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Federal prosecutors charged Google employee Michele Spagnuolo with commodities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering over alleged Polymarket bets tied to 2025 Search trends. Pros...
Rivian has set June 9 as the date for the first customer deliveries of its R2 SUV. CEO RJ Scaringe has described the vehicle as one of the company’s most important launches to date...
Triomics raised $22 million in Series B funding led by Battery Ventures to grow its AI platform for cancer centers. The company helps oncologists and staff automate data-heavy work...
Amazon is discounting Apple’s newest iPad Air for the first time, with the 11-inch 128GB Wi-Fi model starting at $519.99 and the 13-inch version dropping to $The tablets offer an M...
Ferrari’s new Luce EV, a four-door electric sedan designed with help from Jony Ive’s LoveFrom, is drawing criticism for looking unlike the brand’s classic sports cars. The rollout...
Snowflake has signed a five-year, $6B agreement with Amazon Web Services to secure chips for AI-related computing needs. The deal gives AWS another major customer for its AI infras...
Lux Optics has released Halide Mark III, the latest version of its camera app for iPhone and iPad, after announcing it in December The app adds a film simulation engine with five n...
Meta is rolling out paid Plus subscriptions for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp globally over the next few weeks, following earlier tests. Facebook Plus and Instagram Plus cost $...
YouTube is reportedly preparing to automatically label videos that appear to be made with or altered by AI. The move would expand platform efforts to disclose synthetic media witho...
MiniMax released a technical report on its M2 family, outlining engineering choices behind its open-source language models across text, coding, and agent use cases. The company als...
Payroll startup Remote says it has surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue and become cash-flow positive. The company attributes the milestone to AI adoption, which help...
The article argues that push notifications have shifted from simple delivery pipes into platform-controlled experiences managed by Apple and Google. Their systems now summarize, re...
A third-party website used in the U.K. visa application process exposed sensitive applicant data, including passports, selfies, and location information. After being notified, the...
Merck says its AI agents are already producing measurable results, including cutting one drug discovery cycle by 33% and speeding compliant marketing material delivery by 70% to 80...
Simon Willison says Anthropic and OpenAI appear to have found product-market fit, driven by heavy enterprise use of coding agents and other LLM tools. He notes that while individua...
A third-party website used in the U.K. visa process exposed thousands of applicants’ sensitive documents, including passport images and selfies. The report says the company has not...
Volvo says it has received permission from the Trump administration to keep selling connected cars in the US despite its majority ownership by China’s Geely Holdings. The decision...
TechCrunch says Startup Battlefield 2026 is seeking promising startups with category-defining ideas, not necessarily the most polished or traction-heavy companies. The competition,...
The U.S. government has dozens of tons of weapons-grade plutonium and wants nuclear startups to explore using it as reactor fuel. The push aims to turn a costly disposal problem in...
Google’s I/O 2026 Search overhaul replaces familiar blue links with AI agents, triggering immediate user backlash. DuckDuckGo says app installs rose 30% as some users look for a mo...
Datacurve released DeepSWE, a 113-task AI coding benchmark across 91 open-source repositories and five languages, showing a much wider performance gap among frontier models than SW...
NASA announced upcoming lunar south pole missions meant to prepare for the crewed Artemis landing planned for The first, Moon Base I, is slated no earlier than fall 2026 using Blue...
CrowdStrike says Mutant Spider was the most active threat actor targeting financial services, using voice phishing over Microsoft Teams to trick IT support into resetting MFA and e...
Google has officially replaced the Fitbit app with Google Health alongside the launch of the Fitbit Air. Early user reactions are largely negative, with complaints about the redesi...
Woot is selling a refurbished GE Profile Opal 2.0 Ultra Nugget Ice Maker for $264.99 through June 3, with a 90-day warranty. The countertop machine makes up to 38 pounds of nugget...
The article argues that Sony’s Spider-Man projects remain inconsistent, with the acclaimed Spider-Verse films showing what the studio can do when it embraces inventive storytelling...
American Airlines will install SpaceX’s Starlink Wi-Fi on more than 500 aircraft beginning in Q1 2027, including Airbus A321XLR and A321neo planes. Starlink will join existing conn...
At his 30th college reunion, the author found conversations repeatedly returning to concerns about how LLMs are reshaping knowledge work and young adults’ futures. The essay contra...
The article says the once-prominent bookstore wall of programming manuals has largely disappeared, with Circana BookScan showing U.S. computer book sales down 16.9% year over year...
Sennheiser announced the Momentum 5 Wireless headphones, keeping the Momentum 4’s modern design while upgrading the internals. The new model adds improved ANC and, for the first ti...
Security researchers say Microsoft Copilot Cowork can be manipulated via indirect prompt injection in a poisoned skill to exfiltrate files from a Microsoft 365 tenant. The attack a...
Ferrari has revealed the Luce, its first EV, after months of teasers. The €550,000 car is also Ferrari’s second four-door model and its first five-seater, with LoveFrom shaping the...
The article highlights several modern pixel-inspired typefaces, including Analog Mono, Coral Pixels, Two Slice, and Geist Pixel. These fonts recreate or reinterpret retro display q...
Norway’s National Library is building a sovereign LLM trained on Norwegian-language books, newspapers, web pages, broadcasts, and other cultural records. The project uses 2PB of Hu...
The article argues that AI systems are creating new forms of technical debt across prompts, models, data pipelines, and infrastructure, making failures less visible and harder to r...
The FTC says Cox Media, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works will pay $930,000 to settle allegations that they falsely marketed ad tools as capable of secretly listening to consumers t...
ClickUp CEO Zeb Evans says the company’s 22% layoff was driven by a shift toward AI agents, not cost cutting. He claims internal automation is boosting productivity and says saving...
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical is less a technical critique of AI than a broader warning about concentrated power. It argues that AI highlights older problems, including democrati...
Pope Leo XIV’s first major papal document, Magnifica Humanitas, warns that rapid AI adoption risks undermining human dignity without stronger protections. The encyclical focuses on...
Lucra Sports founder and CEO Dylan Robbins says his company raised $20M at a time when many venture capitalists were prioritizing AI deals. He shared the pitching approach and less...
Applications and nominations for Startup Battlefield 200 close on May Selected startups can gain investor access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and a chance to win $100,0...
Early-bird registration for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco ends May 29 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Attendees can save up to $410 on passes before prices increase.
REI’s biggest annual sale runs through May 25, offering deals on outdoor gear including tents, sleeping pads, stoves, water filters, and fitness wearables. The roundup highlights l...
Google Cloud COO Francis de Souza said companies adopting AI must treat security, governance, and auditability as core platform requirements rather than add-ons. He warned that sha...
Xreal CEO Chi Xu says the smart glasses market has burned through large investments because the devices have been bulky, awkward, and lacking compelling software. At Google I/O, Xr...
A Nature journal study of 15 Australian companies testing the 100:80:100 four-day work week model found that 14 continued after the trial, with none reporting lower productivity. S...
The post argues that writing clean, well-scoped commits during large feature development is difficult because fixes, refactors, and UI changes often overlap. It presents a Jujutsu...
The article argues that production AI agents are creating a new class of incidents: actions that are technically valid but based on incomplete context, causing infrastructure casca...
The article highlights six kitchen gadgets designed to reduce everyday cooking effort, including a robot soup stirrer and a bread machine that kneads dough. These tools aim to make...
TechCrunch Mobility introduces its latest newsletter edition as a central source for news and analysis on the future of transportation. The headline signals a focus on a robotaxi r...
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