Tea, an app that allows women to post anonymous comments about men they’ve supposedly dated, announced Friday that it has suffered a data breach, with hackers gaining access to 72,000 images....
A network of local officials in Italy want to turn their cities into laboratories for the vehicles of tomorrow in the hope of catching up with the US and China....
Index Ventures partner Jahanvi Sardana has a reminder for all those founders worried about finding TAM for their product or service: many startups have emerged from markets that, at the time, were essentially nonexistent....
The electric car maker informed California that it will operate a limited public taxi service. But it’s not legally allowed to do this with self-driving cars....
Shengjia Zhao, a former OpenAI researcher, will round out the leadership team at Meta's new AI lab....
AI platforms in June 2025 generated over 1.13 billion referrals to the top 1,000 websites globally, up 357% year-over-year....
In response to a question about how AI works with today's legal system, Altman said one of the problems of not yet having a legal or policy framework for AI is that there's no legal confidentiality for users' conversations....
The big AI companies seem to be in a celebratory mood after President Donald Trump unveiled his AI Action Plan — not surprising, perhaps, since the plan was shaped by Trump’s Silicon Valley allies. Today, on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Max Zeff, and...
The Trump administration says it wants AI models free from ideological bias, as it pressures their developers to reflect the president’s worldview....
Tesla is behind on its goal to produce at least 5,000 Optimus humanoid robots by the end of 2025....
Google is testing a new vibe-coding tool called Opal, available in the U.S. through Google Labs, that lets users quickly spin up web apps with just a few prompts....
BiteSight is a food-delivery app that lets users watch videos of food before ordering. It also lets customers see what their friends have ordered and bookmark places to try out....
Intel cancelled multiple manufacturing projects in Europe and delayed its Ohio chip plant for the second time this year....
Acrew Capital's Kolodny led a $20 million Series A in Alix, a startup that uses AI to automate estate processing....
In red-hot acquisition market, this CVector founders answer this key question in its first conversation with prospective customers....
As AI companions from companies like Replika, Character AI, and Nomi AI abound, love is no longer strictly human. In this debate, we ask the question of whether it should be, or whether dating an AI could be better than dating a human....
Google's new Search Labs experiment will organize the search results using AI smarts....
A senior software engineer for Turso, Thorpe is part of an experimental program in the Maine state prison system that allows incarcerated people to work remote jobs from custody....
One of the most popular platforms for AI-assisted programming says the next era of vibe coding is all about supercharging error detection....
Memories.ai's platform can process up to 10 million hours of video. For companies with a lot of video to analyze, the startup wants to provide a contextual layer, complete with searchable indexing, tagging, segments and aggregation....
"We're getting a lot of stuff that looks like gold, but it's actually just crap,” said the founder of one security testing firm. AI-generated security vulnerability reports are already having an effect on bug hunting, for better and worse....
LegalOn Technologies, a Tokyo- and San Francisco-headquartered legal tech startup that has built an AI contract review software for legal teams, has raised $50 million in Series E funding led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, along with existing investor World Innovation Lab (WiL),...
The feature is launching in the United States today, letting users try on apparel items in Google's Shopping Graph across Search, Google Shopping and product results on Google Images....
It’s the first such product to reach the market, and it could unlock a host of fattened-up meat alternatives....
How did steamy, short soap operas that originated in China become the hottest thing in Hollywood, seemingly overnight?...
A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers. On Wednesday at 5pm PST, the nonprofit Laude Institute announced the first winner of the K Prize, a multi-round AI coding challenge launched by Databricks...
When DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese firms released their AI models, Western researchers quickly noticed they sidestepped questions critical of the Chinese Communist Party. U.S. officials later confirmed that these tools are engineered to reflect Beijing’s talking points, raising concerns about censorship and bias. American...
The comment came shortly after analysts peppered Pichai and other Google executives with questions about how AI would affect its core search business and why Google is spending an extra $10 billion on capital expenditures this year to catch up in the AI race....
The remarks, which came during a keynote speech at a summit hosted by the All-In Podcast, follow President Donald Trump’s newly released AI Action Plan....
The AI Action Plan offers a path, but not a concrete plan, for what the administration is thinking when it comes to chip export restrictions....