The company is following through on its promise to not let Musk "double dip" if he won his appeal to restore Tesla's 2018 compensation package, worth $56 billion.

WhatsApp is rolling out prepaid phone recharges to its 500 million users in India via PayU.

Astronomers are turning to GPUs to find needles in the galactic haystack.

The Citizen Lab found two separate surveillance vendors abusing the backbone of cellular networks to spy on several victims across the world.

Beehiiv is clearly done being just a newsletter platform based on today's launch of a new webinar feature, customizable paywalls, and more.

Topics can range from "School," "Entertainment," and "Lifestyle" to "Travel," "Writing," and "Health and Wellbeing," among others, Meta says.

Non-gaming apps, led by streaming and AI, are driving growth, even as India's spending per user lags global peers.

Shade has its own filesystem that lets you "stream" files directly to your local drive

Tesla's planned capex for 2026 is three times higher than what the company has historically spent. Its CFO said, as a result, Tesla will have a negative free cash flow the rest of the year.

Google has introduced a host of new automated functions into Workspace, all of which are driven by Workspace Intelligence, its new AI system.

The admission could open Tesla to legal challenges after it spent years promising customers they were just one software update away from owning fully autonomous cars.

X's AI-powered custom timelines are replacing Communities, with Grok-curated feeds...and new ad slots.

Ryan Roslansky has stepped down as LinkedIn's CEO after six years running the world's largest professional network. Dan Shapero, the company's COO, takes over immediately.

Sales rebounded a bit from the first quarter of 2025, as Tesla throws a ton of money at massive bets like robotics, AI, and its own chip fab.

Observable Space and Quantum Opus teamed up to capture data beamed back from space.

Fusion energy has been “20 years away” for decades, but has the science finally caught up? Private investment in fusion companies surged from $10 billion to $15 billion in just months, and the money is coming from places you wouldn’t expect.  Watch as Rebecca Bellan and guest host Tim De Chant sit down with Rachel Slaybaugh, general partner at DCVC on this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast. The trio breaks […]

Cursor was on track to close a $2 billion funding round this week but chose to halt discussions after SpaceX offered a $10 billion "collaboration fee" and a path to a $60 billion acquisition.

The French government agency that issues and manages national IDs, passports, and other documents announced that hackers stole the personal information of an unspecified number of citizens.

The iPhone and iPad bug allowed law enforcement using forensic tools to read messages that had long been deleted by the Signal app.

We wanted to show you what happens after the confetti falls. We checked in with some of our recent alumni, many of whom have sat down with us on Build Mode: The Founder Survival Guide, TechCrunch's podcast for founders at every stage.

Google's newest TPUs are faster and cheaper than the previous versions. But the company is still embracing Nvidia in its cloud — for now.

Google brings Gemini-powered "auto browse" capabilities to Chrome for enterprise users, letting workers automate tasks like research, data entry, and more.

Users can send messages, photos, videos, links, and emoji reactions in Live Chats.

Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform takes an interesting approach: It is geared for IT and technical users.

The AI Overviews will offer instant summaries pulled from across multiple emails.

The company's all-important mass-market EV is just about ready to start heading to customers.

The cosmetics retailer, which counts 41 million customers in its membership data, declined to provide an accurate total number of customers affected.

Mary Minno launches early-stage startup accelerator program, Treehub, and an early-stage firm, AI Health Fund, aimed at backing startups working at the intersection of healthcare and AI.

Lucra offers corporate loyalty programs reimagined as interactive esports. But winning ARK as a lead wasn't easy.

Infosys said the integration will be used to help its clients modernize software development, automate workflows, and deploy AI systems, initially focusing software engineering, legacy modernization, and DevOps.

The U.K.'s cybersecurity chief warned that U.K. businesses and critical infrastructure are underestimating the threat from spyware attacks and other cyberthreats, with more governments having access to the powerful surveillance technology than ever.

Posting links on X through its API is now 1,900% more costly.

Users will be able to see live events of an artist on their Amazon Music profile.

10x Science has raised a $4.8 million seed round to help pharmaceutical researchers understand complex molecules.

If you’re in the top 25% of users who visit a certain place, you’ll see your ranking on the Snap Map and can choose to share it with others.

Google wants AI startups on its cloud and has showcased a long list of them at its annual conference.

Duolingo is opening up its advanced language learning content offering to free users, allowing them to acquire skills that were previously reserved for paid subscribers.

The new features, announced at Cloud Next in Las Vegas this week, add generative AI capabilities to Google's mapping platform, giving it enhanced visual and data analytics powers.

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has signed a multibillion-dollar deal with Google Cloud for AI infrastructure powered by Nvidia's latest GB300 chips, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.

The company is restructuring some teams to accommodate a booming energy storage business, according to emails viewed by TechCrunch.

Meta says that it has a new internal tool that is converting mouse movements and button clicks into data that can train its AI models.

Anthropic told TechCrunch it is investigating the claims, but maintains that there is no evidence that its systems have been impacted.

The move could shore up weaknesses at each company, but it also reveals them. Neither Cursor nor xAI has proprietary models that can match the leading offerings from Anthropic and OpenAI — the same companies now competing directly with Cursor for the developer market.

Apple's top job comes with almost unrivaled power and money, but it comes with plenty of baggage, too.

Founded by an OSU researcher, the startup is developing AI agents that can become experts in any domain.

Apple tells TechCrunch Cal AI was removed not for web payments alone, but for deceptive billing, manipulative tactics, and App Store rule violations.

When 60,000 attendees descend on Tokyo Big Sight April 27–29, the headline numbers are hard to ignore: 750 startup exhibitors, 151 sessions, city leaders from 49 countries. But the stat that tells you what kind of event this actually is? It's 10,000 facilitated business meetings — brokered, booked, and tracked before most attendees even land.

ChatGPT Images 2.0, the newest image-generation model from OpenAI, shows just how much AI capabilities have evolved over the last few years.

This week, during a podcast appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called out his competitor's new cybersecurity model, noting that the company was using fear to make its product sound more impressive than it actually is.

Cook, who joined Apple in 1998, succeeded Steve Jobs as CEO in 2011 and went on to transform Apple into a $4 trillion powerhouse. 

The photo deletion comes after an FTC settlement with Clarifai. The company had asked OkCupid — whose executives had invested in Clarifai — to share data in 2014, according to court documents.

Extra, from a team of former Pinterest designers and engineers, reimagines email around your life instead of the traditional inbox.

Latitude's new AI-native platform, Voyage, aims to help gamers create their very own role-playing game.

A former employee of a cybersecurity firm pleaded guilty to aiding ransomware criminals to maximize their profits, with the goal of taking a cut of the ransom.

Bond wants you to get off the couch and get back into the real world, its creator says. The new platform's AI system is designed to motivate users to do things away from the app.

YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection tool to celebrities, giving talent and their reps a way to find and remove deepfakes.

The agreement comes just as Einride is finalizing a merger with blank-check company Legato Merger Corp. to go public.

Fintech giant Revolut, which secured a full banking license in the U.K. in March after years of waiting, was most recently valued at $75 billion in a secondary share sale.

AuX Labs says it has found a better way to make vegan cheese that tastes and feels like the real thing — and costs the same.

The company is expanding its youth-focused services in an effort to build a relationship with Gen Alpha and the upcoming generation of adolescents in the U.S.

AI music startup GRAI says fans want to remix tracks, not generate songs from scratch.

With its latest update, Yelp is letting people ask questions, get restaurant reservations, order food delivery, and book service professionals, all through its updated AI assistant.

By building reactors in shipyards, Blue Energy says it will tame nuclear power's cost problems, giving it access to cheaper financing.

Starting on September 1, Ternus will lead one of the world's most valuable companies, but if you're not a dedicated Apple enthusiast, you've probably never heard of this man, who has largely remained out of the spotlight until now.

Amazon has made another circular AI deal: It's investing another $5 billion in Anthropic. Anthropic has agreed to spend $100 billion on AWS in return.

Google is rolling out Gemini in Chrome in Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam. The company is rolling this feature out to both desktop and iOS in all of these countries except Japan.

The transition has been expected for some time and ends one of the longer and more impactful runs a CEO has had at any company. Cook had inherited a company that many industry watchers and enthusiasts struggled to separate from its famed founder. What he leaves behind is a $4 trillion business with annual revenue that has more than quadrupled on his watch.

You can use the new tools to remove blemishes, refine skin texture, brighten eyes, or whiten teeth in photos.

This sentence construction ("It's not just this — it's that") has become so common in AI-generated writing that it's no longer just a clue that a piece of writing may be synthetic — it's almost a guarantee.

The hack against Kelp DAO is the largest crypto heist of the year so far.

The DDoS attack against Mastodon's flagship server comes less than a week after Bluesky was targeted with junk web traffic.

The New Glenn rocket will have to stay grounded while the company investigates what caused the apparent failure of its upper stage.

NSA is said to be using Anthropic's restricted Mythos AI model.

WhatsApp is testing a subscription after Meta debuted a similar subscription for Instagram earlier this year.

The startup, co-founded by former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, has faced headwinds with its AI campus in Texas.

Deezer says consumption of AI-generated music on the platform is still very low, between 1% and 3% of the total streams, and 85% of these streams are detected as fraudulent and are demonetized.

Vercel blamed its breach on an earlier hack at Context AI, which allowed hackers to hijack a Vercel employee's account to steal customer data.

The tornado hit a newer part of the factory, primarily used for R2 logistics such as deliveries of parts. Rivian has paused operations in the building and expects to start back up sometime this week.

On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss OpenAI's latest acquisitions and whether they address "two big existential problems" for the company.

A lot of AI startups exist partly because the foundation models haven't expanded into their category yet. As many jokingly acknowledge, that won't last forever.

The first major failure of Blue Origin's new heavy-launch system could create delays to its ambition to help NASA and the Trump administration return to the moon.

The winning time is a massive improvement over last year’s race, when the fastest robot finished in two hours and 40 minutes.

Palantir's ideological bent has come under more scrutiny as it's worked with ICE and positioned itself as a defender of "the West."

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part. 

Fusion startups and investors risk deepening fissures if some key disagreements aren't settled amicably.

It's a major milestone for the company's new mega-rocket system, putting it in position to challenge SpaceX's dominance of the global launch market.

The company now offers robotaxi service in three cities, all of them in Texas, after launching in Austin last year and starting to offer rides without safety drivers in January 2026.

Conway wrote that he “will be stepping back from some of my usual activities,” but he will “continue to support” founders backed by his firm SV Angel.

In recent months, the company announced an agreement with Amazon Web Services to use Cerebras chips in Amazon data centers, as well as a deal with OpenAI reportedly worth more than $10 billion.

Despite recently being designated a supply-chain risk by the Pentagon, Anthropic is still talking to high-level members of the Trump administration.

New data from Appfigures shows a swell of new app launches in 2026, suggesting AI tools could be fueling a mobile software boom.

For most of its life, Airwallex and Stripe have mostly operated in different geographies, selling to different buyers. That's changing.

World, which has raised eyebrows (but also a lot of interest) with its Orb-centered anonymous verification project, is looking to expand its influence via a bevy of new partnerships.

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles are leaving OpenAI as the company shuts down Sora and folds its science team, signaling a sharp pivot away from consumer moonshots toward enterprise AI.

Nicholas Moore hacked into three U.S. government networks using stolen credentials, and then bragged about it and posted victims' personal data on Instagram under the handle @ihackedthegovernment.

Returning backers a16z and Thrive are expected to lead the round.

There's a lot more code — but it's a lot more expensive and requires a lot more rewriting.

A security researcher published details of three security vulnerabilities in Windows Defender, and the code used to exploit them. Now, hackers are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in real-life attacks, according to a cybersecurity firm.

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 on April 30, the government's spy powers will not automatically lapse.