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Oura CEO Tom Hale addresses viral backlash, talks about future of the smart ring maker.

The new emojis include a trombone, a treasure chest, an eyes-bulging face, a fight cloud, an apple core, an orca whale, a gender-neutral ballet dancer, a landslide, and Bigfoot.

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

Where are top VCs placing bets in 2026? Hear from Index Ventures’ Nina Achadjian, Greylock’s Jerry Chen, and Felicis’ Viviana Faga on the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, October 27–29 in San Francisco.

Dig Energy's water-jet drilling right promises to cut drilling costs by up to 80%, helping geothermal heating hit price parity with fossil fuel furnaces.

Customers are urged to take action after a database containing scrambled passwords and authentication information was compromised.

Nuclearn has developed AI tools to help reactor operators automate routine paperwork. "Think of it as the junior employee," the company tells customers.

Mistral AI, the French company that develops the AI chatbot, Le Chat, and several foundational large language models, is considered one of France’s most promising tech startups, and is arguably the only European company that could compete with OpenAI. “Go and download Le Chat, which is made by Mistral, rather than ChatGPT by OpenAI — […]

VideoVerse is an Indian AI startup that lets broadcasters extract highlights and create content from sports footage.

OpenAI executives are discussing a potential relocation out of California as increasing political resistance threatens the company's efforts to convert from nonprofit to for-profit status, according to The WSJ, but the company says it has no plans to leave.

Finnish startup ReOrbit, has raised a record €45 million Series A for the country to offer "sovereign" satellites.

Nepal has reversed its social media ban following nationwide “Gen Z” protests and public backlash.

CEO Evan Spiegel just announced the company is restructuring around small "startup squads" of 10 to 15 people to regain agility against larger competitors.

Intel also announced the creation of a central engineering group that will build custom chips for outside customers.

The 13-year-old company could be valued up to $6.5, with Lightspeed's stake worth $1.1 billion.

After watching Reddit's OpenAI and Anthropic communities, Sam Altman thinks social media cannot be trusted. And bots are to blame.

Deep Fission had been seeking to raise $15 million in a seed round as recently as April. The reverse merger will raise twice that amount.

Bluesky adds bookmarks so users can privately save posts they want to reference later.

Ryan Petersen, CEO of Flexport, joins the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco. Register to join.

Cefalo is the founder of Space DOTs, which launched in 2022 to detect space threats. She and her team have created a software platform for space tech manufacturers and operators to help them capture various data points, like radiation interference, as well as track any in-orbit anomalies, to help make space travel safer. 

The venture capital giant, behind cyber giants Wiz and Databricks, said it has notified current and former employees and the firm's limited partners of its January breach.

Founders Fund, the Peter Thiel-backed VC, led Cognition’s latest round, with participation from existing investors like Lux Capital, Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC, Elad Gil, Definition Capital and Swish Ventures. 

Google's AI Mode is rolling out in Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese.

AI needs a better brain — and Edo Liberty is building it. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, Pinecone founder and CEO Edo Liberty will explain why the next wave of AI-native apps won’t be driven by bigger models, but by smarter search. With 10,000+ startup and VC […]

Signal introduces backups with both free and paid plans.

The breach, now known to have begun in March, raises questions about why it took six months for Salesloft to detect the breach.

Four whistleblowers share documents with Congress alleging that the company may have suppressed research on children's safety.

Apple is debuting the iPhone 17 at its annual hardware event on September 9.

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

As Anthropic endorses SB 53, much of Silicon Valley and the federal government are pushing back on AI safety efforts.