OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that OpenAI is working with the U.S. AI Safety Institute, a federal government body that aims to assess and addre...
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
WhatsApp’s massive 500 million user in India has supercharged Meta’s AI ambitions. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday that India is the...
While venture capitalists and the rest of the technorati are off on holiday or attending the Paris Olympics, the U.S. Securities and Exchang...
Google has released a trio of new, “open” generative AI models that it’s calling “safer,” “smaller” and “more transparent” than most — a bol...
Badoo, Bumble, Grindr, happn, Hinge and Hily all had the same vulnerability that could have helped a malicious user to identify the near-exa...
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Alex Cook, a partner at Tiger Global who oversaw some of its largest fintech investments, is departing the firm after a tenure of nearly sev...
A lot of AI bills are flying around Congress these days, and OpenAI is throwing its weight behind some of them. OpenAI endorsed three Senate...
The software supply chain faces threats from all sides. A 2024 report by the Ponemon Institute found that over half of organizations have ex...
Monday, July 29, 2024
Apple has published a technical paper detailing the models that it developed to power Apple Intelligence, the range of generative AI feature...
Here is a timeline of the events that led fledgling automaker Fisker to file for bankruptcy. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For pe...
Government websites aren’t known for cutting-edge tech. GovWell co-founder and CTO Ben Cohen discovered this while trying to help his dad, a...
Critics have long argued that device searches at the U.S. border are unconstitutional and violate the Fourth Amendment. © 2024 TechCrunch. ...
Sunday, July 28, 2024
Zapp is launching its urban electric two-wheeler in India in 2025 as it plans to expand globally. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. F...
The first time I saw Google’s latest commercial, I wondered, “Is it just me, or is this kind of bad?” By the fourth or fifth time I saw it, ...
Though MatPat retired from YouTube, he’s still pretty busy. In fact, he’s been spending a lot of time on Capitol Hill. © 2024 TechCrunch. A...
Samsung is still foldables’ 500-pound gorilla, but the company successes have made the category significantly less lonely in recent years. ...
Saturday, July 27, 2024
Indian cryptocurrency exchange WazirX announced on Saturday a controversial plan to “socialize” the $230 million loss from its recent securi...
Stay up-to-date on the latest funding news for Black and women founders. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. fr...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Commerce Department agency that develops and tests tech for the U.S. gov...
Max Space's expandable habitats promise to be larger, stronger, and more versatile than anything like them ever launched, not to mention...
Friday, July 26, 2024
With the CrowdStrike update continuing to cause havoc across the planet, a startup has raised $13.5 million to at least improve some level o...
Apple has reduced prices of its iPhone models in India by 3-4% following a cut in import duties in the South Asian market. The price cuts ra...
MNT-Halan, a fintech unicorn out of Egypt, is on a consolidation march. The microfinance and payments startup has raised $157.5 million in f...
The energy transition is a marathon, not a sprint. But opportunities for acceleration are growing. Swedish startup Greenely* has just spotte...
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
A hacker claims to be selling data relating to thousands of current and former employees of India's Piramal Group. © 2024 TechCrunch. A...
CRED, an Indian fintech startup, has rolled out a new feature that will help its customers manage and gain deeper insights into their cash f...
Our growth as a civilization is tightly coupled to our ability to sufficiently generate ever-increasing amounts of electricity. Could the sa...
Dental care is a necessity, yet many patients lack confidence in their dentists’ ability to provide accurate diagnoses and appropriate treat...
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Exoticca’s platform connects flights, hotels, meals, transfers, transportation and more, plus the local companies at the destinations. © 20...
Content creators are busy people. Most spend more than 20 hours a week creating new content for their respective corners of the web. That do...
India’s federal government has removed the controversial “angel tax” for all classes of investors, delivering a major victory to the country...
Monday, July 22, 2024
Brian Kim, the founder of South Korean internet giant Kakao, was arrested Tuesday on allegations of stock price manipulation related to the ...
Cybersecurity startup Wiz has turned down a $23 billion acquisition offer from Alphabet, Google’s parent company, according to a source fami...
Monarch Tractor was in a tricky spot late last year as the autonomous electric tractor startup juggled growth and an uncertain fundraising e...
Sunday, July 21, 2024
A little more than a year after launching the ROG Ally, Asus is releasing a refined version of its portable device, the ROG Ally X. This Win...
As a part of TechCrunch’s ongoing Women in AI series, which seeks to give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and ov...
Google is expected to announce four Pixel devices: the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL and Pixel 9 Pro Premium, running Android 15. © ...
President Joe Biden just announced that he no longer plans to seek reelection. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your P...
WazirX, one of India’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has suspended all trading activities on its platform days after losing about $230 m...
Subject to shareholder approval, Yandex N.V. is adopting the name of one of its few remaining assets, an AI cloud platform called Nebius AI ...
Saturday, July 20, 2024
A wave of automakers and battery makers — foreign and domestic — have pledged to produce North American–made batteries before 2030. © 2024 ...
Friday, July 19, 2024
CISA confirmed the CrowdStrike outage was not caused by a cyberattack, but urged caution as malicious hackers exploit the situation. © 2024...
Windows users around the globe woke up on Friday morning to “blue screens of death” thanks to a faulty software update from CrowdStrike. The...
Venture capital giant a16z fixed a security vulnerability in one of the firm's websites after being warned by a security researcher. © ...
Businesses worldwide are experiencing outages, including Windows “blue screen of death” errors on their computers, in what has already becom...
Paytm’s loss widened even as revenue declined by 36% year-on-year as the once-poster star of Indian startup ecosystem continues to grapple w...
Thursday, July 18, 2024
J. Michael Cline, the co-founder of Fandango and multiple other startups over his multi-decade career, died after falling from a Manhattan h...
Both of Hofy's co-founders, Sami Bouremoum and Michael Ginzo, along with the rest of the startup's leadership team and 120 employees...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Given the years and money invested in the Zone’s creation, there’s logic in Dyson’s decision to turn its R&D work into a more standard s...
Bill Weber is out as chief executive at Firefly Aerospace, following a nearly two-year stint in the role, the maker of launch vehicles, luna...
NASA was looking for proposals that maximized the use of flight heritage because reliability will be key. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights res...
The warrant is part of an investigation into alleged stock market manipulation related to a high-profile bidding war for music label, SM Ent...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Instagram said Tuesday that it will allow users to add multiple audio tracks to their Reels worldwide. The company noted that users can add ...
Wittaya Aqua enables seafood farmers to consolidate existing data points across the seafood supply chain. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights res...
Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of one of the most prominent venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, says he’s been a Democrat most of his ...
Monday, July 15, 2024
Former President Donald Trump picked Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate on Monday, as he runs to reclaim the office he lost to Pres...
Adaptive is a platform that provides tools designed to simplify payments and accounting for general construction contractors. © 2024 TechCr...
Real-time payments are becoming commonplace for individuals and businesses, but not yet for cross-border transactions. That’s what Caliza is...
When VanMoof declared bankruptcy last year, it left around 5,000 customers who had pre-ordered e-bikes in the lurch. Now VanMoof is up and r...
Sunday, July 14, 2024
Mitti Labs aims to transform rice farming in India and other South Asian markets by reducing methane emissions by 50% and water consumption ...
Hank Green has had a while to think about how social media has changed us. He started making YouTube videos in 2007 with his brother, noveli...
Here is a timeline of Synapse’s troubles and the ongoing impact it is having on banking consumers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved....
When Helixx co-founder and CEO Steve Pegg looks at Daisy — the startup’s 3D printed prototype delivery van — he sees a second chance. And h...
Saturday, July 13, 2024
India is struggling to get new smartphone buyers, and Jio is eying a 5G feature phone to milk the situation. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights ...
Whistleblowers have accused OpenAI of placing illegal restrictions on how employees can communicate with government regulators, according to...
Business email compromise attacks are on the rise. Here's how you can stay ahead of the hackers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved...
Regardless of how they're defined, the agents are for helping complete tasks in an automated way with as little human interaction as pos...
Friday, July 12, 2024
Meta announced former President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts will no longer be subject to heightened suspension penalties,...
The full and final text of the EU AI Act, the European Union’s landmark risk-based regulation for applications of artificial intelligence, h...
Thursday, July 11, 2024
A San Francisco man was charged Thursday for allegedly slashing the tires of 17 Waymo robotaxis between June 24 and June 26, according to th...
Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, is continuing to develop a downvoting feature that will be used to improve how replies are ranked. Although...
Meet Adfin, a new UK-based fintech startup that wants to help companies get their invoices paid — whatever it takes. Founded by two fintech ...
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Reliance Industries, India’s most valuable company, may consider spinning off its telecom arm Jio for a public listing as early as 2025, Jef...
Apple has issued a new round of threat notifications to iPhone users across 98 countries, warning them of potential mercenary spyware attack...
Visual effects (VFX) have emerged as essential in filmmaking and have transformed storytelling and creativity in the film industry with its ...
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Index Ventures is announcing $2.3 billion in new funds to finance the next generation of tech startups globally. These new funds are spread ...
The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has already seen ...
Prompt engineering became a hot job last year in the AI industry, but it seems Anthropic is now developing tools to at least partially autom...
Hebbia, a startup that uses generative AI to search large documents and respond to large questions, has raised a $130 million Series B at a ...
Monday, July 8, 2024
Poe, Quora’s subscription-based, cross-platform aggregator for AI-powered chatbots like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT-4o, has launched...
For over a decade, real-money gaming companies and fantasy sports startups have marketed themselves as video game companies. But as these bu...
Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are throwing their weight behind a new venture, Thrive AI Health, that ...
The essential labor of data work, like moderation and annotation, is systematically hidden from those who benefit from the fruits of that la...
Pestle addresses the common problem of finding recipes on the web. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from Tec...
These efforts have come as Lucid is looking to start building its Gravity SUV by the end of this year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserv...
Berlin-based food delivery giant Delivery Hero has warned investors it may “ultimately” face an antitrust fine of up to €400 million. The de...
Sunday, July 7, 2024
Investors are betting on Indian wealthtech startups as a growing middle class turns to diversify investments and startups challenge traditio...
Here are the latest companies venturing into the gaming scene and details about each offering, including pricing, examples of titles and sup...
It sounds like the latest dispute between Apple and Fortnite-maker Epic Games isn’t over. Epic has been fighting Apple for years over the co...
As deep-pocketed companies like Amazon, Google and Walmart invest in and experiment with drone delivery, a phenomenon reflective of this mod...
Saturday, July 6, 2024
We’ve created this guide to help parents navigate the controls offered by popular social media companies. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights res...
For the first time, Chinese government workers will be able to purchase Tesla’s Model Y for official use. Specifically, officials in eastern...
Generative AI models don’t process text the same way humans do. Understanding their “token”-based internal environments may help explain som...
Friday, July 5, 2024
In its latest step targeting a major marketplace, the European Commission sent Amazon another request for information (RFI) Friday in relati...
Quantum Rise, a Chicago-based startup which does AI-driven automation for companies like dunnhumby (a retail analytics platform for the the ...
On July 4, YouTube released an updated eraser tool for creators so they can easily remove any copyrighted music from their videos without af...
Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator, on Friday denied any breach of its systems following reports of an alleged security lapse t...
Thursday, July 4, 2024
According to a recent Dealroom report on the Spanish tech ecosystem, the combined enterprise value of Spanish startups surpassed €100 billio...
Forestay, an emerging VC based out of Geneva, Switzerland has been busy. This week it closed its second fund, Forestay Capital II, at a hard...
Threads, Meta’s alternative to Twitter, just celebrated its first birthday. After launching on July 5 last year, the social network has reac...
J2 Ventures, a firm led mostly by the U.S. military veterans, announced on Thursday that it has raised a $150 million second fund. The Bosto...
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
The Indian social media platform Koo, which sought to compete with Elon Musk’s X, is shutting down after acquisition talks with Dailyhunt fe...
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Apiday leverages AI to save time for its customers. But like legacy consultants, it also offers human expertise. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rig...
Google totally dodges the question of how much energy is AI is using — perhaps because the answer is "way more than we'd care to sa...
Indian edtech giant Unacademy is laying off about 250 employees, the latest in a series of layoffs since the reopening of schools across the...
Apple unveiled iOS 18 last month at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). Since then, the company has released two developer betas in t...
Monday, July 1, 2024
Anthropic is launching a program to fund the development of new types of benchmarks capable of evaluating the performance and impact of AI m...
Senators urge Synapse’s owners, partners, and VC backers to restore customers’ access to their money
A group of senators has banded together to urge Synapse’s owners and bank and fintech partners to “immediately restore customers’ access to ...
Investment app Robinhood is adding more AI features for investors with its acquisition of AI-powered research platform Pluto Capital, Inc., ...
Vaire Computing, based in London and Seattle, is betting that chips that can do reversible computing are going to be the way forward for the...
Preliminary findings by the European Commission investigating a controversial binary choice Meta has forced on regional users of its social ...
The round was led by KKR and Teachers' Ventures Growth, an investment arm of Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. © 2024 TechCrunch. All...
