Harvey, which uses AI to answer legal questions, lands cash from OpenAI | TechCrunch
Harvey, a startup using AI to answer legal questions, has secured an investment from OpenAI as well as Google AI head Jeff Dean.| TechCrunch
Harvey, a startup using AI to answer legal questions, has secured an investment from OpenAI as well as Google AI head Jeff Dean.| TechCrunch
OpenAI has announced that it's teaming up with Softbank and Oracle on $100 billion data center project in the U.S.| TechCrunch
Manus, a Chinese agentic AI tool, has gone viral. But the tech suffers from a number of limitations and bugs.| TechCrunch
Identify the traits of your top performing employees and hire people like them, but without the discrimanatory bias of traditional recruiting. That's the promise of Pymetrics, an artificial intelligence startup that today announced $8 million in new funding onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF.| TechCrunch
Apple says it will soon introduce an Apple Wallet feature to allow U.S. users to create a digital ID using their passport, which can be used at select TSA checkpoints for domestic travel.| TechCrunch
TrendMicro has posted yet another 0day AKA urgent Flash hole that could put your data at risk. The Hacking Team, a group of professional hackers who| TechCrunch
Trump's $250 million White House ballroom will be funded in part by big tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft.| TechCrunch
Apple has pulled the controversial dating safety apps Tea and TeaOnHer from the App Store over violations of its content moderation and privacy rules, following a flood of user complaints and reports of minors’ data being exposed.| TechCrunch
The optional new feature uses Meta AI to summarize unread messages in a chat. This summary would only be visible to you, not others in your chat, the company notes.| TechCrunch
A federal judge has granted Meta-owned WhatsApp’s request for a permanent injunction blocking Israeli cyberintelligence company NSO Group from targeting the messaging app’s users. At the same time, the judge dramatically reduced the fine that NSO Group must pay to Meta.| TechCrunch
Email is a necessary evil. Startups have taken note. We're looking at two of them, Gated and EtherMail.| TechCrunch
Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."| TechCrunch
Spotify will no longer allow developers building third-party apps with its Web API to access several features within the music-streaming platform, such as| TechCrunch
With the release of new AI models that are better at coding, developers are increasingly using AI to generate code. One of the newest examples is the| TechCrunch
Edtech has been a hot category for investors for some time. Surging demand for better classes globally from new entrants to the knowledge economy has| TechCrunch
OpenAI says it'll soon wind down GPT-4.5, its largest-ever AI model, in its API only months after releasing it.| TechCrunch
Updated 2:40 pm PT: Hours after GPT-4.5's release, OpenAI removed a line from the AI model's white paper that said "GPT-4.5 is not a frontier AI model."| TechCrunch
AI researcher Andrew Tulloch reportedly announced his departure to employees in a message on Friday.| TechCrunch
The accessibility software on all of Apple's platforms empower those with disabilities, myself included, to partake in the experience Apple intends for all users. Put another way, Apple products are inclusive by design.| TechCrunch
Netflix, Box, a16z, ElevenLabs, Wayve, Hugging Face, Elad Gil, Vinod Khosla — just some of the 250+ heavy hitters leading 200+ sessions designed to deliver the insights that fuel startup growth and sharpen your edge. Don’t miss the 20th anniversary of TechCrunch, and a chance to learn from the top voices in tech. Grab your ticket before doors open to save up to $444.| TechCrunch
Y Combinator revealed yesterday that its president, Sam Altman, is stepping down from his role to become the accelerator program's chairman. This change,| TechCrunch
A storm is brewing over a new language model, built by non-profit artificial intelligence research company OpenAI, which it says is so good at generating| TechCrunch
Gripping something with your hand is one of the first things you learn to do as an infant, but it's far from a simple task, and only gets more complex and variable as you grow up. This complexity makes it difficult for machines to teach themselves to do, but researchers at Elon Musk and Sam Altman-backed OpenAI have created a system that not only holds and manipulates objects much like a human does, but developed these behaviors all on its own.| TechCrunch
Retro video games have been a useful platform for machine learning research for years, and the systems created have been creeping through the classics, mastering them as they go. Sonic the Hedgehog may be the next to fall: OpenAI has announced a competition to apply machine learning to the classic Sega game.| TechCrunch
Netflix, Box, a16z, ElevenLabs, Wayve, Hugging Face, Elad Gil, Vinod Khosla — just some of the 250+ heavy hitters leading 200+ sessions designed to deliver the insights that fuel startup growth and sharpen your edge. Don’t miss the 20th anniversary of TechCrunch, and a chance to learn from the top voices in tech. Grab your ticket before doors open to save up to $444.| TechCrunch
NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.| TechCrunch
Not only is Bluesky more than just a Twitter/X alternative, it's just one app in a wider social ecosystem built on open technology.| TechCrunch
Instagram Threads, Meta's X competitor, has now grown to over 350 million monthly active users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed during the company's Q1 2025| TechCrunch
Months after first testing ads in select markets, including the U.S., Meta on Wednesday announced that its Instagram Threads app would now expand ads to| TechCrunch
Social network and X competitor Bluesky's massive growth slowed in December in the U.S., after having surged from 9+ million in September to north of 20| TechCrunch
Instagram Threads users had been clamoring for a fully functional web version of the Meta-owned Twitter alternative since the app's July debut. But last| TechCrunch
Though Benioff's shift mirrors Silicon Valley's broader accommodation of Trump, the exchange offered a rare glimpse of just how far that repositioning can go. The question now: will other Bay Area tech CEOs follow Benioff's lead and call for federal troops in their own backyard?| TechCrunch
Instagram is finally going to let users rearrange their grid and is testing a way for users to quietly post to their profile without having the content appear in users' feeds.| TechCrunch
Elon Musk said in a post on X early Thursday morning that Grok – the chatbot from his AI company, xAI – will be coming to Tesla vehicles “very soon.” “Next week at the latest,” he said.| TechCrunch
Elon Musk's X has taken the automated account for Grok, its AI chatbot, offline after it spent Tuesday afternoon pushing antisemitic narratives.| TechCrunch
Elon Musk announced this weekend that his team at xAI made improvements to their AI chatbot Grok. Days later, Grok has already gone on several blatantly antisemitic tirades.| TechCrunch
Elon Musk and xAI employee announced on Wednesday night the launch of the startup's next flagship AI model, Grok 4.| TechCrunch
Schools in Toronto and North Carolina are reporting extortion attempts.| TechCrunch
OpenAI is launching a new way for developers to build applications that appear directly inside of ChatGPT's conversations.| TechCrunch
The federal contract shows ICE spent $825,000 on vans equipped with “cell-site simulators” which allow the real-world location tracking of nearby phones and their owners.| TechCrunch
OpenAI's new restructuring plan has implciations for its corporate future, especially if the organization hopes to one day IPO.| TechCrunch
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Think TikTok or Instagram Reels, but every single video you come across is essentially just AI slop.| TechCrunch
Paddy Cosgrave, the co-founder of the Web Summit tech conference, is returning to his role as CEO after resigning in October over controversial statements| TechCrunch
Paddy Cosgrave has stepped down as CEO of Web Summit, the 14-year-old conference business that he co-founded and which has gone on to host one of Europe's| TechCrunch
Web Summit, the big tech conference brand that runs events in several cities and whose 70,000 person flagship event in Lisbon is taking place next month,| TechCrunch
Cuts to Techstars’ staff and its decision to shutter certain accelerators came after it missed its 2023 revenue goals, according to documents outlining| TechCrunch
Europe is suffering from a big hangover after the tech investment party of the 2020-2021 period. That said, compared to pre-pandemic levels, VC investment Europe is suffering from a big hangover after the tech investment party of the 2020-2021 period. That said, compared to pre-pandemic levels, VC investment in European startups is up over the last year, and reached $60 billion, according to a new report. However, the anomaly of the surge in investment over the pandemic stands in marked contr...| TechCrunch
Giant Ventures, a U.K.-based VC that has made a habit of investing on both sides of the Atlantic, is launching two new funds, totaling $250 million. Its| TechCrunch
The downturn in the technology sector -- dragged by inflation, higher interest rates and geopolitical events -- continues to persist, and one of the most| TechCrunch
Lattice, a platform that helps with workforce people management -- the ability to carry out performance reviews, employee feedback and praise; tools to| TechCrunch
Dublin-based Frontline Ventures has released details of its new €70 million ($83.8 million) Frontline Seed Fund III, which will be aimed at European B2B| TechCrunch
Frontline Ventures, based in Dublin and London, has announced a new $80 million fund designed to assist U.S. tech companies expanding into Europe. The new| TechCrunch
Facebook Dating's AI assistant is supposed to help users build their profiles and find the matches they're looking for.| TechCrunch
It's possible that AI could birth the first one-person, billion-dollar company. But its implications for society can't be ignored.| TechCrunch
Avara, the company behind Aave, Lens, and Family, is announcing a $31 million funding round led by Lightspeed Faction. With Lens, Avara is building a| TechCrunch
Smart Eye, the publicly traded Swedish company that supplies driver monitoring systems for a dozen automakers, has acquired emotion-detection software| TechCrunch
The modern world is dependent on a vast network for extracting, processing, transporting and ultimately consuming hydrocarbons like crude oil and natural| TechCrunch
Meta unveiled new versions of its AI-powered smart glasses, as well as a gesture-indicating wristband.| TechCrunch
Meta showed off its newest AI-powered smart glasses, which have a display and are controlled by a wristband, at Meta Connect 2025.| TechCrunch
The new smart glasses are geared toward runners, cyclists, and other athletes.| TechCrunch
The internet was a revolution because it reorganized a large part of the economy and society around the network structure, becoming a fantastic medium for commerce, finance, power and culture. It also definitely changed our perception of time and space. We now live in a globalized and connected world where information flows at the speed of light. But what about data?| TechCrunch
Mark S. Zuckerberg, an attorney, says that he's losing business because his Facebook business profile keeps getting disabled.| TechCrunch
TV Time, a popular TV and movie tracking and recommendations app with more than 30 million registered users, disappeared from Apple's App Store for| TechCrunch
TechCrunch spoke to experienced coders about their time using AI-generated code about what they see as the future of vibe coding.| TechCrunch
After integrating Meta AI into WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, Meta is rolling out a stand-alone AI app. Unveiled at Meta's LlamaCon event| TechCrunch
Granola's notepad app has become a popular tool among venture capitalists who use it to record meetings and augment notes using AI technology. That made| TechCrunch
Granola takes a more collaborative approach to working with AI.| TechCrunch
Srinivas went on to note that the same growth trajectory is possible, especially with the new Comet browser that it's working on.| TechCrunch
Clockwise, a time management and smart calendar tool, has raised $45 million in Series C funding led by Coatue, with participation from Atlassian Ventures| TechCrunch
Apple launched a new security feature for iPhone 17 and iPhone Air designed to reduce the effect of memory corruption bugs, and in turn make spyware and zero-days more difficult to hack into iPhones.| TechCrunch
Forty workers went on strike in February, alleging that Google leveraged unfair labor practices to interfere with union organizing.| TechCrunch
YouTube podcasting head Kai Chuk announced Thursday that podcasts will be added to YouTube Music soon.| TechCrunch
At launch, Spotify's redesign will be mobile-only but it will arrive on more devices in the future.| TechCrunch
Michael Mignano has joined the consumer practice of the sprawling venture firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, after previously co-founding the podcasting| TechCrunch
Spotify earlier this year began beta testing new features to make podcasts more interactive through the use of listener polls and Q&As. Today, the| TechCrunch
Spotify is going after podcasts in a major way in 2019. The music streaming service today confirmed that it has snapped up two podcast networks -- Gimlet| TechCrunch
YouTube confirmed a new podcasts destination is live for U.S. users, as the company is getting serious about investments in podcasts and potential ad revenue.| TechCrunch
Spotify has been slowly making its video podcast tools available to a larger set of creators.| TechCrunch
Spotify expands access to publish video podcasts to creators across five key markets, plus the introduction of new tools like support for subs, embeddable videos, and more.| TechCrunch
Spotify has already invested around $1 billion in podcasting between its acquisitions, exclusive deals and other partnerships. Now, it wants people to do| TechCrunch
The startup entered into receivership after selling its customer list to Turo.| TechCrunch
Fancy overseeing whether Big Tech is playing by European Union privacy rules? The Irish government has posted job ads for two additional commissioners to Fancy overseeing whether much of Big Tech is playing by European Union privacy rules? Job ads have been posted for two additional commissioners to lead Ireland's Data Protection Commission...| TechCrunch
Meta has lost a first bid to get an injunction slapped on a ban Norway's data protection authority imposed on its consentless behavioral ad targeting in Meta has lost a first bid to get an injunction slapped on a ban imposed on its consentless behavioral ad targeting in July by Norway's data protection authority.| TechCrunch
Major privacy complaints in Europe targeting the legality of Meta’s core "personalized" ads business model have finally been settled.| TechCrunch
Meta has been temporarily banned from running behavioral advertising on Facebook and Instagram in Norway -- unless it obtains users' consent to the processing.| TechCrunch
Meta's planned Twitter killer, Threads, isn't yet publicly available but it already looks like a privacy nightmare...| TechCrunch
A long-anticipated judgement today by the Court of Justice of the European Union looks to have comprehensively crushed Meta's ability to deny European users a free choice over its tracking and profiling.| TechCrunch
The German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) has announced Meta will roll out a new account center incoming that will see it provide users of its social networking services with a greater degree of choice over whether they allow it to combine data on their activity across its services or not.| TechCrunch
The Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Union's plan to curb the market power of Big Tech, now technically applies.| TechCrunch
Italy's data protection watchdog laid out what OpenAI needs to do for it to lift an order that ChatGPT stop processing locals' data.| TechCrunch
Meta is starting the new year with more privacy fines for its business in Europe following enforcement of complaints over the legal basis it claims to run behavioral ads.| TechCrunch
In what looks like bad news for adtech giants like Facebook and Google, MEPs in the European Parliament have voted for tougher restrictions on how| TechCrunch
After two years coming down the pipe at tech giants, Europe's new privacy framework, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is now being applied| TechCrunch
Restaurant owners have a lot of responsibilities and a wide array of skills to handle those responsibilities. That said, building a website isn't usually| TechCrunch
Fortnite is back on iOS -- well, kind of. Through Nvidia's streaming game service GeForce Now, mobile users on iOS and Android will be able to play a| TechCrunch
After Epic Games picked a fight with Apple over the sizable chunk of fees the company takes on transactions in its mobile ecosystem, it looks like the| TechCrunch
Apple last week announced new rules for EU app developers to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA). After being designated as a "gatekeeper," the EU| TechCrunch
