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Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living

Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living

Andrew Yang made a list of everything Americans overpay for — housing, food, wireless — and thinks the next startup gold...

4 hours ago
Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI

Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI

Anthropic isn't hiding its frustration. "We disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause fo...

6 hours ago
Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it

Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it

A new report suggests the unit, which employs 6,500 people, is on the verge of revolt....

9 hours ago
Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google

Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google

The tech giant said a group called "Outsider Enterprise" used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims, sending 2.5 m...

11 hours ago
SpaceX IPO closes up 19% and delivers the world’s first trillionaire

SpaceX IPO closes up 19% and delivers the world’s first trillionaire

The company made its heavily anticipated debut on Friday, trading higher than its initial $135 IPO price....

12 hours ago
SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell just gave another hint at a Tesla merger

SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell just gave another hint at a Tesla merger

A SpaceX-Tesla merger seems inevitable....

13 hours ago
SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know

SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens ne...

13 hours ago
SpaceX shares soar 30% midday, vaulting it to top six most valuable U.S. companies

SpaceX shares soar 30% midday, vaulting it to top six most valuable U.S. companies

The company made its heavily anticipated debut on Friday, trading higher than its initial $135 IPO price....

14 hours ago
Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20B valuation

Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20B valuation

The funding round would value the company at around €20 billion (about $23.15 billion), nearly double its Series C valua...

14 hours ago
Google sues alleged Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to send scam texts

Google sues alleged Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to send scam texts

The tech giant said a group called "Outsider Enterprise" used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims, sending 2.5 m...

15 hours ago
Robinhood sees ‘record-breaking’ traffic after SpaceX stock debuts

Robinhood sees ‘record-breaking’ traffic after SpaceX stock debuts

The trading platform says some customers experienced intermittent disruptions, but that those issues have resolved....

15 hours ago
SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI’s hot IPO summer

SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI’s hot IPO summer

The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is t...

16 hours ago
Elon Musk becomes the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX’s historic IPO

Elon Musk becomes the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX’s historic IPO

The SpaceX IPO has boosted Musk's paper wealth to more than $1,000,000,000,000 at a time when he is more hated -- and po...

16 hours ago
SpaceX opens at $150, an 11% pop for the most anticipated debut in history

SpaceX opens at $150, an 11% pop for the most anticipated debut in history

The company made its heavily-anticipated debut on Friday, trading higher than its initial $135 IPO price....

16 hours ago
SpaceX IPO: Everything you need to know

SpaceX IPO: Everything you need to know

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens ne...

18 hours ago
US surveillance law to expire for first time after lawmakers reject Trump’s controversial pick to lead spy agencies

US surveillance law to expire for first time after lawmakers reject Trump’s controversial pick to lead spy agencies

The spy law known as Section 702, which authorizes the NSA and FBI's warrantless surveillance, will all but certainly ex...

20 hours ago
Equal AI raises $30M to screen calls so Indians don’t have to

Equal AI raises $30M to screen calls so Indians don’t have to

Equal AI said that its AI-powered call assistant now has over a million monthly active users....

1 day ago
SpaceX officially prices shares at $135 in the largest IPO ever

SpaceX officially prices shares at $135 in the largest IPO ever

Wits its official share pricing announcement, SpaceX's IPO has begun....

1 day ago
Oracle warns of security bug that hackers abused to breach 100+ companies

Oracle warns of security bug that hackers abused to breach 100+ companies

The tech giant warned of a security flaw that a cybercrime gang said it's exploiting as part of a mass-hacking campaign....

1 day ago
SpaceX SPV investors won’t know their true holdings until post-IPO lock-ups lift

SpaceX SPV investors won’t know their true holdings until post-IPO lock-ups lift

After SpaceX makes its public debut, lower-tier SPV investors face hidden fees, lengthy payout delays, and the risk of o...

1 day ago
Bluesky launches group chats, as company shifts focus to community features

Bluesky launches group chats, as company shifts focus to community features

Bluesky's latest feature is group chats, arriving amid a shift in focus on building features for smaller communities....

1 day ago
Meta’s Edits app is getting an AI assistant and a desktop version

Meta’s Edits app is getting an AI assistant and a desktop version

By integrating an AI assistant directly into Edits, Meta is aiming to keep creators engaged on Instagram as it continues...

1 day ago
Coinbase debuts AI agent that can trade and pay for premium research

Coinbase debuts AI agent that can trade and pay for premium research

Coinbase's agent can use x402 protocol to get access to data and APIs....

1 day ago
Quantum Space’s military SPAC is trying to catch SpaceX’s IPO wave

Quantum Space’s military SPAC is trying to catch SpaceX’s IPO wave

Quantum Space says SPACs aren't dead as it seeks a $1.2 billion deal to build military spacecraft....

1 day ago
Deezer’s new tool can identify AI music from Spotify, Apple Music, and others

Deezer’s new tool can identify AI music from Spotify, Apple Music, and others

Deezer introduced a tool that scans playlists from Spotify, Apple Music, and other platforms to identify AI music....

1 day ago
These are the countries moving to ban social media for children

These are the countries moving to ban social media for children

Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users m...

1 day ago
Waymo launches a loyalty program with 10% cash back and free cancellations

Waymo launches a loyalty program with 10% cash back and free cancellations

Members of the program, called "Waymo Premier," will have to pony up $29.99 per month....

1 day ago
Pool’s new app turns your screenshots into something useful

Pool’s new app turns your screenshots into something useful

Pool's new app automatically sorts screenshots into personalized collections, tracks down the original links behind save...

1 day ago
Microsoft taps Alt Carbon in sign of India’s growing role in carbon removal

Microsoft taps Alt Carbon in sign of India’s growing role in carbon removal

Alt Carbon said the agreement followed more than a year of scientific review and due diligence, with Microsoft requiring...

1 day ago
DoorDash’s new AI chatbot lets you order with prompts and photos

DoorDash’s new AI chatbot lets you order with prompts and photos

The new chatbot, called Ask DoorDash, allows users to search the app for what they're looking for in their own words ins...

1 day ago
Endurance Energy raises $54M to harness a massive untapped energy source

Endurance Energy raises $54M to harness a massive untapped energy source

SpaceX alumni Andrew Redd is betting the ocean has vast amounts of untapped geothermal energy....

1 day ago
South Korea hits Coupang with $400M+ fine for data breach that affected millions

South Korea hits Coupang with $400M+ fine for data breach that affected millions

South Korean authorities issued the record-breaking fine following a data breach that affected over 30 million customers...

1 day ago
Anthropic taps TCS to scale its enterprise AI deployments

Anthropic taps TCS to scale its enterprise AI deployments

The partnership will see TCS creating a business unit focused on deploying Anthropic's AI models to its customers....

1 day ago
Opendoor’s India exit is fueling a bigger conversation about AI and outsourcing

Opendoor’s India exit is fueling a bigger conversation about AI and outsourcing

The decision comes as India emerges as the world’s largest GCC market....

2 days ago
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei has just one direct report

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei has just one direct report

If you doubted his genius, doubt no more....

2 days ago
xAI fired an engineer who raised alarms about Grok safety, new lawsuit claims

xAI fired an engineer who raised alarms about Grok safety, new lawsuit claims

A former xAI engineer is suing the company and SpaceX, alleging he was fired for raising AI safety concerns about Grok d...

2 days ago
Why Andrew Yang is building instead of waiting for Washington

Why Andrew Yang is building instead of waiting for Washington

Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign was based on a warning that automation and AI would hollow out the labor market...

2 days ago
Cybercriminals claim breach of Oracle PeopleSoft servers at 100-plus organizations

Cybercriminals claim breach of Oracle PeopleSoft servers at 100-plus organizations

The ShinyHunters hacking gang claims to have compromised the Oracle PeopleSoft servers of more than 100 organizations, i...

2 days ago
Everyone wants a piece of Tesla’s battery business

Everyone wants a piece of Tesla’s battery business

Electricity demand from AI data centers is pushing everyone — including automakers like GM and Ford — into the energy st...

2 days ago
Fresh off bond sale, Amazon borrows $17.5B from banks as AI spending continues

Fresh off bond sale, Amazon borrows $17.5B from banks as AI spending continues

Companies are burning through exorbitant sums of money to keep pace in the AI arms race. Debt is climbing....

2 days ago