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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said his company will start offering public rides in driverless vehicles in Austin, Texas on June 22.

Apple's executives would not concede to being behind in the AI race.

Meta’s head of public policy in India, Shivnath Thukral, is leaving the social networking company, nearly three and a half years after joining, and just months after his counterpart at Google stepped down. Thukral spent over seven and a half years at Meta and took over as public policy lead for the South Asian market […]

Apple most notably unveiled a new design language called "Liquid Glass" and changed the version number to 26 to unify all operating systems.

More than two dozen states have sued 23andMe to block the sale of genetic data without customers' permission.

Pinterests is experimenting with "auto-collages," an AI feature that allows advertisers to quickly turn their product catalogs into shoppable collages.

With its built-in AI interface, Dia hopes to give people an easy way to use AI, cutting out the need to visit tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude.

The Lemony AI device can run large language models, AI agents and automated workflows locally.

Standard Nuclear was the winning bidder for Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation's fuel-related assets at a bankruptcy auction.

In a new essay published Tuesday called “The Gentle Singularity,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared his latest vision for how AI will change the human experience over the next 15 years. The essay is a classic example of Altman’s futurism: hyping up the promise of AGI — and arguing that his company is quite close […]

Commercial nuclear fusion power isn’t a reality yet. But venture capital is flowing into startups that promise that clean, safe, and virtually limitless energy is no longer just a distant dream. Most fusion companies that have raised over $100 million are based in the United States. Not Proxima Fusion, a German startup that has just […]

OpenAI was targeting an early summer release date for its open model, which is slated to have similar "reasoning" capabilities to OpenAI's o-series of models.

Since its founding in 2014, a16z Bio+ Health has raised four funds of nearly $3 billion each, including a $1.5 billion fund that closed in 2022.

The AI-friendly data storage startup is raising capital at a giant leap in valuation.

Apple Intelligence was designed to leverage things that generative AI already does well, like text and image generation, to improve upon existing features.

YouTube's impact report shows that the creator economy has continued to grow, despite less interest from venture capitalists.

OpenAI has launched o3-pro, an AI model that the company claims is its most capable yet.

Bedrock Ocean wants to use autonomous underwater vehicles to make mapping the seafloor faster and cheaper.

The retail giant described the food shortages as "temporary supply challenges" following the cyberattack at its primary distributor, UNFI.

Let’s be honest: Most events aren’t built for VCs — they’re built around VCs. Panels, keynotes, maybe a few startups worth watching, and a sea of business cards you’ll forget by dinner. TechCrunch All Stage 2025 flips that script, when we fill up Boston’s SoWa Power Station on July 15. This isn’t just a chance […]

Some users and designers are already panning Apple's new user interface dubbed Liquid Glass, even though it's a bit early. There are reasons to think it might improve — but also valid critiques.

Linear, an enterprise software maker that competes with many of Atlassian's products, announced that it raised $82 million in a Series C funding round led by Accel.

Google is releasing Android 16 to Pixel phones and rolling out additional updates to other Pixel devices.

Tech and startup events have a formula. You know it. We know it. We’ve all done it. But TechCrunch All Stage 2025, which we’re hosting July 15 at the SoWa Power Station in Boston, is designed to break out of that rinse-and-repeat model — and focus on what early-stage startups actually need to know, right […]

Snap is back with a new pair of AR smart glasses, and for the first time in years, it’s ready to sell them to consumers. The company plans to sell these new glasses, called Specs, to consumers starting in 2026, CEO Evan Spiegel announced on Tuesday during the Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California. […]

Hosting a Side Event around TechCrunch All Stage 2025 in Boston? Today is your last chance to get on the official calendar — and it’s not just for the day of our All Stage event on July 15. You can book a time during our full All Stage Week, from July 13 to 19, by […]

Mark Zuckerberg said today that Meta's social network Threads is finally testing a separate DM inbox that is separate from your Instagram DM Inbox.

Apple has announced updates to the AI models that power its suite of Apple Intelligence features across iOS, macOS, and more. But according to the company's own benchmarks, the models underperform older models from rival tech firms including OpenAI.

Glean announced on Tuesday that is raised a $150 million Series F led by Wellington Management at a $7.2 billion valuation.