPL model into other categories. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For pe...
According to the SBA, veterans are roughly 45% more likely to form their own business compared to people who haven’t served in the military....
Veterans already possess many of the skills and attributes needed to be a successful entrepreneur — including having courage. © 2023 TechCr...
Thursday, November 9, 2023
Last year’s techwide reckoning continues. The tech industry has seen more than 240,000 jobs lost in 2023, a total that’s already 50% higher ...
The government of Maine has confirmed over a million state residents had personal information stolen in a data breach earlier this year by a...
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Rocket Lab is best known for the Electron launch vehicle, but the company’s earnings results continue to show that it is much more than a ro...
Lyft’s strategy of slashing ride-hail fares to compete with Uber has resulted in slow and steady gains for the company, but competition rema...
Instagram is finally testing a feature that will let users turn off read receipts for Instagram DMs. This way, even if you have read someone...
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
The U.S. index fund pioneer Vanguard has cut the worth of its holding in the Indian ride-hailing startup Ola by nearly two thirds since orig...
Lucid has revised its 2023 production outlook amid softening demand for luxury electric vehicles, the company said Tuesday in its third-quar...
Monday, November 6, 2023
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A security researcher said he discovered millions of Chinese citizen identity numbers spilling online after an e-commerce store left its dat...
It was a whirlwind kind of day at Salesforce and Slack as the company learned that Slack CEO Lidiane Jones would be leaving at the end of th...
Lucid has reached an agreement that will give owners of its luxury EVs access to Tesla’s network of superchargers — following the path of Fo...
Vegan cheese isn’t usually anything to write home about, in terms of taste and texture. Dreamfarm, a startup based in Parma, in the Food Val...
Sunday, November 5, 2023
In the oversubscribed IPO of Mamaearth, Peak XV Partners has found its fourth 10x or greater return within the six months since separating f...
Kai-Fu Lee, the computer scientist known in the West for his bestseller AI Superpowers and in China for his bets on artificial intelligence ...
If you're looking to make a significant difference in the world, your startup could be the vehicle that drives that change. © 2023 Tech...
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Saturday, November 4, 2023
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Indian edtech giant Byju’s said on Saturday that revenue of its core business, its largest, in the financial year ending March 2022 stood at...
Friday, November 3, 2023
Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is creating its own version of ChatGPT. That appears to be the case, at least, from Musk’s tweets on X late Fri...
Arrival set out eight years ago to make electric vehicle production “radically more efficient.” So far, its plan to forgo the gigafactory fo...
Thursday, November 2, 2023
It’s exciting times for growth-stage investment in Africa as Norrsken22, a Pan-African venture capital firm, achieves the final close of its...
Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, has been found guilty on all seve...
Ford has shut down VIIZR, a software-as-a-service company that along with Salesforce built an app to help tradespeople like plumbers, locksm...
SBI Holdings, a Japanese financial services conglomerate and one of the largest venture capital firms in the East Asian country, has made a ...
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Ten years ago, Pear VC, then a tiny new venture firm, operated out of a nondescript office in Palo Alto that was enlivened by bright, comput...
Supply chain logistics platform Flexport is acquiring the assets of shuttered digital freight network Convoy, according to a memo Flexport C...
Getting enough people to pay attention to you and to your thesis can help beyond raising money. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For...
Every year, Temasek teams up with Bain & Company on the e-Conomy SEA report. It covers Southeast Asia’s digital economy and is published...
