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Mark Zuckerberg is leg pressing chicken nuggets

Meta on Friday announced its Movie Gen model, which uses AI to turn prompts into realistic videos with sound. Though Movie Gen won...

Detroit startup Grounded has a Lego-like way of de...

When Also Capital managing partner Mike Annunziata walks around New York City these days, he sees lots of vans — and opportunity. ...

Waymo picks its next robotaxi, Joby lands more Toy...

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for fre...

Announcing the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrun...

TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, which takes place from October 28-30 at Moscone West in San Francisco, is rapidly approaching. Today we’r...

TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 Side Events schedule: Wome...

With TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 right around the corner, we’re thrilled to introduce the companies hosting Side Events that will exte...

Why EnergyX raised $75M from small investors, even...

EnergyX’s offering took advantage of SEC Regulation A, which allows companies to raise money from retail investors in exchange for...

Amazon closes more of its cashierless convenience ...

Amazon continues to scale back efforts around its cashierless checkout technology, Just Walk Out. The e-commerce giant closed thre...

Announcing the final agenda for the SaaS Stage at ...

Software as a service (SaaS) is an ever-evolving industry. We’ll talk to some of the brightest minds and leaders in the industry —...

Fisker faces SEC investigation as bankruptcy case ...

Bankrupt EV startup Fisker is under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a new filing from t...

GM is working on an eyes-off, hands-off driving sy...

Seven years ago, GM became the first automaker to offer hands-free driving when it rolled out its Super Cruise advanced driver ass...

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.  © 2024 TechCrunch. Al...

OpenAI secured more billions, but there’s still ca...

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox ever...

YouTube apologizes for falsely banning channels fo...

A misfire of YouTube’s systems led to the accidental banning of YouTube channels affecting numerous creators who were informed the...

Ashton Kutcher, Effie Epstein, and Guy Oseary are ...

Last year, Sound Ventures, the 9-year-old, Beverly Hills, California-based venture firm led by general partners Ashton Kutcher, Gu...

The ‘Mozart of Math’ isn’t worried about AI replac...

Terence Tao, a UCLA professor considered to be the “world’s greatest living mathematician,” last month compared ChapGPT’s o1 reaso...

5 ‘dumbphones’ that can still run WhatsApp

With the luddite revival in full-swing, here are five dumbphones that can still run WhatsApp — and a few others. © 2024 TechCrunch...

SoCreate wants to transform screenwriting software...

Many screenwriters have embraced modern tools over traditional PDFs to craft their film or TV show pilots. SoCreate, the latest en...

Fisker’s HQ abandoned in “complete disarray” with ...

The headquarters Fisker used in its waning days was recently abandoned and left in “complete disarray,” with drums of apparent haz...

What’s in the rug? How TikTok got swept into a rea...

A woman in Ohio is being haunted by ghosts. Or maybe she’s not. There’s a dead body buried underneath her house, rolled up inside ...

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Apple sued, Microsoft’s AI ambitions and Nvidia’s ...

In this edition of Week in Review, we have big news on the latest Apple antitrust lawsuit. Microsoft’s AI ambitions dominated the ...

Mallard Bay is the Airbnb for guided hunting and f...

Mallard Bay is building a marketplace and a vertical SaaS platform for guided fishing and hunting industries. © 2024 TechCrunch. A...

Deal Dive: Building the Airbnb for guided hunting ...

Mallard Bay is building a marketplace and a vertical SaaS platform for guided fishing and hunting industries. © 2024 TechCrunch. A...

Liquid Death is just one of many VC-backed beverag...

Some of the new venture-backed beverage startups are hoping to upend the industry by creating new drink categories. © 2024 TechCru...

Why it’s impossible to review AIs, and why TechCru...

Every week seems to bring with it a new AI model, and the technology has unfortunately outpaced anyone’s ability to evaluate it co...

Stability AI CEO resigns because you’re ‘not going...

Stability AI founder and chief executive Emad Mostaque has stepped down from the top role and the unicorn startup‘s board, the buz...

Atomos Space’s first mission on orbit is a trial b...

The company has faced two main issues related to communications and the spacecraft rotation rate — and it’s largely solved both th...

Lordstown Motors’ ousted CEO settles with SEC for ...

Steve Burns, the ousted founder, chairman and CEO of bankrupt EV startup Lordstown Motors, has settled with the U.S. Securities an...

Apple vs US antitrust lawsuit: Everything we know ...

Keep in mind that there will be little settled in the short term. Experts estimate a three-to-five-year timeline for any resolutio...

Pitch Deck Teardown: Protecto’s $4M seed deck

In an era where data is king and its volume and complexity are exploding, Protecto aims to eliminate the long-standing dilemma bus...

Apple’s iPhone antitrust lawsuit: Everything we kn...

Keep in mind that there will be little settled in the short term. Experts estimate a three-to-five-year timeline for any resolutio...

Truth Social SPAC could pay Trump’s astronomical l...

Donald Trump’s beleaguered SPAC deal is finally going through, and just in time to pay nearly half a billion dollars owed over sev...

Startups Weekly: What goes up must come down

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in ...

AT&T won’t say how its customers’ data spilled onl...

Customers say leaked AT&T customer data — names, addresses, phone numbers and Social Security numbers — is accurate. © 2024 TechC...

1991 Ventures in London joins the growing list of ...

UK-based limited partners Venrex and Samos Investments are this week backing the launch of a new VC primarily aimed at investing i...

Threads is adding live scores for sports games, st...

Threads, the Twitter-like app from Instagram, is adding live scores for sports games. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday...

The DOJ’s case against Apple adds to a growing pil...

On home turf Apple has enjoyed many years of relatively light regulatory scrutiny compared to Big Tech peers. The US Department of...

Swiss fintech nsave gets $4M to enable people from...

Swiss fintech nsave, which is making banking in Switzerland accessible to people in countries with unstable banking sectors or fac...

TechCrunch Minute: Breaking down the Apple iPhone ...

The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Apple over allegedly monopolistic smartphone practices. The federal agency is not alone in...

A $700M SAFE, IPOs are back and how one venture fu...

Hello, and welcome to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headline...

Calmara suggests it can detect STIs with photos of...

You’ve gone home with a Tinder date, and things are escalating. You don’t really know or trust this guy, and you don’t want to con...

Investors’ pledge to fight spyware undercut by pas...

On Monday, the Biden administration announced that six new countries had joined an international coalition to fight the proliferat...

A $700M SAFE, IPOs are back, and how one venture f...

Hello, and welcome to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headline...

US DOJ’s blockbuster lawsuit against Apple is head...

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Apple Thursday, accusing the company led by CEO Tim Cook of engaging in ant...

US cyber investors pledge spyware is off limits — ...

On Monday, the Biden administration announced that six new countries had joined an international coalition to fight the proliferat...


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