Discover

T

TechCrunch · Technology

Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meeting

Zoom will show a badge on verified participants' tile.

Ivan Mehta 4 months ago

Read

T

TechCrunch · Technology

Gigs turns your concert history into a personal live music archive

New iPhone app Gigs uses AI to turn old tickets, screenshots, and emails into a personal concert archive with stats, memories, and more.

Sarah Perez 4 months ago

Read

T

TechCrunch · Technology

Chef Robotics escaped the robot cooking graveyard and says it’s thriving — here’s why

The company, which deploys AI-guided robot arms for food production, says it is looking to expand its services to provide for a broader array of customers.

Lucas Ropek 4 months ago

Read

T

TechCrunch · Technology

Uber will now pick up your returns from your doorstep

The new returns feature is the company's latest effort to become an everything app.

Kirsten Korosec 4 months ago

Read

T

TechCrunch · Technology

Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals

The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily. 

Aisha Malik 4 months ago

Read

T

TechCrunch · Technology

With US spy laws set to expire, lawmakers are split over protecting Americans from warrantless surveillance

Some lawmakers are calling for widespread reforms following years of surveillance scandals and abuses across successive U.S. administrations. But even if the spy law known as Section 702 expires in April, the government's spy powers will not automatically lapse.

Zack Whittaker 4 months ago

Read

T

TechCrunch · Technology

Google’s AI Mode can now help you find products in stock nearby

Although you can already track hotel prices at the city level, the new update lets you do so for a specific hotel that you're interested in.

Aisha Malik 4 months ago

Read

T

TechCrunch · Technology

Netflix plans to add a vertical video feed, use AI for recommendations

Netflix is going to launch a TikTok-like vertical video feed within its apps this month, and plans to use AI broadly for content creation and recommendations.

Ivan Mehta 4 months ago

Read

T

TechCrunch · Technology

SaySo is a new short-form video app that aims to restore users’ trust in news

Users are fed up with misinformation and AI slop cluttering their feeds. SaySo is a new short-form video app that delivers news from vetted creators and journalists.

Lauren Forristal 4 months ago

Read

T

TechCrunch · Technology

Loop raises $95M to build supply chain AI that predicts disruptions

The San Francisco startup closed a Series C funding round led by Antonio Gracias' firm Valor, which is a major backer of xAI.

Sean O'Kane 4 months ago

Read

T

TechCrunch · Technology

Are we tokenmaxxing our way to nowhere?

The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it. While OpenAI is busy buying up everything from finance apps to talk shows, a certain shoe company just rebranded as an AI infrastructure p...

Theresa Loconsolo 4 months ago

Read

T

TechCrunch · Technology

New leaders, new fund: Sequoia has raised $7B to expand its AI bets

The fundraise is the first major capital raise under Sequoia's new leadership, with Alfred Lin and Pat Grady now serving as co-stewards of the 54-year-old firm.

Connie Loizos 4 months ago

Read

T

TechCrunch · Technology

Factory hits $1.5B valuation to build AI coding for enterprises

The three-year-old startup raised $150 million led by Khosla Ventures.

Marina Temkin 4 months ago

Read

T

TechCrunch · Technology

Luma launches AI-powered production studio with faith-focused Wonder Project

The studio's first project will be about Moses and star Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley, to be released this spring on Prime Video.

Rebecca Bellan 4 months ago

Read

T

TechCrunch · Technology

Netflix co-founder and chair Reed Hastings to leave board

Hastings helped to transform the video rental industry — first with physical, then digital, delivery.

Lucas Ropek 4 months ago

Read

T

TechCrunch · Technology

Upscale AI in talks to raise at $2B valuation, says report

AI infrastructure company Upscale AI is reportedly in talks to raise its third funding round since launching just seven months ago.

Dominic-Madori Davis 4 months ago

Read

T

TechCrunch · Technology

Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught

The new model, called π0.7, represents what the company describes as an early but meaningful step toward the long-sought goal of a general-purpose robot brain.

Connie Loizos 4 months ago

Read

T

TechCrunch · Technology

From the Startup Battlefield stage to the International Space Station: geCKo Materials built a sticky product

This week on Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen speaks with Capella Kerst, founder and CEO of geCKo Materials.

Maggie Nye, Isabelle Johannessen 4 months ago

Read

T

TechCrunch · Technology

Slash, a Ramp competitor founded by teenagers, raises $100M at $1.4B valuation

Five years later the founders, now 24 years old, say their startup has achieved $300 million in annualized revenue.

Julie Bort 4 months ago

Read

T

TechCrunch · Technology

OpenAI takes aim at Anthropic with beefed-up Codex that gives it more power over your desktop

OpenAI's agentic coding tool has gotten a major makeover, with a variety of new powers and abilities.

Lucas Ropek 4 months ago

Read

T

TechCrunch · Technology

European police email 75,000 people asking them to stop DDoS attacks

Europol coordinated an operation against for-hire distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) services, including the arrest of four people and the takedown of 53 domains.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 4 months ago

Read

T

TechCrunch · Technology

Anthropic CPO leaves Figma’s board after reports he will offer a competing product

Krieger's departure and any forthcoming design tools will be another data point for investors who fear the SaaSpocalypse — that the largest AI labs will come to dominate software businesses, a thesis that has rocked public markets at times this year.

Tim Fernholz 4 months ago

Read

T

TechCrunch · Technology

It’s not just you — Bluesky is (sorta) down

Bluesky has been experiencing ongoing service disruptions since just before 3 a.m. ET.

Sarah Perez 4 months ago

Read

T

TechCrunch · Technology

Everything we like is a psyop

If culture is shaped by TikTok's algorithmic feed, then it's time for us to decide where we draw the line between necessary marketing and inauthentic growth hacking.

Amanda Silberling 4 months ago

Read