Category: Technology

Creators are frustrated but energized as TikTok ban gai...

The bill that could ban TikTok took one step closer to becoming a law on Wednesday. After being introduced just last week, the bil...

OpenAI’s deals with publishers could spell trouble for ...

OpenAI’s legal battle with The New York Times over data to train its AI models might still be brewing. But OpenAI’s forging ahead ...

Cypher’s inventory drone launches from an autonomous mo...

Doing inventory sucks. I feel the need to reiterate this any time I discuss the topic here. Having performed a bit of it during my...

SpaceX aiming to launch massive Starship for the third ...

SpaceX will attempt to send the massive Starship rocket to orbit for the third time early Thursday morning after U.S. regulators g...

Paramount Global to sell stake in India’s Viacom18 to R...

Paramount Global has reached a binding agreement to sell its 13% stake in Reliance-controlled Indian media firm Viacom18 to Relian...

Reflex Robotics’ wheeled humanoid is here to grab you a...

Agility’s Digit wasn’t the only humanoid holding court at Modex in Atlanta this week. On the opposite end of the Georgia World Con...

Orbio Earth finds methane leaks that could cost oil com...

Investors bet the startup’s algorithms, which feed on satellite data, will fill a significant gap in the methane market. © 2024 T...

Solana’s price rises to $160, highest level since Janua...

The token behind Solana, a layer-1 blockchain that’s competitive with the Ethereum blockchain, has been through the wringer after ...

What is Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot and how does it work?...

You might’ve heard of Grok, X’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It’s a chatbot, and, in that sense, behaves as as you’d expect — answe...

With cycle tracking, Withings considers taking half of ...

Whenever I talk to people working in the quantified self — fitness and health trackers — there’s a murmuring about how little atte...

Don Lemon says Elon Musk has canceled his deal for a sh...

Don Lemon announced on Wednesday that X owner Elon Musk has canceled the deal for his upcoming talkshow on the platform. Lemon, a ...

Stripe’s growth continues to impress as total payment v...

The company says it was cash flow positive in 2023, and plans to be again in 2024. With $8.7 billion in venture capital it likely ...

ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-power...

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity th...

Orbio Earth finds methane leaks that could cost oil com...

Investors bet the startup’s algorithms, which feed on satellite data, will fill a significant gap in the methane market. © 2024 T...

Don Lemon says Elon Musk has canceled his show on X

Don Lemon announced on Wednesday that his show on X (formerly Twitter) has been canceled by Elon Musk. Lemon, a former CNN anchor,...

Startups are hiring fewer workers and paying out less i...

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, wher...

Hurry! Only 72 hours left to pocket $1,000 in savings f...

Downshift into get ’er done gear, and you can save a hefty $1,000. How? Simply take decisive action and buy your pass to TechCrunc...

IO River lets you mix and match CDNs without the hassle

Content delivery networks (CDN) have changed. They used to be platforms for efficiently delivering static files — and little else....

TechCrunch Minute: The TikTok ban, or at least the effo...

And some folks are pretty mad about it! After a House subcommittee passed a bill that would force a sale of TikTok or ban the app ...

Waymo to launch commercial robotaxi service in Austin b...

Waymo will begin offering a robotaxi service to the public in Los Angeles this week and in Austin by the end of the year, the comp...

Depop sellers faced ongoing payment delays due to tech ...

Sellers on the Etsy-owned clothing resale app Depop have been facing delayed payments. Over the last few months, more and more sel...

Zendesk adds flexible AI agent capabilities with Ultima...

Zendesk has been trying to transform customer service since it launched in 2007, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the compa...

UK chips in $44M for a piece of Europe’s $1.4B pot for ...

The UK has exited the European Union, but semiconductor development is emerging as one of the areas where it hopes to partner for ...

Pint-size pickup startup Telo Trucks adds Tesla co-foun...

The young automotive company raised $5.4 million and added a Tesla co-founder to its board. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved...

The bill that could ban TikTok passes in the House

The House voted on Wednesday in favor of a bill to require TikTok to sever its connection with parent company ByteDance or face a ...

Google Deepmind trains a video game-playing AI to be yo...

AI models that play games go back decades, but they generally specialize in one game and always play to win. Google Deepmind resea...

Startups are hiring fewer workers, and paying out less ...

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, wher...

Furno bets that super-efficient, modular kilns will tur...

The cement startup promises to slash carbon emissions in the process, helping the company raise a $6.5 million seed round. © 2024 ...

TikTok ban: What’s going on with the proposed bill in C...

TikTok faces an uncertain fate in the U.S. once again. On Wednesday morning, the House of Representatives will debate the newest b...

Volley’s AI-enabled ball machine for racquet sports can...

A new sports tech startup, Volley, aims to revolutionize the way racquet sports players (platform tennis, padel, and pickleball) t...

Blockchain startup Sei Labs creates an interesting solu...

Sei Labs, a startup co-founded by a former Robinhood engineer and a former VC from Coatue, has launched a new open sourced project...

Spotify’s Audiobooks will get their own ‘Countdown Page...

Spotify is enhancing its audiobooks streaming service with a feature that may be familiar to the app’s music consumers: Countdown ...

Deal on EU AI Act gets thumbs up from European Parliame...

The European Parliament voted Wednesday to adopt the AI Act, securing the bloc pole-position in setting rules for a broad sweep of...

Journey acquires mental health startup Felt to enhance ...

Employee-focused mental health company Journey is acquiring Felt, a startup formerly known as Mine’d that specializes in matching ...

Luminary Cloud’s simulator taps GPUs to help speed up p...

Simulations are an essential step in physical product engineering. They enable engineers to create prototypes and understand how t...

Pint-size pickup startup Telo Trucks finds unexpected n...

The young automotive company raised $5.4 million and added a Tesla co-founder to its board. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved...

Dev-focused note-taking startup Stashpad launches Googl...

Stashpad, a developer-focused “DM to yourself”-styled notebook app, is now pivoting to a docs app that you can use without logging...

Spotify adds music videos in some countries

Spotify is adding music videos to its mobile and desktop apps in some markets. They are tightly integrated with the company’s musi...

Kolet makes travel eSIM cards easier to navigate

Kolet is a new French startup created by four experienced co-founders in the French tech ecosystem that wants to make it easier to...

Ontario Teachers mints new unicorn in Indian fintech Pe...

Teachers’ Venture Growth, the late-stage venture and growth investment arm of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, is investing $80 mil...

Anti-AI sentiment gets big applause at SXSW 2024 as mov...

A whiff of anti-AI sentiment got big applause at the SXSW conference in Austin on Tuesday afternoon. Award-winning writers and dir...

Bluesky launches Ozone, a tool that lets users create a...

Decentralized Twitter/X rival Bluesky announced today that it’s open-sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets individuals and teams collab...

Glacier is training AI-powered recycling robots

This week, Glacier co-founder Rebecca Hu chats with Found about wish-cycling and robots. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. ...

Anti-AI sentiment gets big applause at SXSW 2024 as sto...

A whiff of anti-AI sentiment got big applause at the SXSW conference in Austin this afternoon. Award-winning writers and directors...

Nigeria demands Binance disclose top users, executives ...

Nigeria is actively seeking information from Binance regarding its top 100 users in the country and all transaction history spanni...


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