Aurora, May Mobility, Motional, Nuro, Tesla, Waymo, and Zoox all refused to cough up a number during Senator Ed Markey's recent investigation.

OpenAI's latest funding round, led by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, values the AI lab at $852 billion as it nears an IPO.

Among the most recent Y Combinator cohort, many startups were commanding $40 million valuations. But with more money comes higher expectations.

Less than a year after launching, with checks from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, crowdsourced AI model feedback startup Yupp is closing its business, the company said Tuesday.

Meta faces thousands more court cases while Congress has proposed numerous bills addressing children’s online safety, some heavily criticized.

The game is available globally and can be accessed in both one-on-one DM chats and in group chats.

Truecaller now has more than 4 million paying users across the world.

Rec Room, the social platform for user-generated games and virtual experiences, will shutter on June 1.

You can now order from Uber Eats and Grubhub using Alexa+, an experience Amazon says will be similar to chatting with a waiter at a restaurant or placing an order at a drive-thru.

The fitness tracking startup just closed a $575 million Series G with Cristiano Ronaldo and LeBron James among its investors. The obvious question looming over a round of this size at this valuation: Is an IPO coming?

Uber and WeRide have launched robotaxi operations without a human safety operator in Dubai as part of a broader expansion in the Middle East.

A hacker inserted malware in Axios, an open source web tool downloaded tens of millions of times weekly, in a widespread hack.

FedEx recently announced a partnership with Berkshire Gray as the company works with external players to develop its automation tech.

The company turns footage from robots into structured, searchable datasets with a deep learning model.

CareCloud, a major provider of medical records storage, said hackers accessed one of its repositories of patient data earlier in March. It provides technology for more than 45,000 providers covering millions of patients.

DoorDash joins Greenoaks Capital in another $200 million funding round for Also, bringing its total funding to more than $500 million.

With this new app, Roku says subscribers can access Howdy's library of content on the go.

Meta says these glasses are the most comfortable ones it has ever designed, as they're made for all-day comfort.

The merger is a sign that the fitness industry is continuing to move toward consolidation to compete at a larger scale. Recent moves include MyFitnessPal acquiring Cal AI, an AI calorie counting app, and Strava buying two apps: cycling app The Breakaway and running app Runna.

Runway is launching a $10 million fund and startup program to back companies building with its AI video models, as it pushes toward interactive, real-time “video intelligence” applications.

It's the fourth major airport Waymo is serving, adding to Phoenix Sky Harbor, San Francisco, and San Jose international airports.

Speechify just launched a native Windows app that employs locally stored models to enable dictation and transcription across apps.

Ring's app store will allow the company to target broader use cases beyond security, like elder care or business needs.

Users will be able to change their username only once every 12 months. Plus, they won't be able to delete their new email address for that period of time.

Airbnb is partnering with transportation company Welcome Pickups to let users book a private car service during their trip.

The primary isn't until early June, but the CA-17 race between five-term incumbent Ro Khanna and tech founder Ethan Agarwal is already getting nasty.

The collapse of the brand, which was originally venture-backed and that went public in 2021, has been well-documented.

LiteLLM had obtained two security compliance certifications via Delve and fell victim to some horrific credential-stealing malware last week.

A few things turned investors' heads and drew them to participate in such a big round out of the gate.

According to a Quinnipiac University poll, 15% of Americans say they'd be willing to have a job where their direct supervisor was an AI program that assigned tasks and set schedules.

AI adoption is rising in the U.S., but trust remains low, with most Americans concerned about transparency, regulation, and the technology’s broader societal impact, according to a new Quinnipiac poll.

Here's what we're looking for in your Startup Battlefield 200 application and how to make sure your application reflects it.

Shortly after Delve's founder published a lengthy denial of allegations, while promising changes, the accuser came forward with more alleged details.

Among the premium features on Instagram is the ability to view a Story without the poster seeing that you viewed it and the option to see how many people have rewatched your Story.

More than 125,000 Bluesky users have blocked Attie in just a few days, sending a strong message from the user base.

Demands for Apple customer records by federal agents in recent months underscore the privacy limitations of email.

It's a notable exit for Blacklane, which has raised more than $100 million from backers like Mercedes-Benz and Sixt.

Mantis takes disparate sources of data to make synthetic datasets that can be used to build so-called "digital twins" of the human body, representing anatomy, physiology and behavior.

ScaleOps just raised $130M to tackle GPU shortages and soaring AI cloud costs by automating infrastructure in real time.

The startup, which is planning to go public later this year, designs chips specifically for AI inference, another challenger to Nvidia's dominance.

Mistral aims to start operating the data center by the second quarter of 2026.

As AI floods software development with code, Qodo is betting the real challenge is making sure it actually works.

Starcloud becomes the fastest Y Combinator startup to reach unicorn status, just 17 months after demo day.

OpenAI's decision last week to shut down Sora, its AI video-generation tool, just six months after releasing it to the public, raised immediate suspicions. The app had invited users to upload their own faces — so was this some kind of elaborate data grab?

The Google Pixel 10a can lay flat on a table, but otherwise the company hasn't brought a ton of upgrades to its newest budget smartphone.

CEO Neal Mohan insisted that he isn’t worried about Netflix luring away YouTube's most popular creators.

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.