timef 02/14/2026
- Nothing opens its first retail store in India techcrunch.com2026-02-14 14:30:00
The two-story location will sell products from Nothing and the more affordable, mass-market brand CMF.
- Indian pharmacy chain giant exposed customer data and internal systems techcrunch.com2026-02-14 11:30:00
A backend flaw in web admin dashboards used by one of India's largest pharmacy chains, exposed thousands of online pharmacy orders.
- Airbnb plans to bake in AI features for search, discovery and support techcrunch.com2026-02-14 10:40:42
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said the company wants to increase its use of large language models for customer discovery, support and engineering.
- Airbnb says a third of its customer support is now handled by AI in the U.S. and Canada techcrunch.com2026-02-14 06:12:26
Airbnb has shifted a third of its North American customer service to its AI agent, CEO Brian Chesky said.
- Fintech lending giant Figure confirms data breach techcrunch.com2026-02-14 05:02:46
The company said hackers downloaded “a limited number of files” after breaking into an employee’s account. The hacking group ShinyHunters took responsibility for the breach.
- Why top talent is walking away from OpenAI and xAI techcrunch.com2026-02-14 05:00:00
AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its mission alignment team to the firing of a policy exec who opposed its “adult mode” feature. Watch as TechCrunch’s Equity podcast hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony […]
- Sex toys maker Tenga says hacker stole customer information techcrunch.com2026-02-14 04:19:05
The Japanese sex toy maker said a hacker broke into an employee's inbox and stole customer names, email addresses, and correspondence, including order details and customer service inquiries.
- OpenAI removes access to sycophancy-prone ChatGPT-4o model techcrunch.com2026-02-14 02:10:00
The model is known for its overly sycophantic nature and its role in several lawsuits involving users' unhealthy relationships to the chatbot.
- OpenAI removes access to sycophancy-prone GPT-4o model techcrunch.com2026-02-14 02:10:00
The model is known for its overly sycophantic nature and its role in several lawsuits involving users' unhealthy relationships to the chatbot.
- The SEC closed its investigation into Fisker techcrunch.com2026-02-14 01:48:43
The financial regulator revealed in a response to a TechCrunch records request that the probe was closed in September 2025.
- India partners with Alibaba.com for export push despite past China tech bans techcrunch.com2026-02-14 01:32:59
India turns to Alibaba.com's B2B network of 50 million buyers in 200 countries to help businesses scale global exports.
- Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads mocking AI with ads helped push Claude’s app into the top 10 techcrunch.com2026-02-14 01:16:27
After Anthropic's Super Bowl ads, Claude's app reached the top 10 on the U.S. App Store.
- Roku to launch streaming bundles as part of its efforts to continue growing its profitability techcrunch.com2026-02-14 00:39:27
Roku delivered an impressive Q4, posting net income of $80.5 million. The company also outlined plans for streaming bundles.
- A Stanford grad student created an algorithm to help his classmates find love; now, Date Drop is the basis of his new startup techcrunch.com2026-02-14 00:24:53
"Our matches convert to actual dates at about 10x the rate of Tinder," Weng told TechCrunch.
- Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, not pull techcrunch.com2026-02-14 00:11:01
At least nine engineers, including two co-founders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising questions about stability at Musk’s AI company amid mounting controversy.
- Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, not pull techcrunch.com2026-02-14 00:11:01
At least nine engineers, including two co-founders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising questions about stability at Musk’s AI company amid mounting controversy.
- Dutch phone giant Odido says millions of customers affected by data breach techcrunch.com2026-02-13 23:54:13
The Dutch phone giant Odido is the latest phone and internet company to be hacked in recent months, as governments and financially motivated hackers continue to steal highly confidential information about phone customers.
