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EPA administrator Lee Zeldin is reportedly expected to repeal the 2009 "endangerment finding" that underpins U.S. climate regulatory efforts.

YouTubers are no longer just creators, and in some cases, their side businesses are growing faster than their channels.

Hauler Hero has seen its customer base, revenue, and head count double since the company raised its seed round in 2024.

India’s new rules take effect February 20, tightening deepfake oversight and shrinking takedown windows to as little as two hours.

Thomas Dohmke's new startup offers an AI system to allow developers to better manage all the code AI agents produce.

Spotify credited a successful Wrapped campaign and new features in its free tier for its rapid user growth

Primary Ventures has closed a $625 million fund focused on seed investing nationwide. It's a sizeable accomplishment for a seed-stage VC firm.

Smart Bricks is an AI-powered proptech that helps investors find high-quality real estate investments

Startup Runway has raised a $315 million round at a $5.3 billion valuation, funds it will use to expand beyond AI video generation and into world models.

YouTube Music is rolling out a new AI-powered playlist-generation feature that allows Premium users on iOS and Android to use text prompts to create playlists.

Because employees could do more, work began bleeding into lunch breaks and late evenings. The employees' to-do lists expanded to fill every hour that AI freed up, and then kept going.

Tem has built a transaction engine that relies on AI to cut costs. Lightspeed led the round to help the startup expand to the U.S. and Australia.

India's Aadhaar is moving into wallets, hotels and policing through a new app. Critics say that amid the broader Aadhaar rollout, it's unclear how data shared through the new app would prevent breaches or leaks.

This is the typical next step before it launches a commercial service.

YouTube megastar MrBeast announced on Monday that his company, Beast Industries, is buying Step, a teen-focused banking app.

The move comes as Bluesky’s competitors, X and Threads, have long supported drafts.

AI isn't going to replace major SaaS apps with vibe-coded versions, Databricks Ali Ghodsi believes. But it could give rise to competitors.

India's Anthropic Software has taken the U.S. AI giant to court over a name dispute.

ChatGPT ads will display for users on the the free and low-cost "Go" plans.

Ouster is paying $35 million along with 1.8 million shares.

Is Musicboard shutting down? Company says no, but users are worried.

After announcing $190 million in ARR in December, Harvey may be raising again a big leap in valuation.

Bhusri said in a statement that the company's next chapter would be focused on AI.

Rival Uber started allowing teens to use the app two years ago.

According to TechCrunch’s ongoing tally, including the most recent data spill involving uMobix, there have been at least 27 stalkerware companies since 2017 that are known to have been hacked, or leaked customer and victims’ data online. 

The company raised $13 billion in equity funding just five months ago, but intense competition between frontier labs and the ongoing cost of compute have made them eager to raise as quickly as possible.

Founded by former Google Japan leaders, InfiniMind is building enterprise AI to turn vast, unused video archives into searchable, actionable business intelligence.

With its new "Arrival Notifications," users can now set one-time or recurring alerts for locations beyond their home, providing an automatic way to share when they’ve arrived at their destination.

More than half-a-million people who bought access to phone surveillance and social media snooping apps had their email address and partial payment card numbers published online.