Instead of relying on expensive management consultants, the startup uses AI voice agents to conduct interviews with customers of the companies the PE firms are considering buying.

The $7 million in annual recurring revenue that Cluely CEO Roy Lee shared last summer was a lie, its founder and CEO Roy Lee admitted on Thursday on X.

AWS is launching Amazon Connect Health, an AI agent platform that will help with patient scheduling, documentation, and patient verification.

Hackers allegedly broke into the FBI’s networks, according to a report by CNN.

In an alleged drafted proposal, the U.S. government would play a role in every chip export sale regardless of which country it's coming from.

With the updated Fire TV app, users can browse and discover content directly from their phone, manage their watchlist on the go, and play titles on their TV from the mobile app.

The Chinese automaker's new Blade Battery 2.0 is capable of charging at up to 1.5 megawatts, dramatically slashing the time it takes to fill up.

Italian authorities are making progress in their investigation into a wide-ranging spyware scandal in Italy involving Paragon spyware. But the mystery of who hacked two Italian journalists with Paragon spyware continues.

The Department of Defense has officially labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk, making the AI firm the first American company with the label. Meanwhile, the DOD continues to use Anthropic's AI in Iran.

X is rolling out a series of new features for creators, like the ability to offer paid threads and other marketing tools.

Nominal provides hardware testing equipment to defense tech companies. Founders Fund led the preemptive deal.

The new feature goes beyond Roblox’s current text filter, which simply replaces banned words and phrases with the “#” symbol.

Fraudsters are impersonating TechCrunch reporters and event leads, and reaching out to companies. Here's what we're doing about it, and what you can look out for.

Luma introduced Luma Agents, powered by its new “Unified Intelligence” models, designed to coordinate multiple AI systems and generate end-to-end creative work across text, images, video and audio.

Enterprise software was a major focus of zero-day activity during 2025, with security and networking devices, like firewalls, VPNs, and virtualization platforms among the most targeted by malicious hackers.

GPT-5.4 is billed as "our most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work."

Called Automations, the new system gives users a way to automatically launch agents within their coding environment, triggered by a new addition to the codebase, a Slack message, or a simple timer.

Lawyers say Meta's marketing materials promised privacy and user control over sharing footage. But an investigation found that subcontractors are reviewing footage from customers' glasses.

Anthropic's $200 million contract with the Department of Defense broke down due to disagreements over giving the military unrestricted access to its AI.

The company believes its next phase of wearable AI will be powered by a combination of voice and gesture.

InterPositive isn't trying to make AI actors or synthetic performances. Rather, the company has created a model that helps production teams work with footage from their own productions to help make edits in post-production.

Match Group eliminates the COO role as CEO Spencer Rascoff has been managing operations.

The startup, co-founded by Tesla and Apple alumni, has sold nearly 1,000 of its motorbikes so far.

Meta will allow rival AI chatbot providers to offer their services on WhatsApp for a fee, which ranges from €0.0490 to €0.1323 per "non-template message," depending on the country.

A source close to the company says the round assigns Science a post-money valuation of $1.25 billion.

On this episode of Build Mode, David Park joins Isabelle Johannessen to discuss how he and his team are intentionally iterating, fundraising, and scaling Narada.

If Rivian reaches its R2 sales target in 2026, it will be one of the fastest ramp-ups ever of a new EV in the United States.

AI procurement startup Lio announced a $30 million Series A in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday that his company's investments in OpenAI and Anthropic will likely be its last — but his explanation may not tell the whole story.

Anthropic gave up its contract with the Pentagon over AI safety disagreements -- then, OpenAI swooped in.

The label or distributor has to opt in to tagging their music as AI, so it's unclear how effective this intervention will be.

Google has dropped its commission, charging a 20% service fee and an optional 5% to use its billing services. It will also offer a new process for third-party app stores.

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Authorities say LeakBase was "one of the world’s largest online forums for cybercriminals," and maintained an archive of hacked databases containing hundreds of millions of passwords.

From a new iPhone to a budget-friendly MacBook, Apple announced a series of new products this week.

Canvas in AI Mode is available to U.S. users in English for creating plans, projects, apps, and more.

The AI-powered customer support startup is the latest example of a fast-growing, young company that's providing employee liquidity.

As the U.S. continues its aerial attack on Iran, Anthropic models are being used for many targeting decisions.

42 X users donated to William Shatner's charity in exchange for an early invite to X Money beta.

Want to tap into the energy of 1,100+ startup founders, investors, and tech leaders descending on Boston for the Founder Summit 2026 on June 9? Host your own Side Event during “Founder Summit Week,” happening June 4-10!

The social media giant says that end-to-end encryption would make users less safe.

A father is suing Google and Alphabet, alleging its Gemini chatbot reinforced his son’s delusional belief it was his AI wife and coached him toward suicide and a planned airport attack.

Apple is offering the MacBook Neo at a more affordable price point by using an A18 Pro chip, which is used in the iPhone 16 Pro.

CollectivIQ looks to give users more accurate answers to their AI queries by showing them responses that pull information from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok — and up to 10 other models — all at the same time.

Offshore wind developer Aikido will deploy a small data center beneath a floating offshore wind turbine later this year.

Eight Sleep said it was free-cash-flow positive in 2025 and plans to use the new funding for new products, global expansions, and clinical validation.

Some AI founders are using a novel valuation mechanism to manufacture unicorn status.

Security researchers say exploits used by governments to hack into iPhones have been found to be used by cybercriminals. They warned of an emerging market for "secondhand" exploits.

Reactions rippled through Alibaba's Qwen team after tech lead Junyang Lin stepped down following a major model launch.

Crunchbase data shows a record $189 billion of global venture capital flowed to startups last month, with AI startups nabbing 90% of the capital.

TikTok experienced a similar outage just days after ByteDance divested the app's U.S. operations.

A tech billionaire-backed super PAC is spending $125 million to undercut candidates pushing for AI regulation. New York's Alex Bores, a former tech executive himself, is one of them.

The company says the new model will reduce the "cringe" that's been annoying its users for months.

The funding round would come less than a year after Anduril's Series G, which closed in June with $2.5 billion against a $30 billion valuation.

Anthropic is stepping up its game in the AI coding space with the rollout of Voice Mode in Claude Code.

More than 10 global airlines now accept Find Hub locations as part of their baggage recovery process.

Creators who break the rules will get a three-month suspension, and if they continue to violate the policy, they'll be permanently banned.

With the demands for more computers and data centers to power AI, the market is experiencing a shortage of RAM, causing memory prices to surge.

After U.S. and Israeli forces started bombing Iran, reports say cyber operations have disrupted communications, supported surveillance activities, and have been used in psychological operations.

The news comes as Pinterest has faced serious headwinds. Shares tumbled over the past year, with disappointing earnings, layoffs affecting 15% of its workforce, a declining ad business, and increased rivalry from AI chatbots.

This would mark the first time Apple competes with cheaper hardware like the Chromebook.

Google Chrome will begin shipping new releases every two weeks in September, instead of monthly.

Under the new Standard plan, subscribers will lose access to the audiobooks they've consumed when they unsubscribe. The Premium plan lets users keep the audiobooks they’ve listened to even if they unsubscribe.

The new app promises a way to send and receive messages without being distracted by your timeline.

These updated M5 chips were specifically designed to make the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops better at handling intensive AI tasks.

The new displays come with better cameras, new sound systems, and Thunderbolt 5 ports.

The chips are engineered around Apple's new Fusion Architecture, an advanced design that merges two dies into a single, high-performance system on a chip (SoC).

Fig traces data flows in the security stack and then alerts security teams when changes at any point affect detection or response capabilities.

Ethan Agarwal, a 40-year-old tech entrepreneur with no political background, told TechCrunch on Monday evening that he is running for California's 17th congressional district.

The four-year-old startup saw its revenue run rate double over the past three months, according to one Bloomberg source.

Pronto handles 18,000 daily bookings and plans rapid expansion as it races rivals to digitize India's largely offline home services market.

Many consumers ditched ChatGPT's app after news of its DoD deal went live, while Claude's downloads grew.

Stripe released a preview intended to allow AI companies to easily track, pass through, and make a profit on underlying AI model fees.

The Japan-based company reportedly aimed for a public valuation of at least ¥1.5 trillion ($10 billion).

As OpenAI transitions from a wildly successful consumer startup into a piece of national security infrastructure, the company seems unequipped to manage its new responsibilities.

A hobbyist developer's new app, which can detect nearby smart glasses, comes amid resistance to always-on recording and listening devices that invade people's privacy.

The company said usage grew from 40 minutes per day in 2023 to 46 minutes in 2026. Other documents referenced teens as being a top priority for the app before asking existing users for birthdays.

Following controversies surrounding ChatGPT, many users are ditching the AI chatbot for Claude instead. Here's how to make the switch.

Ellison reassured investors that HBO’s identity and creative vision as a studio would remain unchanged, stating, “Our viewpoint is HBO should stay HBO.”

Tech workers have signed an open letter urging the Department of Defense to withdraw its designation of Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" and instead to settle the matter quietly.

The new labels comply with regulations and allow creators to be more transparent with their followers.

A hacking group called Department of Peace said they hacked a specific office within Homeland Security to protest ICE’s mass deportation campaign, and the companies aiding it.

14.ai also launched a consumer brand to understand how much AI can handle customer support tasks.

Apple refreshes the iPad Air with the M4 chip and more memory to make it better for AI use cases.

The base model comes with 256 GB of storage, which Apple says is twice the entry storage from the previous generation at the same starting price.

Users of a popular Iranian prayer app were flooded with phone notifications as U.S. air strikes hit Iran's biggest cities, killing the country's leader.

After wooing Cal AI for months, MyFitnessPal has successfully acquired its up-and-coming rival, Cal AI, the app built by teens soaring on the apps stores.

Cami Tellez announces launch of new company, $4 million raise.

Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude experienced widespread service disruptions on Monday morning, with thousands of users reporting issues accessing the bot.

Six newly-created accounts made a profit of $1 million by correctly betting that the U.S. would strike Iran by February 28.

With many users feeling uneasy about Discord's new age-verification requirement, here are some alternatives that could be worth exploring.

Google is integrating carrier-level filtering into RCS in India through a partnership with Airtel to strengthen protections against spam.

TechCrunch spoke with VCs to learn what investors aren't looking for in AI SaaS startups anymore.

By CEO Sam Altman’s own admission, OpenAI’s deal with the Department of Defense was “definitely rushed,” and “the optics don’t look good.”

Honor said that the robot also has a "personality" and can respond to you with "head shakes" and can also dance to the beat of music.

The battery is possibly one of the most impressive parts of the phone. The Honor Magic V6 has a 6,600 mAh battery, up from 5,820 mAh last year.

What's behind the SaaSpocalypse? It simply seems a new supreme has risen.

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and others have long promised to govern themselves responsibly. Now, in the absence of rules, there's not a lot to protect them.

Netflix's co-CEO reportedly told Trump, "I took your advice."

Learn more about Paramount's planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery — a historic Hollywood megadeal valued at $111 billion — as it continues to develop.

Anthropic’s chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the company’s fraught negotiations with the Pentagon.

Here's everything we know about the biggest AI infrastructure projects, including major spending from Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI.

OpenAI's CEO claims its new defense contract includes protections addressing the same issues that became a flashpoint for Anthropic.

We round up everything Xiaomi announced at its Mobile World Congress event.

China’s push into humanoid robots is accelerating, with domestic firms shipping more units and iterating faster than U.S. competitors in a still-nascent market.

India, one of Supabase’s biggest markets, is seeing patchy access after a government block order.

The company said such trades violates its internal company policies about using confidential information for personal gain.

"We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again," the president wrote in the post.

In his lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk touted xAI safety compared with ChatGPT. A few months later, xAI's Grok flooded X with nonconsensual nude images.