Meta acquires AI audio startup WaveForms

Security researchers are now sounding the alarm on a new SMS text message fraud operation, which is surging in popularity — and its ability to steal people's credit cards — since the demise of its...

Fraudsters are impersonating TechCrunch reporters and event leads, and reaching out to companies. Here's what we're doing about it, and what you can look out for.

The Reddit AMA got spicy as users peppered OpenAI with questions, and some asked the company to bring back its previous model.

Microsoft is killing Lens, a handy mobile scanning app with over 90 million downloads.

OpenArt launched a new feature to help creators make AI-generated brain rot videos.

For 20 years, startups have come to TechCrunch Disrupt to meet their first investors, land their biggest partnerships, and spark the idea that takes them to the next level.

The multimodal tool, which includes speech, text, and images, runs inside Google Cloud’s Vertex AI environment.

Following concerns about safety, Instagram head Adam Mosseri reassured users that the feature is opt-in, and noted that some people are “confused” about how the feature works. 

Pinterest CEO Bill Ready talks about the agentic web and where the social network will fit in the AI era.

Developers who have had early access are touting GPT-5's pricing as much better than competing models.

Foxconn spent years promising electric vehicles would be built at the former Chevy Cruze factory. Now it will make AI servers.

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Users will now be able to research their financial questions with AI, access advanced charting tools, and get real-time data and news.

The addition makes Openvibe more useful for keeping up with your interests and other important information without having to switch between multiple newsreaders, websites, or social networking apps.

Despite calling his time at xAI "incredible" and working with Musk "the adventure of a lifetime," Robert Keele said he couldn't keep "riding two horses at once — the family and the job."

The disbanding of Tesla’s Dojo efforts follows the departure of around 20 workers, who left the automaker to start their own AI company dubbed DensityAI focused on data center services for industries.

Rocket Lab is taking the concept of an 'end-to-end' space company to new heights with a forthcoming acquisition.

Coding assistant startups are highly unprofitable, says a source familiar with Windsurf financials.

The EU has authorized Brex to sell its spend management products directly in all 30 countries, "no workarounds required," CEO Pedro Franceschi said.

SpaceX has reportedly distributed an “unconditional and perpetual agreement” to non-SpaceX affiliated homes that would exchange access to Starbase’s water and sewer system for residents’ agreement...