You can now disco ball-ify your entire Pixel homescreen, says Google.

Some AI startups are stretching traditional revenue metrics when talking about progress publicly. And their investors are fully aware.

The SpaceX S-1 is finally here, and the story it tells goes way further than rockets. The filing runs to 36 pages of risk factors alone, and the numbers inside match the ambition: a $28 trillion total addressable market, a pay package tied to establishing a Mars colony, and a valuation target that would make it the largest IPO in American […]

According to users on X, the website was hijacked by hackers in an attempt to trick visitors into installing malware.

Apple is asking the Supreme Court to narrow the App Store injunction won by Epic Games and overturn the court’s contempt ruling over external payment fees.

Spotify has released a bunch of AI-powered tools that nudge users to create more content. It can be a bit much.

After Google Search's AI update, the word "disregard" now effectively breaks the search interface.

Google demoed prototype Android XR glasses that overlay Gemini-powered translation, navigation, and other information directly into your field of view.

The company describes the app as a "dedicated space built for deeper discussions, real answers and communities you care about."

The Finnish company said in September that it has sold 5.5 million smart rings to date.

Huxe said that it has pulled its app from App Store and Play Store, and that it will stop working later this month.

The partnership is a potential testing ground for both companies to gauge the appetite for an India-focused chatbot.

Elon Musk has the largest stake in SpaceX by billions of shares. The other biggest shareholders also have longstanding and deep ties to Musk.

The service suspension comes as Waymo has also paused operations in Atlanta and San Antonio after its robotaxis drove into flooded streets.

Spotify is partnering with Universal Music Group to let Premium subscribers create AI-generated song covers and remixes, with participating artists receiving a share of the revenue.

First VPN promised hackers complete anonymity for their cyberattacks. But Europol said it was able to notify the service’s users that they have now been identified.

Fragrance tech company Patina announced Thursday a $2 million raise from investors, including Betaworks and True Ventures. 

Spotify is releasing the new desktop app as a research preview in more than 20 markets.

Spotify will let you generate daily or weekly briefs based on your prompts

The AI-powered audiobook generation won't bind authors to an exclusive contract, meaning they are free to publish their generated audiobooks anywhere.

Spotify said that it will monitor activity like streams and shares to determine who is a top fan

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a Twitch series today at 4 p.m. ET.

Waymo's robotaxi service is now suspended in both Atlanta and San Antonio, as the company works to stop its vehicles from driving into flooded roads.

The Path says its AI model has scored 95 on the mental health safety AI benchmark, Vera-MH. This compares to a top score of 65 for the consumer bots. 

Hark expects to release its first multimodal models this summer, which it says will power a personal AI platform that works with existing products and services. The company expects to follow that with hardware devices built specifically for those systems.

Maka Kids is building a streaming app for children ages zero to six featuring content designed for healthy development. The startup has now raised $3 million in seed funding to scale its platform.

One of the most promising introductions at Google’s I/O developer conference on Tuesday was a new way for consumers to use the web: AI agents. Unfortunately, it was also the most confusing.

Wayve's self-driving tech will show up in Stellantis vehicles in 2028.

Recycling startups are using AI to improve the recovery of critical minerals like aluminum, aiming to build a massive source of the metal.

Flipper Devices said that the new gadget is in development and the base model will cost under $350.

The loophole allows spammers and scammers to send emails from a legitimate Microsoft email address typically used for sending genuine account alerts.

Beauty and wellness booking marketplace Fresha says it has raised $80 million investment from KKR’s Next Generation Technology Growth fund, KKR's growth equity arm.

The company said its plans will range from 1 GB over 7 days to 20 GB over 30 days. Initially, the launch will make the eSIM product available in 29 countries.

Scapia, an Indian startup that combines travel booking with co-branded credit cards and mobile payments, said the deal doubles its valuation.

Biotech company Imperagen announced on Thursday a £5 million ($6.7 million) seed round led by PXN Ventures, with participation from IQ Capital and Northern Gritstone.

The next big thing for Nvidia will be CPUs for AI agents, $200 billion worth, CEO Jensen Huang predicts.

The video clipping startup raised a $7 million seed round led by Slow Ventures.

Nvidia announced another record revenue figure after market close on Wednesday, but forecasted that revenue growth would slow in the following quarter.

Elon Musk's xAI said it will buy $2.8 billion worth of natural gas turbines over the next three years, according to SpaceX's IPO filing.

Elon Musk's xAI surprised the AI world when it made a deal to sell compute to Anthropic. Now we know how much it's worth.

Altman offered to have OpenAI invest in every single startup in this Y Combinator class: tokens for equity.

Slapping “AI” on your startup’s pitch deck is basically table stakes right now. When a founder raised $20 million from Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest for an eSports gamification loyalty startup without those two letters in the spotlight, it got us wondering how the conversation even started — especially when ARK had already been burned by a company operating in the same space.  On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Julie […]

SpaceX has finally made the contents of its IPO filing public, weeks ahead of what is expected to be the largest IPO ever and one that will make Musk the CEO, CTO, and chairman of the board.

Microsoft is responsible for over 90% of the carbon-removal market, and reports suggested the company was pausing purchases entirely. This new deal should help assuage the fears of CDR startups.

OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 — and this time, the mathematicians who exposed its last embarrassing claim are backing it up.

First came the Netherlands, now it's Lithuania. And more European countries appear to be in the queue for Tesla's driver-assistance system.

Airbnb will soon let you book luggage storage and car rental services on its app.

EV sales have surged worldwide in every region but the U.S., posing risks for legacy and startup automakers.

A day after Elon Musk lost his lawsuit that threatened OpenAI's structure, leadership, and finances, OpenAI is reportedly back to prepping for its IPO.

"Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75,000 a year paying more than $1,000 a month in taxes?" Bezos said Wednesday morning on CNBC. "That's $1,000 that could help with rent, or groceries, or anything."

In a memo to employees, CEO Sasan Goodarzi said the layoffs are meant to reduce complexity, simplify the company's corporate structure, and deliver better AI products.

AI search has quietly become one of the most attractive targets in consumer AI.

NanoClaw was created as a secure alternative to OpenClaw to assist the Cohen brothers with their AI marketing firm that used agents to do much of the work. But instead of running directly on a computer, NanoClaw runs sandboxed in a container.

Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27. Pitch at TechCrunch Disrupt, get investor access, win $100K, plus more scaling perks. Nominate an early-stage founder or submit your startup today.

The code hosting giant GitHub said it was investigating a breach but said there was no evidence of customer data theft.

Figma says users can employ natural language text prompts to direct its new AI agent to generate new designs, edit existing ones, or automate tasks such as generating iterations of existing designs.

The Arlington, Virginia-based startup has raised $42 million to equip ships with sensors that blow the current AIS tech out of the water.

Google is completely revamping its search experience, and that doesn't stop at YouTube.

Google expands Gmail’s AI Inbox with conversational voice search, letting users ask Gemini to find buried email details.

Google says it's designed the app to be accessible to everyone, from teachers to small business owners.