Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission.

The goal, the firm said, is to develop and operate up to 5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity.

The YouTube-to-prestige-horror pipeline is looking very strong.

The Enhanced Games — a singular sporting competition where a majority of the athletes were on performance enhancing dru…

While AI is helping coders produce code faster, it may not be producing better code, researchers warn. And that could c…

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most…

Asana will incorporate Stack AI into its growing suite of AI workflow tools.

Anthropic has closed a $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, marking what could be the AI …

The Series B round was led by Battery Ventures.

Snowflake has signed a new, enormous five-year deal with Amazon to secure chips for AI usage. Nvidia is once again bein…

Payroll service provider Remote recently surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and became cash-flow …

Volvo, which is majority owned by China's Geely Holdings, said it can now move forward with its expansion plans for…

Google overhauled Search at I/O 2026, replacing blue links with AI agents. The backlash has been swift. DuckDuckGo app …

SpaceX's recent IPO and Starship rocket test flight delivered two big data points that offer a realistic vision for…

Today, higher education has become much more than a milestone or a fancy degree for most students. Instead, most folks…

We're in the transition period -- all of us.

Chi Xu, the founder and CEO of XREAL, thinks the smart glasses business has finally reached a turning point.

What sets Dreamie apart from all of the other fancy alarm clocks is laughably simple: It can play podcasts.

SolarSquare could be valued at up to $500 million in the financing expected to close next month.

The company had a mostly successful first launch of its upgraded Starship V3, which it needs to power its many ambitiou…

You can now disco ball-ify your entire Pixel homescreen, says Google.

Some AI startups are stretching traditional revenue metrics when talking about progress publicly. And their investors a…

Musk, who will have more than 50% of the voting power, will have a monarchical grip over the publicly-traded version of…

Google is about to look really different, and if you're not a fan of the AI overview feature, then you're not g…

SpaceX has finally made the contents of its IPO filing public, weeks ahead of what is expected to be the largest IPO ev…

Initially billed as an "AI butler," Iris watches what happens on a user's desktop and automatically learn…

Ocean, an agentic email security platform, raised funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners.

“By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America.”

Google is calling the new devices "audio glasses," in that users will be able to issue verbal commands to the…

The death is the latest worker safety issue at the Starbase facility, which has a higher injury rate than all other Spa…

Other venture-backed companies like Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs have raced to build better models. SandboxAQ is …

Stainless, a New York-based startup, will wind down all hosted products as part of the acquisition.

A lens the size of a thumbnail — and the South Korean startup that makes it could become the optical backbone of the AI…

Sir Nick said he had become “somewhat radicalised” by his experience in Silicon Valley, which had convinced him of the…

A big theme in the trial’s final days was whether OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is trustworthy.

Investing in the real world was lonely for Lior Susan 10 years ago. Now his firm finds itself at the center of the tech…

The vibes around the current AI boom aren't great, even in the tech industry.

AI-powered marketing platform Nectar Social announced Thursday that it raised a $30 million Series A round led by Menlo…

ArXiv is doing more to crack down on the careless use of large language models in scientific papers.

It may be possible to jailbreak an older, end-of-support Kindle and continue adding books to it. But doing so carries r…

Compulsive X user Andreessen himself couldn't resist responding, many, many times.

The tech company that maintains the hotel check-in system set its cloud storage to public, allowing anyone to access cu…

Richard Socher's new $650 million startup wants to build an AI that can research and improve itself indefinitely — …

Short-form video is built for mobile, so it may seem counterintuitive, but it's true: YouTube Shorts are becoming q…

Notion’s new developer platform lets teams connect AI agents, external data sources, and custom code directly into thei…

Gas turbines at xAI's Colossus 2 data center have drawn a lawsuit over the company's use of "mobile" …

The head of product for Claude Code and Cowork says that the next big step for AI is proactivity.

Describe yourself in three words or phrases. Globally driven. Strategically adaptive. Student-centered. What d…

There is no governmental mechanism to pay for an AI agent that monitors a patient between visits, calls to check in, co…

Some of the positions focus on AI-native development, data engineering and analytics, cloud-based engineering, and agen…

Institutions are therefore being urged to adopt more agile, proactive and student-centred strategies to better withsta…

Google had urged Apple for years to support RCS texting to make communication between each company's devices more s…

How will work setups change if we spend more and more time talking to our computers?

Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic.

Wispr Flow says growth accelerated in India after its Hinglish rollout, even as voice AI products continue to face chal…

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most…

Parker, a well-funded startup offering corporate credit cards and banking services, has filed for bankruptcy and is wid…

General Motors has reached a privacy-related settlement with a group of law enforcement agencies led by California Atto…

Some found out they didn't qualify for WARN Act protections like two-months notice because the company had classifi…

The invisible force behind all of this is no mystery to anyone paying attention to the city's tech economy. San Fra…

The Clips feed aims to enable discovery by offering users a scrollable feed with short snippets of shows and movies.���…

Intel's stock has risen a stunning 490% over the past year, a bet by Wall Street that may be running well ahead of …

Perplexity's Personal Computer brings AI agents to your Mac, and is now open to everyone.

Based on Whitney Wolfe Herd's past comments about Bumble's new direction, the company is expected to lean into …

xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models.

The push for new data centers at Microsoft is putting its key clean power goals at risk.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says more than 150,000 retail investors joined the fintech’s new venture fund, which offers ex…

With Apple's latest operating system updates, users will reportedly have their pick of which third-party AI models …

VW Group's stake will continue to grow under the $5.8 billion joint venture with Rivian.

AI chip maker Cerebras is heading for a blockbuster IPO that could value it at $26.6 billion or more. Its relationship …

Katie Haun announced on Monday that $1 billion has been raised across new funds to continue the firm’s thesis of backin…

Within hours he'd thrown up a website — a janky, one-hour job, by his own admission — and by Sunday, 36,000 "f…

The ad comes from Artisan, the AI startup behind billboards urging businesses to "stop hiring humans."

The Xteink X3 is a delightfully tiny, MagSafe-compatible e-ink reader that attaches to the back of your phone like a Po…

Bad news for Tilly Norwood.

Owner IAC says it's discontinuing its search business.

Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber's chief technology officer, revealed the plan in an interview at TechCrunch's Stric…

At TechCrunch's sold-out StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, we covered a lot of ground in a short…

Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.