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Benchmark’s new patner Everett Randell, sees enterprise automation as the largest opportunity in AI.

The new Sassy style can curse and roast you, but the fun ends there.

The funding round, led by Insight Partners, comes just four months after Wonderful raised a $100 million Series A.

Two years after revealing what its affordable next-generation EV would look like, Rivian has shared all of the pricing, colors, and performance specs for its upcoming R2 SUV. And like so many new car releases, it’s complicated. The bottom line: Rivian’s bid to sell a more affordable EV that is accessible to a broader market […]

Nissan will integrate Wayve's self-driving software into the Leaf with the goal of making the vehicles available on the Uber app in Tokyo.

Following the success of TikTok and Instagram Reels, Verts is designed to boost daily engagement and reach mobile-first viewers, all while increasing discovery across Disney+'s catalog.

The Japanese automaker said the change of plans will cost it up to $15.7 billion.

The tech giant says the "Immersive Navigation" launch is the biggest update to Maps in over a decade.

The startup's new BAM-3 facility can make enough silicon anode material annually to supply about 100,000 long-range EVs.

This season on Build Mode, we’re diving into what it takes to build a world-class founding team. This week we’re exploring different kinds of co-founder dynamics and what it takes to build a startup with your family.

A new way to solve data scarcity: Turning qualitative reports into quantitative data with an LLM.

This is the largest early-stage funding in China’s brain computer interface industry.

This song is an AI actor's rallying cry to other AI actors, urging them to keep going despite the naysayers who doubt their humanity. Literally no one can relate to this.

Nuro began testing its self-driving software on public roads in Tokyo, marking the first international expansion for the AV startup.

The updates indicate that Google is focused on transforming Google Play into an enhanced gaming hub.

Ford rolled out an AI assistant this week that can monitor and analyze millions of data points to help its Ford Pro commercial customers boost their bottom line. The bet, and one that most other automakers are making, is that there’s money to be made in software. Ford Pro AI debuted at Work Truck Week […]

inDrive has closed its acquisition of KraveMart, expanding grocery delivery in a market dominated by Foodpanda.

Forethought was years ahead of its time and the 2018 winner of TechCrunch Battlefield.

Fi, founded by former Google Pay executives, is discontinuing banking services over four years after launch.

Last week, Netflix announced the acquisition of InterPositive, an AI company co-founded by Ben Affleck that helps filmmakers edit footage in post-production. This deal could be worth up to $600 million, according to Bloomberg, potentially ranking it among the streaming giant’s largest acquisitions ever. The most Netflix has ever paid for a single acquisition was […]

Swedish vibe-coding unicorn Lovable crossed $400 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in February.

E-commerce company Quince has raised another massive round, less than a year after its previous raise.

AltStore PAL now supports the fediverse, using its own Mastodon server to let iOS developers share app updates and alerts across platforms like Mastodon and Threads.

The National Transportation Safety Board released documents ahead of a March 31 hearing that help show how and why two drivers crashed into stationary vehicles in 2024, leading to three deaths.

Replit raised a new $400 million round and said it hopes to have $1B in ARR by year's end.

The hacktivist group claimed the attack was in retaliation for a U.S. strike on a Tehran school that killed more than 175 people, most of them children.

Breakout Ventures is finding growing success by backing early-stage startups in scientific fields such as biology and chemistry. 

Almost 40 new unicorns have been minted so far this year — here they are

GC is said to be raising $10 billion and Spark Capital $3 billion. This after several other firms have also raised mega funds.

For years, venture capitalists have been skeptical of beverage startups, citing thin margins and brutal distribution as reasons most brands never break out. But a new wave of “functional soda” companies has been challenging that assumption, including Poppi, the prebiotic soda brand that grew from a kitchen experiment into a $1.95 billion acquisition by PepsiCo.  On this episode of […]

According to a Reuters report, a foreign hacker broke into a server that was part of the FBI’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein — without realizing they had hacked an FBI server.

WordPress’s new browser-based service lets users create private sites without hosting or signup, turning the platform into a personal workspace for writing, research, and AI tools.

The startup, which was created by Rivian founder RJ Scaringe, is looking to train on data from, and deploy in, Rivian's factory.

Meta’s Moltbook acquisition may look odd at first, but the deal could signal how Meta sees AI agents shaping future advertising and commerce on an agentic web.