General Catalyst, the powerhouse venture firm, is considering an IPO, Axios reported Friday morning, citing “multiple sources.” TechCrunch h...
Friday, February 28, 2025
Google co-founder Sergey Brin sent a memo to employees this week urging them to return to the office “at least every weekday” in order to he...
SymbyAI, a SaaS platform that uses AI to streamline scientific research, announced a $2.1 million seed round with participation from Drive C...
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Confused about which AI model to use? Check out this comprehensive list of the most advanced models out there. © 2024 TechCrunch. All right...
The Securities and Exchange Commission issued guidance on Thursday saying it does not view most meme coins, which are crypto tokens that ori...
Meta reportedly plans to release a standalone app for its AI assistant, Meta AI, in a bid to better compete with AI-powered chatbots like Op...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
In a newly issued executive order (EO), the Trump administration has instructed the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the Elon Mus...
Former North Carolina congressman Patrick McHenry announced Wednesday that he landed a job with VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. He will be a se...
Millie, a California-based maternity clinic, founded by Anu Sharma, announced the raise of a $12 million Series A by investors including RH ...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
YC deleted a controversial demo video from one of its startups, which monitors factory workers with AI cameras. © 2024 TechCrunch. All righ...
Anthropic’s newest flagship AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, cost “a few tens of millions of dollars” to train using less than 10^26 FLOPs of co...
Perplexity, the developer of an AI-powered search engine, is raising a $50 million seed and pre-seed investment fund, CNBC reported. Althoug...
Meet the DOGE staffers and senior advisors in Elon Musk's inner circle, and how they got there. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved....
Monday, February 24, 2025
Anthropic’s next funding round is reportedly growing larger. Anthropic, which makes the AI chatbot Claude, is finalizing a $3.5 billion fund...
Edtech company Chegg has sued Google claiming that the tech giant’s AI summaries of search results have hurt Chegg’s traffic and revenue. In...
Do you sometimes refer to X by its old name, Twitter? That’s okay. Even Elon Musk, the man who changed Twitter’s name to X, still occasional...
It’s often said that the UK and Europe lack the huge level of growth funding for later-stage startups that the US has for its own, and this ...
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Larry Ellison’s leap into farming with his company, Sensei Farms, serves up a classic reminder: being a genius in one arena doesn’t mean suc...
Google has quietly revealed the pricing of Veo 2, the video-generating AI model that it unveiled in December. According to the company’s pri...
On a cool morning last November, 800 people gathered before sunrise in a South Burlington hangar to witness the maiden flight of Beta Techno...
As school districts struggle to support the mental health of their students, a startup called Sonar Mental Health has built a “wellbeing com...
When billionaire Elon Musk introduced Grok 3, his AI company xAI’s latest flagship model, in a live stream last Monday, he described it as a...
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Debates over AI benchmarks — and how they’re reported by AI labs — are spilling out into public view. This week, an OpenAI employee accused ...
Apple has been steadily working to expand the world of the Apple TV+ series “Severance,” through online materials, e-books, podcasts, and ot...
Friday, February 21, 2025
Social media giants Meta and X (formerly Twitter) approved ads targeting users in Germany with violent anti-Muslim and anti-Jew hate speech ...
For years, Meta employees have internally discussed using copyrighted works obtained through legally questionable means to train the company...
Coinbase on Friday said the SEC has agreed to drop the lawsuit against the company with prejudice, meaning it cannot be filed again. The mo...
YouTube is close to announcing a new lower-priced “premium lite” version of its subscription service, Bloomberg reports. The new tier is exp...
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is firing nearly half of a small government team that regulates autonomous vehicles, the Was...
OpenAI said on Friday that it is rolling out Operator, its so-called AI agent that can perform tasks on behalf of users, for ChatGPT Pro sub...
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Rivian said Thursday it plans to launch a hands-off version of its driver assistance system for highway driving “in a few weeks,” and an “ey...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Patreon has continued on its crusade against algorithmic feeds with its latest State of Create report, a look at trends in the creator econo...
Fintech Varo has been hoping to raise a $55 million Series G round but has, so far, closed on $29 million to date, according to a recent SEC...
An employment tribunal case has placed Kuda Technologies, one of Africa’s fastest-growing digital banks, under scrutiny over allegations of ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Niantic, the company behind the popular augmented reality game Pokémon Go, is looking to sell its game development business, Bloomberg repor...
Humane announced on Tuesday that it has been acquired by HP for $116 million. The hardware startup is immediately discontinuing sales of its...
Level Zero Health, a female-founded medical device startup that’s aiming to break new ground by developing a device for continuous hormone m...
Hours after Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI released the latest version of its AI model, Grok 3, X has significantly hiked the price for its top...
Monday, February 17, 2025
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, released its latest flagship AI model, Grok 3, late Monday night, along with new capabilities in the Grok apps ...
More than 10,000 protesters gathered in New York City on Presidents’ Day to speak out against the current Trump administration and the actio...
The recent Brian Epstein biopic “Midas Man,” a film about the manager of The Beatles, debuted not on a platform like Netflix or Amazon, but ...
South Korean officials on Saturday temporarily restricted Chinese AI Lab DeepSeek’s app from being downloaded from app stores in the country...
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Motorsports have long been a pay-to-play arena, with young drivers spending thousands of dollars just to get started in karting. Four-time F...
Every Sunday, NPR host Will Shortz, The New York Times’ crossword puzzle guru, gets to quiz thousands of listeners in a long-running segment...
After warnings that Paramount content was about to disappear from Google’s pay TV service YouTube TV, the companies announced late Saturday ...
OpenAI is changing how it trains AI models to explicitly embrace “intellectual freedom … no matter how challenging or controversial a topic ...
Large language models (LLMs) landed on Europe’s digital sovereignty agenda with a bang last week, as news emerged of a new program to develo...
Saturday, February 15, 2025
Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI employee, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26; on Friday, the city’s medical examiner ru...
Friday, February 14, 2025
Ride-share giant Uber filed a lawsuit Friday against DoorDash, accusing the delivery outfit of stifling competition by intimidating restaura...
Amazon and Apple are struggling to put generative AI technology in their digital assistants — Alexa and Siri, respectively — according to a ...
Robotics startup Figure AI is raising $1.5 billion at a $39.5 billion valuation, a whopping 15 times higher than before. © 2024 TechCrunch....
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Turo on Thursday withdrew its plans for an IPO, ending a three-year wait to bring the online car-sharing network to the public marketplace, ...
The U.K. government wants to make a hard pivot into boosting its economy and industry with AI, and as part of that, it’s pivoting an institu...
Meta's CTO said staff unhappy with the tech giant's latest policies should work somewhere else, an internal chat reveals. © 2024 Te...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Elon Musk’s X has agreed to pay President Donald Trump $10 million to settle a lawsuit from the days when the company was still called Twitt...
A new startup founded by a former Google DeepMind scientist is exiting stealth with $50 million in funding. Latent Labs is building AI found...
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said that, over this year, Reddit plans to launch an upgraded search experience that’ll help users navigate the soc...
Notably, the image tools are not available in countries and regions like India, Indonesia, the EU, and the U.K. © 2024 TechCrunch. All righ...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Consumer demand for credit options varies across regions, and for fintechs, understanding these differences is key to survival. In developed...
Founders Fund is on track to conclude fundraising of its third growth fund at the end of March, according to people close to the firm. The P...
Monday, February 10, 2025
Plaid, a company that connects bank accounts to financial applications, is working with Goldman Sachs on a deal to allow early-stage investo...
As if Elon Musk doesn’t have enough going on, a consortium of investors led by him announced plans Monday for what appears to be a hostile t...
Researchers from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University recently published a study looking at how using generative AI at work affects crit...
The newspaper owner said it was determining what data, if any, was stolen. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. ...
French President Emmanuel Macron announced a total of €109 billion in private investments in the AI ecosystem (around $112 billion at curren...
Sunday, February 9, 2025
Construction procurement is highly fragmented, manual, and opaque, forcing contractors to juggle multiple suppliers, endure lengthy negotiat...
In a new essay on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is open to a “compute budget,” among other “strange-sounding” id...
Canadian investment firm Brookfield plans to invest €20 billion by 2030 in artificial intelligence projects in France (around $20.7 billion ...
Consumer demand for alternatives to Big Tech’s social apps is heating up. Alternative social networks like Bluesky and Mastodon are gaining ...
Apple has released a new app called Invites that is designed to make it easy to create custom invitations for events using an iPhone or on t...
Saturday, February 8, 2025
President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the company formerly known as Twitter appears to be over. Trump sued the social media platform for ...
Friday, February 7, 2025
The Department of Transportation has paused funding for a $5 billion EV charging infrastructure program that Tesla has received at least $31...
Thursday, February 6, 2025
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman, who left AI company Anthropic earlier this week after a mere five months, is reportedly joining former Open...
Amazon is joining other Big Tech companies by announcing huge AI spending plans for 2025. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For perso...
According to a New York Times report, on Thursday, the U.S. government’s General Services Administration (GSA) removed the spoon emoji as an...
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
AI researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington were able to train an AI “reasoning” model for under $50 in cloud compute credit...
A clearer picture of Bench's downfall is emerging thanks to new bankruptcy filings, which show the accounting startup burned $135 millio...
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...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
During Snap’s fourth-quarter earnings call on Tuesday, CEO Evan Spiegel said that the uncertainty surrounding TikTok’s future has positively...
As a university student, Dalton Signor was troubled by how many people around him smoked or vaped, including his grandmother and 14-year-old...
Monday, February 3, 2025
Presentations.ai has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Accel to scale its AI-powered software for generating presentations. © 2024 T...
Adam Candeub, a known critic of Big Tech, looks poised to join the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Candeub will be general counsel ...
It’s never been easier to create and publish art than it is now, and if you believe the companies building tech around AI, the production pr...
An app that helps people and teams in the working world simplify their to-do lists — ideally by organising and doing some of the work for th...
Sunday, February 2, 2025
DeepSeek founder Lian Wenfeng is being hailed as a hero in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, where he grew up and reportedly retur...
India has expanded its Aadhaar authentication service to let businesses such as those in e-commerce, hospitality, and healthcare use the bio...
OpenAI is announcing a new AI “agent” designed to help people conduct in-depth, complex research using ChatGPT, the company’s AI-powered cha...
As of Sunday in the European Union, the bloc’s regulators can ban the use of AI systems they deem to pose “unacceptable risk” or harm. Febru...
Saturday, February 1, 2025
Chinese fast-fashion retailer Shein has relaunched in India through a partnership with Reliance Retail, nearly five years after it was banne...
U.S. senator says Musk's access to Treasury systems represents a "national security risk." © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights rese...
X is now suing more advertisers in an antitrust lawsuit focusing on what the company’s CEO Linda Yaccarino has claimed is a “systematic ille...
