Latvian startup Handwave aims to compete with Amazon palm payments by offering an independent alternative. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/C3...
Thursday, July 31, 2025
While sales growth suggests fear of tariffs helped fuel sales, Cook downplayed the “pull forward” effect, noting that consumers were more mo...
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
The 15-year-old chipmaker saw its shares climb 61% above its IPO price by the close of its first trading day. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt...
Aurora’s autonomous trucks are now driving at night. Its next big challenge is rain.
Prospero Silvério
July 30, 2025
The company has also opened another facility in Phoenix as it scales driverless operations. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/s7BKtLE
Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future
Prospero Silvério
July 30, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg really believes AI glasses will be the ideal way to blend the physical and digital worlds together. from TechCrunch https://...
Google confirmed it will sign the European Union's general purpose AI code of practice. Meta has already said it will not sign the volun...
The social network is bringing new parental controls to Family Pairing, its feature that allows parents to link their accounts with their te...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
The Space Force is leveraging commercial competition for the next phase of its PTS program. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/qXxvfYO
Monday, July 28, 2025
The seed round for Julius AI was led by Bessemer Venture Partners. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/EJg2dZM
Avis will handle general depot operations, including charging and maintaining the vehicles. Users will be able to hail a robotaxi through th...
Harmonic, the Robinhood CEO’s AI math startup, launches an AI chatbot app
Prospero Silvério
July 28, 2025
The chatbot app, which is available in beta on iOS and Android, lets users access its AI model, Aristotle. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/d5...
20 national security experts urge Trump administration to restrict Nvidia H20 sales to China
Prospero Silvério
July 28, 2025
The letter states that allowing sales of the H20 AI chip to China could hurt the U.S.'s AI "edge" and further chip bottlenecks...
Do startups still need Silicon Valley? Hear from the founders and funders challenging old assumptions at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Prospero Silvério
July 28, 2025
As the startup world descends on San Francisco for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — happening October 27–29 at Moscone West — one question looms la...
Meet the minds shaping AI: TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 AI Stage revealed
Prospero Silvério
July 28, 2025
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, the AI Stage comes alive with the voices shaping the future of technology, creativity, and security. Top VCs rev...
Flights grounded as Russia’s largest airline Aeroflot hit by cyberattack
Prospero Silvério
July 28, 2025
Russian prosecutor said it opened a criminal investigation into the cyberattack targeting Aeroflot, the largest airline in Russia. from Tech...
Sunday, July 27, 2025
The massive Las Vegas venue known as Sphere will be screening its first classic movie, “The Wizard of Oz,” starting on August 28. And as det...
Indie video game marketplace Itch.io announced this week that it has "deindexed" adult and not-safe-for-work games, removing them ...
The Department of Government Efficiency has presented plans to use a new AI tool to eliminate half of the federal government’s regulatory ma...
Saturday, July 26, 2025
Astronomer winks at viral notoriety with ‘temporary spokesperson’ Gwyneth Paltrow
Prospero Silvério
July 26, 2025
After spending the past week-plus in the headlines due to a seemingly inescapable social media scandal, data operations startup Astronomer i...
Tea, an app that allows women to post anonymous comments about men they’ve supposedly dated, announced Friday that it has suffered a data br...
Allianz Life says ‘majority’ of customers’ personal data stolen in cyberattack
Prospero Silvério
July 26, 2025
Exclusive: Allianz Life said the "majority" of its customers and employees had data stolen in the July cyberattack. The company sa...
Friday, July 25, 2025
Google is testing a new vibe-coding tool called Opal, available in the U.S. through Google Labs, that lets users quickly spin up web apps wi...
Thursday, July 24, 2025
Amid increased momentum for defense, the NATO Innovation Fund refreshes its investment team
Prospero Silvério
July 24, 2025
The NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) is entering a new chapter, marked by the arrival of two new partners and the departure of its penultimate fou...
Lazarte has only been at Benchmark for two years. He backed startups like Mercor, HeyGen, and Decart AI. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/1CSi...
Mission Barns is betting that animal-free pork fat will make artificial meat delicious
Prospero Silvério
July 24, 2025
It’s the first such product to reach the market, and it could unlock a host of fattened-up meat alternatives. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Trump’s ‘anti-woke AI’ order could reshape how US tech companies train their models
Prospero Silvério
July 23, 2025
When DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese firms released their AI models, Western researchers quickly noticed they sidestepped questions cri...
Sundar Pichai is ‘very excited’ about Google Cloud’s OpenAI partnership
Prospero Silvério
July 23, 2025
The comment came shortly after analysts peppered Pichai and other Google executives with questions about how AI would affect its core search...
Instagram adds new protections for accounts that primarily feature children
Prospero Silvério
July 23, 2025
The update will impact the accounts of family vloggers/creators and parents running accounts for "kidfluencers," both of which hav...
NetZeroNitrogen wants bacteria to replace synthetic fertilizer on farm fields
Prospero Silvério
July 23, 2025
NetZeroNitrogen's bacteria approach has attracted investors and $6.6 million in seed funding. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/7OPltS4
Gupshup raises $60M in equity and debt, leaves unicorn status hanging
Prospero Silvério
July 23, 2025
Gupshup has raised over $60 million in a new round over four years after attaining the unicorn status. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/SHNVYr...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
PayPal taps wallets from China and India to make cross-border payments easier for 2 billion people
Prospero Silvério
July 22, 2025
PayPal is partnering with global fintech companies to let users pay to different wallet systems cross border. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt...
Monday, July 21, 2025
Instead of selling to Meta, AI chip startup FuriosaAI signed a huge customer
Prospero Silvério
July 21, 2025
South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI announced a partnership on Tuesday to supply its AI chip, RNGD, to enterprises using LG AI Research‘s...
Tesla’s retro-futuristic diner officially opens as Elon Musk hints at more locations
Prospero Silvério
July 21, 2025
The Tesla Diner & Drive-In officially opened Monday and it seems Elon Musk is planning for more. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/HUMEGQe
OpenAI and Google's AI models achieved impressive results in a difficult math competition, but disputed how the other got their score. f...
Serial spyware founder Scott Zuckerman wants the FTC to unban him from the surveillance industry
Prospero Silvério
July 21, 2025
The spyware maker was banned from the surveillance industry in 2021, but was caught flouting the ban less than a year later. Now the founder...
The Browser Company has launched an official repository of "skills" for its Dia browser — shortcuts for prompts that are used freq...
Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX confirms $44 million stolen during hack
Prospero Silvério
July 21, 2025
The crypto exchange, the largest in India, said it plans to absorb the costs of the breach. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/OY1MmHu
Security researchers say Microsoft customers should take immediate action to defend against the ongoing cyberattacks, and must assume they h...
Sunday, July 20, 2025
“We scaled Tesla in 30 months from $2 billion in revenue to $20 billion in revenue,” said Jon McNeil, who is now co-founder and CEO of DVx V...
Why Cartken pivoted its focus from last-mile delivery to industrial robots
Prospero Silvério
July 20, 2025
Cartken started seeing an influx of demand for its last-mile delivery robots from industrial customers and is now focused on that sector. fr...
Tesla loses its charm for India’s loyalists — even as Musk finally delivers
Prospero Silvério
July 20, 2025
Tesla's debut in India has not convinced its early backers, who waited for the company to enter the market for nearly a decade. from Tec...
Saturday, July 19, 2025
These are our favorite cyber books on hacking, espionage, crypto, surveillance, and more
Prospero Silvério
July 19, 2025
These are our favorite cybersecurity books, both by fiction authors, as well as journalists and researchers. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt...
For privacy and security, think twice before granting AI access to your personal data
Prospero Silvério
July 19, 2025
AI tools are increasingly asking for gross levels of access to your personal data under the guise of needing it to work. from TechCrunch htt...
Friday, July 18, 2025
Benchmark in talks to lead Series A for Greptile, valuing AI-code reviewer at $180M, sources say
Prospero Silvério
July 18, 2025
YC alum Greptile raises $30M Series A. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/dt07rmu
Why a Y Combinator startup tackling AI agents for Windows gave up and pivoted
Prospero Silvério
July 18, 2025
Pig.dev was working on a problem that could have been revolutionary: agent tech for controlling Windows desktops. from TechCrunch https://if...
Meta will not sign the EU's new rules, calling the implementation "over-reach" from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/TvH1UFb
Netflix said it used gen AI for the first time for a scene in an Argentinean show called El Atonata. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/aWoIVxv
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Perplexity is quietly expanding into India to compete with OpenAI in the next phase of AI adoption. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/wJVogOT
‘Utopian’ city California Forever announces huge tech manufacturing park
Prospero Silvério
July 17, 2025
Solano Foundry is a 2,100-acre manufacturing park that can host 40 million square feet of advanced tech manufacturing space. from TechCrunch...
Roblox introduces new safeguards for teens, including age estimation tech
Prospero Silvério
July 17, 2025
The move comes as Roblox has come under fire in recent years over child safety concerns. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/2iNRK1d
TikTok is adding a new label to its app, allowing songwriters to highlight their profiles from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/c0tTsXx
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit focused on open-source social media
Prospero Silvério
July 16, 2025
Jack Dorsey backs nonprofit 'and Other Stuff' with $10M to build open social technology. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/lf0tiB9
Apple News+ adds a new game that uses emoji and Genmoji to sovle puzzles
Prospero Silvério
July 16, 2025
Released to coincide with World Emoji Day, the new Emoji Game is part logic, part word game that's inspired by how we use emojis to comm...
Chinese authorities are using a new tool to hack seized phones and extract data
Prospero Silvério
July 16, 2025
Researchers warned that Chinese residents, and visitors to China, should be aware of the tool's existence and the risks it poses. from T...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Of course, Grok’s AI companions want to have sex and burn down schools
Prospero Silvério
July 15, 2025
xAI's first AI companions on the Grok app are a lustful anime girl and a homicidal panda. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Z3Vlqi8
Amazon is looking to its main competitor to get its next batch of Kuiper satellites to orbit. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Kl0ZVWu
Monday, July 14, 2025
Meta and Mark Zuckerberg are in a hurry to build their superintelligence tech. The company has been poaching AI researchers, while CEO Mark ...
Nvidia is set to resume China chip sales after months of regulatory whiplash
Prospero Silvério
July 14, 2025
Nvidia announced Monday that it’s filing applications to restart sales of its H20 artificial intelligence chips to China, capping a spasmodi...
Brian Singerman’s new fund has a twist, and Peter Thiel as a big backer
Prospero Silvério
July 14, 2025
Former Founders Fund GP Brian Singerman and co-founder and managing partner of Quiet Capital, Lee Linden, are seeking over $500 million for ...
Top members of Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab discussed pivoting away from the company’s powerful open source AI model, Behemoth, and inst...
Tomorrow: TechCrunch All Stage launches in Boston — and ticket prices rise
Prospero Silvério
July 14, 2025
TechCrunch All Stage officially kicks off tomorrow at 7:30 a.m. ET at SoWa Power Station in Boston — and that’s when ticket prices jump to f...
According to Discord, Orbs have been popular among testers, with millions earned and spent during the seven-week beta period. from TechCrunc...
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's new app, called Sun Day, ostensibly helps users track UV exposure and Vitamin D intake. from TechCrunch...
Sunday, July 13, 2025
Therapy chatbots powered by large language models may stigmatize users with mental health conditions and otherwise respond inappropriately o...
UK launches £500M package to support diverse, underrepresented investors and founders
Prospero Silvério
July 13, 2025
The British Business Bank, owned by the UK government, is creating a £500 million (around $674 million) economic package to help support div...
The countdown’s almost over: 2 days until TechCrunch All Stage 2025 kicks off in Boston
Prospero Silvério
July 13, 2025
TechCrunch All Stage 2025 is almost here — In 2 days, the doors swing open at Boston’s SoWa Power Station. If you’re a founder or investor, ...
Saturday, July 12, 2025
Just 3 days left to save before TechCrunch All Stage 2025 lights up Boston
Prospero Silvério
July 12, 2025
In only 3 days, founders, investors, and operators will flood into the SoWa Power Station in Boston for TechCrunch All Stage 2025 — and if y...
Friday, July 11, 2025
Sequoia bets on silence
Prospero Silvério
July 11, 2025
There is a time-honored crisis management strategy, wherein one says nothing and waits for the outrage to pass. For Sequoia Capital, the str...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Friday the company is delaying the release of its open model indefinitely. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/ZBbhgWx...
Notably, Google is not taking a stake in Windsurf and will not have any control over the company. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/7nL5FBy
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Tesla has applied for a permit to test and deploy autonomous vehicles in Arizona. It's also eyeing expansion in Austin, Texas and Califo...
AWS is launching an AI agent marketplace next week with Anthropic as a partner
Prospero Silvério
July 10, 2025
Amazon Web Services is launching an AI agent marketplace and Anthropic is one of its partners. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/25ExnG4
Where AI meets design: Runway co-founder Alejandro Matamala Ortiz takes the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Prospero Silvério
July 10, 2025
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is the epicenter where 10,000+ startup and VC leaders gather to explore the future of innovation — and this year, tw...
Google brings its AI-powered marketing tools to India after ‘Google tax’ repeal
Prospero Silvério
July 10, 2025
Google has launched a suite of its AI-powered advertising tools in India, which debuted in the U.S. in May, as the repeal of the so-called “...
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Elon Musk’s xAI launches Grok 4 alongside a $300 monthly subscription
Prospero Silvério
July 09, 2025
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, late on Wednesday released its latest flagship AI model, Grok 4, and unveiled a new $300-per-month AI subscript...
Cluely, the startup that until recently marketed itself as a "cheat on everything" tool, is moving away from cheating. from TechCr...
Microsoft shares $500M in AI savings internally days after cutting 9,000 jobs
Prospero Silvério
July 09, 2025
Microsoft’s chief commercial officer Judson Althoff said during a presentation this week that AI tools are boosting productivity across sale...
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
European VC breaks taboo by investing in pure defense tech from Ukraine’s war zones
Prospero Silvério
July 08, 2025
With a fundraising target of €25 million, Darkstar’s goal is to help startups bring battle-tested products to military customers both in Ukr...
Grok, the AI chatbot powered by Elon Musk's xAI company, is back with more antisemitic rants. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/fdZXQJD
Monday, July 7, 2025
OpenAI has reportedly overhauled its security operations to protect against corporate espionage. According to the Financial Times, the compa...
Ruoming Pang previously ran Apple's in-house team that trained the AI foundation models that underpin Apple Intelligence and other on-de...
Cursor's CEO issued an apology this weekend over an unclear change to its pricing model that resulted in some users being charged more. ...
TikTok reportedly developing new version of app ahead of planned US sale
Prospero Silvério
July 07, 2025
TikTok is developing a new version of its app for U.S. users ahead of an expected sale of the app to a group of investors, according to a ne...
Apple has filed appealed the EU's decision to fine the company €500 million (about $580 million) for not complying with competition rule...
Sunday, July 6, 2025
X blocks Reuters accounts in India
Prospero Silvério
July 06, 2025
The main Reuters news account, as well as the Reuters World account, have apparently been inaccessible to X users in India since Saturday ev...
Academics may be leaning on a novel strategy to influence peer review of their research papers — adding hidden prompts designed to coax AI t...
Brex quickly realized its normal software procurement process wouldn't work in the age of AI and found a new way to test and vet tools. ...
Saturday, July 5, 2025
Drive Capital’s second act – how the Columbus venture firm found success after a split
Prospero Silvério
July 05, 2025
The venture capital world has always had a hot-and-cold relationship with the Midwest. Investors rush in during boom times, then retreat to ...
It’s a sad weekend over at Bluesky, where one of the best accounts has disappeared — though we can still hope for its resurrection. from Tec...
A group known as the Independent Publishers Alliance has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission over Google’s AI Overview...
Friday, July 4, 2025
Earlier this week, San Diego startup Gallant announced $18 million in funding to bring the first FDA-approved ready-to-use stem cell therapy...
The European Union said it will stick to its timeline for rolling out its AI legislation, ignoring calls by tech companies to delay the bloc...
Thursday, July 3, 2025
There is now a new badge of honor for startup founders: your proximity to one previously unknown Indian software engineer named Soham Parekh...
Cluely’s ARR doubled in a week to $7M, founder Roy Lee says. But rivals are coming.
Prospero Silvério
July 03, 2025
Cluely's rapid ascend may be challenged by free copycat products. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/thYsqz2
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
AI job predictions become corporate America’s newest competitive sport
Prospero Silvério
July 02, 2025
In late May, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei appeared to kick open the door on a sensitive topic, warning that half of entry-level jobs could van...
French B2B neobank Qonto reaches 600,000 customers, files for banking license
Prospero Silvério
July 02, 2025
Qonto, which targets European freelancers and SMBs, currently operates with a payment institution license it obtained in 2018. from TechCrun...
OpenAI wants to make clear that Robinhood's sale of "OpenAI tokens" will not give everyday consumers equity — or stock — in Op...
Wonder Dynamics co-founder Nikola Todorovic joins the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Prospero Silvério
July 02, 2025
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is back at Moscone West in San Francisco this October 27–29, bringing together 10,000+ startup and VC leaders to dig...
Foxconn tells hundreds of Chinese staff to return from its Indian iPhone factories
Prospero Silvério
July 02, 2025
Foxconn ordered over 300 Chinese employees to return home from its factories in India, per Bloomberg. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/tBPorGO...
Qantas hack results in theft of 6 million passengers’ personal data
Prospero Silvério
July 02, 2025
Qantas, the largest airline in Australia, confirmed the theft of 6 million customers' personal information. from TechCrunch https://ift....
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Congress just greenlit a NASA moon plan opposed by Musk and Isaacman
Prospero Silvério
July 01, 2025
Legacy aerospace giants scored a win Tuesday when the U.S. Senate passed President Trump’s budget reconciliation bill that earmarks billions...
Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping
Prospero Silvério
July 01, 2025
Cloudflare, a cloud infrastructure provider that serves 20% of the web, announced Tuesday the launch of a new marketplace that reimagines th...


