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Brad Menezes, CEO of enterprise vibe coding startup Superblocks, is convinced that the next crop of billion-dollar startup ideas are hiding in almost plain sight: system prompts.

Exclusive: The company's co-founder and CTO blame a former employee for a breach, but cannot rule out that it wasn't.

Narrowing down the 30 most visionary startups of the year to just five finalists was no easy feat. VivaTech’s Innovation of the Year attracted an extraordinary pool of applicants—startups tackling massive global challenges with bold, technically sophisticated, and scalable solutions. From redefining human-machine interaction to revolutionizing healthcare, climate, and infrastructure, each company brought something unique […]

President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Federal Aviation Administration to lift the 52-year ban on supersonic flight over U.S. soil.

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

Omada Health popped in its first day as a public company, validation for founder CEO Sean Duffy.

Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, Meta's CTO, says 2025 will be a pivotal year for Reality Labs, the company's augmented and virtual reality unit.

AI startups are reaching growth stage much faster. That's exciting, but also risky, because investors might pour millions into a company only to watch it be unseated in a few months.

Anthropic's long-term benefit trust is a governance mechanism that Anthropic claims helps it promote safety over profit, and which has the power to elect some of the company's board of directors.

Early-stage AI startups are imbuing new life into San Francisco’s Northern Waterfront, after years of “for lease” signs dotting the post-pandemic landscape. According to the San Francisco Business Times, five AI-focused companies — four backed by Y Combinator — recently leased 23,900 square feet at the Waterfront Plaza complex. This is part of a citywide […]

The head of Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot program, Milan Kovac, is leaving the company according to Bloomberg News. The departure comes as Tesla CEO Elon Musk has claimed the company will have “thousands” of Optimus robots operating in its factories by the end of this year. “And we expect to scale Optimus up faster than […]

A parliamentary investigation answered some — but not all — the questions related to a spyware scandal involving the use of the Israeli company’s spyware, Graphite.

The Trump-Musk feud has been great for X, which jumped up the App Store charts.

The head of a humanoid robotics startup made a rare public appearance for an on stage interview.

Lovefrom, the creative firm founded by former Apple chief designer Jony Ive, played a role in the development of Rivian’s first electric bike, according to multiple sources who spoke to TechCrunch. 

In the rapidly evolving AI landscape, startups can gain a competitive edge by collaborating closely with model providers. Join Hao Sang from OpenAI’s Startups Team demystifies OpenAI’s resources for startups, from technical guidance to advanced model access, in a discussion from TechCrunch Sessions: AI. Discover how feedback from startups helps shape OpenAI’s roadmap, ensuring that […]

During the “So You Think You Can Pitch?” event at TechCrunch Sessions: AI, three AI companies — Fluix AI, Clicka, and Narada AI — had four minutes apiece to impress judges from Initiate Ventures, Felicis, and Recursive Ventures. Each company made the case for their products, platforms, solutions, and leadership capabilities to see their vision […]

In this TechCrunch Sessions: AI event, Oracle shares a rundown of how MySQL HeatWave empowers you in building AI-based solutions in areas such as personal productivity, automating workflows for compliance, service, or support, and increasing efficiencies in healthcare, among others. By leveraging HeatWave’s built-in vector store, in-database LLMs, in-database machine learning capabilities, and massively parallel […]

Nucleus Genomics, a genetic testing startup founded by 25-year-old Kian Sadeghi, is once again courting controversy.

EleutherAI, an AI research organization, has released what it's claiming is one of the largest collections of licensed and open-domain text for training AI models.

The harsh reality of the AI sector is that it’s dominated by a select group of well-funded incumbents. That doesn’t mean new companies can’t break through, but it makes it all that much harder for them to do so.  At TechCrunch Sessions: AI, Odyssey co-founder Oliver Cameron, Linear COO Cristina Cordova, and NEA partner Ann […]

X announced on Friday that it has partnered with Polymarket, naming it the platform’s official prediction market partner.

From acquiring stealth startups to larger ones, and from funding Series A to G, buyers and investors made for a busy news cycle.

Global investments in clean energy are likely to hit new highs in 2025, according to a new IEA report.

Of all the words in the dictionary, Sarah Franklin says “balance” is perhaps her favorite – especially when it comes to companies embracing AI. Franklin leads the Jack Altman-founded employee performance software company Lattice, which is now worth $3 billion. Both on stage at SXSW London and in conversation with TechCrunch, she spoke a lot […]

New AI models are dropping all the time, and existing models are getting better all the time. How can a startup build a sustainable business on top of all of changing infrastructure and evolving foundation models?  At TechCrunch Sessions: AI event, industry experts from DeepMind, Twelve Labs, and Amazon all shared their strategies for growing […]

OpenAI's head of marketing, Kate Rouch, has announced she's stepping away from her role for three months while she undergoes treatment for invasive breast cancer.

As AI tools become cheaper and more accessible, the stakes for safety and ethics have never been higher. ElevenLabs’ Head of AI Safety Artemis Seaford and Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica joined TechCrunch AI editor Kyle Wiggers for a critical discussion on the multitude of ethical challenges facing AI today.  From deepfakes to responsible deployment, they […]

Peloton is exploring ways to expand its customer base by making its products available in gyms, and launching a peer-to-peer marketplace for used equipment.