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- OpenAI shuts down election influence operation that used ChatGPT
- Google is bringing AI overviews to India, Brazil, Japan, UK, Indonesia and Mexico
- EliseAI lands $75M for chatbots that help property managers deal with renters
- Made by Google 2024: A few AI features you might’ve missed
- Gemini Live first look: Better than talking to Siri, but worse than I’d like
- Made by Google 2024: All of Google’s reveals, from the Pixel 9 lineup to Gemini AI’s addition to everything
- Google adds new AI-powered features for photo editing and image generation
- Google’s Pixel Buds Pro 2 bring Gemini to your ears
- Gemini Live, Google’s answer to ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode, launches
- Google’s Pixel 9 line offers more size options, better cameras and Gemini by default
- TechCrunch Minute: Google reveals new Pixel phones and more at Made by Google
- Google Gemini is the Pixel 9’s default assistant
- As Alexa turns 10, Amazon looks to generative AI
- Tesla’s Dojo, a timeline
- Rabbit’s r1 refines chats and timers, but its app-using ‘action model’ is still MIA
- Bilingual dictation assistant Silvia understands ‘Spanglish’ and other language mixtures
- Made by Google 2024: How to watch Google unveil the Pixel 9, a new foldable and more
- Newly launched social network Maven loses its co-founders
- ChatGPT’s mobile app just had its biggest month yet
- This Week in AI: OpenAI’s talent retention woes
- Reddit to test AI-powered search result pages
- Google Assistant lives to automate another day
- Made by Google 2024: Pixel 9, Gemini, a new foldable and other things to expect from the event
- Secretaries of state urge X to stop its Grok chatbot from spreading election misinformation
- Placer.ai boosts valuation to $1.5B after quietly raising another $75M
- AI chip startup Groq lands $640M to challenge Nvidia
- iPad sales help bail out Apple amid a continued iPhone slide
- Category: Apple
- 23andMe customers notified of bankruptcy and potential claims — deadline to file is July 14
- Amazon offers peek at new human jobs in an AI bot world
- I’d jump at the chance to swap my 24-inch LCD monitor for this 25-inch color E Ink alternative – if only I could afford it
- Elizabeth Holmes’ partner reportedly fundraising for new blood-testing startup
- The Gr-AI-m Reaper: Hundreds of jobs at IBM and Crowdstrike vanish as artificial intelligence makes humans more dispensable
- Week in Review: Instacart CEO heads to OpenAI
- A huge Sony Xperia 1 VII leak hints at the design, colors, and features of the upcoming flagship
- The near joy of biking with Ray-Ban Meta glasses
- Five things we learned from WhatsApp vs. NSO Group spyware lawsuit
- Google I/O 2025: What to expect, including updates to Gemini and Android 16
- TechCrunch Mobility: Tesla denied ‘Robotaxi’ trademark, Aurora loses a co-founder, and tariffs start to take a toll
- Epic Games and Spotify test Apple’s new App Store rules
- SoundCloud changes policies to allow AI training on user content
- DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app
- Apple said to be developing new chips for smart glasses, Macs, and more
- Appfigures: Apple made over $10B from US App Store comissions last year
- ChatGPT’s deep research tool gets a GitHub connector to answer questions about code
- Google rolls out AI tools to protect Chrome users against scams
- Delta debuts its Patreon-supported iOS app update after US App Store policy change
- New court filing shows that Meta execs agreed that Facebook was losing to TikTok
- Apple is looking to add AI search engines to Safari
- Figma releases new AI-powered tools for creating sites, app prototypes, and marketing assets
- Amazon to invest $4B in Chile to launch AWS infrastructure region
- Patreon’s app can now accept web payments after U.S. App Store changes
- Amazon Kindle’s iOS app adds new ‘Get Book’ button following Apple payments ruling
- Can the Cadillac Celestiq EV make GM’s luxury brand great again? Don’t rule it out
- Unblocked raises $20M for AI to help devs understand codebases
- NewLimit, founded by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, raises $130M to develop age-reversing treatments
- People struggle to get useful health advice from chatbots, study finds
- A stealth AI model beat DALL-E and Midjourney on a popular benchmark. Its creator just landed $30M.
- Google accidentally reveals details about its new Android design language, Material 3 Expressive
- What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor
- Elon Musk took a chainsaw to the US government. Tesla is taking the hit.
- Google is making TV and movies to convince you that tech is not evil
- Apple appeals court decision that forced it to allow links to external payments in apps
- Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis?
- Warren Buffett will step down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO
- Week in Review: Apple won’t raise prices — yet
- eBay and Etsy are relatively confident despite tariff pressures
- How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hackers
- Apple and Anthropic reportedly partner to build an AI coding platform
- Google’s NotebookLM Android and iOS apps are available for preorder
- Apple approves Spotify app update that allows US users to access pricing info, external payment links
- Apple changes US App Store rules to let apps link to external payment systems
- Amazon CEO says 100,000 users now have Alexa+
- Despite paying $900M in tariffs, Apple’s Tim Cook isn’t announcing price increases — yet
- Apple CEO Tim Cook says tariffs to add $900M in costs in Q3, but future uncertain
- Rising star defense tech startup Mach Industries is raising $100 million, sources say
- Buzzy investing app Dub lands $30M Series A
- Ai2’s new small AI model outperforms similarly-sized models from Google, Meta
- Epic Games is launching webshops to allow developers to circumvent app store fees after new ruling
- Anthropic lets users connect more apps to Claude
- Read the juiciest bits from the Apple-Epic court ruling
- Fortnite plans return to the US iOS App Store next week
- Amazon updates Q Business to let companies build public-facing chatbots
- Apple notifies new victims of spyware attacks across the world
- Orb, a new app by Ookla’s ex-CEO, offers a broader picture of your internet connection
- Cast your vote: Help shape the TechCrunch All Stage agenda
- Wikipedia says it will use AI, but not to replace human volunteers
- Nuvo, a network for B2B trade, has nabbed $34M from Sequoia and Spark Capital
- Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year
- Meta says its Llama AI models have been downloaded 1.2B times
- Meta previews an API for its Llama AI models
- Google’s NotebookLM expands its AI podcast feature to more languages
- Meta launches a stand-alone AI app to compete with ChatGPT
- Meta needs to win over AI developers at its first LlamaCon
- Spotify adds 5M premium users and hits record operating income
- The Huawei Watch 5 just leaked in full, revealing the intriguing new health sensor the company has been teasing
- UK fintech Sprive closes $7.3M round to facilitate mortgage overpayments
- Meet the companies racing to build quantum chips
- IBM pledges to spend $150B in the US over the next few years
- AI animation startup Cheehoo lands $10M funding from Greycroft
- Lightrun grabs $70M using AI to debug code in production
- From coding tests to billion-dollar startups, Ali Partovi’s eight-year experiment is paying off
- Best bookmarking apps to help organize and declutter your digital life
- The RealReal founder Julie Wainwright has a startling new memoir
- Government officials are kind of bad at the internet
- Lately’s new gamified app helps people arrive on time
- The OpenAI mafia: 15 of the most notable startups founded by alumni
- Instagram Edits topped 7M downloads in first week, a bigger launch than CapCut’s
- The TechCrunch Cyber Glossary
- Prince Harry meets, funds youth groups advocating for social media and AI safety
- Wait, how did a decentralized service like Bluesky go down?
- Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell ‘hyper personalized’ ads
- OpenAI wants its ‘open’ AI model to call models in the cloud for help
- Government censorship comes to Bluesky, but not its third-party apps … yet
- EU fines Apple, Meta millions for breaching tech competition rules
- Durin digs up $3.4M to automate drills for critical minerals exploration
- Tesla earnings Q1 2025: What we’re watching for
- Meta releases its CapCut rival Edits globally
- Ex-Meta engineer raises $14M for Lace AI, a revenue generation software startup
- Marks & Spencer confirms cybersecurity incident amid ongoing disruption
- Apple, Google wallets will soon support California driver’s licenses
- Epic Games’ ‘MegaGrant’ makes EU alternative app store, AltStore PAL, available for free
- Apple opens up NFC transactions to developers, but says there will be ‘associated fees’
- Smartwatches shipments see sharp decline in India
- Spotify and Epic Games call Apple’s revised DMA compliance plan ‘confusing,’ ‘illegal’ and ‘unacceptable’
- Zuckerberg and Jensen show off their friendship, while an AI necklace covets yours
- Category: Apps
- Category: Artificial Intelligence
- Trump fires Copyright Office director after report raises questions about AI training
- AI is making phishing emails far more convincing with fewer typos and better formatting: Here’s how to stay safe
- Chinese PC vendor you’ve probably never heard of just unveiled the biggest rival to Nvidia’s DGX Spark AI workstation, one that uses AMD and can be clustered
- The US is reviewing Benchmark’s investment into Chinese AI startup Manus
- The Department of Labor just dropped its investigation into Scale AI
- Meta taps former Google DeepMind director to lead its AI research lab
- Exhibit your startup at TechCrunch Sessions: AI while you still can!
- Amazon’s newest AI tool is designed to enhance product listings
- OpenAI and the FDA are reportedly discussing AI for drug evaluations
- Anthropic rolls out an API for AI-powered web search
- OpenAI wants to team up with governments to grow AI infrastructure
- Microsoft adopts Google’s standard for linking up AI agents
- IBM CEO urges the Trump Administration to increase — not cut — federal AI R&D funding
- Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots
- TechCrunch Sessions: AI welcomes Tanka CEO Kisson Lin to talk AI-native startups
- FutureHouse previews an AI tool for ‘data-driven’ biology discovery
- Particle brings its AI-powered news reader to the web
- Google’s new ‘Simplify’ feature for iOS uses AI to make dense text easier to understand
- Google debuts an updated Gemini 2.5 Pro AI model ahead of I/O
- Anduril is working on the difficult AI-related task of real-time edge computing
- Over 250 CEOs sign open letter supporting K-12 AI and computer science education
- Revelo’s LatAm talent network sees strong demand from US companies, thanks to AI
- AI chatbots are ‘juicing engagement’ instead of being useful, Instagram co-founder warns
- One of Google’s recent Gemini AI models scores worse on safety
- Airbnb is quietly rolling out an AI customer service bot in the US
- Reddit’s AI play is for the Google crowd, not just the community scrollers
- FutureHouse releases AI tools it claims can accelerate science
- Google’s AI Mode gets expanded access and additional functionality
- Last call to volunteer at TechCrunch Sessions: AI
- Pinterest launches new tools to fight AI slop
- Gruve.ai promises software-like margins for AI tech consulting, disrupting decades-old Industry
- JetBrains releases Mellum, an ‘open’ AI coding model
- Anthropic suggests tweaks to proposed US AI chip export controls
- Duolingo launches 148 courses created with AI after sharing plans to replace contractors with AI
- Side Event submission deadline extended for TechCrunch Sessions: AI
- 5 days left: $210 ticket discount and 50% off on the second for TechCrunch Sessions AI
- Supio, an AI-powered legal analysis platform, lands $60M
- DeepSeek upgrades its math-focused AI model Prover
- Freepik releases an ‘open’ AI image generator trained on licensed data
- Google launches AI tools for practicing languages through personalized lessons
- The deadline to book your exhibit table for TechCrunch Sessions: AI is May 9
- Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan is coming to TechCrunch Sessions: AI
- Final 6 days: Save big and bring a plus-one for 50% off to TechCrunch Sessions: AI
- Huawei aims to take on Nvidia’s H100 with new AI chip
- Final 7 days: Save $210 + 50% off a second ticket to TechCrunch Sessions: AI
- Welcome to Chat Haus, the coworking space for AI chatbots
- Google’s AI search numbers are growing, and that’s by design
- Last day to boost your brand and host a Side Event at TechCrunch Sessions: AI
- Chinese AI startup Manus reportedly gets funding from Benchmark at $500M valuation
- Anthropic CEO wants to open the black box of AI models by 2027
- How do you define cheating in the age of AI?
- Public comments to White House on AI policy touch on copyright, tariffs
- Within six years, building the leading AI data center may cost $200B
- Anthropic is launching a new program to study AI ‘model welfare’
- Spotify’s AI playlist rolls out to Asia and more markets
- OpenAI seeks to make its upcoming open AI model best-in-class
- Here are the 19 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2025
- OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 may be less aligned than the company’s previous AI models
- Bring a plus-one to TechCrunch Sessions: AI and save 50% on their ticket through May 4
- AI note-taking app Fireflies adds new ways to extract insights from meeting notes
- Character.AI unveils AvatarFX, an AI video model to create lifelike chatbots
- Two undergrads built an AI speech model to rival NotebookLM
- Crowdsourced AI benchmarks have serious flaws, some experts say
- Manychat taps $140M to boost its business messaging platform with AI
- Rivian elects Cohere’s CEO to its board in latest signal the EV maker is bullish on AI
- Stephen Wolfram thinks we need philosophers working on big questions around AI
- VCs are so eager for AI startups, they’re buying into each others’ SPVs at high prices
- The top AI deals in Europe this year
- Andrew Ng pulls back from Landing AI after announcing a new fund
- Meta and Spotify CEOs criticize AI regulations in the EU
- AI sales rep startups are booming. So why are VCs wary?
- Alphabet X’s latest spinout brings computer vision and AI to salmon farms
- TechCrunch Minute – AI could help test F1 cars faster
- Creatopy, which automates ad creation using AI, raises a $10M Series A
- Former Expedia exec’s startup uses AI to help smaller companies book travel
- OpenAI’s opposition to California’s AI bill ‘makes no sense,’ says state senator
- This founder had to train his AI not to Rickroll people
- D-ID launches an AI video translation tool that includes voice cloning and lip sync
- This Week in AI: Gen Z has mixed feelings on AI
- Story raises $80M at $2.25B valuation to build a blockchain for the business of content IP in the age of AI
- SleekFlow invests $7M in conversational AI to tap Asia’s market
- Is your company AI washing? Rippling founder Parker Conrad thinks it might be.
- Sarah Buchner started as a carpenter when she was 12 — now her AI construction startup has raised $20 million
- Defcon AI closes $44M seed round to solve a problem of ‘maximum complexity’: Military logistics
- Eppo receives new funding to expand its app, website, and AI experimentation business
- BeyondMath’s ‘digital wind tunnel’ puts a physics-based AI simulation to work on F1 cars
- Reliant’s paper-scouring AI takes on science’s data drudgery
- Data center water consumption is soaring due to AI demand
- What margins? AI’s business model is changing fast, says Cohere founder
- Could Trump’s AI-generated Taylor Swift endorsement be illegal?
- GM eliminates 1,000 software jobs to focus on quality and AI
- Procreate vows never to incorporate generative AI into its products
- AMD to acquire infrastructure player ZT Systems for $4.9B to amp up its AI ecosystem play
- South Korea’s AI textbook program faces skepticism from parents
- Nancy Pelosi criticizes California AI bill as ‘ill informed’
- Microsoft Copilot: Everything you need to know about Microsoft’s AI
- A hellish new AI threat: ‘Undressing’ sites targeted by SF authorities
- California weakens bill to prevent AI disasters before final vote, taking advice from Anthropic
- Geekbench releases AI benchmarking app
- CodeRabbit raises $16M to bring AI to code reviews
- AI social media vetting startup Ferretly secures $2.5M, launches election personnel screening tool
- TipRanks, an AI-based stock tip evaluator created after its founder got burned by bad advice, sells for $200M to Prytek
- Meet Black Forest Labs, the startup powering Elon Musk’s unhinged AI image generator
- Filmmakers say AI will change the art — perhaps beyond recognition
- NEA led a $100M round into Fei-Fei Li’s new AI startup, now valued at over $1B
- Study suggests that even the best AI models hallucinate a bunch
- FTC finalizes rule banning fake reviews, including those made with AI
- MIT researchers release a repository of AI risks
- California AI bill SB 1047 aims to prevent AI disasters, but Silicon Valley warns it will cause one
- Encord lands new cash to grow its data dev tools for AI
- Artists’ lawsuit against generative AI makers can go forward, judge says
- Euro VCs welcome Balderton’s fresh $1.3B but grumble about Europe’s AI misses
- What is AI good for anyway? Maybe not summarizing
- Meta, Universal Music Group address AI music in new licensing agreement
- AI founders play musical chairs
- Box adds crucial piece to its AI platform with Alphamoon acquisition
- Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst thinks everyone needs to be more realistic on what AI can and cannot do
- SoundHound acquires Amelia AI for $80M after it raised $189M+
- Feeling Great’s new therapy app translates its psychiatrist co-founder’s experience into AI
- TechCrunch Minute: Is AI actually making workers more productive?
- Napkin turns text into visuals with a bit of generative AI
- Audible is testing an AI-powered search feature
- Amazon upgrades its AI image generator
- Amazon Music’s new AI feature lets you browse podcast episodes by topic
- Apple Intelligence’s writing tools stumble on swears and controversial topics
- After nine years, Google’s Nest Learning Thermostat gets an AI makeover
- Announcing the agenda for the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
- Many safety evaluations for AI models have significant limitations
- Yelp’s chief product officer talks AI and authenticity
- Tesla Dojo: Elon Musk’s big plan to build an AI supercomputer, explained
- Acquiring AI talent wholesale
- Character.AI CEO Noam Shazeer returns to Google
- AI music startup Suno claims training model on copyrighted music is ‘fair use’
- Microsoft now lists OpenAI as a competitor in AI and search
- Heeyo built an AI chatbot to be a billion kids’ interactive tutor and friend
- Google Cloud expands its database portfolio with new AI capabilities
- Almost all tech jobs face major changes with AI — Cisco, Google, and Microsoft call for reskilling
- How financial institutions can ensure AI assistants are reliable colleagues
- The EU’s AI Act is now in force
- AI just made it easier to consistently generate blog content on the world’s biggest website builder
- Zuckerberg says Meta will need 10x more computing power to train Llama 4 than Llama 3
- OpenAI pledges to give U.S. AI Safety Institute early access to its next model
- Meta says India is the largest market for Meta AI usage
- Google releases new ‘open’ AI models with a focus on safety
- AI startups ramp up federal lobbying efforts
- Copyright Office tells Congress: ‘Urgent need’ to outlaw AI-powered impersonation
- ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
- How to enable Apple Intelligence on your iPhone
- This Week in AI: Companies are growing skeptical of AI’s ROI
- The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Trends to Watch in 2024
- Category: ChatGPT
- Category: Communication and Connectivity
- The Backbone Pro controller makes mobile gaming worth the hassle
- Cybercriminals have found a sneaky way of stealing tax accounts and even encrypted messages: here’s what you need to know
- TechCrunch All Stage 2025: Prepare 4 VC’s Jason Kraus will instruct on how to turn chaos into momentum
- Remember Moviefone? Well, it’s back.
- FBI and Dutch police seize and shut down botnet of hacked routers
- X timelines aren’t updating for many users
- Starlink’s launch in India now a matter of when, not if
- Reddit intros new profile tools for its business customers
- Snap Map reaches new milestone of 400M monthly active users
- Uber invests $100M in WeRide to fuel robotaxi expansion across 15 more cities
- Substack launches audio-only livestream feature
- Rork’s founders were almost broke when a viral tweet led to $2.8M and a16z
- Dating app Raw exposed users’ location data and personal information
- Startups Weekly: Drama or game-changer? You decide
- Xbox consoles, controllers, and games are getting more expensive
- Amazon’s first 27 internet satellites launch to space
- Google Wallet to add support for digital IDs in more states
- The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 seems set to bring back the Classic – and it might even make me switch from my Garmin
- YouTube support affected by European power outages, too
- Vote for the session you want to see at TechCrunch All Stage on July 15
- OmniRetail shakes up Africa’s B2B e-commerce market with $20M Series A
- Here are Latin America’s biggest startups based on valuation
- Week in Review: Cluely helps you cheat on everything
- Startups Weekly: Tech IPOs and deals proceed, but price matters
- Data breach at Connecticut’s Yale New Haven Health affects over 5 million
- OpenAI may be developing its own social platform, but who’s it for?
- Parents who lost children to online harms protest outside of Meta’s NYC office
- Threads officially moves to Threads.com and updates its web app
- Netflix now offers dialogue-only subtitles
- Facebook cracks down on spammy content by cutting reach and monetization
- Tesla begins ‘FSD Supervised’ ride-hail tests with employees in Austin, Bay Area
- Discord appoints former Activision Blizzard exec Humam Sakhnini as CEO
- Fluent Ventures backs replicated startup models in emerging markets
- Meta’s Threads opens up ads to global advertisers
- WhatsApp’s latest feature makes your messages even more private
- Burning questions (and some answers) about Bluesky’s new verification system
- Uber customers can now earn Delta SkyMiles from rides or deliveries
- Social media is not wholly terrible for teen mental health, study says
- The Port of Seattle, Sea-Tac Airport and the Seattle Airport have been affected by a ‘possible hacking attack’
- Travly lets travelers submit videos for a chance to earn a 5% commission from hotel bookings
- Telegram founder Pavel Durov is reportedly arrested in France
- Apple is reportedly going to announce the iPhone 16 lineup, and more, on September 10
- Do you know where your children are? Maybe on X
- VC Neil Mehta, who’s quietly nabbing prized SF property, plans a “Y Combinator for restaurants”
- Marc Andreessen’s family plans to build a ‘visionary’ subdivision near the proposed California Forever utopia city
- Peloton charges $95 activation fees for used equipment
- Last day for massive ticket savings to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
- Tingit is building a marketplace for ‘zero-effort’ repairs, starting with fashion
- Waymo wants to chauffeur your kids
- Cruise’s robotaxis are coming to the Uber app in 2025
- Relive your Myspace days by adding your favorite song to Instagram.
- Ecovacs says it will fix bugs that can be abused to spy on robot owners
- India’s open commerce network expands into digital lending
- Under DMA probe, Apple tweaks design of EU browser choice screens, expands app default settings
- Threads spotted exploring ads, but says ‘no immediate timeline’ toward monetization
- This new accessible Xbox nunchuk controller has 3D-printable joystick parts
- August was Medium’s first profitable month — ever
- Typing these four characters can crash your iPhone
- Anthropic’s Claude exceeds $1M in mobile revenue
- Only 3 days left for massive savings on tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
- UK’s competition authority ends probes of Apple and Google but will use incoming powers to ‘resolve app store concerns’
- Move over, Apple: Meet the alternative app stores coming to the EU
- Cisco employees will be silenced for a month before the second layoff is scheduled in 2024
- PayPal could compete with Apple Wallet in EU
- Fintech shutdowns, Klarna’s move into banking and which companies are hiring
- Gemini Live could use some more rehearsals
- Former a16z VC Balaji Srinivasan obtained a private island for his new longevity ‘technocapitalist’ school
- Tickets for TechCrunch 2024 are now on sale!
- TechCrunch minute: Epic Games brings app store to mobile
- Amazon is considering moving Amazon Pay to a standalone app for India
- Why Porsche NA CEO Timo Resch is betting on ‘choice’ to survive the turbulent EV market
- Google takes on OpenAI with Gemini Live
- OpenAI’s new voice mode let me talk with my phone, not to it
- Ikea expands its inventory drone fleet
- How the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare went down: A timeline
- Gogoro delays India plans due to policy uncertainty, launches bike-taxi pilot with Rapido
- Only 7 days left to save on TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 tickets
- CannonKeys launches a modern take on a classic mechanical keyboard with the Sat75 X
- WeRide preps for an IPO, meet the man who built a startup pipeline at CNH and Waymo’s nightly honk-a-thon
- Cockroach Labs shakes up its licensing to force bigger companies to pay
- Trump campaign hack-and-leak appears like a rerun of 2016. This time, media outlets are responding differently
- Sonos CEO Patrick Spence confirms 100-person layoff
- Databricks reportedly paid $2 billion in Tabular acquisition
- Kiteworks captures $456M at a $1B+ valuation to help secure sensitive data
- Google faces headwinds as it brings Pixel 9 to India
- Zepto raises $340M at a $5B valuation as India’s quick-commerce market heats up
- Threads may offer its own take on Fleets with a disappearing posts feature
- Google’s Pixel Watch 3 comes in two sizes
- Google’s $1,799 Pixel 9 Pro Fold arrives with 8-inch inner display and Gemini
- US appeals court rules geofence warrants are unconstitutional
- The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising
- Google begins shipping locally made Pixel 8 in India ahead of Pixel 9 launch
- Enhance your brand: Host a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
- Conduit’s cross-border payments expand from LatAm into Africa with $6M round
- Bharti will become BT’s biggest shareholder after buying a 25%, $4B stake from Altice
- India’s Kazam powers up to roll out EV charging in Southeast Asia
- How CNH’s ‘black belt’ M&A head makes deals
- The 10 largest GDPR fines on Big Tech
- CSC ServiceWorks reveals 2023 data breach affecting thousands of people
- Student raised security concerns in Mobile Guardian MDM weeks before cyberattack
- Ecovacs home robots can be hacked to spy on their owners, researchers say
- How a cybersecurity researcher befriended, then doxed, the leader of LockBit ransomware gang
- First look at the Startup Battlefield judges at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
- Archer to set up air taxi network in LA by 2026 ahead of World Cup
- Amazon is fumbling in India
- Home security giant ADT says it was hacked
- Looking Glass’ new lineup includes a $300 phone-sized holographic display
- Indian conglomerate Reliance slashed over 42,000 jobs last financial year
- Techstars is laying off 17%, ending its J.P. Morgan-backed programs
- Keychron’s K2 HE turns magnets and wood into an affordable mechanical keyboard
- Nothing’s $399 Phone 2a Plus hits the US through a beta program
- Hackers could spy on cell phone users by abusing 5G baseband flaws, researchers say
- Database startup Neon nabs a Microsoft investment
- UK data watchdog to fine NHS vendor Advanced for security failures prior to LockBit ransomware attack
- Jumia plans to raise more than $100 million in secondary shares to drive stalled user growth
- Rivian lost $1.46B in Q2 as it drives toward a VW-linked future
- Cyberattack knocks Mobile Guardian MDM offline and wipes thousands of student devices
- Uber highlights autonomous vehicle efforts now that Tesla’s in its rearview mirror
- Enhance your startup’s success with the ScaleUp Program at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
- TechCrunch Minute: The iPad was the surprising star of Apple’s sales numbers
- 38 startups have become unicorns so far in 2024: Here’s the full list
- AWS unveils Mithra to identify and mitigate malicious domains across its massive system
- From golf to hunting, a new crop of startups want to make these experiences even better
- Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway sells half its Apple stock
- When a big company comes after a hot startup, it’s not a slam dunk decision to sell
- Trade My Spin is building a business around used Peloton equipment
- Why Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy and other investors are scouring universities for founders
- How the theft of 40M UK voter register records was entirely preventable
- Self-driving truck startup Aurora Innovation to sell up to $420M in shares ahead of commercial launch
- Anthony Levandowski bets on off-road autonomy, Nuro plots a comeback and Applied Intuition gets more investor love
- VC darling Rad Power Bikes hit with another round of layoffs
- Why Anthony Levandowski returned to his off-road autonomous vehicle roots with AV startup Pronto
- EU greenlights HPE’s $14B Juniper Networks acquisition
- The Google Pixel 9 could launch with Android 14 and a weak chipset
- Aussie Broadband just launched a new budget telco that promises more affordable NBN plans – with a slight catch
- iPhone 16 Pro Max leak shows off three possible colors, but the most interesting rumored shade is missing
- The Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold might be the slimmest and largest folding phone when it arrives
- How 5G Technology is Revolutionizing Communication and Connectivity
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- Category: Tech News
- Fitness tracker Whoop faces unhappy customers over upgrade policy
- Microsoft and OpenAI may be renegotiating their partnership
- If you’re already subscribed to Whoop, you can now get a free upgrade to the latest devices after a user backlash
- The Greek revival you’re not watching (but probably should be)
- FTC delays enforcement of click-to-cancel rule
- Google will pay Texas $1.4 billion to settle privacy lawsuits
- OpenAI’s enterprise adoption appears to be accelerating, at the expense of rivals
- A timeline of the U.S. semiconductor market in 2025
- Whitney Wolfe Herd on burning out — and bouncing back
- TechCrunch All Stage 2025 welcomes Boldstart partner Ellen Chisa to talk early-stage enterprise bets
- Investing in overlooked European ecosystems
- These investors are betting on Greece’s founders
- Greece is having a Big Tech moment
- Serena-backed health tech lands first FDA approval for home cervical cancer test
- Rippling raises $450M at a $16.8B valuation, reveals YC is a customer
- Microsoft Build 2025: How to watch this year’s conference
- Google inks deal to develop 1.8 GW of advanced nuclear power
- CoreWeave reportedly looks to raise $1.5B in debt as IPO disappoints
- Aurora co-founder Sterling Anderson is leaving the self-driving truck startup
- Ex-Synapse CEO reportedly trying to raise $100M for his new humanoid robotics venture
- Social media startup Fizz sues Instacart and Partiful for trademark infringement over new Fizz app
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