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Pacific Fusion’s next fusion machine could clear a key hurdle to commercial power
Fusion startup Pacific Fusion broke ground on a demonstration facility in New Mexico that it says will generate enough e...
Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica
Lica co-founders are going to work on Gamma's new research team....
Apple rescues Hide My Email feature from the privacy scrap heap
Apple says it will no longer ditch using its icloud.com domain for hiding people's email addresses....
OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale, benchmarks show
Tested on Semianalysis’s InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kil...
Apple debuts its ‘most powerful chip ever’ in M5 Ultra and M6
Apple unveils these new processors alongside an updated Mac Mini and Mac Studio....
Apple’s latest Mac Mini runs on a new M6 chip, and starts at $899
The base model of the Mac Mini comes with 256GB of storage, 16GB of RAM, and costs $899....
Uber launches live video streaming for teen accounts
Uber said no one will be able to access the video once the ride ends...
Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents
Now exiting stealth mode with a $26 million seed round, Keenable has been building a vast web search index for AI agents...
Fiat Ventures combines venture and advisory divisions into new brand, raises $35M Fund II
In an environment where emerging fund managers struggle to attract LP attention, FGV is betting that a different venture...
‘The world seems to be ready’: An interview with OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux
TechCrunch talks agents, UX, and reporting to Greg Brockman with OpenAI's head of product....
Fitbit founders launch Luffu Link, an LTE health and safety band
Luffu Link combines all day health sensing, voice logging, location awareness, and the ability to get help from trusted ...
India’s Airbound bags $37M to take on trucks with rocket-like drones
Airbound's ultra-lightweight approach to drone delivery has attracted backing from Greenoaks, DoorDash, and Silicon Vall...
Situational Awareness, star AI hedge fund that nearly imploded, now being probed by the SEC
The AI hedge fund went from "the talk of Wall Street" to "subject of federal subpoenas" faster than you can say "diversi...
Oura is reportedly eyeing a September IPO that could value it at more than $16B
We all knew it was coming. The expected valuation may surprise, though....
Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after blockbuster IPO
The president bought when the stock was in the mid-$150 range. SpaceX finished trading on Monday back at its IPO price o...
Zillow and Redfin settle FTC antitrust case
Zillow and Redfin reached a settlement with the FTC, which requires Redfin to reenter the rental advertising business....
Showcase your startup at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and book an exhibit table while there’s still space
Make the most of Disrupt's crowds of potential investors and partners by exhibiting your startup from October 13-15....
Alabama launches investigation into OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face
Weeks after OpenAI disclosed that one of its cybersecurity models had gone rogue and hacked AI dataset company Hugging F...
Amazon hikes hardware prices by 60 percent, blaming memory shortage
As the memory shortage continues to cause trouble for hardware makers, Amazon says it is now being forced to pass on the...
Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns
Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ab...
Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics
General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space a...
OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?
Inside the frontier lab’s push to bring AI agents from software engineers to the masses....
Brake problems in GM EVs draw greater federal scrutiny
In one crash, the driver of a 2024 Blazer EV said they had to "deliberately steer the vehicle into a concrete curb" to s...
Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B
Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the f...
US nutrition startup Berry Street merges with India’s Healthify as GLP-1 trends upwards
Berry Street founder Noah Kotlove and Healthify founder Tushar Vashisht will act as co-CEOs of the new entity....
Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?
A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation....
Uber faces fine of nearly $1B over automated driver suspensions
The Dutch Data Protection Authority is fining Uber €825 million in the second largest penalty issued under Europe’s GDPR...
TechCrunch Mobility: The custom chip driving Waymo’s robotaxi ambitions
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation....
Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash
Flock Safety faces a growing public outcry over concerns that its surveillance technology could be misused....
Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated
Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to the development of the same AI tools tha...
Two years after launch, Walmart’s Flipkart is closing in on India’s quick-commerce leaders
Flipkart's quick-commerce venture is delivering 1.1 million to 1.2 million orders a day, nearly triple its November volu...
Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors
In the HBS Foundry program, AI avatars provide feedback during practice pitches and board meetings....
Will the DOJ’s investigation into a16z spook other VCs?
On the latest episode of Equity, we wonder why the DOJ is investigating startup board seats....
Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research
Built by DeepMind alumni, British AI lab Inherent released Faraday, an AI agent whose ability to replicate scientific pa...
OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill
OpenAI is calling for California to strengthen SB 53, an AI safety bill that the company previously opposed....
Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model
A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions abou...
US battery startups have found a lifeline in defense
U.S. battery startups pulled in $500 million in grants from the Department of Energy, throwing a lifeline to an industry...
Pixel 11 Pro XL review: Snappier cameras can’t hide an iterative upgrade
Google’s Pixel 11 Pro XL brings snappier cameras and genuinely useful AI features like Rambler, but its iterative upgrad...
Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive
Michael Polansky — better known publicly as Lady Gaga's partner and a former top deputy to Sean Parker — has quietly spe...
Japanese space tech startup Letara expands beyond satellite thrusters with $16M
Japanese space startup Letara is betting its hybrid rocket technology can move beyond small satellite thrusters into a b...
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