timef 06/04/2025

Airtime, the video startup from Evernote’s founder Phil Libin, has laid off dozens of employees, TechCrunch has learned, and Airtime confirmed. According to the company, 25 people were let go from the 58-person team — a change Airtime described as “bigger than usual.” While Airtime characterizes the departures as part of its typical seasonal approach […]

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is adding new features for business users, including integrations with different cloud services, meeting recording, and MCP connection support for connecting to tools for deep research. As part of the launch, ChatGPT is gaining connectors for Dropbox, Box, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Google Drive. This allows ChatGPT to look for information across users’ own […]

Only a few exhibit tables remain for TechCrunch All Stage, happening July 15 in Boston — and with just 3 days left to book your table, time is nearly up to be part of the action. Tables are almost completely sold out, and time is extremely limited to get yours. Where opportunity meets visibility Whether […]

Startup life is tough — funding rounds, team building, and managing finances can feel like trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube blindfolded. That’s exactly why TechCrunch All Stage 2025 exists: to give founders like you the tools, tactics, and real talk from those who’ve been through it and built something lasting. If there’s one session […]

Tonight’s your last shot: Take on the TechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown and walk away with two tickets for just $200. The window closes tonight at midnight — go! Think you know AI? Can you name the company that created the AI assistant known as Siri before Apple acquired it? Or the name of Google’s […]

Tomorrow, the doors open at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. What happens next isn’t just another AI conference — it’s the one you need to be at. TechCrunch Sessions: AI gathers the most influential builders, investors, and researchers in artificial intelligence for a day of clarity in an industry clouded by hype. If you’re leading a […]

American streets are incredibly dangerous for pedestrians. A San Carlos, California-based startup called Obvio thinks it can change that by installing cameras at stop signs – a solution the founders also say won’t create a panopticon.  That’s a bold claim at a time when other companies like Flock have been criticized for how its license […]

French AI startup Mistral is releasing its own “vibe coding” client, Mistral Code, to compete with incumbents like Windsurf, Anysphere’s Cursor, and GitHub Copilot. Mistral Code, a fork of the open source project Continue, is an AI-powered coding assistant that bundles Mistral’s models, an “in-IDE” assistant, local deployment options, and enterprise tooling into a single […]

Journaling app Rosebud has raised $6 million in seed funding as it seeks to flesh out its app as an AI mentor for self-reflection and personal growth. 

Singapore-based embedded insurance startup Bolttech has closed a $147 million Series C round of funding at a $2.1 billion valuation.

Uber today revealed a new type of account, called Senior Accounts, for older users that prioritizes a simpler app experience.

Apple has named 12 apps across six categories for this year's Design Awards.

In 2023, co-founders Karim Jouini and Jihed Othmani sold their expense management startup Expensya to Swedish procurement software firm Medius in what is widely considered to be one of the largest acquisitions of an African startup. Some sources say the sum was just over $120 million, although deal terms were not disclosed. Success achieved, both […]

Windsurf, the popular vibe coding startup that’s reportedly being acquired by OpenAI, said Anthropic significantly reduced its first-party access to its Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI models. Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan said in a post on X that Anthropic gave Windsurf little notice for this change, and the startup now has to […]

Anthropic has given its AI a blog. A week ago, Anthropic quietly launched Claude Explains, a new page on its website that’s generated mostly by the company’s AI model family, Claude. Populated by posts on technical topics related to various Claude use cases (e.g. “Simplify complex codebases with Claude”), the blog is intended to be […]

HR tech startup Deel filed an amended complaint on Tuesday in its ongoing legal battle against its arch rival Rippling that offers surprising new details about its own corporate spying allegations. Rippling sued Deel in March after a Rippling employee testified in an Irish court that he was spying on his employer for the rival […]

TAE Technologies raised $150 million from investors including Google, Chevron, and others.

A film that will portray the chaotic time at OpenAI, when co-founder and CEO Sam Altman was both fired and rehired within a span of just five days, is reportedly in the works.  According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie is titled “Artificial,” and it’s in development at Amazon MGM Studios. While details aren’t finalized, […]

Google's Threat Analysis Group, which investigates government-backed hacks, was credited with the discovery of the zero-days.

The company is working on a bio-acoustic project, which will map out the different types of dire wolf howls.

Hinge CMO and President Jackie Jantos chats about how Hinge is marketing itself to a new generation in what has become a listless dating scene. 

Reddit on Tuesday announced a new feature that will offer its users more privacy when it comes to what’s shared on their user profiles. The company says it’s rolling out an update that will introduce a “Content and Activity” setting that allows users to decide which content from the subreddits they participate in will appear […]

Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio is launching a nonprofit AI safety lab called LawZero to build safer AI systems, he told the Financial Times on Monday. LawZero raised $30 million in philanthropic contributions from Skype founding engineer Jaan Tallinn, former Google chief Eric Schmidt, Open Philanthropy, and the Future of Life Institute, among others. The […]

Meta and Constellation Energy said the deal would help keep the Clinton Clean Energy Center running through 2047 without ratepayer support.

TikTok is rolling out AI-powered Smart Keyword Filters to allow people to limit content they don’t want to see on their For You page, the company announced on Tuesday. While TikTok already allows users to use keyword filters to restrict specific content from appearing in their feeds, the new Smart Keyword filters will use AI […]

Last week, Chinese lab DeepSeek released an updated version of its R1 reasoning AI model that performs well on a number of math and coding benchmarks. The company didn’t reveal the source of the data it used to train the model, but some AI researchers speculate that at least a portion came from Google’s Gemini […]

Snapchat is launching new Lens Studio tools that AR creators and developers can use to build Bitmoji games.

The company said the cyberattack destroyed its servers and customer data.

The company's parent firm Recruit's CEO, Hisayuki Idekoba, will return to his post as CEO of Indeed.