OpenAI’s new image generator, powered by its GPT-4o model, is now available to all users, CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X. The feature wa...
Monday, March 31, 2025
Construct Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in startups applying technology to sectors like manufacturing, transport...
CaaStle, a startup that launched in 2011 as a plus-sized clothing subscription service and in 2018 became an inventory monetization platform...
Amazon on Monday unveiled Nova Act, a general-purpose AI agent that can take control of a web browser and independently perform some simple ...
As it gears up to go public, Chime is going all in on new features in an effort to attract more customers. The digital bank is offering cust...
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Confused about which AI model to use? Check out this comprehensive list of the most advanced models out there. from TechCrunch https://ift.t...
A year ago, Bluesky was opening up to the public and was known as one of the many X competitors that emerged after Elon Musk acquired the ne...
New and expanded data centers are expected to double the sector’s power demand by 2029 as tech companies rush to capitalize on AI. from Tech...
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Saturday, March 29, 2025
When Intel Capital announced its plans to spin out from semiconductor giant Intel in January, it came as a bit of a shock considering the fi...
The final countdown is here! This is your last weekend to lock in Early Bird pricing for TechCrunch All Stage founder and investor tickets. ...
Friday, March 28, 2025
Charlie Javice, the founder of student loan application startup Frank that was purchased by JPMorgan for $175 million, was found guilty on F...
Google said today that it will start offering user choice billing in the U.K., giving Google Play developers the ability to use other billin...
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Krafton, known for its titles PUBG and BGMI, has acquired a controlling stake in 12-year-old Indian mobile gaming studio Nautilus Mobile. fr...
AI web crawling bots are the cockroaches of the internet, many developers believe. FOSS devs are fighting back in ingenuous, humorous ways. ...
NHS vendor Advanced will pay just over £3 million ($3.8 million) in fines for not implementing basic security measures before it suffered a ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
While you’re busy Ghibli-fying your images with ChatGPT’s new image-generation capabilities, OpenAI is out raising a ton more cash. The comp...
It’s only been a day since ChatGPT’s new AI image generator went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes in...
Nvidia is looking to get into the server rental market. The semiconductor giant is reportedly nearing a deal to acquire Lepton AI, a company...
It’s virtually impossible today to determine when a student’s writing has been composed using ChatGPT or another GenAI tool, and it can be a...
A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024. from TechCrunch https://i...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Microsoft is introducing a “deep research” AI-powered tool in Microsoft 365 Copilot, its AI chatbot app. There’s been a raft of deep researc...
Block just laid off 931 employees. Read the email from its co-founder Jack Dorsey for more details on why. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/MB...
Monday, March 24, 2025
The Arc Prize Foundation, a nonprofit co-founded by prominent AI researcher François Chollet, announced in a blog post on Monday that it has...
Earlier this year, DeepSeek briefly crashed Nvidia’s stock because of speculation that its models require far fewer chips. Now, Chinese fint...
Last year, AI-powered sales automation startup 11x appeared to be on an explosive growth trajectory. However, nearly two dozen sources – inc...
FuriosaAI, a South Korean startup that makes chips for AI applications, has rejected an $810 million acquisition offer from Meta. from TechC...
Over the past decade, Dubai-based Network International has become one of the dominant payment processors across the Middle East and Africa,...
Genetics testing company 23andMe has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. to initiate the sale of its assets. Alongside th...
Sunday, March 23, 2025
The Bot Company, the robotics startup founded by former Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt, has raised $150 million in a round led by Green...
In 2010, a programmer who was mining bitcoin famously made the comically expensive mistake of spending 10,000 bitcoin on two pizzas. As of t...
Social network Bluesky, an alternative to X built on open source technologies, has scored a big win in terms of attracting notable users to ...
We may not have an agreed-upon definition of AI “agent” yet, but a multitude of startups want to create “agentic” tools to automate various ...
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Jonah Peretti’s career to date has been defined by constant reinvention. As the founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, Peretti has been at the forefro...
Charlie Javice’s high-profile fraud trial has become a showcase of embarrassing missteps on both sides, with eyebrow-raising details about h...
Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got tons of stories to share from this week, like the greatest hits from Nvidia GTC; the NASA astronau...
A new report showcases the 20 top-trending open source startups around the world, more than half of which are closely aligned with AI. The r...
Friday, March 21, 2025
A human rights campaigner, Tanya O’Carroll, has succeeded in forcing social media giant Meta not to use her data for targeted advertising. T...
Two sources in the zero-day industry say Operation Zero's prices for exploits against the popular messaging app Telegram will depend on ...
Google has reported the results of an experiment it ran which removed news from search results for 1% of users for 2.5 months in eight* mark...
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Nvidia took San Jose by storm this year, with a record-breaking 25,000 attendees flocking to the San Jose Convention Center and surrounding ...
Apple has been sued in federal court over what plaintiffs allege is false advertising of several Apple Intelligence features. Filed Wednesda...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Wiz’s $32 billion all-cash acquisition by Google parent Alphabet promises a colossal payday for the cybersecurity startup’s early-stage inve...
OpenAI has launched a more powerful version of its o1 “reasoning” AI model, o1-pro, in its developer API. According to OpenAI, o1-pro uses m...
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Another consumer-grade spyware operation was hacked in June 2024, which exposed thousands of Apple Account credentials. © 2024 TechCrunch. ...
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, March 18, 2025
President Trump fired the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday, setting up a challenge to a 1935 Supreme ...
On Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance said that the Trump administration’s support of AI and tech innovations should benefit both populists an...
U.S. President Trump’s wide-ranging tariff hikes are already resulting in growth forecasts being cut amid other uncertainty — actions that w...
African businesses pay up to four times the global average to transport goods. Nairobi-based logistics SaaS provider Leta wants to change th...
Monday, March 17, 2025
Waymo has been given permission to map roadways at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) via a temporary permit — the first step in ...
Google’s parent company Alphabet is again in advanced talks to acquire cloud cybersecurity startup Wiz, a person familiar with the deal told...
Google is doubling down on building out its AI business in the U.K., and on Monday morning in London, the CEO of Google DeepMind Demis Hassa...
Sunday, March 16, 2025
A broad coalition drawn from across the ranks of Europe’s tech industry is calling for “radical action” from European Union lawmakers to shr...
Over the last two years, Nvidia has used its ballooning fortunes to invest in over 80 AI startups. Here are the giant semiconductor's la...
Saturday, March 15, 2025
In this week’s episode of the StrictlyVC Download podcast, veteran VC Aileen Lee was direct about a major consequence of the recent boom-and...
Joby Aviation is partnering with Virgin Atlantic to launch electric air taxis in the U.K., marking the seventh country in which the startup ...
Social network Bluesky recently published a proposal on GitHub outlining new options it could give users to indicate whether they want their...
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SpaceX successfully launched four people into space on Friday, beginning a mission that will give the International Space Station enough cre...
After 23 years of connecting people around the world, Skype, the popular video-calling service, is shutting down. Microsoft, the parent comp...
Friday, March 14, 2025
SoftBank is marching ahead on its ambitions to build out a major AI operation in its home market of Japan, on its own steam and in strategic...
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Waymo now has more than 300 driverless vehicles zipping passengers around San Francisco, but while they follow traffic laws, parking is anot...
In the same way that genome sequencing determines the genetic makeup of an organism, Bryan Johnson — the investor and founder behind the Don...
AI company Sesame has released the base model that powers Maya, the impressively realistic voice assistant. The model, which is 1 billion pa...
A huge chunk of online traffic now comes from bots, both good and bad — but AI is boosting the latter. From DDoS attacks to scraping, there’...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Over the last 15 years or so, as European venture capital shifted into a higher gear, one way to help a nation’s ecosystem flourish was to i...
Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber, made it clear on Wednesday: he believes the company’s decision to abandon its autonomous driving pr...
Semiconductor giant Intel hired semiconductor veteran Lip-Bu Tan to be its new CEO. This news comes three months after Pat Gelsinger retired...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Spotify on Tuesday released its annual Loud & Clear report, detailing information about the music streaming service’s royalty payments. ...
Anthropic, a San Francisco startup often cast as an independent player in the AI race, has deeper ties to Google than previously known. Cour...
Meta is reportedly testing an in-house chip for training AI systems, a part of a strategy to reduce its reliance on hardware makers like Nvi...
Monday, March 10, 2025
Medical imaging is a broad term that encompasses several distinct technologies. After working on AI-powered tools to enhance X-rays and mamm...
Infinite Uptime, which offers predictive maintenance solutions for factories, has raised $35 million in a Series C round to expand its footp...
Dustin Moskovitz is retiring from Asana, the software company he founded in 2008. Asana, a task management platform, announced his retiremen...
ServiceNow said on Monday that it has agreed to acquire Moveworks, which develops enterprise-focused automation and AI tools. ServiceNow wil...
As the U.S. trucking industry gears up for the negative impacts of new Trump tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, a startup building a n...
Redfin is being acquired in an all-stock transaction that values the real estate listing platform at $1.75 billion. The acquiring company is...
Sunday, March 9, 2025
A new WSJ report suggests that Saudi Arabia’s now eight-year-old Neom project — a futuristic, carbon-neutral, 105-mile-long linear city envi...
Creatopy, a startup that uses AI to automate the creation of digital ads, has brought on a new CEO: Tammy H. Nam. Nam was previously COO and...
Elon Musk lost the latest battle in his lawsuit against OpenAI this week, but a federal judge appears to have given Musk — and others who op...
The world is bad sometimes, but it feels even worse if you can’t stop staring into the all-consuming abyss that is the 6-inch screen of a sm...
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Something special went down in the desert outside of Las Vegas this weekend: two EVs took on the Mint 400 for the first time. Since the Mint...
The downsides of doomscrolling and screen addiction are well documented, but while many of us would like to spend less time glued to a smart...
Europe is waking up to the need to invest in defense, and so are European VCs. But with a painful history of Soviet occupations, Lithuania d...
Friday, March 7, 2025
Investor interest in AI coding assistants is exploding. Anysphere, the developer of AI-powered coding assistant Cursor, is in talks with ven...
X is actively working to expand the reach of xAI’s Grok model to more users on the platform. Multiple users noted today that people can now ...
The FBI is warning that scammers are impersonating the BianLian ransomware gang using fake ransom notes sent to U.S. corporate executives. T...
Thursday, March 6, 2025
SpaceX’s Starship spiraled out of control while in space during a test flight on Thursday, marking the second launch in a row that the vehic...
Google co-founder Larry Page is building a new company called Dynatomics that’s focused on applying AI to product manufacturing, according t...
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Infineon Technologies has partnered with CDIL Semiconductors to tap into emerging business cases including light EVs and battery storage sol...
There’s a new Bluesky app in the works from a popular developer of iOS applications. Tapbots, the company behind the popular Mastodon client...
The CEO of Canoo is buying nearly all of the defunct EV startup’s assets out of bankruptcy, according to a court filing. A new entity contro...
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
London startup Quantexa has made its name over the years with an enterprise platform that employs AI and data analytics to fight money laund...
A federal judge in Northern California denied Elon Musk’s motion for an injunction that would have halted OpenAI’s planned transition into a...
The fintech startup has been under federal scrutiny for years for questionable financial and carbon accounting practices. © 2024 TechCrunch...
Monday, March 3, 2025
The ransomware attack is affecting Lee's ability to pay outside vendors, including freelancers and contractors, TechCrunch has learned. ...
Browser company Opera has unveiled a new AI agent called Browser Operator that can complete tasks for you on different websites. In a demo v...
Uber has started testing its teenagers-focused service, Uber for Teens, in India. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use ...
Google is adding new features to its AI assistant, Gemini, that let users ask it questions using video and content on the screen in real tim...
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Privacy-focused messaging app Signal has been flying high in the Dutch app stores this past month, sitting many days as the most downloaded ...
Aviron’s home fitness equipment operates on a simple principle: People hate working out. But many of those same people love playing video ga...
Tonight is the night and the clock is winding down to register for TechCrunch Sessions: AI at our Super Early Bird pricing. Register before ...
Artificial intelligence is a deep and convoluted world. The scientists who work in this field often rely on jargon and lingo to explain what...
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban waded into the latest government tech shake-up on Saturday, posting an unexpected offer of support for newly...
