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Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation
The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns....
5 hours ago
Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’
Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips....
5 hours ago
Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age verification tech that doesn’t work well
The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk....
6 hours ago
Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45 billion deal with Nscale
The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak....
7 hours ago
Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI
Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture....
9 hours ago
How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus?
Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?...
9 hours ago
OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach
The report, which spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises, is the most complete accounting of the incident to date....
10 hours ago
Flipboard acquires Graze, the feed builder working to monetize the open social web
Flipboard is acquiring Bluesky feed-building startup Graze, bringing its privacy-friendly ad technology and creator monetization tools into Flipboard’s growing open social web ecosystem....
10 hours ago
Medical device maker Boston Scientific says a cyberattack is causing a ‘global disruption’ to its operations
The company won't say if medical devices are affected or if any customer data was exfiltrated....
11 hours ago
US seizes domains of Chinese botnet used to hack NASA, Justice Department, and the Senate
The FBI has seized domains associated with a botnet that allowed Chinese-backed hackers to breach several U.S. government departments....
12 hours ago
Capital F closes $17M debut fund with goal to back the future of the ‘female economy’
Capital F, one of the few all-female-led VC firms, announced Wednesday the $17 million close of its debut fund. The firm backs companies building in the “female economy” — or the markets where women d...
12 hours ago
Apple is holding its iPhone launch event on September 9
The event is expected to be a notable one, as Apple is rumored to unveil its long-awaited foldable iPhone. It'll also be the first Apple event with John Ternus as CEO, who is scheduled to take the rei...
12 hours ago
Meta agrees to sweeping changes to restrict kids’ access to its apps as part of settlement with states
One of the most notable changes is that Meta plans to implement a daily two-hour time limit for teens that can only be disabled with parental permission....
13 hours ago
What’s driving Sweden’s startup boom, from Lovable to Legora
Vibe-coding darling Lovable just raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, roughly doubling its worth in eight months. But Lovable isn’t the only Stockholm startup putting up huge numbers late...
13 hours ago
Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents
Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searchable on the web and accessible to AI agents through an API and MCP....
13 hours ago
Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor
Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence....
14 hours ago
Ring introduces a new encryption standard, makes it the default for cloud features
Ring says users can still opt for end-to-end encryption....
14 hours ago
Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI
Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before....
14 hours ago
Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model
Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights are set to be released soon....
15 hours ago
Meta settles for $18 billion in lawsuit brought by 29 states over social media harms to children
The lawsuit alleged that Meta knowingly designed platforms like Instagram and Facebook to addict children, despite knowing about the harms the platforms could pose to young users....
15 hours ago
Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era
Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up....
16 hours ago
Bluesky now lets you upload 10-minute long videos
Bluesky's new 10-minute video support includes faster upload speeds, too....
16 hours ago
QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling you
The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a plan to use LLMs and cybersecurity know-how to make AI queries coherent....
16 hours ago
Arga is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents
Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel....
16 hours ago
Hearing tech startup Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses
The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into the arms of eyewear frames....
17 hours ago
Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them
Runable says 60%–70% of its 1 trillion-plus token usage in the last 90 days came from paying customers....
18 hours ago
Ventures Platform goes bigger — and broader — with its second Africa fund
The Pan-African venture firm has raised $83 million and plans to invest in startups beyond its home market of Nigeria....
22 hours ago
India’s Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call
Ringg has raised $10 million from Peak XV as a part of its Series A extension....
1 day ago
Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say
The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation....
1 day ago
OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues
Before Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting line away from President Greg Brockman and putting Vice President Sachin Katti in charge of the group....
1 day ago
X sends cease-and-desist to open-source project Nitter over alleged scraping
X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X frontends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping....
1 day ago
Instagram’s ‘First Draft’ feature aims to make editing Reels less tedious
Instagram is making one of the most tedious parts of creating Reels easier. The company announced Tuesday in a Threads post that it’s rolling out “First Draft,” a new editing feature that automaticall...
1 day ago
Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding
The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million....
1 day ago
SpaceX will build a second, $100B ‘Starbase’ spaceport in Louisiana
The company says it will start construction in 2027 and that a Starship rocket could take flight as soon as 2029....
1 day ago
Your vote matters! Decide which Audience Choice sessions will make it to TechCrunch Founder Summit
Each year, we get a huge influx of applicants to speak at TechCrunch’s events, and this year’s Founder Summit in Boston on November 4 will be no different!...
1 day ago
Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat
Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects, preferences, and other context....
1 day ago
Waymo robotaxis are headed to Munich
Germany's autonomous vehicle regulations have made it a hotspot for autonomous vehicle testing and eventual commercial robotaxi deployment....
1 day ago
Life360 expands pet tracking with new $8 scannable tags and zoomie alerts
Life360’s new $7.99 scannable pet tags alert families when a lost pet is found and share its last known location, while new care-tracking features help households keep tabs on feeding, walks, medicati...
1 day ago
That fake Grand Theft Auto VI demo is actually just malware
Grand Theft Auto fans, eager for news about one of the most anticipated video games of all time, appear especially vulnerable to this new cyberattack....
1 day ago
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 energy to power itself....
1 day ago
Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica
Lica co-founders are going to work on Gamma's new research team....
1 day ago
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....
1 day ago
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 kilowatt than the currently available state-of-the art....
1 day ago
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....
1 day ago
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....
1 day ago
Uber launches live video streaming for teen accounts
Uber said no one will be able to access the video once the ride ends...
1 day ago
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....
1 day ago
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 model can help it lure LPs....
1 day ago
‘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....
1 day ago
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 contacts into a single device, all without needing a phone nearby....
1 day ago
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