The rise of AI has consumed the arts, just as it has Silicon Valley. Everyone is pondering: Will AI replace me? © 2024 TechCrunch. All righ...
Saturday, August 31, 2024
Learn about NightCafe's origins, some of the challenges the platform faces, and where NighCafe will evolve from here. © 2024 TechCrunch...
Organizations are people and people are messy, and you have to look beyond the tech to the end goal: implementing new software that could tr...
Most of the biggest South Korean tech startups intend to pursue public offerings in either South Korea or the United States as part of their...
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Nvidia and Apple are reportedly in talks to contribute to OpenAI’s next fundraising round — a round that could value the ChatGPT maker at $1...
Agrim has raised $17.3 million to expand its B2B agri-inputs platform to more manufacturers and retailers in India. © 2024 TechCrunch. All ...
Many tech companies are expanding their reach into the web3 market, integrating blockchain and web3 technologies into their products and ser...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Durex India has exposed customers' personal information, including full names, email and postal addresses, and order details. © 2024 Te...
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is getting back into the secondaries game. The Silicon Valley-based VC raised more than $468 million for NE...
One-click checkout tech company Bolt is still waiting to find out if shareholders will sign off on a proposed funding round with stipulation...
Web browser and search startup Brave has laid off 27 employees across the different departments, TechCrunch has learned. The company confirm...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Zepto co-founder Aadit Palicha told a group of analysts and investors on Tuesday that the Indian delivery startup anticipates growth of 150%...
VerSe Innovation, India's content tech startup, has acquired digital marketing firm Valueleaf Group to bolster its presence in the India...
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander failed to reach the moon because of a problem with a single valve in the propulsion system, according to...
Clockwise is changing up its interface with an AI-powered assistant called Prism that lets you manage calendar invites and scheduling with t...
Monday, August 26, 2024
Pavel Durov, the founder of the messaging platform Telegram, has been in the headlines since his arrest at a private airport near Paris on S...
Elon Musk has come out in support of California’s SB 1047, a bill that requires makers of very large AI models to create and document safegu...
Ride-hailing platform Uber has been fined €290 million — around $324 million at current exchanges rates — by the Netherlands’ privacy watchd...
Sunday, August 25, 2024
A holding company affiliated with an Emirati royal family is injecting a new joint venture between Abu Dhabi-based Marlan Space and startup ...
San Francisco’s AI startup boom is so big, even international founders who don’t run AI startups are relocating there to help their companie...
As AI developers and others start to think more deeply about how computers and people intersect, Stephan Wolfram says it is becoming a much ...
A roundup of the year's billion-dollar take-private deals in the technology sector. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For persona...
Saturday, August 24, 2024
Eruditus, an Indian edtech startup, is in advanced stages of talks to secure about $150 million in new funding, two sources familiar with th...
Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram, was arrested on Saturday evening while leaving his private jet at France’s Bourget a...
Mical Jeanlys-White built WealthMore out of frustration. She spent years on Wall Street, building products at American Express and serving ...
From the looks of things, companies in the category — including Agility Robotics and Formlogic — can’t hire quickly enough. © 2024 TechCrun...
A crew of tech billionaires have been trying to get the California Forever project off the ground, which would create a new, supposedly utop...
Disappearing posts on social networks are handy if you have a habit of deleting them through third-party tools or the context of those posts...
Friday, August 23, 2024
Tingit, a startup out of Lithuania, wants to help people restore their used clothing to their former glory with its newly launched repairs m...
Redis, the company behind the popular in-memory data store, which is often used as a cache, vector database or streaming engine, today annou...
360 One Asset, an investor in National Stock Exchange (NSE), has increased its valuation for India's top stock exchange to $29.9 billion...
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Tesla is hiring individuals standing between 5’7 and 5’11 to carry up to 30 pounds for seven hours a day to train its Optimus robot. © 2024...
Dropbox has acquired AI-powered scheduling tool Reclaim.ai, which counts Calendly and Index Ventures among its backers. The development was ...
Companies are experimenting with services like ChatGPT to help workers write memos, answer questions, and much more, yet one of the clearest...
Workpay provides cloud-based HR, payroll, and benefits solutions for businesses with employees across Africa. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Ashesh Shah, the founder and CEO of The London Fund is, as you might imagine, bullish on Bolt. The London Fund is a UK venture firm with ove...
WeTransfer’s expiry dates have been a major paint-point for users — especially creatives. Thing is, if you don’t download the files the mome...
India’s commerce minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday expressed concern over the rapid growth of e-commerce in the country, warning of potenti...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
SleekFlow, a Singapore- and Hong Kong-headquartered social commerce platform that has built a conversational AI suite for customer engagemen...
X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, looks like a pretty bad investment right about now. As readers might recall, billionaire El...
Monday, August 19, 2024
Pakistani startup PostEx is entering Saudi Arabia as first global market after hitting $21 million ARR in the South Asian nation. © 2024 Te...
The AI boom is fueling the demand for data centers and, in turn, driving up water consumption. (Water is used to cool the computing equipmen...
OpenAI and Anthropic spend billions of dollars a year training models like GPT-4 and Claude, but competitive price dumping is making the bus...
Amazon is considering shifting its payments offerings in India into a standalone app, three sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch...
Root helps food and beverage companies collect primary data on their agricultural supply chains. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. F...
Sunday, August 18, 2024
Season 3 of "Industry" focuses on the fictional bank Pierpoint blends the worlds — and drama — of tech, media, government, and fin...
Selling under such circumstances is often not as poor of an outcome for founders and key staff as it initially seems. © 2024 TechCrunch. A...
While the rapid pace of funding has slowed, many fintechs are continuing to see growth and expand their teams. © 2024 TechCrunch. All right...
This is just one area of leadership where Parker Conrad takes a contrarian approach. He also said he doesn't believe in top-down managem...
Saturday, August 17, 2024
In this post, we explain the many Microsoft Copilots available and what they do, and highlight the key differences between each. © 2024 Tec...
A hack on UnitedHealth-owned tech giant Change Healthcare likely stands as one of the biggest data breaches of U.S. medical data in history....
Friday, August 16, 2024
Gogoro has deferred its India plans over delay in government incentives, but the Taiwanese company has partnered with Rapido for a bike-taxi...
On Friday, the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz tweeted out a link to its guide on how to “build your social media presence” which features ...
Revolut has confirmed a new valuation of $45 billion via a secondary market share sale, shortly after the U.K.-based neobank secured its own...
Thursday, August 15, 2024
A social media spat between billionaire tech investors is raising questions about the journalistic independence of three-year-old news outfi...
SB 1047 has drawn the ire of Silicon Valley players large and small, including venture capitalists, big tech trade groups, researchers and s...
Swedish fintech giant Klarna is rolling out two new products on Wednesday that could make its buy now, pay later offerings more enticing to ...
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has resumed operations for users in India after a seven-month hiatus imposed by local ...
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Elon Musk’s Grok released a new AI image-generation feature on Tuesday night that, just like the AI chatbot, has very few safeguards. That m...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Zepto has finalized a $340 million round that increases its valuation to $5 billion, up from $3.6 billion in June and $1.4 billion last Augu...
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have acquired a screenplay called “Killing Gawker,” which presumably delves into billionaire VC Peter Thiel’s cam...
Monday, August 12, 2024
Fram2 would launch into a polar orbit from Florida in late 2024, after which it will stay up at 425-450 kilometers of altitude for three to ...
A class action lawsuit filed by artists who allege that Stability, Runway and DeviantArt illegally trained their AIs on copyrighted works ca...
a16z-backed fintech Tally, which raised $172M in funding, is shutting down after running out of cash
Tally, a nine-year-old fintech that helped consumers manage and pay off their credit card debt, has shut down, according to the company. In ...
BT, the U.K.’s former incumbent telecoms carrier, is picking up a major new investor today as telecoms companies look for stronger footing i...
Sunday, August 11, 2024
Kazam, an Indian EV charging solution provider, has raised $8 million to expand its footprint in the country and enter Southeast Asian marke...
Heavy equipment manufacturer CNH Industrial has a long history of mergers and acquisitions, at times supervising legendary brands like Ferra...
CrowdStrike's president said he'll take the trophy back to headquarters as a reminder that "our goal is to protect people, and ...
TechCrunch has pulled together some open-source alternatives to popular productivity apps that might appeal to prosumers, freelancers, or sm...
The valuation of Oyo, once India’s second-most valuable startup at $10 billion, has dipped to $2.4 billion in a new funding round. The Gurug...
Friday, August 9, 2024
Tragedy has again struck a famous Silicon Valley family. Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has passed away, according to social media posts ...
This is the second cyberattack targeting the school device management service Mobile Guardian this year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights rese...
Anysphere, a two-year-old startup that’s developed an AI-powered coding assistant called Cursor, has raised over $60 million in a Series A f...
Thursday, August 8, 2024
Ola Electric, the largest electric two-wheeler maker in India, jumped as much as 20% on its public debut Friday in what is the biggest listi...
Rocket Lab surpassed $100 million in quarterly revenue for the first time, a 71% increase from the same quarter of last year. This is just o...
The vulnerabilities allowed one security researcher to peek inside the leak sites without having to log in. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights r...
Reliance, India's largest conglomerate, reduced its workforce by 11%, or more than 42,000 people, in the financial year ended March 2024...
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
The Palmer Luckey-founded defense startup wants to become a serious rival to longstanding kingpins, and has been clocking some big wins. © ...
The satellite is designed to complement data provided by existing astronomical efforts such as that of the famed Hubble Telescope. © 2024 T...
Cybersecurity remains a white-hot space for investors. In the latest example of that demand, EQT has bought a majority stake in Acronis, a s...
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky suggested on Tuesday’s Q2 earnings call with investors that the company will soon expand into new products and servi...
Quantum computing may still largely be in the theoretical domain, but the money that it’s attracting is very real. © 2024 TechCrunch. All r...
Monday, August 5, 2024
Indian space-tech startup EtherealX aims to test its fully reusable medium-lift vehicle in 20. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For ...
John Schulman, one of the co-founders of OpenAI, has left the company for rival AI startup Anthropic. The news comes as The Information repo...
Grok — not to be confused with the homophonic AI startup Groq that this morning raised over $600 million — has been spreading false informat...
The list includes Elon Musk’s xAI, which is already valued at a staggering $24 billion, as well as a good number of other AI startups. © 20...
The European Commission has closed a Digital Services Act (DSA) investigation of a rewards feature in TikTok Lite by accepting commitments f...
Groq, a startup developing chips to run generative AI models faster than conventional processors, said on Monday that it’s raised $640 milli...
Sunday, August 4, 2024
Despite increasing demand for AI safety and accountability, today’s tests and benchmarks may fall short, according to a new report. Generati...
OpenAI has built a tool that could potentially catch students who cheat by asking ChatGPT to write their assignments — but according to The ...
Chief Product Officer Craig Saldanha says AI is already transforming the Yelp experience. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For perso...
Any goal that puts cultivated meat in big box grocery stores or on fast food menus in the 2020s is “unrealistic,” according to experts. © 2...
Saturday, August 3, 2024
Sanjiva Weerawarana co-founded WSO2 in 2005, recently selling it for more than $600M. He sometimes drives for Uber, too. © 2024 TechCrunch....
Investors are assisting startup founders earlier than ever in an effort to help them bridge the first climate tech valley of death. © 2024 ...
While both the DSA and DMA aim to achieve distinct things, they are best understood as a joint response to Big Tech's market power. © 2...
Friday, August 2, 2024
A scathing rebuke by the U.K. data protection watchdog reveals what led to the compromise of tens of millions of U.K. voters' informatio...
A day after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about his newest social media experiment Threads reaching “almost” 200 million users on the comp...
Thursday, August 1, 2024
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 will be in San Francisco on October 28–30, and we’re already excited! Disrupt brings innovation for every stage of y...
Intel announced it would layoff more than 15% of its staff, or 15,000 employees, in a memo to employees on Thursday. The massive headcount i...
