Chinese Beverage Chains Spread Across the US, Challenging Starbucks’ Dominance
Luckin Coffee, Chagee, and other Chinese brands are targeting US consumers with Instagram-worthy drinks sold through sleek mobile apps....
Luckin Coffee, Chagee, and other Chinese brands are targeting US consumers with Instagram-worthy drinks sold through sleek mobile apps....
OpenAI says users can now personalize ChatGPT to stop using the em dash in its output....
Political consultant Bradley Tusk has spent a fortune on mobile voting efforts. Now, he’s launching a protocol to try to mainstream the technology....
Pine Labs, backed by PayPal and Mastercard, gained 14% on its market debut....
Legal AI might not sound like the sexiest category in Silicon Valley, yet Harvey‘s CEO Winston Weinberg has captured the attention of virtually every top-tier investor in the Valley. The company’s backers read like a who’s who of venture capital: the OpenAI Startup Fund (its...
OpenAI on Thursday unveiled a group chat feature for ChatGPT, currently in pilot across Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan, allowing users to collaborate directly within the app....
Chatbot developers and retail giants are battling over user data as they lay the foundation for a future in which AI agents can do all your online shopping for you....
The goalposts are moving for AI startups when it comes to growth, product features, and just about everything else....
In the debut episode of the Build Mode podcast, we sat down with Deon Nicholas, co-founder of Forethought AI, to unpack what it really takes to build a lasting company with and for your customers from day one....
Apple updates its App Store rules to restrict apps from sharing personal data with third-party AI without disclosure and explicit permission....
Early-stage venture fund Betaworks announced the latest 10 companies launching from its prestigious Camp program....
The service rolling out "Deep Research," a tool that will automate and simplify complex online research....
“SIMA 2 is a more general agent. It can complete complex tasks in previously unseen environments. And it's a self-improving agent...
LinkedIn's AI-powered people search is rolling out to premium users in the U.S....
The solar-thermal startup wants to deliver electricity for as little as one cent per kWh. But first it has to scale production to 1 million units per year....
Bindwell applies AI drug discovery techniques to invent new pesticide molecules....
The Los Angeles-based startup will build more than 50 electric truck chassis for the delivery giant by the end of this year....
Google is expanding AI shopping with conversational search, agentic checkout and an AI that calls stores for you about local inventory....
Cursor plans to use the capital to continue developing Composer, the AI model the vibe coding startup released in October....
Microsoft is taking a page from OpenAI's playbook, literally....
Israeli startup Milestone raised a $10 million seed funding round to correlate AI tool usage with engineering metrics, including code quality....
The gpt-oss models are being tested for use on sensitive military computers. But some defense insiders say that OpenAI is still behind the competition....
Varaha aims to support around 337,000 farmers across 675,000 hectares in northern India through its regenerative farming project....
Chad: The Brainrot IDE is an actual product that pairs vibe coding with brainrot activities like gambling, Tinder and games....
ElevenLabs struck a deal with actors Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey to AI-generate their voices....
A German court ruled that OpenAI’s ChatGPT violated the nation’s copyright laws by training its language models on licensed musical work without permission....
Anthropic believes AI models will increasingly reach into the physical world. To understand where things are headed, it asked Claude to program a quadruped....
Marc Manara, OpenAI’s head of startups, says the reality of AI has advanced far beyond ideas and experiments. AI-native companies are hitting $200 million in annual recurring revenue, and product cycles have shrunk from two-week sprints to single days. And OpenAI is helping. Today on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast,...
Next-gen networking tech, sometimes powered by light instead of electricity, is emerging as a critical piece of AI infrastructure....
WisdomAI is offering AI-driven data analytics that can answer business questions from structured, unstructured, and even “dirty” data, meaning data not cleaned of typos or errors....