timef 01/24/2026
- Legal AI giant Harvey acquires Hexus as competition heats up in legal tech techcrunch.com2026-01-24 13:27:22
Hexus founder and CEO Sakshi Pratap, who previously held engineering roles at Walmart, Oracle, and Google, tells TechCrunch that her San Francisco-based team has already joined Harvey, while the startup's India-based engineers will come onboard once Harvey establishes a Bangalore office.
- Apple iPhone just had its best year in India as the smartphone market stays broadly flat techcrunch.com2026-01-24 13:00:00
Apple shipped a record 14 million iPhones in India in 2025 and gained market share.
- TikTok users freak out over app’s ‘immigration status’ collection — here’s what it means techcrunch.com2026-01-24 12:34:02
TikTok users are freaking out over a mention of "immigration status" data collection, but lawyers explain the disclosure is related to state privacy laws.
- Who’s behind AMI Labs, Yann LeCun’s ‘world model’ startup techcrunch.com2026-01-24 08:04:45
Yann LeCun's new venture, AMI Labs, has drawn intense attention since the AI scientist left Meta to found it.
- Waymo probed by National Transportation Safety Board over illegal school bus behavior techcrunch.com2026-01-24 05:50:47
The NTSB joins the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in investigating Waymo vehicles illegally passing stopped school buses.
- The Rippling/Deel corporate spying scandal may have taken another wild turn techcrunch.com2026-01-24 05:13:28
The Department of Justice may be conducting a criminal investigation. This is arguably the biggest drama between two HR startups ever.
- What to know about Netflix’s landmark acquisition of Warner Bros techcrunch.com2026-01-24 04:31:27
Learn more about Netflix's acquisition of Warner Bros., considered the most historic megadeal in Hollywood, as it continues to develop.
- Researchers say Russian government hackers were behind attempted Poland power outage techcrunch.com2026-01-24 04:17:24
Security researchers have attributed the attempted use of destructive "wiper" malware across Poland's energy infrastructure in late December to a Russian-backed hacking group known for causing power outages in neighboring Ukraine.
- How did Davos turn into a tech conference? techcrunch.com2026-01-24 04:00:00
The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos felt different this year, and not just because Meta and Salesforce took over storefronts on the main promenade. AI dominated the conversation in a way that overshadowed traditional topics like climate change and global poverty, and the CEOs weren’t holding back. There was public criticism of trade policy, warnings about AI […]
- Google Photos’ latest feature lets you meme yourself techcrunch.com2026-01-24 01:02:22
The new feature lets you insert yourself into a meme in Google Photos.
- Meta pauses teen access to AI characters as it develops a specially tailored version techcrunch.com2026-01-24 01:00:00
Meta will developed new versions of AI characters that will give age-appropriate responses
- Meta pauses teen access to AI characters ahead of new version techcrunch.com2026-01-24 01:00:00
Meta will developed new versions of AI characters that will give age-appropriate responses.
- Here’s what you should know about the US TikTok deal techcrunch.com2026-01-24 00:17:19
A number of investors are competing for the opportunity to purchase the app, and if a deal were to go through, the platform's U.S. business could have its valuation soar to upward of $60 billion.
- This startup will send 1,000 people’s ashes to space — affordably — in 2027 techcrunch.com2026-01-24 00:00:00
Started by an engineer who worked on the space shuttle program, and at Blue Origin, Space Beyond has a spot on a 2027 Falcon 9 flight.
