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Earlier this year, Lucra Sports founder and CEO Dylan Robbins did something that no one else has ever done. And he shared several secrets on how he did it.
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical uses AI as a lens to diagnose older problems: concentrated power, eroding democracy, and a tech elite that shapes the world to its own advantage.
The nine-year-old startup is replacing hundreds of employees with thousands of AI agents.
Chi Xu, the founder and CEO of XREAL, thinks the smart glasses business has finally reached a turning point.
We're in the transition period -- all of us.
What sets Dreamie apart from all of the other fancy alarm clocks is laughably simple: It can play podcasts.
Like other AI wearables, Amazon's Bee offers an odd combination of convenience and privacy anxiety.
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From a robot stirring your soup to a bread machine that kneads your dough, here are 6 gadgets that may make you feel like youâve won adulthood.
SolarSquare could be valued at up to $500 million in the financing expected to close next month.
Elon Muks's xAI has gone all in on natural gas, while SpaceX is obsessed with orbital data centers. What happened to the "solar-electric economy" he promised?
Deep Fission is seeking an IPO that could raise $157 million, though investors may have trouble buying the nuclear startup's story.
IBM and Scuderia Ferrari HP take TechCrunch inside how they are redefining the fan experience.
Apple, Meta, and Google offer special security modes that provide your devices more secure against targeted spyware attacks. Here are how those modes work, what they do, and how to switch them on.
Peec, which helps brands track their presence in AI searches, offers proof of a key trend among European startups.
The SpaceX S-1 is finally here, and the story it tells goes way further than rockets. The filing runs to 36 pages of risk factors alone, and the numbers inside match the ambition: a $28 trillion total addressable market, a pay package tied to establishing a Mars colony, and a valuation target that wâŠ
Some AI startups are stretching traditional revenue metrics when talking about progress publicly. And their investors are fully aware.
You can now disco ball-ify your entire Pixel home screen, says Google.
Jeff Bezos' rocket company confirmed an engine failure led to the loss of an AST SpaceMobile satellite last month, but offered little detail.
The company had a mostly successful first launch of its upgraded Starship V3, which it needs to power its many ambitious goals in the years to come.
People used AI on a spectrogram image of cockpit recordings to reconstruct them, forcing the NTSB to temporarily block access to its docket system.
Huxe said that it has pulled its app from App Store and Play Store, and that it will stop working later this month.
The Finnish company said in September that it has sold 5.5 million smart rings to date.
The company describes the app as a "dedicated space built for deeper discussions, real answers and communities you care about."
President Trumpâs branded cell phone maker and cell provider said the exposure was linked to a third-party platform and was evaluating whether it needs to notify customers.
Google demoed prototype Android XR glasses that overlay Gemini-powered translation, navigation, and other information directly into your field of view.
After Google Search's AI update, the word "disregard" now effectively breaks the search interface.
Spotify has released a bunch of AI-powered tools that nudge users to create more content. It can be a bit much.
Apple is asking the Supreme Court to narrow the App Store injunction won by Epic Games and overturn the courtâs contempt ruling over external payment fees.
According to users on X, the website was hijacked by hackers in an attempt to trick visitors into installing malware.
HMD is pre-loading Sarvam's Indus chatbot app, which supports 22 Indic languages
Google is about to look really different, and if you're not a fan of the AI overview feature, then you're not going to like what's coming.
First VPN promised hackers complete anonymity for their cyberattacks. But Europol said it was able to notify the serviceâs users that they have now been identified.
Musk, who will have more than 50% of the voting power, will have a monarchical grip over the publicly-traded version of SpaceX â control that goes far beyond what other tech founders enjoy.
Spotify is partnering with Universal Music GroupïżŒ to let Premium subscribers create AI-generated song covers and remixes, with participating artists receiving a share of the revenue.
The service suspension comes as Waymo has also paused operations in Atlanta and San Antonio after its robotaxis drove into flooded streets.
Elon Musk has the largest stake in SpaceX by billions of shares. The other biggest shareholders also have longstanding and deep ties to Musk.
SpaceX fueled the third-generation rocket booster and ship and was just moments away from liftoff, before calling a scrub. It's expected to try again Friday.
Waymo's robotaxi service is now suspended in both Atlanta and San Antonio, as the company works to stop its vehicles from driving into flooded roads.
Recycling startups are using AI to improve the recovery of critical minerals like aluminum, aiming to build a massive source of the metal.
Wayve's self-driving tech will show up in Stellantis vehicles in 2028.
One of the most promising introductions at Googleâs I/O developer conference on Tuesday was a new way for consumers to use the web: AI agents. Unfortunately, it was also the most confusing.
Maka Kids is building a streaming app for children ages zero to six featuring content designed for healthy development. The startup has now raised $3 million in seed funding to scale its platform.
Hark expects to release its first multimodal models this summer, which it says will power a personal AI platform that works with existing products and services. The company expects to follow that with hardware devices built specifically for those systems.
The Path says its AI model has scored 95 on the mental health safety AI benchmark, Vera-MH. This compares to a top score of 65 for the consumer bots.
Waymo's robotaxi service is now suspended in both Atlanta and San Antonio, as the company works to stop its vehicles from driving into flooded roads.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a Twitch series today at 4 p.m. ET.
Spotify said that it will monitor activity like streams and shares to determine who is a top fan
Spotify is releasing new audiobook plans later this year
Spotify will let you generate daily or weekly briefs based on your prompts
Spotify is releasing the new desktop app as a research preview in more than 20 markets.
Fragrance tech company Patina announced Thursday a $2 million raise from investors, including Betaworks and True Ventures.
President Trump delayed signing an executive order that would have required pre-release government security reviews of AI models, citing dissatisfaction with the order's language.
After launching to invest in fire tech, Convective is broadening its mandate to disaster resilience.
Flipper Devices said that the new gadget is in development and the base model will cost under $350
OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 â and this time, the mathematicians who exposed its last embarrassing claim are backing it up.
Microsoft is responsible for over 90% of the carbon-removal market, and reports suggested the company was pausing purchases entirely. This new deal should help assuage the fears of CDR startups.
Slapping âAIâ on your startupâs pitch deck is basically table stakes right now. When a founder raised $20 million from Cathie Woodâs ARK Invest for an eSports gamification loyalty startup without those two letters in the spotlight, it got us wondering how the conversation even started â especially wâŠ
Altman offered to have OpenAI invest in every single startup in this Y Combinator class: tokens for equity.
Elon Musk's xAI surprised the AI world when it made a deal to sell compute to Anthropic. Now we know how much it's worth.
Elon Musk's xAI said it will buy $2.8 billion worth of natural gas turbines over the next three years, according to SpaceX's IPO filing.
Nvidia announced another record revenue figure after market close on Wednesday, but forecasted that revenue growth would slow in the following quarter.
SpaceX's IPO filing reveals xAI lost $6.4 billion in 2025 while planning a massive Grok expansion â offering the first public look at Elon Musk's AI financials and more details about his ambitions.
The video clipping startup raised a $7 million seed round led by Slow Ventures.
SpaceX has finally made the contents of its IPO filing public, weeks ahead of what is expected to be the largest IPO ever and one that will make Musk the CEO, CTO, and chairman of the board.
Anthropic has told its investors that it will more than double revenue to around $10.9 billion in its second quarter.
The next big thing for Nvidia will be CPUs for AI agents, $200 billion worth, CEO Jensen Huang predicts.
Biotech company Imperagen announced on Thursday a ÂŁ5 million ($6.7 million) seed round led by PXN Ventures, with participation from IQ Capital and Northern Gritstone.
Scapia, an Indian startup that combines travel booking with co-branded credit cards and mobile payments, said the deal doubles its valuation.
Beauty and wellness booking marketplace Fresha says it has raised $80 million investment from KKRâs Next Generation Technology Growth fund, KKR's growth equity arm.
The loophole allows spammers and scammers to send emails from a legitimate Microsoft email address typically used for sending genuine account alerts.
A day after Elon Musk lost his lawsuit that threatened OpenAI's structure, leadership, and finances, OpenAI is reportedly back to prepping for its IPO.
Airbnb will soon let you book luggage storage and car rental services on its app.
First came the Netherlands, now it's Lithuania. And more European countries appear to be in the queue for Tesla's driver-assistance system.
Initially billed as an "AI butler," Iris watches what happens on a user's desktop and automatically learns how to do tasks for them, its co-founder says.
The Arlington, Virginia-based startup has raised $42 million to equip ships with sensors that blow the current AIS tech out of the water.
Figma's new AI assistant will be first available on Figma Design
The code hosting giant GitHub said it was investigating a breach, but said there was no evidence of customer data theft.
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NanoCo, the company behind OpenClaw alternative NanoClaw, has raised a $12 million seed after a viral launch, the founders tell TechCrunch.
Stability Audio 3.0 small model can run on-device and generate two-minute long tracks.
AI search has quietly become one of the most attractive targets in consumer AI.
In a memo to employees, CEO Sasan Goodarzi said the layoffs are meant to reduce complexity, simplify the company's corporate structure, and deliver better AI products.
Trump Mobile is leaking customersâ email and home addresses but has not responded to people alerting the company of the data exposure, according to two YouTubers who said they verified that their leaked data is authentic.
"Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75,000 a year paying more than $1,000 a month in taxes?" Bezos said Wednesday morning on CNBC. "That's $1,000 that could help with rent, or groceries, or anything."
A day after Elon Musk lost his lawsuit that threatened OpenAI's structure, leadership and finances, OpenAI is reportedly back to prepping for its IPO.
EV sales have surged worldwide in every region but the U.S., posing risks for legacy and startup automakers.
Truecaller's eSIM product will initially launch in 29 countries
Google is debuting a new AI Ultra plan priced at $100, which will give users 5x more usage limit than the AI Pro plan alongside the Antigravity 2.0 launch.
Most people shop across multiple devices, many retailers, and over the course of many days, which is why Google is launching Universal Cart.
The updates signal Googleâs push to turn its Gemini app into an all-purpose AI hub rather than a stand-alone chatbot.
Google is calling the new devices "audio glasses," in that users will be able to issue verbal commands to them and get things done via its ecosystem of apps and services, including Gemini.
The jury's speedy decision to reject Elon Musk's lawsuit against the other founders of OpenAI and Microsoft confirmed what we saw in the courtroom: Musk's case was a weak one, in part because he waited so long to file it.
Ocean, an agentic email security platform, claims its AI can thoroughly analyze the context of every incoming email to detect fraud and impersonation attempts.
Mach says the acquisition meaningfully improves unit economics across its five vehicle programs at exactly the moment the company is starting to scale.
Good news! Discord's hundreds of millions of users now have their communications scrambled, so not even Discord can see them.
Google is launching AI-powered âinformation agentsâ that can monitor topics in the background and proactively alert users to updates and changes.
Google expands Gmailâs AI Inbox with conversational voice search, letting users ask Gemini to find buried email details.
Google says it's designed the app to be accessible to everyone, from teachers to small business owners.
Google is completely revamping its search experience, and that doesn't stop at YouTube.
Apple is introducing a feature to let Vision Pro control a compatible wheelchair with their eyes
The federal cybersecurity agency left plaintext passwords in a spreadsheet uploaded to a public GitHub repository, per a report by independent journalist Brian Krebs.
The attacks are part of a wider campaign known as Mini Shai-Hulud, which has already compromised several open source projects and, in turn, developers and companies that use them.
"The Light Phone is designed to be used as little as possible," founder Joe Hollier told TechCrunch.
Pre-training is responsible for the large-scale training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities, according to the company. It's also one of the most expensive, compute-intensive phases of building a frontier model.
OpenAI announced two new measures to help detect AI generated imagery: joining the open C2PA standard and adding Google's SynthID to its products.
Google's Gemini Omni is a new multimodal model that reasons across text, images, audio, and video to generate and edit videos through simple conversation â starting with Omni Flash.
Google is debuting a new AI Ultra plan priced at $100, which will give users 5x more usage limit than the AI Pro plan alongside Antigravity 2.0 launch.
Google is letting users create drafts, take notes, and search for email with voice with the new Workspace update
At the I/O developer conference, Google announced a new agentic personal assistant called Gemini Spark, built from Gemini's base models and an agentic harness from Google Antigravity.
The tech giant says it's aware that most people shop across multiple devices, many retailers, and over the course of many days, which is why it's launching Universal Cart.
Google is embracing the rise of AI coding agents with new Android tools designed to work with platforms like Claude Code and OpenAIâs Codex, allowing developers â or their AI assistants â to build Android apps faster from the command line.
The updates signal Googleâs push to turn its Gemini Gemini app into an all-purpose AI hub rather than a standalone chatbot.
The tech giant says it's designed the app to be accessible to everyone, from teachers to small business owners.
Google unveiled new web-based AI tools that can generate native Android apps in minutes, as the company expands its push into AI-powered software development.
Google expands Gmailâs AI Inbox with conversational voice search, letting users ask Gemini to find buried email details.
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces â a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
Google is launching AI-powered âinformation agentsâ that can monitor topics in the background and proactively alert users to updates and changes.
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, its most powerful coding and agentic AI model yet, at the company's annual developer conference. It is capable of autonomously executing complex tasks and building software from scratch.
Google DeepMind is integrating Street View with Project Genie to create immersive, interactive world simulations for robotics, gaming, and travel, allowing users to explore environments, weather changes, and rare scenarios.
Stainless, a New York-based startup, founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation and maintenance of software development kits, or SDKs â the libraries developers use to interact with APIs.
Other venture-backed companies like Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs have raced to build better models. SandboxAQ is betting that access is the bigger obstacle and that Claude solves it.
The death is the latest worker safety issue at the Starbase facility, which has a higher injury rate than all other SpaceX sites.
"There's a common refrain among [young] people in this world that it's easier to raise money for a startup right now than to get an internship. Which is remarkable, right?"
The open source project said hackers stole its codebase and threatened to publish its source code if the company did not pay.
Amazonâs Alexa+ can now generate custom AI podcasts on demand, as the company expands its assistant into a personalized AI content platform.
The app is similar to a meeting notetaker: you can record doctor visits, and it will return an AI summary of the meeting, with the next steps, all of which you share with family and friends if you want to.
The New York public healthcare system said hackers stole personal and medical data, and scans of biometrics â including fingerprints â in one of the largest recorded breaches of 2026.
Elon Musk's claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI cofounders failed after nine California jurors decided in a unanimous verdict that his lawsuits had been filed too late.
A lens the size of a thumbnail â and the South Korean startup that makes it could become the optical backbone of the AI glasses era.
A big theme in the trialâs final days was whether OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is trustworthy.
Privacy will be a major theme when Apple unveils a new version of Siri.
Investing in the real world was lonely for Lior Susan 10 years ago. Now his firm finds itself at the center of the tech world's action.
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It's tough to get graduating students excited about a future shaped by artificial intelligence.
ArXiv is doing more to crack down on the careless use of large language models in scientific papers.
AI-powered marketing platform Nectar Social announced Thursday that it raised a $30 million Series A round led by Menlo Ventures and its Anthology Fund, which was created alongside Anthropic.
The vibes around the current AI boom aren't great, even in the tech industry.
It may be possible to jailbreak an older, end-of-support Kindle and continue adding books to it. But doing so carries risks.
Cerebras Systems was 2026's biggest tech IPO so far. But years ago, it burned through hundreds of millions working on a chip many believed impossible.
OpenAI's latest shakeup comes as the company reportedly plans to combine ChatGPT and its programming product Codex.
Deep Care's $350 device is pricy, but it runs offline and helps you improve your posture and movement habits
Lake Tahoe, Silicon Valley's favorite vacation spot, is about to get hit with higher energy prices as AI drives demand for electricity.
The tech company that maintains the hotel check-in system set its cloud storage to public, allowing anyone to access customers' data without a password.
Compulsive X user Marc Andreessen himself couldn't resist responding, many, many times.
Investors can't seem to get enough of RJ Scaringe or his ideas. Storytelling and communication are one of his superpowers, according to Jiten Behl, who joined Rivian when the company had just a handful of employees.
OsaurusïżŒ combines local and cloud AI models in a Mac app that keeps usersâ memory, files, and tools on their own hardware.
Meridian Ventures, the venture firm founded by Devon Gethers and Karlton Haney, announced on Friday the raise of a $35 million second fund to back pre-seed and seed-stage companies founded by those who have deferred MBAs.