Conservative activists claim X is censoring them for being critical of its owner, Elon Musk. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For pe...

When a company releases a new AI video generator, it’s not long before someone uses it to make a video of actor Will Smith eating spaghetti....

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Nearly a quarter century after its founding, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is gearing up to launch an orbital rocket for the first time — and fina...

The data was found exposed on an Amazon cloud server, and contained precise location data on thousands of vehicles. © 2024 TechCrunch. All ...

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...

CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly told Google employees that 2025 will be a “critical” year for the company. CNBC reports that it obtained audio ...

LG may have the earliest big press conference of CES, but the Korean electronics giant still can’t help announcing a bunch of products ahead...

ChatGPT's new search feature can be told to generate entirely positive product summaries thanks to hidden code, new research finds. © 2...

ChatGPT, Sora, and OpenAI’s developer-facing API went down Thursday for an hour and counting. OpenAI says it started experiencing a major ou...

DeepSeek V3 can handle a range of text-based workloads and tasks, like coding, translating, and writing essays and emails from a descriptive...

The report The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier , published by McKinsey & Company, estimates that gen...

Blaming victims, months of silence, and suing security researchers all featured in cybersecurity in 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights res...

Social network Bluesky said on Christmas day that it launched trending topics feature in beta. The trending topics are available on both des...

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...

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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...

A year after Onyx Motorbikes owner James Khatiblou died suddenly, leaving customers with unfulfilled orders and millions in unpaid debts, th...

So far in life, I haven’t needed be a “mesh guy.” A well chosen and carefully placed Wi-Fi router has worked fine in our modest abodes, but ...

Incoming president Donald Trump has confirmed reports that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), ...

Two big defense tech players, Palantir and Anduril, are talking to tech companies including SpaceX, OpenAI, Saronic, and Scale AI about form...

With a US TikTok ban scheduled to take effect in less than a month, President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that he’d like to keep the app ...

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...

OpenAI’s efforts to develop its next major model, GPT-5, are running behind schedule, with results that don’t yet justify the enormous costs...

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...

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Google said Friday that the company is expanding Gemini’s latest in-depth research mode to 40 more languages. The company launched the in-de...

Real estate venture firm Fifth Wall is raising a new $500 million fund called Fifth Wall React, according to a regulatory filing. © 2024 Te...

Anysphere, the developer of AI-powered coding assistant Cursor, raised $100 million Series B at a post-money valuation of $2.6 billion, acco...

A new app called Tapestry promising to unify social media, news, and RSS in one place, is nearing completion. Designed by Iconfactory, the s...

Threads is introducing a new way to reshare photos and videos on its social network. Instead of quote posting the original post and then add...

Alphabet’s Wing announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding its partnership with DoorDash to bring drone delivery to customers in the Dallas-...

Earlier this year, IVP general partner Tom Loverro, proclaimed that the post-pandemic downturn is over, and companies that made it this far ...

A San Francisco jury has found Nima Momeni guilty of second-degree murder in the stabbing of Bob Lee, the Cash App creator and former CTO of...

Instagram has quietly rolled out the ability for users to schedule direct messages. The Meta-owned social network confirmed to TechCrunch on...

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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...

A speaker at the annual NeurIPS AI conference has drawn criticism — not for her opinions about AI, but the way she referred to a Chinese stu...

Regardless of how they're defined, the agents are for helping complete tasks in an automated way with as little human interaction as pos...

President-elect Donald Trump has surrounded himself with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs — including Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, and David Sack...

State officials said hundreds of thousands of Rhode Island residents could be affected by a cyberattack on the state’s online portal for soc...

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re looking at GM’s decision to pull out of the robotaxi business, Google alluding to the exist...

Facebook’s parent company Meta is supporting Elon Musk’s effort to block OpenAI’s conversion from a non-profit company into a for-profit one...

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Electric vehicle charging startup EVgo is the latest company to secure funds from the U.S. Department of Energy as the Biden administration ...

Meta’s Threads is rolling out its own take on Bluesky’s “Starter Packs,” which are curated lists of suggested accounts that help new users f...

A year after initial tests began, the web blogging site Tumblr, now owned by WordPress.com parent Automattic, is launching its Communities f...

A deep learning scientist whose last startup was acquired by Snap to build its My AI chatbot has raised seed funding for his latest venture:...

Google announced its latest quantum chip, Willow. But what really caught the industry's attention was a wild claim tucked into the blog ...

The U.S. sanctioned a Chinese cybersecurity company and one of its employees for exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Sophos firewalls to ...

Ai Pin maker Humane demoed CosmOS, a new operating system aimed at (potentially) improving all the tech devices in your life — from your car...

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 hype...

Single-board computer maker Raspberry Pi is updating its cute little computer-meet-keyboard device with better specifications. Named the Ras...

In winter 2025, a comparative literature class at UCLA will feature a textbook, homework assignments, and TA resources generated by AI. The ...

Apple is being sued over its decision not to implement a system that would have scanned iCloud photos for child sexual abuse material (CSAM)...

Famm, the discovery platform for queer-owned brands, was created by BIPOC queer married couple Cat Perez and Marianna Di Regolo to help user...

Google’s DeepMind team unveiled an AI model for weather prediction this week called GenCast. In a paper published in Nature, DeepMind resear...

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re diving into OpenAI’s surprise 12 days of reveals, an underwhelming Spotify Wrapped, and an ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Friday that it was placing Google’s payment arm under federal supervision. In response, G...

A change to Meta’s developer tools is impacting third-party consumer apps that had previously integrated with Instagram. Among those affecte...

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Today, we are excited to announce that Mistral-NeMo-Base-2407  and  Mistral-NeMo-Instruct-2407 —twelve billion parameter large language mode...

An Israeli startup specializing in penetrating IoT devices says it's hiring to "support new business growth" in the US governm...

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 hype...

Getting into the holiday spirit but still stuck at work? A cute new macOS called Festivitas can help you decorate your Mac computer screen w...

Threads is testing the ability for users to see how well their individual posts performed on the social network. Up until now, Threads’ “Ins...

Scaling machine learning (ML) workflows from initial prototypes to large-scale production deployment can be daunting task, but the integrati...