timef 08/27/2025

The Southeast Asian country reaches an AI milestone as it looks to become a more competitive player in the global AI race.

Treasury officials say the North Korea government used the fraud network to generate money for the regime's nuclear weapons program.

Plaud.ai launches its new Plaud Note Pro hardware notetaker with better mics and recording range.

Seven years after unveiling Mirror at TechCrunch Disrupt 2018, Brynn Putnam is returning to the stage where it all began.

Terraton sees promise in biochar, but the technology has struggled to scale. The startup thinks a franchise model could be what unlocks biochar's potential.

Google is launching a free consumer version of its video editor Vids that will be available without any AI-powered features.

Uncaged Innovations is working with Hyundai to develop alternatives to leather with a fraction of the environmental impact.

SpaceX notched some new wins with the tenth Starship test flight.

The startup, now valued at $750 million, is one of three that recently raised funding to use AI agents for helping healthcare practices answer patient calls.

Alphabet's life sciences arm Verily laid off staff and eliminated its entire devices program as AI and data infrastructure takes center stage.

The incident is the latest escalation by current and former employees who are demanding the company end its cloud contracts with Israel.

Anthropic is the latest AI lab to offer an AI agent with the ability to view and take action in a user's Chrome browser.

"Let Down" broke into the Billboard Hot 100 nearly 30 years after its release, marking just the fourth Radiohead song to enter the charts.

Anthropic has settled a class action lawsuit with a group of fiction and non-fiction authors, as announced in a filing on Tuesday with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Anthropic had won a partial victory in a lower court ruling, and was in the process of appealing that ruling. No details of the settlement were […]

Intel doesn't need cash. Instead, the struggling semiconductor giant needs to figure out how to drum up interest for its foundry business.

Libby launches "Inspire Me," a genAI feature that helps its users find books to borrow from local libraries.

Meta's new PAC, dubbed Mobilizing Economic Transformation Across California, signals an intent to influence statewide elections, including the next governor’s race in 2026.

The Social Security Administration's chief data officer has publicly blown the whistle, alleging DOGE put hundreds of millions of Social Security records at risk of compromise by uploading a critical government database of citizen's data to Amazon's cloud.

Apple's carbon neutral claims are undermined by the short-term nature of carbon credits used to support them, the court said.

After reviewing thousands of groundbreaking applications from around the globe, we're just one day away from announcing the 2025 Startup Battlefield 200.

Apple said today that it is holding its event for the iPhone 17 on Tuesday, September 9 — just like last year. The company has started sending invites for the event, which will be held at the Steve Jobs theatre in Cupertino and will start at 10 a.m. PT/ 1 p.m. ET. While the company is […]

As IBM and AMD look to regain ground after falling behind on the generative AI boom, the move could position them as key infrastructure players in a future where quantum and AI converge.

Translate is also getting new live capabilities to make it easier to communicate in real-time with a person speaking a different language.