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Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission.

The startup has apparently taken down the ads using KC Green's "This is fine" meme.

On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether tech CEOs are "uniquely prone to AI psychosis."

Speaking to TechCrunch, Crunchbase’s head of research Gené Teare, said the factors holding back Black founders include “access to networks, relationships, and early introductions."

The goal, the firm said, is to develop and operate up to 5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity.

The YouTube-to-prestige-horror pipeline is looking very strong.

While AI is helping coders produce code faster, it may not be producing better code, researchers warn. And that could cause problems down the road for them. 

Chipmaker Groq is looking to raise $650 million in internal funding as it pivots from hardware to focus more on AI inference, the process of refining the way AI models respond to prompted requests, per Axios. 

In its latest update, Bluesky is getting into long-form content.

Large exchanges are designing derivative products around AI tokens, which are increasingly being considered less a computational output and more a raw material input, like electricity or bandwidth.

Payroll service provider Remote recently surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and became cash-flow positive, thanks to a 50% increase in revenue per employee resulting from AI adoption.

Google I/O made it official: AI-generated answers are now front and center in search, and most brands have almost no visibility into how AI is describing them to their customers. For anyone who has spent years building a strategy around 10 blue links, the rules just changed in a pretty significant way.  On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca […]

Google overhauled Search at I/O 2026, replacing blue links with AI agents. The backlash has been swift. DuckDuckGo app installs spiked 30% as users seek a way out.

SpaceX’s recent IPO and Starship rocket test flight delivered two big data points that offer a realistic vision for the coming years — and one that may disappoint both the company’s boosters and its critics. Hidden behind the fantastic expectations for AI enterprise profits and plans for a Moon base is a more grounded reality: […]

OpenRouter has raised a $113 million Series B led by CapitalG. Its 5x growth in usage over six months indicates the multi-AI-model future is here.

Spotify is adding narrated magazine articles to its app as it expands beyond music into audiobooks, podcasts, AI audio, and more.

The data breach included names, dates-of-birth, postal addresses, and Social Security numbers, according to a state government listing.

Stord was founded in 2015 by then-college students CEO Sean Henry and CTO Jacob Boudreau while they were still at Georgia Tech.

The deadline to apply or nominate for Startup Battlefield 200 is May 27. This is your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100,000. Apply now.

Early Bird savings for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco end May 29 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register now to save up to $410 before prices increase.

We're in the transition period -- all of us.

Chi Xu, the founder and CEO of XREAL, thinks the smart glasses business has finally reached a turning point.

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Like other AI wearables, Amazon's Bee offers an odd combination of convenience and privacy anxiety.

What sets Dreamie apart from all of the other fancy alarm clocks is laughably simple: It can play podcasts.

SolarSquare could be valued at up to $500 million in the financing expected to close next month.

Jeff Bezos' rocket company confirmed an engine failure led to the loss of an AST SpaceMobile satellite last month, but offered little detail.

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 […]

Google is about to look really different, and if you're not a fan of the AI overview feature, then you're not going to like what's coming.

President Trump delayed signing an executive order that would have required pre-release government security reviews of AI models, citing dissatisfaction with the order's language.

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.

Ocean, an agentic email security platform, raised funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Google is calling the new devices "audio glasses," in that users will be able to issue verbal commands to them and get things done via its ecosystem of apps and services, including Gemini.

"There's a common refrain among [young] people in this world that it's easier to raise money for a startup right now than to get an internship. Which is remarkable, right?"

Other venture-backed companies like Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs have raced to build better models. SandboxAQ is betting that access is the bigger obstacle and that Claude solves it.

Stainless, a New York-based startup, founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation and maintenance of software development kits, or SDKs — the libraries developers use to interact with APIs.

The open source project said hackers stole its codebase and threatened to publish its source code if the company did not pay.

A lens the size of a thumbnail — and the South Korean startup that makes it could become the optical backbone of the AI glasses era.

A big theme in the trial’s final days was whether OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is trustworthy.

Investing in the real world was lonely for Lior Susan 10 years ago. Now his firm finds itself at the center of the tech world's action.

AI-powered marketing platform Nectar Social announced Thursday that it raised a $30 million Series A round led by Menlo Ventures and its Anthology Fund, which was created alongside Anthropic.

ArXiv is doing more to crack down on the careless use of large language models in scientific papers.

It may be possible to jailbreak an older, end-of-support Kindle and continue adding books to it. But doing so carries risks.

Compulsive X user Andreessen himself couldn't resist responding, many, many times.

The tech company that maintains the hotel check-in system set its cloud storage to public, allowing anyone to access customers' data without a password.

Richard Socher's new $650 million startup wants to build an AI that can research and improve itself indefinitely — and he insists it will actually ship products.

Short-form video is built for mobile, so it may seem counterintuitive, but it's true: YouTube Shorts are becoming quite popular on the big screen.

Legal tech startups, including Clio, which just hit $500 million in ARR, are seeing massive customer adoption.

Notion’s new developer platform lets teams connect AI agents, external data sources, and custom code directly into their workspace as the company pushes deeper into agentic productivity software.

The head of product for Claude Code and Cowork says that the next big step for AI is proactivity.

Google's transcription feature will initially launch with Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones

Robinhood files confidentially for its second venture fund, this time targeting growth as well as early-stage startups.

Google had urged Apple for years to support RCS texting to make communication between each company's devices more seamless.

Five-year old European military drone startup Helsing is close to raising another monster round.

Samsung, Hyundai and LG just bet on the startup that wants to be robotics' data backbone.

Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic.

The company has been trying to embed itself inside the AV industry — as a data provider, an investor, and a distribution platform — but the consumer-facing bet may be just as important.

Wispr Flow says growth accelerated in India after its Hinglish rollout, even as voice AI products continue to face challenges.

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.

Parker, a well-funded startup offering corporate credit cards and banking services, has filed for bankruptcy and is widely reported to have shut down.

General Motors has reached a privacy-related settlement with a group of law enforcement agencies led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta.

The Clips feed aims to enable discovery by offering users a scrollable feed with short snippets of shows and movies.

Intel's stock has risen a stunning 490% over the past year, a bet by Wall Street that may be running well ahead of the company's actual turnaround.

More than 500 people will be affected by the closures.

An unknown group of hackers is breaking into systems previously breached by the cybercrime group TeamPCP. Once inside, the hackers immediately kick out TeamPCP and remove its hacking tools from the victims’ systems.

The push for new data centers at Microsoft is putting its key clean power goals at risk.

U.S. prosecutors said a ransomware gang fueled Russian government corruption, and allowed the gang's leaders to avoid paying taxes and dodge the country's military draft.

With Apple's latest operating system updates, users will reportedly have their pick of which third-party AI models they want to use for a host of tasks.

VW Group's stake will continue to grow under the $5.8 billion joint venture with Rivian.

By bringing messaging to the web, Threads is aligning its desktop experience more closely with competitors like X and Bluesky.

AI chip maker Cerebras is heading for a blockbuster IPO that could value it at $26.6 billion or more. Its relationship with OpenAI is deep and rich.

Katie Haun announced on Monday that $1 billion has been raised across new funds to continue the firm’s thesis of backing crypto and blockchain startups.

A sensor that can simultaneously capture depth and image data has long been a "holy grail," Ouster CEO Angus Pacala told TechCrunch.

The portfolio he has assembled since 2019 is dotted with technologies that have become more widely interesting to VCs over the last year:

Within hours he'd thrown up a website — a janky, one-hour job, by his own admission — and by Sunday, 36,000 "founding patrons" had pledged nearly $23 million, crashing his servers in the process.

The ad comes from Artisan, the AI startup behind billboards urging businesses to "stop hiring humans."

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The Xteink X3 is a delightfully tiny, MagSafe-compatible e-ink reader that attaches to the back of your phone like a Pop Socket.

Bad news for Tilly Norwood.

Owner IAC says it's discontinuing its search business.

The DTC skin, hair, and menopause care brand will use the non-dilutive capital to super-charge customer acquisition.

Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.

Coatue, one of the biggest names in venture capital, has a new venture that is reportedly buying land near large power sources.