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Jio shares surge 21% in market debut after blockbuster India IPO
Jio has debuted as India's second-most valuable listed company, behind its parent, Reliance Industries....
1 hour ago
VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more
Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic....
5 hours ago
Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication
A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February....
7 hours ago
The data center boom has an upside: innovation for the US grid
As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sort of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders say....
8 hours ago
Guidewire buys Hyperexponential for $1.7B in cash
Software company Guidewire announced Tuesday that it was buying UK agentic underwriting startup Hyperexponential for $1.7 billion in cash....
8 hours ago
From 8VC to Benchmark, here’s what’s hiding in October SEC filings
A whole crop of venture capital firms are raising significant new funds....
8 hours ago
GM is embracing hybrids now
GM eschewed hybrids in favor of battery-electric vehicles. Now, it's gearing up to offer hybrid versions of its SUVs....
9 hours ago
Bank of America kindly asks that you don’t share your banking password with your AI assistant
The banking giant reminds customers that "you're responsible for activity" resulting from your AI agents' access....
9 hours ago
Discord is making its public communities more searchable, and people have concerns
In December, messages from Discord's public discoverable servers will begin appearing in search engine results....
9 hours ago
Re:Build, which spun out Slate Auto, raises $2.1B
The manufacturing accelerator bills itself as "America’s answer to Shenzhen."...
10 hours ago
Disruptive raises $10B fund to make big bets on at least 10 companies
Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs....
12 hours ago
Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean?
TechCrunch spoke to the MIT computer scientist charged with explaining OpenAI's latest mind-bending discovery...
13 hours ago
Google’s Genie 4 world model adds audio, more realistic worlds, and real-time steering
Google DeepMind released Genie 4, a world model with real-time audio, more realistic simulations, and mid-simulation text prompts, in research preview for trusted testers....
14 hours ago
Meta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to take on Microsoft Office and Google Workspace
Rohit Patel is departing Meta after eight years working on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. His startup, Ndoc, aims to take on Microsoft Office Suite....
16 hours ago
Ford Fathom will be the cheapest American EV capable of powering a house
Ford is rolling out two new chargers capable of powering a home or the grid — so-called V2x capability....
16 hours ago
Apple unveils new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 chip
The new MacBook Pro comes with 24 hours of battery life, and now features support for Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 connectivity....
16 hours ago
Apple rolls out iOS 27.2 with new Siri AI languages and security fixes
The latest Apple software update for iPhones and iPads includes new features and important security updates....
17 hours ago
Japan internet giant GMO says hackers posted stolen customer data
Japan's GMO Internet is verifying alleged customer data posted by suspected hackers following a cloud service breach....
17 hours ago
Billionaire Palmer Luckey isn’t leaving California over the wealth tax
"It's causing a lot of people to run who I don't want to be running," native Californian Palmer Luckey said. "But I'm planning on staying in California. I'm going to keep fighting it."...
18 hours ago
Opera introduces a new web standard to let users deploy AI locally in their browser
The new standard, WebAI, is designed to work with a variety of AI models....
18 hours ago
Nvidia backs Indian startup helping companies run AI models with fewer GPUs
Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown 14-fold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue....
20 hours ago
X is nudging users to promote their posts with a pointing hand, and people are confused
Whose hand is behind this travesty?...
1 day ago
How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant
Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent....
1 day ago
Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing
An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has ...
1 day ago
Databricks co-founder shares his secrets for winning big enterprises customers
Turns out selling to big companies isn’t about having the shiniest tech: it’s about hitching a ride on a giant’s sales team....
1 day ago
Watch out, YouTube; Instagram goes from short-form to 90-minute videos
As Instagram rolls out long form videos of up to 90 minutes, the platform has an opportunity to challenge YouTube if it plays its cards right....
1 day ago
Uh oh, it sounds like the iPhone Duo keeps cracking and users aren’t happy about it
A small number of early adopters of the much hyped new foldable phone from Apple have complained of screens cracking....
1 day ago
Fusion startups are giving the government shares in exchange for awards. Is it worth it?
Fusion startups face a new challenge, one unrelated to plasma physics: Give the government shares in exchange for funding awards or go it alone?...
1 day ago
This startup’s self-driving excavators help dig up $600M in new funding
Bedrock Robotics, which is now valued at $4.1 billion, is particularly focused on autonomous excavators, in part because of a growing shortage of skilled operators....
1 day ago
Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals its strategy for keeping enterprise customers hooked
Anthropic’s S-1 shows more than half of its $100,000-plus customers now use both the Claude Platform and a first-party app, a cross-selling playbook reminiscent of Amazon that’s making enterprise cust...
1 day ago
SpaceX locks in $40B GPU financing deal with Apollo
SpaceX has locked in a binding commitment for roughly $40 billion in financing to pay for AI chips and related data center equipment, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing Monday. In a statemen...
1 day ago
Microsoft offers buyouts to around 60,000 employees, reports say
The buyout offers mark Microsoft's latest efforts to cut costs and rework its workforce....
1 day ago
Anthropic officially files for its public debut
Anthropic has officially filed for an IPO, revealing soaring revenue, mounting losses, major enterprise adoption, and an unusual governance structure designed to preserve founder control and its AI sa...
1 day ago
Apple unveils new iPad mini with OLED display and faster A20 Pro chip
The new iPad mini features a thinner and lighter design than its predecessor....
1 day ago
Matiks raises $10M to expand its math and puzzle gaming platform
Matiks has introduced a new platform for users to create games using AI....
1 day ago
Tesla turns to Turo to boost adoption of Full Self-Driving (Supervised)
Eligible Turo hosts will also get a one-month free trial of Tesla's FSD software....
1 day ago
The best apps for tracking your reading and discovering new books
There are numerous apps on the market that promise to do just that, so we’ve compiled a list of some of the best ones to help you pick the right one for you....
2 days ago
Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’
The footage looks okay, as long as you're not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest....
2 days ago
‘Cyberselfish’ author takes aim at Silicon Valley libertarians as her book returns from the dead
"That's a 12-year-old view of the world."...
2 days ago
AI delivers ‘zero financial payoff’ to most companies, according to Apollo economist
"Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech."...
2 days ago
TechCrunch Mobility: Blue-green is the color of autonomy
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it....
2 days ago
The hottest AI wearables and gadgets you should know about
We compiled a list of all the hottest AI wearables, including Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more....
2 days ago
Starlink seems to be working normally again in Ukraine
Elon Musk reportedly ordered SpaceX to throttle Ukraine's Starlink access....
3 days ago
Will AI expose the rickety infrastructure of the internet?
The moment you realize the internet is "held together by glue and dreams."...
3 days ago
The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations....
3 days ago
Instacart reportedly discussed selling itself with DoorDash and Uber
Instacart might sell itself to a larger competitor....
3 days ago
Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human
Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max...
3 days ago
PHP-ocalypse: How two critical web bugs almost broke the internet
Two critical bugs in the PHP web programming language, used by the majority of the internet, threatened to upend the internet — and it's unlikely to be the last major software scare....
3 days ago
These clever apps show off the iPhone Duo’s potential
From retro cassette players and virtual notebooks to flight trackers and even a digital toaster, developers are finding creative ways to take advantage of Apple's first foldable iPhone....
3 days ago
Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.
A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races....
3 days ago
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