Late Tuesday evening, a federal judge blocked tech lobbying group NetChoice’s challenge to California’s recently enacted law, SB 976, which ...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Conservative activists claim X is censoring them for being critical of its owner, Elon Musk. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For pe...
India has removed restrictions on WhatsApp’s payments service in a significant victory for Meta in its largest market by users as it seeks t...
Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that it has become the largest shareholder of South Korea-based robotics maker Rainbow Robotics, increas...
Sunday, December 29, 2024
The chipmaking giant Nvidia is leaning more heavily into robotics in 2025. More specifically, it’s launching a new generation of compact com...
The proliferation of data centers aiming to meet the computational needs of AI could be bad news for the US power grid, according to a new r...
India’s payments regulator is set to decide as early as Monday whether to curb the dominance of Walmart’s PhonePe and Google in the nation’s...
Three crypto industry groups — the DeFi Education Fund, the Blockchain Association, and the Texas Blockchain Council — are suing the Interna...
Africa’s tech ecosystem just got a boost of attention, with South Africa’s TymeBank and Nigeria’s Moniepoint both raising funds in recent we...
It has been a busy year in the private equity realm, with countless big-money acquisitions unfolding. The take-private space specifically ha...
Saturday, December 28, 2024
Attorneys representing President-elect Donald Trump have asked the Supreme Court to pause a law that would force TikTok-owner ByteDance to s...
There are a number of iPad apps that can help you explore and express your creativity. Although the iPad started off as a simple device that...
We are at the dawn of a new space age. If you doubt, simply look back at the last year: From SpaceX’s historic catch of the Super Heavy boos...
Friday, December 27, 2024
Hertz has been contacting people who are in the middle of renting electric vehicles recently to offer them the option to buy the car instead...
OpenAI says its corporate structure must evolve to advance its mission of ensuring artificial general intelligence (AGI) — AI that can compl...
From LoanDepot to Evolve Bank and Blue Yonder, these ransomware attacks affect tens of millions of people. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights re...
Thursday, December 26, 2024
When you really probe venture capitalists about investing in AI startups, they’ll tell you that businesses are experimenting wildly but are ...
Elon Musk’s jets took over 355 flights this year, with 31 of those flights heading to or from near Mar-a-Lago. © 2024 TechCrunch. All righ...
Blaming victims, months of silence, and suing security researchers all featured in cybersecurity in 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights res...
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Social network Bluesky said on Christmas day that it launched trending topics feature in beta. The trending topics are available on both des...
Once a startup has raised its seed round, the perennial question becomes how much should the founders pay themselves and their first few emp...
David Krane is in an enviable position. As the CEO of GV, the venture firm that is funded entirely by Google to the tune of $1 billion a yea...
AMD has its work cut out for it at CES 2025. Competitor Nvidia has been sucking the oxygen out of every room it graces, as the chipmaker rem...
Sharing security advice can go a long way in protecting your loved ones from the most common and damaging online threats. © 2024 TechCrunch...
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Lux, which makes the iPhone camera app Halide, published a roadmap on Monday detailing the app’s next version, called Halide Mark III, to be...
Monday, December 23, 2024
Hyundai said Monday it will send customers who have bought or leased an EV before January 31 a free charging adapter that will let them acce...
Last month, AI founders and investors told TechCrunch that we’re now in the “second era of scaling laws,” noting how established methods of ...
A US judge ruled that the Israeli spyware maker breached hacking laws by using WhatsApp to infect devices with Pegasus © 2024 TechCrunch. A...
Sunday, December 22, 2024
X is raising prices for its top-tier subscription service by 37.5%, marking the largest price increase since the platform’s acquisition by E...
Incoming president Donald Trump has confirmed reports that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), ...
OpenAI announced a new family of AI reasoning models on Friday, o3, which the startup claims to be more advanced than o1 or anything else it...
Autonomous vehicle technology and electrification startups were once the darlings of the VC and corporate world. The two technologies promis...
There’s been a lot of reporting in recent months around Apple’s efforts to expand its footprint in customers’ homes with in-development prod...
LLM models are already capable of diagnosing scientific outputs, but, until now, had “no physical agency to actually perform" experimen...
Saturday, December 21, 2024
Becoming a venture capitalist has become the latest status symbol In Hollywood. Everyone from Olivia Wilde to Emma Watson is investing in ...
On November 15, Peter Wang posted a message requesting ideas for a new incubator and fund to support experimental projects built on the burg...
Friday, December 20, 2024
Struggling electric van startup Canoo has placed its remaining employees on what it’s calling a “mandatory unpaid break” through at least th...
Thursday, December 19, 2024
The writing was on the wall, seemingly. Sequoia Capital partner Matt Miller announced on Wednesday that he’s leaving the powerhouse outfit ...
Rapido restricted access to the exposed portal soon after TechCrunch contacted the company. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For per...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sat before Congress in 2023 to testify about the dangers of AI. He told American lawmakers at the time that he owns no...
AI-powered search engine Perplexity has reportedly closed a $500 million funding round, valuing the startup at $9 billion. Bloomberg, citing...
Indian startups raised 32% fewer funding rounds in 2024 compared to last year, per new numbers from data intelligence platform Tracxn, signa...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for nearly 50% of Southeast Asia’s GDP, contributing to job creation, innovation, and over...
Internal guidelines passed down from Google led to concerns that the AI model could be prone to inaccurate outputs on topics like healthcare...
Struggling EV startup Canoo says it has furloughed 82 employees and is idling its factory in Oklahoma while it grasps for the capital needed...
Meta’s social network Threads is experimenting with a feature that will let you schedule posts, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said. Users who ...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Databricks just closed one of the largest funding rounds ever, raising a staggering $10 billion in fresh capital. Naturally, technology inve...
Shares in digital payments firm MobiKwik surged 82% to ₹507.5 ($6) on their first day of trading, as the Indian fintech company made its mar...
The US government is calling on a Perplexity executive to help make its case that Google is a monopolist. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights res...
Monday, December 16, 2024
Meta’s X rival Threads is growing steadily with more than 100 million people using the service daily, the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said...
Waymo will begin testing its autonomous vehicle technology in Tokyo in early 2025, the first time the Alphabet company’s robotaxis have driv...
The Canadian AI startup has quietly partnered with Palantir to put Cohere's models in use with unnamed Palantir customers. © 2024 TechC...
Jay-Z’s venture capital firm, Marcy Venture Partners, has merged with another Black-owned investment firm, Pendulum Holding’s investment arm...
Juicyway, an African fintech that leverages stablecoin technology to power fast and cheap cross-border payments, is launching out of stealth...
Sunday, December 15, 2024
Amnesty said it found NoviSpy, an Android spyware linked to Serbian intelligence, on the phones of several members of Serbian civil society ...
While I have fond memories of past efforts to combine VR content with real-world locations, I’d assumed the pandemic had put those ambitions...
The next big upgrade to Apple’s mobile devices could be foldability, according to multiple reports published Sunday. According to The Wall S...
Open source might be the building blocks of the modern software stack, but companies building businesses off the back of open source softwar...
President-elect Donald Trump has surrounded himself with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs — including Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, and David Sack...
Saturday, December 14, 2024
State officials said hundreds of thousands of Rhode Island residents could be affected by a cyberattack on the state’s online portal for soc...
Friday, December 13, 2024
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever spoke on a range of topics at NeurIPS, the annual AI conference, before accepting an award for his contribu...
Telegram launched a new page touting its moderation efforts, which have spiked since its founder's arrest. © 2024 TechCrunch. All right...
Kalshi’s CEO, Tarek Mansour, confirmed on a podcast interview that his employees did ask social media influencers to promote memes about the...
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Meta is open sourcing a method to watermark AI-generated videos. Called Meta Video Seal, the company says it's robust against compressio...
Roundabouts. They trapped Clark Griswold in National Lampoon’s European Vacation and now they’ve tripped up a Waymo robotaxi. A video is cir...
Late-stage deals in space have been on the decline this year, but one notable exception is Fleet Space Technologies’ $100 million Series D. ...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
OpenAI says ChatGPT, Sora, and its developer-facing API are experiencing a major outage, according to the company’s status page. The company...
GM’s decision to shut down its Cruise robotaxi program continues to ripple through the market, extending to the self-driving car company’s m...
University endowments could be taxed much higher under Trump. That may harm VCs, an investor warns. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved....
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Andrew Ferguson, one of two Republican FTC commissioners appointed by U.S. President Joe Biden, will be the country’s next FTC chair, incomi...
A California district court judge has granted a preliminary injunction to WP Engine. The order asks WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg and ...
The news came by Slack message. Cruise CEO Marc Whitten, who took the top post in June, posted a message Tuesday afternoon in the company’s...
Generative AI has a plethora of well-documented misuses, and now, it appears to be cropping up in state influence operations. © 2024 TechCr...
Monday, December 9, 2024
Blue Origin says it’s on track to launch its towering New Glenn vehicle before the year’s end, though the company is still awaiting regulato...
Amazon says that it’s establishing a new R&D lab in San Francisco, the Amazon AGI SF Lab, to focus on building “foundational” capabiliti...
A U.S. breast-screening program claims to demonstrate the potential benefits of using artificial intelligence (AI) in mammography screening,...
Many VCs, particularly newer firms, readily admit that 2024 has been a challenging year for raising fresh capital. Dimension Capital, a two-...
Supply chain software giant Blue Yonder says it is investigating claims of data theft after a ransomware gang threatened to publish troves o...
Single-board computer maker Raspberry Pi is updating its cute little computer-meet-keyboard device with better specifications. Named the Ras...
Sunday, December 8, 2024
Apple is being sued over its decision not to implement a system that would have scanned iCloud photos for child sexual abuse material (CSAM)...
Mitchell Green worked variously in investment banking, as an analyst with Bessemer Venture Partners, and for a hedge fund backed by Tiger Ma...
Famm, the discovery platform for queer-owned brands, was created by BIPOC queer married couple Cat Perez and Marianna Di Regolo to help user...
Saturday, December 7, 2024
Google’s DeepMind team unveiled an AI model for weather prediction this week called GenCast. In a paper published in Nature, DeepMind resear...
Friday, December 6, 2024
The AI chatbot within X, Grok, is now free for all users - but with some limits. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use o...
On Thursday, OpenAI released what’s effectively a $200-a-month chatbot — and the AI community didn’t know quite what to make of it. The comp...
Several factors indicate that Snyk, most recently valued at $7.4 billion, could IPO soon. But the CEO told us why it might not. © 2024 Tech...
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Incoming President Donald Trump has a new crypto and AI “czar”: ex-PayPal COO David Sacks. Trump announced Sacks’ appointment Thursday in a ...
Some believe Klarna’s planned IPO in 2025 could set the stage for other fintech startups to go public. But with the tech IPO market still sl...
Turning sunflower seeds into sustainable, cocoa-free chocolate has netted Munich-based B2B foodtech startup Planet A Foods (formerly QOA) a ...
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
U.K.-based legal tech startup Lawhive, which allows small, ‘Main Street’ law firms to run their affairs through an AI-based SaaS platform, i...
Bitcoin prices have been on the rise this year and the cryptocurrency has reached the mark of $100,000 price point for the first time on Wed...
Incoming President Donald Trump has nominated Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur and private astronaut, to lead NASA through what co...
In this hyperconnected world we live in, it’s easier than ever to send feedback to the companies we patronize. But just because businesses o...
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Katsukokoiso.AI is a project from professional photographer Eugenio Marongiu, an alpha tester on OpenAI’s text-to-video model Sora. Marongiu...
HuggingFace's CEO warns that open source Chinese AI models risk spreading censorship worldwide. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved....
“I’m trying to find holiday gifts for my sisters. I open a bunch of tabs, I want my wife’s advice.” That’s CEO of the Browser Company, Josh ...
Cancer incidence is on the rise, particularly among younger adults, but most new drug compounds fail to progress through clinical trials. Ac...
Monday, December 2, 2024
Millions of Americans will pop open their laptops to buy gifts this holiday season, but tech companies are racing to turn the job of online ...
Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) biggest conference of the year has begun, and all signs point to it being an eventful one. AWS re:Invent 2024 kic...
Sunday, December 1, 2024
At its re:Invent 2024 conference Sunday evening in Las Vegas, Amazon announced a somewhat unusual new service for Amazon Web Services (AWS) ...
Slowly but surely, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit has become a major player in the call/contact center space with its Amazon Connect clou...
As promised, startup accelerator Y Combinator’s imminent Demo Day will be happening in person. In fact, YC seems to have kicked off the IRL ...
A new app called Death Clock predicts the date of its users’ deaths and offers tips on how to push that date back. TechCrunch wrote about an...
Fidelity marked up the value of its holdings in Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) by 32.37% in October, according to a report in Axios. Even ...
The Apple Watch helps people track their health and fitness, but it can also be a great tool to help people stay productive and get work don...
