Indonesia has banned sales of Google Pixel smartphones for failing to meet domestic content requirements, days after blocking Apple’s iPhone...
Thursday, October 31, 2024
A Philadelphia judge ordered X CEO Elon Musk to appear in a hearing Thursday morning over his super PAC’s plan to award $1 million a day to ...
Hello, and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 is a wrap, and I’m more than thrilled by the amazing space industry pro...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
AI’s meteoric rise has created new ethical dilemmas and exacerbated old ones, while lawsuits drop left and right. This threatens both new an...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Revolutionizing surgery with a novel robotic system that provides physicians direct access inside MRI scanners. Subscribe for more on YouTub...
Monday, October 28, 2024
A virtual venue for entertainment organizations to deliver and scale in-person fan experiences to a remote, global audience, for greater lif...
This story has been updated throughout with more details as the story has developed. We will continue to do so as the case and dispute are o...
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Paris-based startup Filigran is fast becoming the next cybersecurity rocketship to track: The company just raised a $35 million Series B rou...
Indian fintech startup Slice has completed its merger with North East Small Finance Bank, marking a rare instance of a startup successfully ...
Mariam Naficy, the founder of cosmetics retailer Eve and design marketplace Minted, has a long history of supporting independent artists and...
Jon McNeill — a former Tesla and Lyft executive and current CEO at DVx Ventures — spread the word last week at the World Business Forum on w...
We’re just 24 hours away from one of the most highly anticipated tech events of the year! Excitement is building as we prepare to welcome th...
While many venture investors, and likely their LPs, were hoping IPOs were going to come back in 2024, that hasn’t happened and isn’t likely ...
Saturday, October 26, 2024
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 is three measly days away and we can’t be any more pumped. Here’s an insider’s guide to everything you need to know ...
Friday, October 25, 2024
The NAACP announced today NAACP Capital, a $200 million fund of funds to back fund managers focused on issues that impact people of color. ...
Elon Musk occasionally posts clips of his video game plays to his social media platform X — but a recent clip includes background audio of a...
Thursday, October 24, 2024
OpenAI is reportedly planning to release its next frontier AI model, codenamed Orion inside the company, by December of this year, The Verge...
When Kat and Mike Stickler divorced, their biggest challenge was dividing a shared TikTok account with millions of followers that generated ...
Blue Origin’s carried out a successful uncrewed certification mission of its second New Shepard ship on Wednesday, as the company looks to e...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
X revenue in India plummeted 89.8% to $2.51 million in the financial year ending March, according to regulatory filings from the Elon Musk-o...
Elon Musk said he hopes to launch a service that will let people hail self-driving Tesla vehicles in California and Texas sometime in 2025 —...
New VC firm Chemistry raised $350 million for its debut fund, Forbes reported on Wednesday. The firm was launched by Mark Goldberg, former p...
Character.AI has been sued after the suicide of a 14-year-old Florida boy whose mother says he became obsessed with a chatbot on the platfor...
Matt Peters has spent more than a decade working for cybersecurity vendors. He was a team lead at Check Point, climbed the corporate ladder ...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
While Amazon Go helped pioneer the concept of the totally contactless store, others, like 7-Eleven and Walmart, have entered the territory. ...
Paytm, a leading Indian financial services firm, has received regulatory approval to resume adding new UPI payments users, following an eigh...
Monday, October 21, 2024
In May, while unveiling the newest iPad at an Apple event, CEO Tim Cook wore a custom-made, one-of-a-kind pair of Nike sneakers whose decora...
As the creator economy is growing rapidly, brand partnerships remain one of the prime ways creators can earn money. Other services like link...
Instagram and Threads accounts that track the private jets of celebrities – including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Kim Kardashian, Bill Gates...
India's Neysa has raised $30 million in a Series A round to bolster its AI infrastructure offering. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reser...
Small business creation has been on the rise in the U.S. since the pandemic. There are a lot of tech tools designed to help these companies ...
In November 2022, the FDA passed a resolution allowing Americans to purchase hearing aids over-the-counter. The move launched a mini-industr...
A fledgling startup is setting out to become one of Europe’s first “AI compute” hyperscalers, with renewable energy playing a pivotal part i...
Sunday, October 20, 2024
As founders plan for an increasingly AI-centric future, Gusto co-founder and head of technology Edward Kim said that cutting existing teams ...
Not everyone is convinced of generative AI’s return on investment. But many investors are, judging by the latest figures from funding tracke...
Open source might be many things, but one thing it’s not is a business model — by most estimations, at least. However, that hasn’t stopped J...
Throne is an Austin-based health startup. It sells a camera. That clips onto the side of a toilet bowl. It takes pictures of your poop. Curr...
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Financial and security chaos at the once-pioneering genetic testing firm has intensified concerns about user data. Here's how to take ac...
Azar has facilitated over 100 billion video chats with its app, which randomly connects strangers around the globe. But until recently, the ...
Anthropic, the AI vendor second in size only to OpenAI, has a powerful family of generative AI models called Claude. These models can perfor...
Friday, October 18, 2024
SpaceX was awarded an eight-launch, $733 million contract by the U.S. Space Force on Friday, as part of an ongoing program intended to foste...
Thursday, October 17, 2024
The startup's technology is a twist on the virtual power plant concept, in which batteries are aggregated and portions of the whole are ...
AWS CEO Matt Garman has harsh words for remote workers: return to the office or quit. The Amazon executive recently told employees who don’t...
Days after 159 people accepted Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg’s offer of a six-month severance package to employees who wanted to leave, the ...
Despite Saudi Arabia’s record of human rights abuses, some investors are warming up to investing in the country’s startups. General Catalyst...
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Apple worked with a Chinese automaker for years to design a battery system for its now-canceled car project. That’s according to Bloomberg, ...
Wildfires aren’t going away, but our ability to detect and track them — and maybe catch them early enough to prevent serious damage — is get...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Sophia Tung set up a livestream this past summer, showing self-driving Waymo cars honking from the San Francisco parking lot near her apartm...
Meet Storio, a French startup that’s focused on providing smart energy storage for commercial and industrial customers. Founded in 2023, the...
Dane Stuckey, the former CISO of analytics firm Palantir, has joined OpenAI as its newest CISO, serving alongside OpenAI head of security Ma...
Pear VC, a prominent seed-focused venture firm, invites about 20 startups per semi-annual sessions to its coveted PearX accelerator. © 2024...
Monday, October 14, 2024
Nvidia shares hit a record high on Monday, closing at $138.07 as Wall Street anticipates earnings updates from Microsoft, Meta, Google and A...
Microsoft has lost an AI expert and OpenAI gained one, after the former’s VP of generative AI research Sebastian Bubeck left for the latter....
With the deal, Google joins Microsoft and Amazon in turning to nuclear power to satiate its thirst for electricity. © 2024 TechCrunch. All ...
Computer vision applications are getting a huge boost from advances in smartphones combined with AI that helps fill in the gaps of what ever...
Table Space is targeting a valuation of $2.5 billion or higher for an India IPO planned planned for 2025. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights res...
If you’re starting a fintech company, there’s a new, small early-stage fund looking for investment opportunities. Founded by Anthony Danon (...
Sunday, October 13, 2024
The data center industry is expanding rapidly to keep up with the flywheel growth of AI. While these data centers are necessary AI infrastru...
Of the cybersecurity risks facing the United States today, few loom larger than the potential sabotage capabilities posed by China-backed ha...
It’s hard to know where to focus when speaking to Christoph Kohstall. The contents of his packed Palo Alto garage compete for attention. To ...
When you think of brain stimulating medtech, startups building wearables as therapeutics probably aren’t the first thing that springs to min...
Saturday, October 12, 2024
The new CEO of MariaDB (Plc) says he wants closer-knit collaboration with the foundation behind the eponymous open source database project. ...
The wearables category already contains multitudes, from exercise-focused smart watches and sleep tracking smart rings to smart femtech and ...
Friday, October 11, 2024
Elon Musk on Thursday night rolled out the latest tech from Tesla, saying of its sleek Cybercab robotaxis and a prototype of its new electri...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wants you to know he’s not an AI “doomer.” At least, that’s my read of the “mic drop” of a ~15,000 word essay Amo...
Monzo is now valued at $5.9 billion after the U.K.-based challenger bank confirmed a secondary market share sale to provide liquidity for it...
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Elon Musk unveiled a prototype of Tesla’s Robovan on Thursday night during the company’s We, Robot event in Los Angeles. The Robovan will be...
Tesla has finally revealed its Cybercab, and it looks like a smaller, sleeker Cybertruck. And while many were expecting there to be at least...
Arne Schepker, the CEO of the popular Berlin-based language learning platform Babbel, is stepping down, and the company’s co-founder and for...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Health and life insurance providers face a rising volume of claims due to chronic disease and aging populations, but their processes lack sc...
Thoughtly co-founder Casey Mackrell had a big week. First, he got married. Then, he went viral. At his wedding reception, Mackrell needed to...
Northwood Space, the startup founded by former Disney star Bridgit Mendler, nailed a key test last week when its ground station unit success...
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
This story has been updated throughout with more details as the story has developed. We will continue to do so as the case and dispute are o...
Last year, Sound Ventures, the 9-year-old, Beverly Hills, California-based venture firm led by general partners Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, ...
Brazil’s Supreme Court said on Tuesday that Elon Musk’s X could return online in the country, marking the end to a months-long battle betwee...
Monday, October 7, 2024
Michael Gronager, co-founder and CEO of Chainalysis, has taken a personal leave of absence from the company. The blockchain analysis outfit ...
Venture capital firm NFX laid off four employees in September as the firm looks to “rebalance” its resources from its software and product t...
South Korean MLOps platform VESSL AI is trying to carve out a niche for itself by focusing on optimizing for GPU expenses using hybrid infra...
Indian electric vehicle maker Ola Electric’s customers aren’t happy with its service and scooters, and it’s affecting the company’s stock an...
Klarna, the Stockholm-based buy-now-pay-later outfit that’s barreling toward an IPO, isn’t done shaking up its board. According to the FT, ...
Sunday, October 6, 2024
StrictlyVC is hosting its first event inside TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, and if you’re an investor keen to mingle with your peers, you won’t wa...
On Wednesday, some Harvard students made headlines by outfitting a pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses with facial recognition. The DIY project is ...
The next generation of New York City investors are already making their mark in the Big Apple. They come from big-name venture firms like F...
Will generative AI tools help people build better websites, or will they just fill the web with spam? With the recent launch of Design Intel...
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Customers of genetic data outfit 23andMe may be at greater risk than they realize, suggests a New York Times story that argues the company’s...
Many screenwriters have embraced modern tools over traditional PDFs to craft their film or TV show pilots. SoCreate, the latest entrant in t...
With the luddite revival in full-swing, here are five dumbphones that can still run WhatsApp — and a few others. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rig...
Friday, October 4, 2024
Terence Tao, a UCLA professor considered to be the “world’s greatest living mathematician,” last month compared ChapGPT’s o1 reasoning model...
Last year, Sound Ventures, the 9-year-old, Beverly Hills, California-based venture firm led by general partners Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, ...
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Apple is planning to open four new retail stores in India and has begun manufacturing the iPhone 16 Pro models domestically, the company sai...
One of the co-leads on OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, has left for Google. Tim Brooks, who was heading development on Sora with William Pee...
ElevenLabs, a startup that makes AI tools for audio applications, is being approached by existing and new investors about a new round, which...
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Hosting provider WP Engine has filed a lawsuit against Automattic and WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, accusing them of extortion and ab...
A federal judge blocked one of California’s new AI laws on Wednesday, less than two weeks after it was signed by Governor Gavin Newsom. Shor...
San Francisco’s Mission district isn’t known for corporate offices, but it’s now home to two of the world’s most well-funded AI startups. El...
CRV, a more than 50-year-old venture firm, is returning to investors $275 million from its $500 million Select fund, which backs later-stage...
The past few years have seen the topic of women’s health thrown into the sociopolitical spotlight. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. ...
On Tuesday evening local time, Motier Ventures, an early stage tech investment firm based in Paris, unveiled a startup hub called La Maison....
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Peak XV, the largest India and Southeast Asia-focused venture firm, is reducing the size of some of its funds and lowering fees as it seeks ...
