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Learn more about Paramount's planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery — a historic Hollywood megadeal valued a…

Here's everything we know about the biggest AI infrastructure projects, including major spending from Meta, Oracle,…

"We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again," the president wrote i…

In his lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk touted xAI safety compared with ChatGPT. A few months later, xAI's Grok flooded…

OpenAI shared the new numbers as part of its announcement that it has raised $110 billion in private funding. source …

Mistral AI lands a partnership with Accenture, the consultant that has also recently announced partnerships with rivals…

Waymo this week will begin mapping and collecting data in Chicago and Charlotte. The move comes as Waymo announces it i…

By bringing Reels to TVs, Instagram looking to better compete with YouTube, which largely dominates the TV space. sou…

Spotify and Liquid Death launched what might be the wildest product of the year: a speaker shaped like a urn. source …

AI models are pushing against three frontiers at once: raw intelligence, response time, and a third quality you might c…

While some cities are moving to end their contracts with Flock over its links to ICE, others are taking matters into th…

India is hosting a four-day AI Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech, in…

On the latest episode of Equity, we debated what’s next for the creator economy, and whether there will be any room for…

"The number one thing is to get out of your head this ideal that gets passed around in the self-help world: 'g…

I thought: other than hotels that use SUVs like the Escalade IQL to ferry guests around, what kind of monster chooses a…

A list of some of the alternative app stores iPhone users in the EU can try today.  source https://techcrunch.com/202…

"It also takes a lot of energy to train a human." source https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/sam-altman-would…

Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive.today, a web archiving service that they said has been li…

Dueling pro-AI PACs have centered around backing or targeting one New York congressional bid: Alex Bores, whose RAISE A…

The startup, founded by accountants who worked at Flexport, Miro, Hopin and Thrive Global, automates the difficulties o…

A new report from Business Insider reveals that high-level engineers at xAI were pulled off other projects to make sure…

Elon Musk's company town already has a volunteer fire department, and is forming a Starbase Police Department. Now …

A small group of users in the U.S. will start to see search results that include interactive product carousels with pri…

The Figure data breach allowed hackers to steal customer names, dates of birth, physical addresses, phone numbers, and …

Thrive Capital just raised $10 billion for its new fund-- nearly double the size of its last fund. source https://tec…

The new project, called Material Scale, will initially focus on climate tech startups in the apparel industry. source…

Under the partnership, Infosys plans to integrate Anthropic's Claude models into its Topaz AI platform to build so-…

Cohere's Tiny Aya models support over 70 langauges source https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/cohere-launches-a-fam…

According to a16z, it has eyes around the world in order to spot companies as early as local funds might. source http…

Neysa is targeting deployments of more than 20,000 GPUs over time as demand for local AI compute accelerates. source …

OpenAI said OpenClaw will live on as an open source project. source https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/15/openclaw-creato…

The longtime host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” is suing Google, alleging that the male podcast voice in the company’s No…

The Pentagon is pushing AI companies to allow the U.S. military to use their technology for “all lawful purposes,” but …

Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “more unhinged, according to a former employee. source htt…

As much of Silicon Valley chases mega-rounds and buzzy AI deals, Stacy Brown-Philpot is running Cherryrock Capital like…

Hollywood organizations are pushing back against a new AI video model called Seedance 2.0, which they say has quickly b…

Airbnb has shifted a third of its North American customer service to its AI agent, CEO Brian Chesky said. source http…

The Japanese sex toy maker said a hacker broke into an employee's inbox and stole customer names, email addresses, …

Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development. source https://techcrunch.c…

An investment group is trying to sway Netflix shareholders to reject the WBD deal in favor of Paramount. source https…

A 1 Gw orbital data center would cost roughly $42.4B—almost three times its ground-bound equivalent. source https://t…

Out of the twelve-person founding team, only seven are still at the company (counting Elon). source https://techcrunc…

Facebook's new AI features let users animate their profile pics, restyle their Stories and Memories, and add backgr…

Ouster is paying $35 million along with 1.8 million shares. source https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/lidar-maker-oust…

Bhusri said in a statement that the company's next chapter would be focused on AI. source https://techcrunch.com/…

Gather AI has closed funding from former Salesforce CEO's firm Smith Point Capital. Its warehouse AI system doesn&#…

After a better-than-expected opening weekend in theaters, box office for Amazon’s “Melania”fell 67%. source https://t…

The purchase rewrites the domain record books -- not that the crypto industry has ever been accused of restraint when i…

But this is still a bad idea. source https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/08/okay-im-slightly-less-mad-about-that-magnifice…

India is adjusting startup rules to help more of its deep tech startups with funding and long-term success. source ht…

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan is expected to be there. Apple's Tim Cook, too. source https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/07/t…

Antetokounmpo is the first NBA player to directly invest in Kalshi. source https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/07/nba-star…

Although the bill’s prospects are uncertain, New York is at least the sixth state to consider pausing construction of n…

This week's release of Opus 4.6 shook up the agentic AI leaderboards. source https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/ma…

The company says it has continuous age check systems running in the background to ensure age accuracy. source https:/…

The new model is build to accelerate the capabilities of Codex, the agentic coding tool OpenAI launched earlier this we…

Get ready for some selfies that are out of this world. Crew-12 is expected to head to the International Space Station n…

Amazon MGM Studios will reportedly begin a closed beta program in March to test its AI tools to help with film and TV p…

Andreessen Horowitz just raised a whopping ⁠new $15 billion in funding⁠. And a $1.7 billion chunk of that is going to i…

All startups accepted into YC will soon have the option to receive their seed checks via stablecoins. source https://…

Skyrsye, now valued at $1.15 billion, is pushing to get FAA certification for its universal operating system for flight…

OpenAI has released a new MacOS app for Codex, integrating many of the agentic coding practices that have become popula…

TikTok says it finally solved all issues related to outages caused by last week's U.S. snowstorm. source https://…

How many of the companies with recent layoffs are just using AI as an excuse? source https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/0…

For years, Tether's CEO avoided the United States, watching from offshore as regulators circled and prosecutors inv…

While the documentary is exceeding box office expectations, it's unlikely to make a profit in theaters. source ht…

Elon Musk's reported merging of SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla harkens back to the heyday of General Electric — or maybe th…