Tech companies developing self-driving vehicle technology have tapped the brakes on testing on California’s public roads, according to new d...
Friday, January 31, 2025
To cap off a day of product releases, OpenAI researchers, engineers, and executives, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, answered questions in ...
Midha says R1 won't stop AI from spending billions.It means they will do more with the compute power they can obtain. © 2024 TechCrunch...
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Update: Some users on social media report that the changelog has been updated to remove mention of Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental. We’ve reache...
Intel is effectively killing Falcon Shores, its next-generation GPU for high-performance computing and AI workloads. The move comes as Intel...
Apple’s latest earnings were a mixed bag filled with slipping iPhone sales and countered by rising revenue. Reporting after the bell Thursda...
For nearly nine years, Elon Musk has promised Tesla vehicles had the hardware needed to support a self-driving car. This week, he made his l...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Meta is doubling down on AI spending despite markets briefly panicking over concerns DeepSeek will reduce AI demand. © 2024 TechCrunch. All...
Threads, Meta’s microblogging service, is growing at a fast pace as users gravitate to the app over rivals like X. During the company’s four...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
SoftBank is negotiating a $500 million investment in Skild AI, a software company building a foundational model for robotics at a $4 billion...
The jury is still out on whether the Chinese AI upstart DeepSeek is a game changer or possibly part of an elaborate plan by its hedge fund p...
David Sacks, Trump’s AI and crypto “czar,” said in an interview on Fox on Tuesday that there’s “substantial evidence” that Chinese AI compan...
Monday, January 27, 2025
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, became the talk of the proverbial AI town when it released its R1 model on Friday. R1’s functionality and ac...
Replacing inexpensive fossil fuels is a tall hurdle, but Lydian thinks it has cracked the problem. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. ...
If you’ve been following the AI industry, Mistral should be a familiar name by now. The French AI startup with a $6 billion valuation is arg...
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has emerged as a potential challenger to U.S. AI leaders, demonstrating breakthrough models that claim to offer per...
A hacker claims to be selling the data of 18.8 million TalkTalk customers, but the telecoms giant says this figure is ‘significantly oversta...
Sunday, January 26, 2025
In Reid Hoffman’s new book Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right With Our AI Future, the LinkedIn co-founder makes the case that AI can ...
More startups shut down in 2024 than the year prior and a high volume of startup failures will continue, data from multiple sources. © 2024...
Saturday, January 25, 2025
Brendan Wallace has a lot on his mind lately. Wallace is the co-founder of Fifth Wall Ventures, a nine-year-old proptech venture firm with $...
The Trump administration is negotiating a deal that would see Oracle take over TikTok alongside new U.S. investors, according to a report in...
Friday, January 24, 2025
Bankers are reportedly gearing up to offload debt used to fund Elon Musk’s social network, for which he paid $44 million in 2022 including $...
Sam Altman-backed Retro Biosciences is raising $1 billion to develop drugs that extend human lifespan by 10 years, the FT reports. © 2024 T...
Character AI, a platform that lets users engage in roleplay with AI chatbots, has filed a motion to dismiss a case brought against it by the...
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Seattle-based Madrona Capital is celebrating its 30 years in business by raising $770 million in fresh capital. This is the firm’s largest f...
Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance is planning to build what could become the world’s largest data center in Jamnagar, India, with a capacity of three...
Tesla has announced that its redesigned Model Y SUV is coming to the U.S., Canada, and Mexico in March, with a starting price just shy of $6...
The nonprofit Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI, a company that provides a number of data labeling and AI development services, have ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Caffeinated Capital, a San Francisco venture firm started by a solo capitalist Raymond Tonsing, is raising a fifth fund of $400 million, acc...
Ati Motors, an Indian startup building AI-powered autonomous mobile robots, has raised $20 million in a Series B round. © 2024 TechCrunch. ...
Chris Young, Microsoft's head of of business development and its venture unit, M12, resigned from his role on Wednesday, the company sai...
In 2015, the blogging site Tumblr launched a GIF discovery feature called Tumblr TV as an experimental product. Now, with the U.S. TikTok ba...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
An unlikely group, including Mr Beast and Bench acquirer Employer.com, has submitted a bid to buy TikTok. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights res...
A Delaware judge has sanctioned Sheryl Sandberg, Meta’s former COO and board member, for allegedly deleting emails related to the Cambridge ...
Microsoft was once the exclusive provider of data center infrastructure for OpenAI to train and run its AI models. No longer. Coinciding wit...
OpenAI says that it will team up with Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and with Oracle, along with others, to build multiple data centers for ...
Monday, January 20, 2025
During his first day in office, President Donald Trump revoked a 2023 executive order signed by former President Joe Biden that sought to re...
A week after the U.K. government announced a sweeping plan to make big investments into AI, it’s laying out more details around how this wil...
Friend, a startup creating a $99, AI-powered necklace designed to be treated as a digital companion, has delayed its first batch of shipment...
Social network X is trying to capitalize on the removal of ByteDance apps like TikTok and Lemon8 from U.S. app stores by launching a dedicat...
At a recent investor meeting, early-stage African investor Oui Capital informed limited partners that it had returned its $4 million debut f...
Sunday, January 19, 2025
It is the product shipping time for all social networks with TikTok’s services in the restoration phase, and the app still unavailable in th...
Donald Trump will take the presidential oath of office on Monday in front of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., once again. The event...
As if losing your job when the startup you work for collapses isn’t bad enough, now a security researcher has found that employees at failed...
Top LLMs performed poorly on a high-level history test, a new paper has found. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use onl...
Amid the TikTok shutdown, in a rare move, Apple published a statement and a support document listing all affected apps that are inaccessible...
Saturday, January 18, 2025
TikTok has gone dark in the U.S., the result of a federal law that bans the popular short-form video app for millions of Americans — at leas...
It remains unclear whether TikTok will still be available in US app stores Sunday, with the company claiming that President Joe Biden’s outg...
School workers say they resorted to crowdsourcing help among each other following PowerSchool's breach, fueled by solidarity and the slo...
Friday, January 17, 2025
Seven-year-old electric vehicle startup Canoo has filed for bankruptcy and will “cease operations immediately.” The company is liquidating i...
Amazon has paused testing of its delivery drones following a crash involving two of its models, according to Bloomberg. It’s the latest setb...
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Apple launched its dedicated Apple Store app in India on Friday, deepening its retail presence in the world’s most populous country as the i...
The Federal Aviation Administration has told TechCrunch that it had to “briefly” slow and divert a number of aircraft near the area where de...
After two years of relatively muted investment activity, it seems that VCs are starting to pour capital into startups at pandemic-era levels...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Chinese firms continue to release AI models that rival the capabilities of systems developed by OpenAI and other U.S.-based AI companies. Th...
When Hindenburg Research posts a blog on its website, it often means a company’s final days are near. Today, that company is Hindenburg Rese...
Several governments participated in a meeting on the proliferation of commercial spyware at the United Nations Security Council. © 2024 Tec...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Accel has backed Indian startup Sarla Aviation for its aim to develop flying taxis for mass mobility in the country. © 2024 TechCrunch. All...
Will Elon Musk post more than 400 tweets this week? With Polymarket, this to be one of the silliest ways people spend their money on the int...
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced a final rule Tuesday that would ban the sale or import of connected vehicles from China and Russia...
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 supe...
Monday, January 13, 2025
Chinese government officials have reportedly discussed a scenario where ByteDance sells TikTok’s United States arm to Elon Musk, should the ...
TikTok has warned of a looming shutdown in just six days, as the Supreme Court is currently weighing the law that would ban the app. So we t...
Microsoft has created a new engineering organization aimed at accelerating AI infrastructure and software development within the company. Ac...
In 2023, the U.K. made a big song and dance about the need to consider the harms of AI, giving itself a leading role in the wider conversati...
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, January 12, 2025
Groww, India’s largest retail stockbroker, is positioning itself to file for an IPO in 10-12 months and is seeking a valuation between $6 bi...
Around the world, public healthcare systems have struggled to reset post-pandemic, and in particular, the increasingly aged populations in W...
Apple’s next major iPhone upgrade will include a new model called the iPhone 17 Air, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. This seems like a...
With iOS 18, Apple rolled out Apple Intelligence, which includes an AI-powered feature for summarizing notifications. When you get a bunch o...
Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; ...
Saturday, January 11, 2025
Apple’s board of directors has come out in opposition to a proposal seeking to end the company’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) prog...
It’s now broadly accepted that customers and employees who receive corporate gifts end up appreciating the brand much more, and for not a lo...
Friday, January 10, 2025
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended his decision to scale back Meta’s content moderation policies in a Friday appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcas...
The white cane for the 21st century. While many tech companies have increasingly worked to make technology more accessible for the blind and...
Thursday, January 9, 2025
CES 2025 has been a mixed bag for humanoid robots. The form factor had a watershed moment, as images of the top players flanked NVIDIA CEO J...
Wildfires are currently devastating the greater Los Angeles area, burning over 45 square miles, torching over 1,300 structures, and putting ...
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
I’m old enough to remember musicians getting angry over Guitar Hero. But they always seemed to be missing the point. Nobody was seriously su...
It’s 2025, and companies still don’t know what AI is good for. That’s the impression I got from this year’s CES, which featured AI-powered k...
CES 2025 is in full swing. While the conference features reveals from tech powerhouses like Nvidia, Samsung, and Toyota, there are also some...
There was a time when baristas just had to write a customer’s name on a cup and call it out. They wouldn’t always get the name right, but mo...
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the performance of his company’s AI chips is advancing faster than historical rates set by Moore’s Law, the rub...
X, formerly Twitter, wants to make its platform a home to the future and news and journalism. On that front, the company has now hired John ...
Monday, January 6, 2025
CES 2025, the annual consumer tech conference held in Las Vegas, is here. TechCrunch reporters are on the ground giving you the latest annou...
While the Chinese internet giant Tencent is best-known for its super-app WeChat, it’s also a major investor in U.S. tech companies and start...
Sunday, January 5, 2025
Accel has maintained its India fund size at $650 million for its eighth vehicle, even as other venture firms in the region are racing to rai...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has strong words for the former board members who abruptly fired him late last November. “[A]ll those people that I fe...
Five years ago, Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda went to CES to share with the world his “personal field of dreams” — a plan to build a prototype...
Sony knows how to put on a show at CES 2025. The company’s pressers are high-octane, star-studded affairs, as these things go. In addition t...
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...
A few months ago, United Airlines announced its deal with Starlink to offer in-flight internet access for its passengers. At the time, the a...
Saturday, January 4, 2025
Conway has recruited for some of the buzziest defense and hard tech firms in Silicon Valley over the last decade, like Palantir and Mach Ind...
Longtime entrepreneur and cybersecurity executive Amit Yoran passed away Friday after a battle with cancer. Cybersecurity company Tenable, w...
New York City’s congestion pricing is scheduled to take effect Sunday — but for the first month, Lyft said it will be crediting riders who p...
A new year brings with it hope for a better tomorrow — kind of, at least. In the world of venture capital, nothing is quite predictable. The...
Friday, January 3, 2025
Consumer goods giant Hindustan Unilever is in advanced talks to acquire four-year-old direct-to-consumer startup Minimalist for up to $350 m...
Thursday, January 2, 2025
More than half-a-dozen VPN apps, including Cloudflare’s widely-used 1.1.1.1, have been pulled from India’s Apple App Store and Google Play S...
Nvidia will no doubt have the biggest CES 2025. After all, the company has pretty much the biggest everything nowadays. The chip giant is sp...
Tacora Capital has raised its second fund, after Peter Thiel backed its first fund with $250 million. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserve...
AI is fundamentally dependent on data, but the vast majority of health data goes unused for understandable reasons — chiefly patient privacy...
As 2025 dawns, it’s a good time to look at the trends that are likely to define the coming 12 months. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserve...
Telegram has rolled out its first update of the year, adding a new account verification method powered by third-parties, new message search ...
Chinese government hackers targeted the U.S. Treasury’s highly sensitive sanctions office during a December cyberattack, according to report...
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
For several years now, technologists have rung alarm bells about the potential for advanced AI systems to cause catastrophic damage to the h...
Accel has raised $650 million for its eighth India fund as the U.S. venture firm expands its investment strategy in the South Asian market. ...
