One month ago it was exciting to see the open-source ReactOS operating system running Valve's Half-Life game. Little to realize less than 30 days later it would also be running Half-Life 2...
Speed, safety, and consistency all come from technique. These are the 20 knife skills that professional cooks develop first and that home cooks almost never do
In an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company's core product, users can chat with these shows' characters, ask them questions, and even roleplay different storylines.
Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 won't be accessible via Claude subscriptions after July 7, but it's not a permanent change, and the company expects the model to return outside the usage-based plan soon. [...]
State attorneys general said they found that Block misled users by falsely advertising that Cash App provided bank-like protections, including advanced fraud detection.
Having proven how valuable compute can be, the company finds itself at the center of a market everyone wants to be in â while simpler technologies and less interesting companies get rich on the sidelines.
Meta has announced that its new artificial intelligence (AI) model Muse Image lets people use public Instagram posts and reels to generate AI content, and it's enabled by default.
"You can also @-mention Instagram accounts in the Meta AI app to bring specific Instagram profiles right into your imagâŚ
The company is using the cash to open an office in the Bay Area and compete for talent there, "strengthening its position at the heart of the world's leading AI ecosystem."
The Bezos-backed automaker building Americaâs cheapest electric truck is teaming up with the crayon company in a bid to brighten its rides. Make ours Razzmatazz.
In this weekâs episode of Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen talks with Precursor Ventures' Charles Hudson about the headwinds facing early-stage founders today and the most common mistakes founders should avoid in order to get funded.
Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday â the latest in a series of layoffs thatâs stoking fears of AI replacing jobs. The layoffs will hit Xbox and commercial sales the hardest.
Back in February, Uber announced ambitious plans to launch in seven new European markets in 2026 â but now five of those launches are reportedly on hold.
Station F, a Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel, is gearing up for a new edition of its F/ai accelerator program in a bid to strengthen its positioning as a stepping stone for promising AI startups.
The hacking operations disclosed in a Canadian spy agency's annual report underscores some pressing national security threats facing the country and its top allies.
Bookship.org seemed to delay this anticipated partnership again, but tells TechCrunch that it has settled business terms and is working on integration.
A running look â in reverse chronological order â at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.
Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to âput frontier AI in the hands of everyone.â
Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace?
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.
Hopper will pay $35 million to settle FTC allegations that it used deceptive âdark patternsâ to hide fees and mislead travelers about the costs and benefits of services.
If you're going to apply for Startup Battlefield Australia, now is the time. Applications close July 6, and once the deadline passes, the opportunity is gone.
The gadget has three buttons, and it changes context based on what app you are looking at. For instance, in meeting apps and sites, it could be toggle mic, toggle video, and bring window to the front.
The autonomous vehicle space is starting to feel like a repeat of the 2016 hype cycle. Travis Kalanick is back building a robotics company, and the talent wars and capital are heating up the same way they did the first time around. The moneyâs flowing back, and itâs the people who lived through thatâŚ
Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.
Sound built its reputation on concentrated, high-conviction bets in category-leading AI labs, while Kutcher's new fund appears to be chasing the layer underneath those companies â the infrastructure and energy that power them.
The co-founders of Bending Spoons, the Italian company quietly buying beloved, ailing Internet brands, learned big lessons from their own startup's failure.
Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them from the need to bounce between databases, pipelines, and tools.
Acti is betting the smartphone keyboard is the next home for AI assistants. The startup's new keyboard for iOS and Android works across apps and lets users create custom AI-powered shortcuts using natural language.
Anthropicâs Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic capabilities, lower pricing, and improved safety, positioning the model as a cheaper alternative to Opus, GPT-5.5, and Gemini Pro.
âWe can take power from a plasma,â Kieran Furlong, co-founder and CEO of Realta Fusion, told TechCrunch. The milestone shows âwhatâs possible,â he added.
The Trump administration's erratic approach to AI policymaking has left companies across the industry with little clarity about what will govern future model releases.
Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move would pit it against the big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
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Peter Diamandis is the latest tech executive to argue that global surveillance will make the world a better place, following Larry Ellison's comments in 2024.
AI models have progressed to the point where their capabilities have real political consequences. Dealing with those consequences will require collective action.
Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence might be ending.  OpenAI just shared its plans to spice things up with JalapeĂąo, its custom inference chip built with Broadcom, joining Google, Apple, and SpaceX in a growing list of companies building their way out âŚ
âWe donât believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default,â says OpenAI. âIt keeps the best tools from users, developers, enterprises, cyber defenders, and global partners who need them.â
Corgi became embroiled in controversy when Papermark accused it of stealing its software. Corgi says it did not, raising new questions about vibe coding.
New models are launching in Asia that promise Mythos-like capabilities without fear of an export ban. U.S. AI labs may never recover this enormous market.
When confronted with cancer, Connor Christou fed everything tied tied to his regime â blood results, scan data, wearable output, journal entries â into Claude.
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An alleged Russian-speaking group of cybercriminals is reportedly compromising and targeting several major companies that use Fortinet Firewalls and VPNs through previously known passwords.
French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight â a fear the Anthropic blackout just made real.
A new FTC lawsuit reveals how sophisticated subscription app operators can allegedly use shell companies and payment infrastructure to stay active on app stores despite mounting consumer complaints.
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Tokenmaxxing was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as far as it would go. Then the bill came due. Uber reportedly blew through its annual AI budget in a few months, some companies cut Claude licenses for parts of their org, and MeâŚ
Relativity Spaceâa rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbitâmight just beat SpaceX to Mars.
Karamo Brown, famous for his pep talks on Netflixâs âQueer Eye,â has jumped into the wellness and AI space with his new app, KÄ. After spending a year and a half focusing on his own journeyâfrom fitness and nutrition to meditation, sobriety, relationships, and personal growthâBrown wants to help othâŚ
The chatbot still remains the most popular AI assistant worldwide with over 1.1 billion monthly users, followed by Gemini with 662 million and Claude with 245 million.
The Meta-owned social platform announced a series of new features launching today, including a "Your Algo" tool that lets users control what they see in their feeds.
Unlike many of his tech industry peers who have cut thousands of jobs citing the need to restructure to make the most of AI, Robinhood's CEO Vlad Tenev conspicuously made no mention of AI in his note about layoffs.
TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't), pre-IPO deals, and what's tucked inside its S-1 registration document.
WordPress VIPâs latest survey suggests consumers are wary of AI-generated answers even as companies increasingly view AI search as an important referral channel.
The company said the cuts were part of a restructuring meant to help scale to profitability. Rivian recently pushed back its profitability goal to invest in autonomy.
Mobileye apparently wants to own some of the robotaxi market, even if that puts it in direct competition with companies it supplies its self-driving system to.