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Ron Johnson, who built Apple’s retail store strategy, says AI will improve online shopping but is unlikely to change how people buy high-consideration products. He argues that cons...
OpenAI announced an independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study. The move follows OpenAI’s claim that an intern...
TechCrunch is promoting a limited-time discount for Disrupt 2026, offering up to $200 off a pass and 50% off a second ticket. The event is scheduled for October 13-15 at Moscone We...
Meta’s new AI agent Muse has drawn more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did during the same post-launch mobile window, according to Appfigures...
Kairos Power selected Samsung C&T to help build its 50-megawatt Hermes 2 reactor in Tennessee, with Samsung providing up to $100 million through equity investment and engineering s...
TechCrunch says current pricing for Disrupt 2026 ends on Sept. 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. The event expects 10,000founders, investors, and tech leaders, with tickets discounted by up to...
Companies building world models are attracting significant capital and attention, but many remain highly secretive about what they are actually developing. Even founders and data s...
Elon Musk said The Boring Company is working on a “simple precursor Hyperloop” between Austin and San Antonio that could cut travel time to under 30 minutes. The company said it wo...
TechCrunch’s Equity podcast discussed the growing debate over whether AI companies should slow frontier model development after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed a plan to pace t...
Vocci’s new ring brings AI meeting notes to a finger-worn form factor, using a button to start and stop recordings, plus lights and haptics for feedback. Early testing found strong...
Flock Safety reportedly offered its 1,500 employees a generous voluntary severance package and expects significant interest, according to Wired. The move follows mounting criticism...
President Trump posted on Truth Social that the term artificial intelligence is “inaccurate” and asked followers to vote on alternatives including Superior Intelligence, Extreme In...
Google’s Gemini accessed protected systems at three companies during cybersecurity tests run by Irregular, marking the model’s reported first autonomous hacks. The breaches involve...
Navy CTO Justin Fanelli detailed how the service is updating its technology wish list and looking to work more closely with venture-backed startups. Recent moves include a $562 mil...
Petlibro’s new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale to track how much each cat eats and when. Higher-end models add an AI camera for more detailed monitoring, while some ad...
Vantora, formerly UP.Labs, raised $100 million from Silversmith Capital Partners and is narrowing its model to build startups primarily for corporate partners. The firm says those...
Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments, reflecting the AI industry’s push to apply models to drug discovery and disease research. The effort sits alongside...
A GovAI research scholar says an AI hallucination nearly triggered a US military operation, underscoring how unreliable outputs can become dangerous in high-stakes settings. The wa...
Anthropic says staff from Faculty, Accenture’s AI division, will work inside the company to red-team models, assess alignment, and test safeguards. The two companies expect to inve...
Automattic named Jeremy Klaperman, CFO of its WordPress VIP Enterprise unit, as interim company CFO. The move follows recent executive departures and gives the company temporary fi...
Crusoe raised a $3.9B Series F co-led by Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital, and Valor Equity Partners, valuing the data center developer at $30.9B. The company will use the fun...
Google and Google DeepMind researchers introduced the DeepMind Institute to host essays and debate around artificial general intelligence. Its first papers examine economic disrupt...
Nevada’s regulatory cap limiting Zoox to 100 robotaxis expires September 25, allowing the Amazon-owned company to expand its Las Vegas fleet. Zoox began charging for rides there la...
PrismML released Bonsai 2 27B, a compressed version of Alibaba’s Qwen model that shrinks memory needs by roughly 9x to 10x to 5.9 GB. The company says the model preserves 98% of th...
The FAA is rolling out a new AI-based software program designed to help air traffic controllers manage aircraft movements more effectively. The initiative, valued at $875 million,...
Valor Equity Partners, led by longtime Elon Musk ally and SpaceX board member Antonio Gracias, transferred 8.5% of its SpaceX holdings to its limited partners. Bloomberg estimates...
Al Gore told TechCrunch he is not especially alarmed by emissions from AI data centers, despite growing public backlash over their energy use. He said he is more concerned by the A...
The House overwhelmingly approved legislation that would require new vehicles sold in the US to include AM radio at no extra cost. Supporters argue AM remains important for emergen...
Noise connects brands with everyday people who create campaign content for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, paying them per view instead of through flat influencer fees. T...
Pulley, a cap table management platform and Carta competitor, says it will close down in December. The company was backed by investors including General Catalyst, Stripe, and Found...
A national backlash against data center construction has reached Philadelphia, where officials have floated a potential project in an area already burdened by past heavy industry....
Meta is rolling out a WhatsApp Business MCP server that lets developers use AI coding agents such as Claude, Cursor, Codex, and ChatGPT to streamline setup work. The tool can help...
The article catalogs AI efforts that have struggled, shut down, or fallen short of their ambitions, from Apple’s delayed Siri upgrades to OpenAI’s rocky app-related rollout. It fra...
BloombergNEF now expects U.S. data centers to consume about 18 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day by 2035, nearly double its forecast from nine months ago. Most growth would...
SpaceX is targeting September 22 for its first attempt to place Starship into orbit. The mission is also expected to deploy the first V3 Starlink satellites, expanding the company’...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang signaled that he does not support calls to slow the pace of AI development. His stance contrasts with Elon Musk and Sam Altman, who have backed Dario Amodei...
OpenAI has reportedly bought Glass Imaging, a smartphone camera technology startup, for about $300 million. The company was founded by two former Apple engineers who helped lead de...
AI infrastructure company Cornelis raised $205M and introduced Active Compute Fabric, a networking technology designed to keep GPUs fed with data more efficiently. The company says...
Amazon Prime Video is introducing on-demand local and national news clips, expanding its news offering beyond traditional streaming formats. The move positions Prime Video alongsid...
A fake HBO Max ad on Reddit reportedly exposed users to a growing ClickFix threat that tricks victims into carrying out the attacker’s instructions themselves. The attack affects b...
Insight Partners’ Deven Parekh discussed the firm’s AI investment strategy, including losing Legora to General Catalyst and holding stakes in competing AI labs. He said Insight is...
Larry Ellison has canceled a previously disclosed plan to sell 50 million Oracle shares worth about $7.5 billion. The company had earlier indicated the sale was planned, but the tr...
TechCrunch asked early-stage investors to identify the buzziest startups from Y Combinator’s newest Demo Day, which skewed more toward deep tech than recent batches. Investors high...
Equity discussed the AI industry’s renewed debate over whether advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. The episode focuses on what is driving the latest wave of A...
Obama said Democrats should put artificial intelligence near the center of their agenda and present a clear plan for addressing its risks. He highlighted concerns around AI’s econo...
Automattic confirmed that Matt Mullenweg has returned as chairman and CEO after its board voted earlier in the week to put him on paid leave and install CFO Mark Davies as interim...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said it would be “ill-advised” for the company to go public in The comment comes after OpenAI reportedly filed confidentially for an IPO, suggesting the compa...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is arguing for a more deliberate approach to building advanced AI, aligning in broad terms with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s call to “pace the frontier.” The...
Tesla posted a “Go for launch” teaser on X with a “10.01” date, signaling an October 1 reveal for its long-delayed second-generation Roadster. The teaser appears to reference optio...
Revolut confirmed it notified affected customers after customer data was exposed through fake government requests. The company also alerted the relevant government agency, law enfo...