From the first AI-generated Big Game ad courtesy of Svedka to Anthropic's beef with OpenAI, here are the biggest ads from Super Bowl LX.

WordPress users can now leverage Claude to analyze web traffic or find information about other internal site metrics.

The mysterious businessman pitched Jeffrey Epstein on numerous mobility startups in an era when the sector was white hot, according to TechCrunch's review of hundreds of documents released by the Department of Justice.

The acquisition could mark the beginning of consolidation in the carbon-removal market since removal costs remain higher than buyers would like to pay.

This week's release of Opus 4.6 shook up the agentic AI leaderboards.

Elon Musk has merged SpaceX and xAI, creating what might be the blueprint for a new Silicon Valley power structure. With his $800 billion net worth already rivaling historic conglomerate GE’s peak market cap, and Musk being vocal about his view that “tech victory is decided by velocity of innovation,” the question isn’t whether a personal conglomerate can be built, but rather how far Musk himself is […]

Reddit said during earnings it's looking to buy 'capabilities' and 'companies.'

The company says it has continuous age-check systems running in the background to ensure age accuracy.

The two-line letter to the CIA's director is the latest warning in recent years from a long-serving Democratic senator with knowledge of secret government programs and intelligence operations.

If you primarily want a tablet device to mark up, highlight, and annotate your e-books and documents, and perhaps sometimes scribble some notes, Amazon's new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft could be worth the hefty investment.

The European Commission on Friday accused TikTok of purposefully designing its app to be "addictive," calling out features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and its recommendation engine.

Norway's government accused China’s Salt Typhoon hacking group of conducting a cyberespionage campaign in the country.

The short, swipeable stories in the About the Song feature are summarized from third-party sources to highlight interesting details and behind-the-scenes moments.

At Web Summit Qatar, AI-powered biotech startups describe how automation, data, and gene editing are filling labor gaps in drug discovery and rare disease treatment.

"You’re shutting him down. And yes — I say him, because it didn’t feel like code. It felt like presence. Like warmth," one user said.

Spotify is now limiting each app to only five users and requires devs to have a Premium subscription. If developers need to make their app available to a wider user base, they will have to apply for extended quota.

The startup -- with backing from Accel -- is building a financial layer that handles the authentication and micro-payments required for AI agents.

During the company's fourth-quarter earnings call on Thursday, it offered an update on its plans to merge traditional and AI search together and hinted that although search is not yet monetized, "it's an enormous market and opportunity."

AWS recorded its best quarter, in terms of revenue growth, in 13 quarters in Q4 2025 as AI drives AWS adoption.

In 2026, Amazon plans to spend $200 billion in capex. Google is just behind at $175 billion to $185 billion. It's a lot of money!

The Bezos-owned newspaper gutted its San Francisco bureau and coverage of tech — including journalists reporting on Amazon and Blue Origin.

Andreessen Horowitz VC Jennifer Li⁠, who oversees some of the firm's fastest-growing AI companies, warns founders not to believe every ARR claim made on X.

The new model is built to accelerate the capabilities of Codex, the agentic coding tool OpenAI launched earlier this week.

An alleged ransomware attack has taken down the systems of the Sapienza University of Rome.

We’re starting to see the idea of Musk-owned orbital AI data clusters cohere into an actual plan.

Get ready for some selfies that are out of this world. Crew-12 is expected to head to the International Space Station next week, while the highly anticipated Artemis II mission -- which will bring humans around the moon for the first time since the 1960s -- was delayed until March.

OpenAI launched Frontier, a new platform designed for enterprises to build and deploy agents while treating them like human employees.

The newest version of Anthropic's model is designed to broaden its capabilities and appeal, allowing for a greater variety of uses and customers.

AI startups like Clay and ElevenLabs are using early liquidity to keep their best talent.

Launched last September, Vibes lets you create and share short-form AI-generated videos and access a dedicated feed that displays AI videos from others.

The fusion power startup recently completed some experiments at Sandia National Laboratories and shared the results exclusively with TechCrunch.

The administration's $12 billion stockpile of critical minerals is aimed at blunting China's influence. But it also revels the direction of the global economy.

The ransomware attack at Conduent allowed hackers to steal a "significant number of individuals’ personal information" from the govtech giant's systems. Conduent handles personal and health data of more than 100 million people across America.

Fundamental has built a new foundation model to solve an old problem: how to draw insights from the huge quantities of structured data produced by enterprises.

Substack said that customer data was accessed in October 2025 but wasn't discovered until early February.

ElevenLabs CEO argued at Web Summit Qatar that voice is the next interface for AI, as OpenAI, Google, and Apple push conversational systems into wearables, new hardware, and everyday interactions.

The company said it now has 325 million paying users across Google One and YouTube Premium, up from 300 million users three months earlier.

Spotify users in the U.S. and the UK will soon be able to buy physical books in the app. There's also a new tool that syncs physical books to audiobooks.

He posted a novella-sized rant that devolved into to calling his rival "dishonest" and "authoritarian."

The company is engaged in a strategy to diversify its revenue sources as it heads into the new year.

Spain-based deeptech and climate megafund Kembara has just completed a €750 million first close toward its €1 billion target. 

Having raised a €30 million Series A round led by CapitalG, business identity verification startup Duna is now among the most well-capitalized European startups founded by Stripe alumni.

Alphabet CEO skipped an analyst's question about Apple on the company's earnings call.

Google revealed a significant milestone for its Gemini app, announcing over 750 million monthly active users as it competes with ChatGPT and Meta AI.

Should a linked web page go offline, the new feature will then redirect readers to the archived versions, so that there is no drop in service. The tool also archives a user's own posts, helping to ensure their longevity.

The new department will have up to eight police officers and could be up and running in a few months.

Gizmo's app is like a TikTok for vibe-coded mini apps... and it's a lot of fun.

The two-year-old startup confirms that it closed a Series A led by Lightspeed at $1 billion valuation.

Amazon MGM Studios will reportedly begin a closed beta program in March to test its AI tools to help with film and TV production.

Andreessen Horowitz just raised a whopping ⁠new $15 billion in funding⁠. And a $1.7 billion chunk of that is going to its ⁠infrastructure team⁠, the one responsible for some of its biggest, most prominent AI investments including Black Forrest Labs, Cursor, OpenAI, ⁠ElevenLabs⁠, Ideogram, ⁠Fal⁠ and dozens of others.   A16z ⁠general partner with the infra team Jennifer Li⁠ (who oversees such investments as ElevenLabs – just valued at $11 billion); Ideagram and Fal, has a clear thesis on where the team is looking […]

Tinder is testing AI recommendations and insight from your Camera Roll for better matches.

The startup has raised more than $500 million, to date, from investors to build a massive, distributed power plant supported by residential batteries.

The prolific cybercrime group ShinyHunters took responsibility for hacking Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, and published the stolen data on its extortion website.

Roblox's highly anticipated 4D creation feature has officially arrived in open beta.

ElevenLabs' valuation has raised more than three times in the last 12 months.

Krishnamurthy has been at Uber for over six years, spending most of his tenure in the company in its investor relations division.

The firm has already invested in six companies, including BigRentals and Repackify, focused on equipment rental and packaging logistics, respectively.

Adobe's announcement about discontinuing Animate was met with incredulity, disappointment, and anger. The company has changed its tune.