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Isotopes, co-founded by Arun Murthy, launched a sophisticated analytics agent. Arun was one of the creators of Hadoop who later joined Scale AI.

Acqui-hires feel like they're here to stay: the team behind Alex Codes, which built a popular tool that let devs use AI models within Apple's development suite Xcode, is joining OpenAI.

When you design for people instead of institutions, you don’t just build a product. You build a movement. That’s the idea behind this Builders Stage session called “Creating Communities and Companies That Last."

A shareholder proposal would allow Tesla to invest in Elon Musk's rival AI firm, xAI if approved. Tesla's board didn't recommend one way or another.

If you want to get in front of more than 10,000 startup and VC leaders, connect with media, and generate a nonstop pipeline this October, you need to act now.

Imagine Lens allows users to create, edit, and recreate Snaps by entering their own prompts.

Tesla has proposed a new 10-year compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk that could be worth as much as $1 trillion even as the EV maker's car business stumbles and it sets its sights on humanoid robotics and AI.

Customer service AI agent startup Sierra claims to have hundreds of customers including SoFi, Ramp and Brex, among others.

The company previously laid off around 140 workers in its manufacturing division in June.

Facebook is trying to make 'pokes' the new streaks.

Stripe is funding a new blockchain called Tempo to process stablecoins faster. And a legion of big names is joining the effort.

Mark S. Zuckerberg, an attorney, says that he's losing business because his Facebook business profile keeps getting disabled.

The new fund hopes to send a "Seqouia-like" signal to other investors that there are promising later-stage climate tech startups waiting to be funded.

Ella provides recommendations to customers across the three retailers on what to purchase or rent to make an outfit come to life. 

Though the feature shipped in beta in May, XChat is now accessible for more users, including those who do not subscribe to X Premium.

The OpenAI Jobs Platform is set to launch in mid-2026, and will use AI to match candidates with businesses.

Nepal has moved to block 26 social media platforms for failing to comply with its registration requirements.

Having built and sold e-commerce shipping startup Deliverr to Shopify for $2.1 billion in 2022, co-founder and CEO Harish Abbott knows the logistics industry well. Abbott felt that many manual tasks in logistics could be automated using AI. That’s why last year he launched Augment which offers an AI assistant called ‘Augie’ that can take […]

It's the first airport in California that Waymo will offer rides to and from. The company's been active at the Phoenix airport for nearly two years.

We’re excited to announce that Roelof Botha, Managing Partner of Sequoia Capital and one of the most influential voices in venture capital, will join us live onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, home of the 20th anniversary celebration of TechCrunch, October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco. For more than two decades, Botha has helped […]

From a new slim iPhone Air model to redesigned AirPods, here's what to expect from this year's Apple event.

Meta says says that the 10,000 characters give people more room to express themselves, but also allows them to promote their work and drive others to "wherever it lives," even if not on Threads itself.

Meta says that the 10,000 characters give people more room to express themselves, but also allows them to promote their work and drive others to "wherever it lives," even if not on Threads itself.

Legacy aerospace pairs with next-gen aviation startup in this major deal.

The new partnership comes as hybrid solutions gain momentum in the advanced air mobility (AAM) space, a catch-all term to describe the next generation of aviation concepts like eVTOL, hydrogen, and so on.

Google Photos' photo-to-video feature is being upgraded with Google's latest video-generation model, Veo 3.