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The move comes as apps like TikTok and YouTube have had support for Picture-in-Picture for quite some time now.
OpenAI said Tuesday it plans to route sensitive conversations to reasoning models like GPT-5 and roll out parental controls within the next month – part of an ongoing response to recent safety incidents involving ChatGPT failing to detect mental distress.
Swedish buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) startup Klarna and its shareholders are reviving its initial public offering, hoping to raise as much as $1.27 billion in a listing that would value the company at up to $14 billion.
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I’m driving my i4 back to the dealership as my lease is over. I'm surprised to say I can't wait.
Indian e-commerce startup Citymall, which focuses on budget-focused grocery delivery for tier 2 and tier 3 towns, said today that it has raised $47
Eight U.S. and Indian VC and PE giants are teaming up to fuel India's deep tech boom.
India's Offgrid Energy Labs has developed proprietary zinc battery tech as a safer, more cost-effective alternative to lithium for energy storage.
This Japanese AI startup just raised $100M to cut businesses’ admin burden.
Seven Seven Six's Katelin Holloway represents non-technical VCs pouring billions into space startups, betting operational chops will trump aerospace degrees as the industry shifts from rockets to lunar mining and orbital manufacturing.
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Runway is building up a robotics-focused team and fine-tuning its existing models for robotics and self-driving car customers.
Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.
Lovable specializes in helping people build apps and websites, especially people with no coding experience. It's one of the standouts in the popular AI category known as vibe-coding, which lets users guide AI models as they produce code, websites, or whole applications.
A homicide investigation has rocked the final days of Burning Man after a man was found dead "lying in a pool of blood" Saturday night at the Nevada
The U.K. recently started enforcing new age-check rules, and The Washington Post reports that it’s already having a significant effect on traffic to porn sites.
Veteran indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch premiered his new movie “Father Mother Sister Brother” today at the Venice Film Festival, where journalists asked him
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FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson appears to be pursuing conservative complaints over Gmail's spam filters.
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Nearly 40% of Nvidia’s second quarter revenue came from just two companies, identified in a filing as "Customer A" and "Customer B."
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Taco Bell has apparently rolled out voice AI-powered ordering at more than 500 drive-throughs, leading to unflattering viral moments like someone ordering 18,000 water cups in order to “bypass” the AI and get connected to a human server.
Here is a timeline of the events that led fledgling automaker Fisker to file for bankruptcy.
Projectors have come a long way and this portable one from Lumi offers impressive features, like Google TV and an obstacle avoidance function.
Two months after making a $14.3B investment in Scale AI, Meta is relying heavily on its competitors to train next generation AI models.
TechCrunch Disrupt isn’t just about showcasing the startups of tomorrow — it’s also about surfacing the boldest ideas shaping technology today.
The new capabilities bring TikTok’s messaging experience more in line with that of other popular social apps and services.
The agreement creates a model for drivers to be able to organize for increased pay, job protections, and other benefits. In exchange, California regulators say they’ll support legislation to reduce expensive insurance coverage mandates that ride-hailing companies have to pay.
The company's lawyers blame the driver (who settled with the victims separately) for the crash, and the plaintiffs' lawyers for "overwhelming" the jury with "irrelevant evidence."
A spyware vendor was behind a recent campaign that abused a vulnerability in WhatsApp to deliver an exploit capable of hacking into iPhones and Macs.
Meta's chatbots will now be trained to not engage with teenage users on a number of sensitive topics, ranging from self-harm, disordered eating, or inappropriate romantic conversations, @mzeff.bsky.social has exclusively learned.
After a bombshell report on Meta allowing its AI chatbots to have sensual chats with minors, the company is updating its policies.
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Here's a ChatGPT guide to help understand Open AI's viral text-generating system. We outline the most recent updates and answer your FAQs.
Henrik Fisker, the founder of failed EV startup Fisker Inc., and his wife Geeta quietly wound down a private charitable foundation established in late
Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide.
A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024 and 2025.
Khalid Ashmawy found it hard to send money home while studying in Europe. Now, he’s launched a startup to help other Egyptians with the same problem.
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Reliance is launching a new subsidiary to drive India's AI ambitions, including a pending partnership with OpenAI.
With an interactive library that includes tongue twisters, breathing exercises, and advice on gestures, Vocal Image is also leaning more and more into AI to give automated feedback and personalized tips.
The deal allows the U.S. to take more equity in Intel if the company doesn't retain at least 51% ownership in its foundry business.
Anthropic is making some major changes to how it handles user data. Users have until September 28 to take action.
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems has raised nearly $3 billion to commercialize its fusion power plant. It hopes to send electricity to the grid in the early 2030s.
Fans accused Will Smith of sharing AI-generated videos from his tour, but the situation is more complicated than it seems.
Bluesky says it would block access to its service in the state of Mississippi, rather than comply with the new age verification law.
Companies cancelled $5 billion worth of clean tech manufacturing projects in the U.S. in Q2, mirroring a pullback in the broader manufacturing sector.
With this new feature, users can attach a block of text to a post instead of creating a thread of several different posts when looking to share more in-depth thoughts and ideas.
MathGPT, an AI tutor and teaching assistant that helps students learn, expands to over 50 institutions
Framer, a no-code website builder that claims over half a million monthly active users,has reached a $2 billion valuation after raising a $100 million Series D funding round led by existing investors Meritech and Atomico.
Cuban said drug prices are opaque by design. He launched Cost Plus Drugs in 2022 to pull back the curtain on drug pricing, bring down costs to the average consumer, and disrupt the traditional pharmacy industry.
Honor's slim Magic V5 has a nice build and a good camera, but the camera bump is a bit of a menace.
Leaders from Artisan, Lattice, and Firecrawl will be digging into the new wave of startups at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 27-29 in SF. Register here.
Investors are clambering to get onto Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable’s cap table, making unsolicited offers of investment that value the company at more than $4 billion.
Google is launching a free consumer version of its video editor Vids that will be available without any AI-powered features.
Terraton sees promise in biochar, but the technology has struggled to scale. The startup thinks a franchise model could be what unlocks biochar's potential.
Whether AI is a bubble or not, it's helping some small businesses save real money. Here's how one has cautiously approached adoption.
The transition from CCS to NACS will unlock thousands more fast chargers for many EV drivers, but they'll need to know their adapters to get the most out of it.
The credit reporting giant confirmed unauthorized access to a third-party application storing the personal information of its customers.
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Plaud.ai?utm_campaign=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=organic launches its new Plaud Note Pro hardware notetaker with better mics and recording range.
Treasury officials say the North Korea government used the fraud network to generate money for the regime's nuclear weapons program.
The Southeast Asian country reaches an AI milestone as it looks to become a more competitive player in the global AI race.
We’re thrilled to unveil the 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 — TechCrunch’s handpicked list of the most promising early-stage startups.
This vision of the Pixel encompasses Google's consumer AI suite. Google wants Pixel owners to live and breathe Google AI in all aspects of their lives through the new devices.
U.S.-based AI startups continue to rake in venture funding with multiple companies already raising impressive rounds in 2025.
It may seem like a great place to test Tesla's driver assistance tech, but the underground convention center shuttle program will stay human-driven for a while.
Chipolo debuts a lineup of rechargeable trackers to compete with AirTag and others.
Stonelake, who worked at Meta from 2009 until being laid off in early 2024, filed the suit against Meta in Washington state earlier this year, alleging sexual harassment, sex discrimination, and retaliation.
This is a good indication of the sectors that are hot among investors, from biotech and defense tech to AI, AI, and AI.
In an effort to set a new industry standard, OpenAI and Anthropic opened up their AI models for cross-lab safety testing.
The report, in its fifth iteration, showcases two and a half years of data about consumers' evolving use of AI products.
The FBI's cyber chief says the long-running China-backed hacking campaign is "ongoing" and affecting companies all over the world.
SpaceX proves it can fly through failures on Starship’s tenth test flight.
With Writing Help, users can get AI-generated suggestions that rewrite their messages in professional, funny, supportive, or rephrased way.
The company offers an AI voice assistant that helps 911 centers handle non-emergency calls.
Google says Pixel Care+ provides a "higher level of coverage, service and peace of mind for Google hardware owners."
Nvidia's revenue hit $46.7 billion in the second quarter, a 56% increase compared to the same period last year.
TransBnk has raised $25 million in a round led by Bessemer Venture Partners to digitize India’s corporate banking.
Maisa AI is built on the premise that enterprise automation requires accountable AI agents, not opaque black boxes.
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NEW: U.S. Treasury officials have sanctioned a fraud network used by North Korean remote IT workers to seek jobs at U.S. companies, make money, and steal data for extortion. Treasury said North Korea uses the money-making scheme to fund its nuclear weapons program.
SpaceX notched some new wins with the tenth Starship test flight.
The startup, now valued at $750 million, is one of three that recently raised funding to use AI agents for helping healthcare practices answer patient calls.
Alphabet's life sciences arm Verily laid off staff and eliminated its entire devices program as AI and data infrastructure takes center stage.
The incident is the latest escalation by current and former employees who are demanding the company end its cloud contracts with Israel.
Anthropic is the latest AI lab to offer an AI agent with the ability to view and take action in a user's Chrome browser.
"Let Down" broke into the Billboard Hot 100 nearly 30 years after its release, marking just the fourth Radiohead song to enter the charts.
Anthropic has settled a class action lawsuit with a group of fiction and non-fiction authors, as announced in a filing on Tuesday with the Ninth Circuit
Intel doesn't need cash. Instead, the struggling semiconductor giant needs to figure out how to drum up interest for its foundry business.
Libby launches "Inspire Me," a genAI feature that helps its users find books to borrow from local libraries.
Meta's new PAC, dubbed Mobilizing Economic Transformation Across California, signals an intent to influence statewide elections, including the next governor’s race in 2026.
The Social Security Administration's chief data officer has publicly blown the whistle, alleging DOGE put hundreds of millions of Social Security records at risk of compromise by uploading a critical government database of citizen's data to Amazon's cloud.
As IBM and AMD look to regain ground after falling behind on the generative AI boom, the move could position them as key infrastructure players in a future where quantum and AI converge.
Apple's carbon neutral claims are undermined by the short-term nature of carbon credits used to support them, the court said.