TechCrunch

TechCrunch Mobility: Blue-green is the color of autonomy

TechCrunch Mobility: Blue-green is the color of autonomy

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is p...

2 days ago
The hottest AI wearables and gadgets you should know about

The hottest AI wearables and gadgets you should know about

We compiled a list of all the hottest AI wearables, including Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more....

2 days ago
Starlink seems to be working normally again in Ukraine

Starlink seems to be working normally again in Ukraine

Elon Musk reportedly ordered SpaceX to throttle Ukraine's Starlink access....

3 days ago
Will AI expose the rickety infrastructure of the internet?

Will AI expose the rickety infrastructure of the internet?

The moment you realize the internet is "held together by glue and dreams."...

3 days ago
The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it

The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it

From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut...

3 days ago
Instacart reportedly discussed selling itself with DoorDash and Uber

Instacart reportedly discussed selling itself with DoorDash and Uber

Instacart might sell itself to a larger competitor....

3 days ago
Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human

Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human

Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max...

3 days ago
PHP-ocalypse: How two critical web bugs almost broke the internet

PHP-ocalypse: How two critical web bugs almost broke the internet

Two critical bugs in the PHP web programming language, used by the majority of the internet, threatened to upend the int...

3 days ago
These clever apps show off the iPhone Duo’s potential

These clever apps show off the iPhone Duo’s potential

From retro cassette players and virtual notebooks to flight trackers and even a digital toaster, developers are finding ...

3 days ago
Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats. 

Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats. 

A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with th...

3 days ago
The Boox Palma 2 Pro finally got me to stop reading on my phone

The Boox Palma 2 Pro finally got me to stop reading on my phone

The $400 Boox Palma 2 Pro is a smartphone-sized e-reader designed for people who want to read books, articles, and docum...

3 days ago
Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages 

Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages 

We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents d...

3 days ago
Startups don’t need to go viral to win customers

Startups don’t need to go viral to win customers

At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, two founders and a VC discussed how to not just gain an early following but keep one....

4 days ago
OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”

OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”

OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work....

4 days ago
Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell

Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell

The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted o...

4 days ago
VCs, Superhuman Mail founder share red flags about product market fit

VCs, Superhuman Mail founder share red flags about product market fit

Top investors from Iconiq and Sapphire Ventures, along with Rahul Vohra, the founder of Superhuman Mail share the do's a...

4 days ago
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 roundtables: Go deeper on the challenges founders are solving right now 

TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 roundtables: Go deeper on the challenges founders are solving right now 

TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 is coming to SoWa Power Station in Boston on November 4, bringing founders, investors, an...

4 days ago
Carta and NewView partner, hoping to entice more startups to let employees sell shares early

Carta and NewView partner, hoping to entice more startups to let employees sell shares early

A new program wants to encourage more startups to allow workers to cash out early by making it easier to transact tender...

4 days ago
From Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 

From Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 

Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to e...

4 days ago
Agent cloud startup Daytona hits $1B valuation backed by FirstMark and a who’s who of angels

Agent cloud startup Daytona hits $1B valuation backed by FirstMark and a who’s who of angels

Daytona is building a cloud for agents that's like giving every agent its own computer. It has attracted founders of Str...

4 days ago
Commonwealth Fusion Systems gets $85M to build better fusion-ready semiconductors

Commonwealth Fusion Systems gets $85M to build better fusion-ready semiconductors

Top-funded fusion startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems received an $85 million award from the federal government to advan...

4 days ago
Lab testing giant Quest Diagnostics confirms patients’ personal and health data was compromised during breach

Lab testing giant Quest Diagnostics confirms patients’ personal and health data was compromised during breach

Quest is the latest in a series of healthcare technology companies that have been hacked in recent months....

4 days ago
Oura sues rival Ultrahuman again, threatening its U.S. smart ring comeback

Oura sues rival Ultrahuman again, threatening its U.S. smart ring comeback

Oura alleges in its newest lawsuit that Ultrahuman's Ring Pro infringes two of its patents....

5 days ago
Uber rival inDrive eyes 2027 robotaxi tests in Central Asia with Pony.ai and Nvidia

Uber rival inDrive eyes 2027 robotaxi tests in Central Asia with Pony.ai and Nvidia

inDrive plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027....

5 days ago
Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing

Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing

MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, ev...

5 days ago
Mark Zuckerberg’s creative plan to pay California’s proposed billionaire tax without losing control of Meta

Mark Zuckerberg’s creative plan to pay California’s proposed billionaire tax without losing control of Meta

A newly launched stock class being offered was partially engineered to help Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pay the...

5 days ago
Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear

Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear

Warhound, the brainchild of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military a...

5 days ago
As blockchain investing falls out of vogue, a16z Crypto rebrands as a16z Frontier

As blockchain investing falls out of vogue, a16z Crypto rebrands as a16z Frontier

The digital asset unit, helmed by Chris Dixon, broadens its scope....

5 days ago
OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO

OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO

Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued pr...

5 days ago
Rivian buys world model startup to accelerate self-driving ambitions

Rivian buys world model startup to accelerate self-driving ambitions

Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed....

5 days ago
Arc browser sunsets December 22 as The Browser Company doubles down on Dia

Arc browser sunsets December 22 as The Browser Company doubles down on Dia

Arc was fiercely beloved by a dedicated group of enthusiasts, but it never quite became the mass-market Chrome alternati...

5 days ago
The secret to fast startup growth isn’t early sales, top names in tech say

The secret to fast startup growth isn’t early sales, top names in tech say

At this year’s Disrupt, Lovable GTM lead Luke Arno, Polska’s Ben Broca, and Theory Ventures’ Tomasz Tunguz gave founders...

5 days ago
1Password launches a way for AI agents to log in on your behalf without seeing your password

1Password launches a way for AI agents to log in on your behalf without seeing your password

The new feature allows agents to log into a customer's personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials ...

5 days ago
OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up

OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up

OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev?...

5 days ago
Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’

Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’

Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of...

5 days ago
Former OpenAI science lead launches Warp Science to automate wet labs with robots

Former OpenAI science lead launches Warp Science to automate wet labs with robots

Wearing cameras and sensor gloves, the startup’s human chemists will train robots to perform various lab tasks....

5 days ago
Elon Musk made a $1 billion investment in Skydance, report says

Elon Musk made a $1 billion investment in Skydance, report says

The investment will provide a much needed financial boost as the company seeks to cut costs and lift its stock price....

5 days ago
Chinese hackers spied on thousands of companies after breaching IT giant ConnectWise

Chinese hackers spied on thousands of companies after breaching IT giant ConnectWise

Microsoft points the blame for ConnectWise's breach at a China-aligned hacker, which relied on AI agents to rapidly hack...

5 days ago
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Startup Battlefield 200: Celebrating outstanding achievements

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Startup Battlefield 200: Celebrating outstanding achievements

Among the Startup Battlefield 200 were many industry-defining companies exhibiting and pitching on the Showcase Stage. H...

5 days ago
Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work

Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work

The ride share giant previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work, but is now taking the enterprise agent c...

5 days ago