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The solar-thermal startup wants to deliver electricity for as little as one cent per kWh. But first it has to scale production to 1 million units per year.

Bindwell applies AI drug discovery techniques to invent new pesticide molecules.

The Commission said on Thursday that it had identified that Google is using its spam policy to push news media and other publishers' websites and content lower in search rankings when they include content from third parties.

The Los Angeles-based startup will build more than 50 electric truck chassis for the delivery giant by the end of this year.

Spotify is debuting a new tiered premium plans in five markets with the costliest tier gaining access to lossless streaming.

Google is expanding AI shopping with conversational search, agentic checkout and an AI that calls stores for you about local inventory.

Cursor plans to use the capital to continue developing Composer, the AI model the vibe coding startup released in October.

Spotify's new default shuffle option will queue up fewer songs from your recent listening history

Microsoft is taking a page from OpenAI's playbook, literally.

Israeli startup Milestone raised a $10 million seed funding round to correlate AI tool usage with engineering metrics, including code quality.

Cash App is adding a map to its app to let users discover places that accept bitcoin

Willow's iOS keyboard lets you type or use your voice to dictate and input text.

Varaha aims to support around 337,000 farmers across 675,000 hectares in northern India through its regenerative farming project.

Jack Dorsey backs diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive of 6-second, looping videos.

Chad: the Brainrot IDE is an actual product that pairs vibe coding with brainrot activities like gambling, Tinder and games.

Deepwatch’s CEO told TechCrunch that the layoffs allow the company to accelerate investments in “AI and automation.”

ElevenLabs struck a deal with actors Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey to AI-generate their voices.

As part of an effort to retire the old Twitter.com domain, X is requiring passkey and security key users to re-enroll — but are getting stuck in endless loops and unable to finish.

A German court ruled that OpenAI’s ChatGPT violated the nation’s copyright laws by training its language models on licensed musical work without permission.

Apple released the iOS 26.2 beta 1 last week, introducing the option to adjust the Liquid Glass appearance of the lock screen clock, and more.

For 12 days and counting, Disney-owned channels like ESPN and ABC have been blacked out on YouTube TV.

These palm-sized robots use ultrasound signals to navigate harsh conditions in search and rescue missions.

The autocomplete will help users create more effective prompts for AI apps, resulting in fewer back-and-forths.

Radio streamer TuneIn sold for $175M, down from its earlier valuation of $500M.

In a shift, the world will spend $40 billion more on new data centers this year than it will on finding new sources of oil.

In a shift, the world will spend $40 billion more on new data centers this year than it will on finding new sources of oil.

A group of Democratic lawmakers asked governors in California, Colorado, and other states to block ICE from accessing their residents’ driver’s license data without their knowledge.

Apple's new Digital ID will let U.S. users carry their passport on their iPhone, and use it at TSA checkpoints.

WisdomAI is offering AI-driven data analytics that can answer business questions from structured, unstructured, and even “dirty” data, meaning data not cleaned of typos or errors.

Waymo robotaxis will use freeways in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco - an expansion that could reduce ride times by 50%.

Anthropic has launched an ambitious new data center partnership with the UK-based Fluidstack, committing $50 billion to building facilities across the US.