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Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people. sour…

Bluesky is looking to a new signal — "dislikes" — to personalize users' feeds. source https://techcrunc…

The social media company inked three deals in the U.S. to power its data centers and offset its carbon footprint. sou…

CoreWeave's failed buy of Core Scientific is another sign of an AI bubble. But it's still shopping. source ht…

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is visiting South Korea to strengthen partnerships with Samsung, Hyundai, SK, and Naver, unveil…

Thanks to everyone who made this year's San Francisco event what it was -- and to the 10,000 of you who filled the …

Navan finished its first day trading at an approximate valuation of $4.7 billion, which is about half of its last priva…

Nvidia is an existing investor in the AI company and participated in it's $500 million Series A round in 2024. so…

Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Yakovenko said he's become increasingly comfortable taking a backseat in software d…

geCKo Materials returned to the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to debut new products as it pushes deeper into commercializ…

While San Francisco's mayor Daniel Lurie is opening his arms to autonomous vehicles, other cities are more resistan…

Elloe AI promises a system capable of fact-checking AI outputs, making sure they don’t violate laws and regulations, an…

OpenAI released data on just how many of ChatGPT's users are facing mental health challenges, and how its addressin…

Fitbit’s Gemini-powered health coach is rolling out to Premium subscribers in the U.S. on Android. source https://tec…

Two 401(k) management unicorns, Human Interest and Guideline, are squaring off in federal court with allegations so bra…

Onfire, a vertical AI platform for IT revenue teams, is coming out of stealth with $20 million in funding, including a …

Fitness app Ladder is debuting a new nutrition tracking feature that lets you snap a photo to input macros. source ht…

Prosus will match Accel's investment in Indian startups under this partnership. source https://techcrunch.com/202…

This could be part of a larger strategy to introduce more advertising in iOS. source https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/2…

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. source …

The countdown is almost over — tomorrow’s the day! In less than 24 hours, TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes over Moscone We…

OpenAI is working on a new tool that would generate music based on text and audio prompts, according to a report in The…

A high school student in Baltimore County, Maryland was reportedly handcuffed and searched after an AI security system …

The revolving door reportedly reflects deeper tensions. source https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/24/musks-ad-chief-at-x-…

A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024. so…

Learn how to use Spotify, Canva, Figma, Expedia, and other apps directly in ChatGPT. source https://techcrunch.com/20…

The browser wars are heating up again, this time with AI in the driver’s seat.  OpenAI just launched Atlas, a ChatGPT-p…

Rudy Arora and Sarthak Dhawan, two 20-year-old college dropouts, grew an AI note-taker app to five million users and an…

Meta AI's photo editing tools can be found in Instagram Stories when tapping the paintbrush icon. Users can describ…

Build Mode is our new podcast that will be a survival guide for early-stage founders navigating the messy, high-stakes …

Tesla's profit actually fell 37% compared to the same period last year, despite buyers rushing to take advantage of…

Amazon likely hopes that the new glasses will shave valuable time off of each delivery by providing delivery drivers wi…

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is urging regulators to rein in Google’s AI practices, arguing the tech giant’s dominance…

The tech giant says calls will now use AI-enhanced audio to reduce background noise and improve voice clarity, even whe…

When Liam Fedus announced he was quitting OpenAI, VCs swarmed. One even wrote a love letter. Here's how Felicis'…

New data from Similarweb shows Meta AI’s mobile app is surging in popularity, jumping from 775,000 to 2.7 million daily…

The Department of Energy said it was canceling grants to build new factories in places like Alabama and Kentucky. Three…

Bilal Abu-Ghazaleh had just moved to London few days before our call, splitting his time between there and Dubai. After…

UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts is making big bets on AI and Bill Belichick, and he sounds like a Silicon Valley CEO while d…

Home goods company Kohler recently unveiled a new device called the Dekoda — a $599 camera that can be attached to your…

No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems. source https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/openai…

The Trump administration is taking its social media attacks on Democratic opponents to an unlikely platform, with the W…

A federal judge has granted Meta-owned WhatsApp’s request for a permanent injunction blocking Israeli cyberintelligence…

Looks like Wikipedia isn't immune to broader online trends. source https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/wikipedia-sa…

Eventbrite co-founder Kevin Hartz is onto his next thing — teenage founders, not as a social experiment but as an unpla…

The video was posted Friday on the Senate Republicans X account. According to X’s policies, the platform prohibits “dec…

If you're wondering why AI companies are pursuing this path, they'll tell you it's not just about electrici…

The loan guarantee will backstop $1.6 billion for AEP, one of the nation's largest utilities, as it seeks to modern…

Silicon Valley’s rule? It’s not cool to be cautious. As OpenAI removes guardrails and VCs criticize companies like Anth…

Kayak is bringing AI directly to its main platform with a new “AI Mode” that lets travelers research, plan, and book tr…

Where training sets were once scraped freely from the web or collected from low-paid annotators, companies are looking …

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and i…

Starting December 15, users will no longer be able to log into the apps and will be automatically redirected to the Fac…

If the company attracts investors at the top of its announced range, it will have a valuation of about $7.2 billion. …

Backed by Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr.’s 1789 Capital, the Enhanced Games aims to disrupt the Olympics with a compe…

Spotify is developing a new “SongDNA” feature that lets users explore music through the people behind it — from writers…

Apple is adding renewable power to offset customer charging and support its operations, including third-party manufactu…

Five new vehicles and a four-cylinder engine will be developed and produced through 2029 as part of investment into fac…

SpaceX's company town has formed a volunteer fire department, extending control over both the emergency response an…

Sonic Fire Tech has developed a device that can extinguish flames using acoustic energy below the range of human hearin…

Lachy Groom backs Airbound in $8.65M seed round as it launches pilot in Bengaluru. source https://techcrunch.com/2025…

Goldman Sachs has agreed to acquire Industry Ventures, a 25-year-old, San Francisco-based investment firm with $7 billi…

Grindr's majority owners are scrambling to take the LGBTQ+ dating app private after a stock decline triggered a per…

Oura's chief commercial officer doesn't seem particularly worried about capturing every demographic. Instead, s…

The final countdown to Disrupt 2025! Save up to $624 on your pass before prices rise Friday, October 17 at 11:59 p.m. P…

Salesforce announces an upgraded version of its Agentforce platform designed to help enterprises build and deploy AI ag…

Anduril Industries on Monday unveiled “EagleEye,” a helmeted computing system that seeks to turn soldiers into AI-augme…

Strava, the 16-year-old fitness tracking app, is gearing up to go public, the Financial Times reports. CEO Michael Mart…

Over the last two years, Nvidia has used its ballooning fortunes to invest in over 100 AI startups. Here are the giant …

Cerca is a dating app that sets users up with mutual friends. source https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/12/dating-app-cer…

AI researcher Andrew Tulloch reportedly announced his departure to employees in a message on Friday. source https://t…

Apple appears to be winding down support of Clips, with the company removing Clips from the App Store and saying it wil…

The corporate travel management company is moving forward under SEC rules that allow companies in IPO limbo to proceed …

AI companies are making their much-anticipated enterprise plays, but the results are wildly inconsistent. Just this wee…

Prediction markets startup Klashi raised $300 million, while Polymarket nabbed up to $2 billion. source https://techc…

The company tacitly admits that browser notifications, as designed, might have been a bad idea, saying that its own dat…

a16z’s Anish Acharya calls India office reports “entirely fake news!” source https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/andree…

Reflection, once focused on autonomous coding agents, has raised $2B at an $8B valuation to expand into both an opensou…

The platform said in a press release that hackers breached a third-party vendor that Discord uses for age-related appea…

Imposter Sora apps saw hundreds of thousands of downloads before Apple pulled them from the App Store. source https:/…

Novoloop has signed a deal with a contract manufacturer to produce its Lifecycled TPU material. source https://techcr…

By some estimates, OpenAI has this year inked $1 trillion dollars worth of infrastructure deals. Altman says to expect …

The show is one of many on Draper's newly launched television channel, DraperTV, which offers programming around bu…

In an interview, OpenAI's Head of ChatGPT discusses the company's push into developing an AI operating system f…

AMD's unusual deal to finance OpenAI's chip purchases could grant the AI model maker up to $100 billion, analys…

The app, which lets you create mini web apps using text prompts, is now available in Canada, India, Japan, South Korea,…

Otter is launching a suite of enterprise tools to help companies use its tech to create a central knowledge base. sou…

The long-awaited cheaper Model 3 and Model Y are finally here, but they start at $36,990 and $39,990, respectively -- j…

Swifties love a puzzle, but some were rubbed the wrong way by a promotional scavenger hunt which appeared to use AI-gen…

The new deal covers output from four different solar projects. Microsoft has said it will spend $2.9 billion to expand …

As Sora tops the App Store, MrBeast says AI could threaten creators' ability to make money. source https://techcr…

Firefly Aerospace has agreed to buy defense analytics firm SciTec for about $855 million in cash and stock as the compa…

Heidi Health raised a $65 million Series B led by Steven Cohen’s Point72. source https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/05/he…

A waffle-centric controversy underlines ongoing tensions between Bluesky and some of its most vocal users. source htt…

Police say they have arrested a suspect allegedly connected to multiple online threats that led TikTok to evacuate its …

Drivers for ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft will soon have the right to unionize in California as independent cont…

New PitchBook data illustrates how dramatically AI is dominating startup investment, with 2025 on-track to become the f…

Equity co-hosts Anthony Ha, Kirsten Korosec, and Max Zeff explore the how startups are navigating a topsy-turvy relatio…

Hundreds of Eufy customers have donated hundreds of thousands of videos to train the company’s AI systems. source htt…

The U.S. government shutdown that began this week is the first in seven years. While it might not feel immediately disr…

It's been a wild year of growth and fundraising for vibe-coding database of choice, Supabase. source https://tech…

While AI coding startups like Cursor raise brow-raising rounds on barely three years of existence, Replit's path to…

Investigations by the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration are underway. source h…

Former Stripe CTO Rahuil Patil is joining Anthropic to fine-tune the company's infrastructure. source https://tec…

Sora becomes the No. 3 US app after 164K downloads in 2 days, making the AI video app an early hit. source https://te…

The U.S. Faces a New Shutdown Showdown The United States is once again staring down the barrel of a government shutd…