With this merger, Dott and Tier didn’t want to build a conglomerate of micromobility services; the operation was all about scale. © 2024 Te...
Monday, September 30, 2024
Meta’s AI-powered Ray-Bans have a discreet camera on the front, for taking photos not just when you ask them to, but also when their AI feat...
11x.ai, a startup that develops AI-powered sales development bots, has secured roughly $50 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has learn...
Sunday, September 29, 2024
Elon Musk’s X is now valued at less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price, according to a new estimate from investor Fidelity. T...
In September, California Governor Gavin Newsom considered 38 AI-related bills, including the highly contentious SB 1047, which the state’s l...
Licensing kerfuffles have long been a defining facet of the commercial open source space. Some of the biggest vendors have switched to a mor...
This week, Alex Goldman shares his setup. A former producer for WYNC's On the Media, Goldman co-founded Reply-All with Emmanuel Dzotsi i...
The Pixel 9 Pro Fold is back, bigger and better than before, with a thinner design and excellent tri-camera system. © 2024 TechCrunch. All ...
Businesses need stability to thrive. Unfortunately for anyone in Sudan, stability has been hard to come by for the past year and a half as t...
Friday, September 27, 2024
In August, a Russian warlord posted a video on Telegram, showing a pair of Cybertrucks patrolling a road in Chechnya, armed seemingly with h...
WordPress.org has lifted its ban on hosting provider WP Engine until October 1, after putting a block on it earlier this week. The block pre...
ChatGPT could get more expensive to use in coming years. The New York Times, citing internal OpenAI docs, reports that OpenAI is planning to...
Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao was released from US custody on Friday after serving out his four-month sentence in a low-security corre...
Here are the startups from YC Demo Day 2 that we thought stood out from the flock. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use...
Thursday, September 26, 2024
UAE-based Redwood has acquired a majority stake in the game streaming platform Loco as the Indian firm looks to expand focus to internationa...
SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet network is expected to hit a new customer milestone this week, company President Gwynne Shotwell told T...
AI video generators need to believe that filmmakers will use their models in the production process. Otherwise why exist? To jump-start the ...
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Marvel Fusion is one of several companies pursuing what’s known as inertial confinement fusion. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For...
OpenAI’s chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, have left the company hours after OpenAI’s CTO, Mira Murati, an...
When seed-focused Pear VC raised a $432 million fund last year, the firm co-founder Pejman Nozad said that it meant his firm had reached its...
One of the most fundamental breakthroughs at Nvidia has been building processors that power and integrate with highly detailed, compute-inte...
According to the FT, the FBI is now poking around nine-year-old Hone Capital, a Palo Alto, Ca.-based venture firm funded by a Chinese privat...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Salesforce is on a buying spree. After snatching up data management firm Own earlier in the month, Salesforce today announced its plans to b...
Mullenweg, who co-created WordPress, last week criticized WP Engine for raking in profits without giving much back to the open source projec...
Monday, September 23, 2024
Starting from October 29, GitHub says that all enterprise cloud customers will be able to select an EU region to store all their code. © 20...
Neobank Jupiter is in talks to acquire a stake in SBM India, three sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, the latest example of a...
OpenAI’s official press account on X was compromised by cryptocurrency scammers. Or, at least that’s what appears to have happened. Late Mon...
For the longest time, RSS readers have followed an “Inbox Zero” design philosophy by showing an unread count against each source. If you hav...
James McGinniss has been obsessed with decarbonization and the energy grid since he was a high schooler over a decade ago. Now, his startup ...
Jump offers full-time contracts to freelancers looking for some stability and the benefits involved with a full-time job. © 2024 TechCrunch...
Sunday, September 22, 2024
We put together a list of some of our favorite under-the-radar features that you might have missed. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved....
Linux's luminary linchpin, Linus Torvalds, says that despite longstanding reports of burnout in the open source software development rea...
This glossary includes some of the most common terms and expressions we use in our articles, and explanations of how — and why — we use them...
The fair source concept is designed to help companies align themselves with the "open" software development sphere, without encroa...
Saturday, September 21, 2024
EV owners of GM vehicles like the Chevrolet Silverado EV and Cadillac Lyriq will now officially have access to Tesla’s Superchargers. © 202...
Shelf lets you show what you listen to, play, read and watch online through your dedicated digital storefront. © 2024 TechCrunch. All right...
While it's fair to say the EU's antitrust tech enforcement outcomes have varied, one lasting legacy is that some of these major case...
Friday, September 20, 2024
Elon Musk, the CEO of X and various other companies with the letter “X” in their names, is in regulators’ crosshairs after skipping testimon...
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Attendees of the giant, annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco love being the butt of the joke. Last year, Seth Myers entertained the...
Indian filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma is ditching human musicians for artificial intelligence, saying he’ll use only AI-generated tunes in future...
California Governor Gavin Newsom is currently considering 38 AI-related bills, including the highly contentious SB 1047, which the state’s l...
A New York Times article Thursday highlighted a lucrative side hustle that is emblematic of the times we live in: gaming algorithms to earn ...
The governing body overseeing India's popular UPI payments rail is considering increasing its proposed market share cap for operators li...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Palmer Luckey, the Hawaiian-shirt wearing founder who sold Oculus VR for $2 billion before co-founding the military tech company Anduril, is...
Motional, the autonomous vehicle startup backed by Hyundai, is shaking up its leadership ranks. Karl Iagnemma, an early pioneer in the auton...
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark plans to donate $100 million to further strengthen U.S. cybersecurity, addressing what he sees as a growing...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
On Tuesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed some of America’s toughest laws yet regulating the artificial intelligence sector. Three...
Late last week, United Airlines announced that it signed an agreement with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to bring its Starlink internet service to its ...
Monday, September 16, 2024
Accounting for the emissions of a global tech empire is not a simple task, and what industry standards we do have for disclosure may allow t...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is leaving the internal commission OpenAI created in May to oversee “critical” safety decisions related to the company...
I can’t recall another consumer electronics product category becoming a commodity as quickly as Bluetooth earbuds. Apple’s AirPods played a ...
Myntra, India’s largest fashion e-commerce platform, is trialling a four-hour delivery service in four Indian cities, two sources familiar w...
AWS today announced that it is transitioning OpenSearch, its open source fork of the popular Elasticsearch search and analytics engine, to t...
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Insight Partners is reportedly on the cusp of on more than $10 billion in capital commitments for its 13th fund, per the FT. The FT report ...
A decade after the wildly popular game Flappy Bird disappeared, an organization calling itself The Flappy Bird Foundation announced plans to...
Platforms to connect apps that wouldn’t normally talk to each other have been around for a minute (see: Zapier). But they have not gotten dr...
Nick Frosst, the co-founder of $5.5 billion Canadian AI startup Cohere, has been a musician his whole life. He told TechCrunch that once he ...
Blockchain technology is all about decentralization and virtualization. So it’s a little ironic that humans love to come together in person ...
Saturday, September 14, 2024
There’s something oddly refreshing about starting the day by solving the Wordle. According to DeepWell DTx, there’s a scientific explanation...
Soundiiz is a free third-party tool that builds portability tools through existing APIs and acts as a translator between the services. © 20...
Friday, September 13, 2024
In early 2018, VC Mike Moritz wrote in the FT that “Silicon Valley would be wise to follow China’s lead,” noting the pace of work at tech co...
Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford professor many deem the “Godmother of AI,” has raised $230 million for her new startup, World Labs, from backers in...
Indian logistics firm Delhivery has publicly contested the accuracy of metrics presented by competitor Ecom Express in its draft initial pub...
The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has delivered its provisional ruling in a longstanding battle to combine two of the country’s major telecommu...
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Late Thursday evening, Oprah Winfrey aired a special on AI, appropriately titled “AI and the Future of Us.” Guests included OpenAI CEO Sam A...
Antonio Moraes, the grandson of a late prominent Brazilian billionaire, was never interested in joining the family-owned conglomerate of con...
Video games are some of most lucrative apps in the world, thanks in part because of how they lure people into spending money on credits to p...
WhatsApp is now letting small businesses in India sign up for a Meta Verified badge and giving them the ability to send customized messages ...
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
OpenWeb, a New York startup whose tools help publishers engage users, has a unique problem. Its co-founding CEO reportedly won’t leave, even...
In a development that will surprise few, former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann’s climate/crypto/carbon-credit startup Flowcarbon appears to be in t...
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Adtech startup InMobi has raised $100 million in debt financing as the profitable Indian firm looks to “significantly deepen” its artificial...
The $49 cases work with MagSafe and the iPhone’s new Camera Control button. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. ...
A group of Democratic senators is urging the FTC and Justice Department to investigate whether AI tools that summarize and regurgitate onlin...
Monday, September 9, 2024
AppsForBharat, the startup behind Hindu devotional app Sri Mandir, has raised $18 million to penetrate into global markets and add new featu...
You could argue whether Cybertruck owners crave attention, but attention they receive, often by critics poking fun at the vehicles. People s...
Cambridge University spinout CardiaTec is striving to tackle cardiovascular diseases, one of the world's leading causes of death, with A...
Online platforms have now overtaken TV for the first time as the most popular resource for news among adult consumers, at 71% versus 70%, ac...
The car rental giant says personal information, credit card information, and driver's license numbers were stolen in the August cyberatt...
It’s been an infamous year for software updates gone wrong. But what’s the worst-case scenario for a buggy update? Sonos may be trying to fi...
Indian electric scooter manufacturer Ather Energy plans to raise about $370 million in an IPO. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For ...
Sunday, September 8, 2024
Atomico has historically leaned toward earlier funding rounds while dipping into later stages where it made sense; now it's setting itse...
Apple's Glowtime iPhone event will include the iPhone 16, but may also feature new AirPods, a new Apple Watch and possibly even new Macs...
The startup has devised a durable way to store solar power as heat that can then be used for household heating or hot water. © 2024 TechCru...
This year, the B’s made their debut in the Pioneer League, a professional baseball organization that’s partnered with the MLB, but unlike th...
Along with the ability to automatically adjust to the surface they’re traversing, the legs move faster and jump higher than their more stand...
Saturday, September 7, 2024
Antonio Nuño, Fatima Alvarez, and Enrique Rodriguez have been friends since they were five years old. As teenagers, they became volunteers h...
Friday, September 6, 2024
BDO, the auditor for Indian edtech startup Byju’s, has resigned with immediate effect, marking the second auditor departure for the embattle...
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hype...
Earlier this week, the EU’s lead privacy regulator ended its court proceeding related to how X processed user data to train its Grok AI chat...
Thursday, September 5, 2024
Telegram has quietly updated its policy to allow users to report private chats to its moderators following the arrest of founder Pavel Durov...
A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All r...
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
As someone who talks to many people outside my time zone, I often spend at least a few minutes on a video call explaining my location, time,...
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has closed a satellite office in Miami Beach just two years into a five-year lease it signed for an 8,300-square-...
These final maneuvers will bring to a close a troubled first crewed mission for the Boeing-made Starliner. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights re...
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Canva, the design platform, is increasing prices steeply for some customers. And it’s blaming the move in part on generative AI. In the U.S....
Snap is testing a “simplified version of Snapchat,” CEO Evan Spiegel wrote in a letter to employees published on Snap’s website Tuesday. The...
Prevention is better than cure, as the saying goes. Today, a splashy startup that has taken that concept to heart — literally and figurative...
The Dubai-based startup, which now counts 50,000 retail and business customers in the UAE, has netted $22 million led by Altos Ventures. © ...
Monday, September 2, 2024
Hospitals around the world regularly face bed shortages — an issue that can get exacerbated to breaking point when a health scare or other l...
India's fabless semiconductor startup BigEndian has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Vertex Ventures SEA and India. © 2024 Tech...
Even before Delta came forward, shareholders were looking for their pound of flesh, filing a class action lawsuit against CrowdStrike. © 20...
If you have never considered a search engine beyond Google, you might be surprised to see what else is out there. © 2024 TechCrunch. All ri...
Customers of WazirX, the Indian cryptocurrency exchange that suffered a $234 million hack in July, are unlikely to recover their funds in fu...
Sunday, September 1, 2024
Validus, a Singapore-based digital lending platform for small and medium businesses, has secured $50 million in debt financing from HSBC und...
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar is determined to help Palantir become a driving force for defense tech startups. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights re...
As businesses experiment with embedding AI everywhere, one area starting to gain more attention is Emotion AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All right...
Home robots’ unfulfilled potential is neither because of lack of demand on the part of consumers nor lack of effort from manufacturers. © 2...
As we continue to monitor the growth of Africa's tech ecosystem, it’s essential to highlight and analyze the biggest disclosed acquisiti...
