When Parthi Duraisamy was a consultant at McKinsey’s Dubai office, he discovered that the American Express cards his company relied on for corporate expenses were rarely accepted in the Middle East. This forced Duraisamy to cover significant travel expenses out of pocket and file endless...
Uzbekistan's Uzum has raised $65.5 million in a new funding round co-led by China's Tencent and the New York- and London-based VR Capital, with participation from U.S.-based FinSight Capital....
Indian startup Jeh Aerospace has secured $11 million in a new funding round to help ease global supply chain bottlenecks....
Dribbble is enforcing its terms of service that lets it take a cut of designers' work, and kicking out those who don't comply. One top designer has had enough, and is building his own startup instead....
The discoveries by an AI-based bug hunter are significant, as it shows these tools are starting to get real results, even if they still need a human....
Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages....
OpenAI's consumer chatbot ChatGPT to hit a new milestone of 700M weekly users....
Elon Musk continues to position Grok as an unfiltered, boundary-pushing AI....
OpenMind is building humanoid robot operating software designed for robots that interact with people and other robots....
Using AI to analyze thousands of frames taken by drone, The Piedmontese Alpine Rescue team has found the body of a doctor who had been missing since September 2024....
Apple is reportedly working to create a lightweight competitor to ChatGPT....
OpenAI developed the first AI reasoning model less than a year ago, but the technology has shifted Silicon Valley's focus to agents....
“Modeling as a profession is already challenging enough without having to compete with now new digital standards of perfection that can be achieved with AI,” Sarah Murray told TechCrunch....
Apple CEO Tim Cook held an hourlong all-hands meeting in which he told employees that the company needs to win in AI: "Apple must do this. Apple will do this."...
A surprising figure is celebrating Figma’s successful IPO: Lina Khan, former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, who said the offering demonstrates the value of "letting startups grow into independently successful businesses."...
Anthropic has cut off one of its biggest competitors, revoking OpenAI’s access to its Claude family of AI models....
OpenAI lost access to the Claude API this week after Anthropic claimed the company was violating its terms of service....
News of a backlog at the U.S. federal department comes less than a week after national security experts urged the Trump administration to reverse its decision that allows Nvidia to export H20 chips to China....
Google has backed STAN, an Indian social gaming mobile platform that connects gamers with creators, communities, and publishers....
On today’s episode of Uncanny Valley, our senior business editor joins us to talk Meta, brain aging, and ChatGPT’s recent dark turn....
Meta is still going all-in on the AI talent war, with Mark Zuckerberg reportedly reaching out to top recruits himself, throwing around jaw-dropping compensation packages that top $1 billion over multiple years. And Meta’s latest target? Mira Murati’s new startup, Thinking Machines Lab. It’s a...
VCs and founders took much of the $2.4B, but money was left for a payout to all employees, sources say....
Long before ChatGPT, a group of AI luminaries gathered on an island to discuss the future of artificial intelligence. Their funder ultimately cast a shadow on all who attended....
Fundamental Research Labs is releasing multiple AI products related to gaming and productivity....
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, we’re getting real about what it takes to land a Series A in today’s market — no smoke, no mirrors, just the unfiltered perspective from the people signing the checks. Series...
The oversubscribed round came months ahead of schedule, and is part of OpenAI's strategy to raise $40 billion....
Autonomous weapons, decentralized strategy, and startup speed — this isn’t the future of defense, it’s the now. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Ethan Thornton, CEO and founder of Mach Industries, steps onto the AI Stage to talk about how next-gen defense is being built from the...
The round could make the AI data storage company one of the most valuable in the world....
Google released its first publicly available "multi-agent" AI system, which uses more computational resources, but produces better answers....
It doesn’t matter who makes the tech—when you call a robocar, Uber’s mission now is to make sure you use its app....