While the relationship was once thorny enough that Musk challenged Zuckerberg to a cagefight, things seem to have warmed up by the early days of the second Trump administration.

While there’s been plenty of debate about AI sycophancy, a new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how harmful that tendency might be.

All but two of Musk's 11 xAI co-founders departed before this week.

We’ve compiled a list of some of the best iPad apps for creativity that are available on the App Store. 

Estimates for total Claude consumer users are all over the map (we've seen figures ranging from 18 million to 30 million). Anthropic hasn't disclosed this data, but a spokesperson did tell TechCrunch that Claude paid subscriptions have more than doubled this year.

Fusion, fission, and even natural gas are appeared tied in the race to deliver new power to the grid in the early 2030s.

Boomboxes, instant cameras, and even landlines are making a comeback. Here are the coolest retro-inspired devices available.

We polled nearly a dozen VCs to find out which W26 startups are the sought after in the batch.

Whoop founder Will Ahmed has spent 14 years building a health wearable beloved by elite athletes, and is now racing Oura — and the FDA, and the limits of consumer medicine — to turn it into something that could one day save your life.

The deal would effectively double the company's $5.6 billion valuation in just four months.

Wall Street giants JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs are extending a 12-month, unsecured loan to the Japanese conglomerate.

SK hynix’s potential U.S. listing could raise $10-$14 billion to help it build more capacity, encourage others to follow, and end the 'RAMmageddon' memory shortage.

Waymo's weekly paid robotaxi trips have increased tenfold in less than two years.

The European Union's top executive body has confirmed a cyberattack after hackers reportedly stole reams of data from the European Commission's cloud storage.

Index Ventures is said to be leading a $250 million to $350 million round.

The two companies have been collaborating on a joint venture that would see Rivian tech go in VW's EVs.

Handala, a pro-Iranian hacking group allegedly working for Iran’s government, published emails it said were taken from the Gmail account of FBI director Kash Patel.

When an 82-year-old Kentucky woman was offered $26 million from an AI company that wanted to build a data center on her land, she said no. Sure, that same company can try to rezone 2,000 acres nearby anyway, but as AI infrastructure stretches further into the real world, the real world is starting to push back.  That tension is everywhere […]

The tech giant's claim that it has not seen any successful spyware attacks targeting Apple devices with Lockdown Mode enabled comes amid a leak of hacking tools targeting users running devices with older software.

Sacks will be much further from the power center in Washington than since the outset of this second Trump administration.

A federal judge has ordered that the Trump administration rescind recent restrictions it placed on the AI company.

Google is launching "switching tools" that, just as it sounds, will make it easier for users of other chatbots to switch to Gemini.

The site, whose policies are subject to change, has struggled with the issue of AI-generated writing.

Mastodon is redesigning user profiles to simplify the experience and better appeal to mainstream users and organizations.

The standard plan without ads now costs $19.99 per month, a $2 increase from the previous $17.99 subscription fee, while the premium plan is also going up by $2 and will now cost $26.99 per month.

From redirecting doomscrolling to training humanoid robots, these 16 startups stood out as the most interesting ones from an overflowing YC cohort.

The real-time headphone translations experience keeps each speaker’s tone, emphasis, and cadence intact, so it’s easier to follow the conversation and tell who’s saying what.

It's only the latest of several side projects that the AI startup has ditched over the past week.

Senators Josh Hawley and Elizabeth Warren want the Energy Information Administration to gather more details about how data centers use power — and how that affects the grid.

In one year, Shield AI's value has leaped 140%. This after it won a contract to be the software provider to Anduril's Fury fighter jet for the U.S. Air Force.

Leaked hacking tools threaten the security of millions of older iPhones. Cybersecurity experts weigh in.

Search Live allows users to point their phone camera at objects to get real-time assistance, enabling back-and-forth conversations that draw on the visual context from the camera feed.

The new model in CapCut will have built-in protections for making video from real faces or unauthorized intellectual property.

When you’re building at breakneck speed, hiring a trusted team is crucial for an early-stage startup. Bland CEO and co-founder Isaiah Granet has tactical advice on how the company managed to find hidden talent in unlikely places. 

Here’s what we know, and what you need to know, about Coruna and DarkSword, two advanced iPhone hacking tools discovered by security researchers. DarkSword has now leaked online.

Conntour uses AI models to let security teams query camera feeds using natural language to find any object, person, or situation.

Relatively light at just 2 billion parameters, the model is meant for use with consumer-grade GPUs for those who want to self-host it. It currently supports 14 languages.

The Meta-owned messaging platform is also launching a way to free up space, the ability to touch up photos with Meta AI, and more.

Fears of AI-driven job loss are growing fast, and they’re fueling backlash against data centers. Sen. Mark Warner suggests taxing them to help workers survive the transition.

The model, which lets enterprises build voice agents for sales and customer engagement, puts Mistral in direct competition with the likes of ElevenLabs, Deepgram, and OpenAI.

Verne, the robotaxi company launched under Rimac Group, is starting with a service in Zagreb, Croatia.

Did anyone think there would not be a reckoning over this tie-up?

Deccan AI concentrates its workforce in India to manage quality in a fast-growing but fragmented AI training market.

LiteLLM offers an AI open source project used by millions that was infected by credential harvesting malware.

Anthropic finds AI isn’t replacing jobs yet, but early data shows growing inequality as experienced users gain an edge, raising concerns about future displacement and workforce divides.

The spyware founder's comments are the most direct suggestion yet from anyone inside Intellexa that the Mitsotakis government authorized the hacking of dozens of phones belonging to senior Greek government ministers, opposition leaders, military officials, and journalists.

Google’s TurboQuant has the internet joking about Pied Piper from HBO's "Silicon Valley." The compression algorithm promises to shrink AI’s “working memory” by up to 6x, but it’s still just a lab experiment for now.

The first lady sees AI and robotics playing a prominent role in the future of American education.

The startup provides an e-prescribing marketplace for the booming cash-pay clinic market.

Evidence presented at the trial swayed the jury to the plaintiff's side, demonstrating that Meta understood how addictive its platforms could be among teens in particular and that it was actively researching the issue and using its findings to increase engagement among young users.

Meta is laying off several hundred employees across multiple teams, including sales, recruiting, and the Reality Labs division. The cuts will impact employees in the U.S. and other international markets.

Apple is adding 100+ new App Store Connect metrics, giving developers deeper, first-party insights into monetization, subscriptions, and user behavior as it doubles down on its app ecosystem in the AI era.

Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced companion legislation to halt construction on new data centers until Congress passes comprehensive AI regulation.

Tracey Chou founded Block Party in 2018 as a tool to help people stay safe from targeted harassment on Twitter, inspired by her own experiences.

Google is launching Lyria 3 Pro, an upgraded music model that generates longer, more customizable tracks, as it expands AI music tools across Gemini, enterprise products, and other services.

Russian state-owned media reported that police in Russia arrested the administrator of LeakBase, a large hacking forum.

First responders have had to take control of Waymo vehicles and move them during emergency situations, including in at least two active crime scenes, TechCrunch found.

Reddit will require suspected automated accounts to verify they’re human, as it ramps up efforts to curb bot-driven spam and manipulation.

Over the past few years, a new category of mobile apps has quietly exploded into a multi-billion dollar business. They’re called “micro dramas” — short-form, mobile-first scripted shows designed to be watched vertically on your phone. Think soap opera meets TikTok, complete with secret billionaire romances, disapproving werewolf mothers-in-law, and cliffhangers engineered to keep users tapping. The leading […]

Investors like Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, and Elad Gil can't get enough of AI legal tech startup Harvey.

Granola's valuation jumped from $250 million to $1.5 billion with this round, and it has added more support for AI agents after users previously complained.