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The United States Supreme Court ruled Friday to uphold a Texas law requiring websites with “sexual material harmful to minors” to verify the ages of all visitors. The Free Speech Coalition (FSC), a trade association for the adult industry, had brought the lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton challenging the state’s age verification law. […]

The Danish government is working to change copyright law to give its citizens a right to their own body, facial features, and voice. The landmark law is designed to strengthen protections against the creation and dissemination of deepfakes, reports The Guardian.

Startups demand constant decision-making, pressure-filled pivots, and bring big emotional swings. It’s no wonder anxiety shows up at every stage. But what if it didn’t have to be a liability? At TechCrunch All Stage 2025 on July 15 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station, Dr. David H. Rosmarin, clinical psychologist, author, and Harvard Medical School professor, […]

We’re almost there, and ticket rates have officially rolled back with savings of up to $425. TechCrunch All Stage, the founder summit of the year, is just around the corner. On July 15, Boston becomes startup central. Are you ready to gain the insights and strategies you need to launch or scale? Now’s the moment […]

Germany has told Apple and Google to remove Chinese AI app DeepSeek from their app stores, saying the company transfers users' data to China illegally.

Crossing Minds, a startup that provides AI recommendation systems to e-commerce firms, said its team is leaving the company to join OpenAI.

Meta is in talks to acquire a voice cloning startup called Play AI, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources.

Redwood Materials has launched a new business — taking old EV batteries to store energy and help power businesses.

Henrik Werdelin has spent the last 15 years helping entrepreneurs build big brands like Barkbox through his startup studio Prehype. Now, with his new, New York-based venture Audos, he’s betting that AI can help him scale that process from “tens” of startups a year to “hundreds of thousands” of aspiring business owners. The timing certainly […]

TechCrunch All Stage — the ultimate founder summit — is shaping up to be a powerhouse event where 1,200 founders and VCs across all stages will come together to forge meaningful connections and gain practical insights they can immediately apply to scale their startups. Join us on July 15 at SoWa Power Station in Boston […]

Google is launching a new experimental app called Doppl that uses AI to visualize how different outfits might look on you.

Andreessen Horowitz explains why its new investment philosophy prioritizes 'build as you go' approach embodied by Cluely

TechCrunch All Stage, our big event for founders of startups at all stages of funding (see what we did there?), is coming up July 15 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station. And it’s our pleasure to announce that Underscore VC’s investing partner Chris Gardner will join a loaded lineup of speakers by leading a breakout session […]

Apple on Thursday announced a series of updates to its developer policies to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The news, which was expected, arrived just in time to meet the deadline of June 26, after which the iPhone maker would risk new fines. The changes involve both how app developers can communicate […]

Uber is reportedly in talks to help fund Travis Kalanick's potential acquisition of Pony.ai, which has a market cap of around $4.5 billion.

Why change the blue screen to black now? Did the viral images of Times Square rendered useless by the BSOD cause that much reputational harm?

CoreWeave remains a symbol of the AI industry in 2025: Massive revenue, investor enthusiasm built on an insatiable need for more.

Threads, Meta’s competitor to X, now has its own Hidden Words settings that operates separately from Instagram.

The AI feature, first introduced at Google's I/O developer conference last year, allows users to search across their collection of digital photos using natural language queries.

Uber Eats customers in Atlanta can now opt in to have their food delivered via sidewalk delivery robots, following partner Serve Robotics’s launch on Thursday. The move comes just two days after Uber and Waymo launched a commercial robotaxi service in the city. 

The company laid off around 1% of its total workforce, or around 140 employees. It's the third round of cuts since the start of 2024.

Omead Afshar, one of Musk's top lieutenants, is out after more than seven years at the company. He was recently elevated to a VP role in late 2024.

Kai West was arrested in France, along with four other hackers, all suspected of being part of the well-known hacking forum, BreachForums.

DHS said low-level cyberattacks targeting U.S. networks are "likely" in the wake of military conflict between the US and Israel, and Iran.

Meta has hired a highly influential OpenAI researcher, Trapit Bansal, to work on its AI reasoning models under the company’s new AI superintelligence unit, a person familiar with the matter tells TechCrunch. OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood confirmed to TechCrunch that Bansal had departed OpenAI. Bansal’s own LinkedIn page says that he left OpenAI in June. […]

Offerwall lets publishers give their sites' readers a variety of ways to access their content, including through options like micro payments, taking surveys, watching ads, and more.

A report by Anthropic reveals that people rarely seek companionship from AI, and turn to AI for emotional support or advice only 2.9% of the time.