As one of the most decorated track cyclists of all time, Sir Chris Hoy might not seem an obvious candidate to back the burgeoning electric b...
Saturday, November 30, 2024
The momentum of Thanksgiving — which saw consumers spend a record $33.6 billion spent globally online on the day — looks like it continued i...
On a September morning in 2024, two Jonathan Cohens — one from the Rockaways in Queens, the other from London — stood in an empty 15,000-squ...
Friday, November 29, 2024
Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is the second-biggest driver of internet usage globally. Its properties — and their b...
As large enterprises grapple with how to incorporate AI into their platforms and processes, they have encountered a problem: Generative AI n...
Thursday, November 28, 2024
Reddit is concentrating on international markets such as the U.K., India, Brazil, and the Philippines to bolster its user base. © 2024 Tech...
Zomato has raised $1 billion through a so-called qualified institutional placement, completing its first major fundraise since its 2021 IPO....
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
According to the Financial Times, HongShan, the Chinese investment firm spun off from Sequoia Capital in 2023, is aggressively expanding int...
The FTC has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft, according to multiple reports that corroborate earlier reporting by the Fina...
Adults are spending an average of 4 hours and 20 minutes each day online across smartphones, tablets and computers in the U.K., according to...
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Robotics startup Figure released a video update showcasing their Figure 02 humanoid robot autonomously performing tasks at HQ for a BMW use ...
The FCC has granted SpaceX permission to go forward with plans to offer a direct-to-phone version of its Starlink satellite internet service...
Monday, November 25, 2024
In June, Google announced the Google Developer Program, a free program to give devs access to resources designed to help them build applicat...
Giannis Antetokounmpo, a player for the Milwaukee Bucks, launched a venture capital firm called Build Your Legacy Ventures that will focus o...
Hello, and welcome back to TechCrunch Space! First off, I want to highlight a few stories we weren’t able to get to: First, Inversion Space ...
Back in 2016, Hammad Syed and Mahmoud Felfel, an ex-WhatsApp engineer, thought it’d be neat to build a text-to-speech Chrome extension for M...
South Korean prosecutors sought a five-year prison sentence and a 500 million KRW fine, equivalent to $375,000, for Samsung Electronics Chie...
Meet the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, a tiny board designed around a microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects at scale. Raspberry Pi ...
Sunday, November 24, 2024
Entrepreneur Marc Lore has already sold two companies for billions of dollars, collectively. Now he plans to take his food delivery and take...
Not every app or service is trying to monetize your personal data. Here are some of our favorite alternatives to popular apps. © 2024 TechC...
On October 21, a new ticker opened to Nasdaq traders: NBIS, a truncation of Nebius, a fledgling player in the AI cloud infrastructure space....
Saturday, November 23, 2024
Now you can appear to be on a Zoom call in your office, even when you’re sipping a margarita in a hammock far, far away. Courtesy of a month...
It may be hard to remember, but George Clooney and Brad Pitt co-starred in a movie, “Wolfs,” that Apple released just two months ago. On Fri...
Friday, November 22, 2024
Michael Gilroy, a former head of fintech investments at Coatue, and Gokul Rajaram, a longtime tech executive and prolific angel investor, ar...
OpenAI is funding academic research into algorithms that can predict humans’ moral judgements. In a filing with the IRS, OpenAI Inc., OpenAI...
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Thursday he is opening an investigation into the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) to det...
American Airlines has a new tactic for shaming boarding line cutters: A loud beeper. CNBC reports that the airline is rolling out a system t...
Hackers have breached an online course founded by ostensible influencer and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate, leaking data on close to ...
Apple is developing a new version of its voice assistant, Siri, powered by advanced large language models (LLMs), according to sources cited...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Lawyers for The New York Times and Daily News, which are suing OpenAI for allegedly scraping their works to train its AI models without perm...
Nvidia raked in more than $19 billion in net income during the last quarter, the company reported on Wednesday, but that did little to assur...
Cloud giant Snowflake has agreed to acquire Datavolo, a data pipeline management company, for an undisclosed sum. Snowflake unveiled the dea...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Bling Capital, one of the more prolific and well-connected seed VC firms, has nabbed another $270 million for a new flagship, fourth fund. ...
Apple said the security update for Macs, iPhones, and iPads is "recommended for all users." © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserve...
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re diving into PayPal’s new holiday shopping-friendly feature, Klarna’s 2025 IPO ambitions, and...
Monday, November 18, 2024
The Department of Justice is reportedly pushing to force Google to spin off its Chrome browser business. That’s according to Bloomberg, whic...
It’s no secret that the venture capital industry is facing a liquidity crisis as IPOs and other exits remain few and far between after 2020 ...
Juna.ai wants to help factories become more efficient by automating complex industrial processes using AI agents. © 2024 TechCrunch. All ri...
Indian omni-channel nutrition startup HealthKart has raised $153 million in one of the country’s largest consumer startup transactions this ...
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Oyo founder Ritesh Agarwal’s investment vehicle has proposed to inject another $65.1 million into the hotel management startup, according to...
Blizzard Entertainment first released World of Warcraft in November 2004, so The New York Times celebrated the anniversary by outlining the ...
Two things are immediately notable when watching the Carter Pro robot navigate the aisles of the demo warehouse inside Robust AI’s San Carlo...
One of the most widely used techniques to make AI models more efficient, quantization, has limits — and the industry could be fast approachi...
House plants are great. They can also be hard. All of those stress-reducing self-care qualities they promise tend to fade into the backgroun...
Saturday, November 16, 2024
When Brynn Putnam sold her last company, Mirror, to Lululemon for $500 million at the start of the pandemic, it looked to this editor like s...
Friday, November 15, 2024
On Thursday, the UK’s largest mobile network operator, O2, introduced a chatbot designed to frustrate phone scammers. Called “dAIsy,” it mim...
A lawsuit by the world’s wealthiest man against one of the fastest growing companies of all time is necessarily interesting stuff. But while...
In the first half of 2024 alone, more than $35.5 billion was invested into AI startups globally. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. Fo...
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Bluesky said Thursday evening that over 1 million people signed up for the platform in the last 24 hours, making it one of the busiest days ...
Bob Wise, the CEO of Heroku, Salesforce’s cloud platform as a service, has left. A Salesforce spokesperson confirmed the news to TechCrunch ...
Some tech investors and executives have been trying to influence the incoming Trump administration to appoint Silicon Valley insiders for ca...
The FTC is reportedly readying an investigation into whether Microsoft used anti-competitive tactics to maintain a dominant position in the ...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
U.K. consumer rights group ‘Which?’ is filing a legal claim against Apple under competition law on behalf of some 40 million users of iCloud...
OpenAI could release an “AI agent” tool as soon as January. That’s according to Bloomberg, which reports that OpenAI is close to launching s...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
The future of aircraft may look very similar to today’s superficially — but under the hood (or sitting next to the tailfins) they will likel...
Apple is gearing up to announce a new smart home hub, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. As early as March 2025, the iPhone maker could r...
23andMe announced on Monday it would cut 40% of its workforce, representing more than 200 employees, as part of a restructuring at the compa...
Monday, November 11, 2024
Tozero, a Munich-based startup that recovers valuable raw materials from recycled lithium-ion batteries, is gearing up to scale. The startup...
The majority of the aging population in Japan still prefers using cash for transactions, according to a recent report citing government data...
Intudo, the Indonesia-only venture capital firm, said it has raised $125 million across two investment funds — $75 million for Intudo Ventur...
Lightspeed has led Wheelocity's $15 million round as the startup pivots to rural India commerce. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved...
Swiggy’s upcoming IPO on Wednesday will finally give many analysts a public comparable for what has been long considered to be the Indian in...
Running payroll is hard in any country, but perhaps especially so in Brazil thanks to consistently changing laws and extremely influential u...
Social network X has so far limited its AI chatbot Grok (built by Elon Musk’s other company xAI) to its premium, paying users. However, the ...
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Lawsuits against X (formerly Twitter) will soon be heard in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The shift was first an...
It’s clear that Gen Z has an influence on app consumption. Known as the “mobile-first generation,” they make up about 40% of all mobile user...
A dearth of funding for vital open source technologies is leading to a swath of support from startups, unicorns, corporations, and even vent...
Saturday, November 9, 2024
OpenAI’s next flagship model might not represent as big a leap forward as its predecessors, according to a new report in The Information. Em...
Friday, November 8, 2024
Roughly 19 months after the fatal stabbing of tech exec Bob Lee in San Francisco attracted the nation’s attention, the trial of the man accu...
Cybersecurity continues to command a lot of attention from enterprises looking for better protection from malicious hackers, and VCs want in...
Now that the election is over, the dissection can begin. As this is the first election in which AI chatbots played a significant part of vot...
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Amazon is considering increasing its investment in OpenAI rival Anthropic. According to The Information, Amazon is in talks to invest multip...
Yelp, which made a name for itself giving restaurant recs, just bought an auto services website. In the company’s earnings report on Thursda...
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday announced plans in the country to ban social media for children under 16, saying tha...
Following Donald Trump’s election victory, thousands of bettors now anticipate a potential $450 million payout from online betting sites, sa...
Roomba maker iRobot is laying off 105 employees — about 16% of the company’s workforce, per an SEC filing — saying the cuts are part of an “...
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Amber Hill spent 14 years as a medical researcher. She didn’t mind the work, but there was one thing she consistently hated: administrative ...
Apple is warning investors that its new and future products might never be as profitable as the iPhone. The disclosure comes as the company ...
Nvidia on Tuesday exceeded Apple’s market capitalization to become the world’s largest company, on the strength of a global AI push. As Bloo...
EV startup Canoo has lost its chief financial officer and its head lawyer, the latest in a string of executive departures as the company con...
Monday, November 4, 2024
The former head of Meta’s augmented reality glasses efforts announced on Monday she is joining OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware...
The end of zero-interest rates has driven companies to look for savings wherever they can, but one area continues to be a major budget drain...
Apple products are getting an integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT in December when iOS 18.2 rolls out, which should supercharge Siri and a few...
Meta's social network, Threads, now has 275 million monthly active users, the company said on Sunday. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights res...
Sunday, November 3, 2024
X is rolling out its controversial update to the block feature, allowing people to view your public posts even if you have blocked them. © ...
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) giant Affirm is launching in the U.K., its first market outside North America. Its long-anticipated arrival comes ...
The hype is palpable: As tech folks from near and far converge for TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 in San Fransisco — one of the only places where W...
Investor Wesley Chan has shown a knack for making very early investments into multi-billion-dollar unicorns, such as Plaid, Gusto, Flexport,...
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 ove...
“There is no AI without data, there is no AI without unstructured data, and there is no AI without unstructured data at scale,” said Chet Ka...
Saturday, November 2, 2024
CareYaya, a platform that matches people who need caregivers with healthcare students, is working to disrupt the caregiving industry. The st...
National interest technology can show up in a lot of ways, like in data analysis and cybersecurity, as well as satellites and weapons. Many ...
Friday, November 1, 2024
SpaceX will attempt to transfer propellant from one orbiting Starship to another as early as next March, a technical milestone that will pav...
For startups that hope to save the world, or at least make it a better place, balancing impact with profit can be tricky. © 2024 TechCrunch...
