Amazon’s bet on “Project Hail Mary” has paid off handsomely.

Is this just normal corporate strategy, or are we about to see a broader pullback on AI-generated video?

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SXSW made some changes this year, but some founders loved it all the same.

Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.

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.