How startups could be affected by a prolonged government shutdown

Former Stripe CTO Rahuil Patil is joining Anthropic to fine-tune the company's infrastructure.

Sora becomes the No. 3 US app after 164K downloads in 2 days, making the AI video app an early hit.

YouTubers are no longer just creators, and in some cases, their side businesses are growing faster than their channels.

Jules is already being used by developers to complete code after experimenting on vibe-coding platforms.

The idea, explains Meta, is to give users dedicated spaces within the app where they can delve deeper into conversations on topics that matter to them.

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The Trump administration canceled over 300 awards related to clean energy on October 1. The states with affected projects all voted for Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

A former OpenAI researcher looked into how ChatGPT can mislead delusional users about their reality and its own capabilities.

AI search startup Perplexity is making its new Comet browser available to everyone in the world for free as it works to position the product against big browsers and search engines. For certain...

Amazon's new "Add to today's delivery" button makes it easier for Prime members to buy more and tack on items to existing orders.

The company will likely sell fewer EVs this year than in both 2024 and 2023, making next year's launch of the R2 SUV even more important.

a16z releases its first AI spending report that shows which AI-native application layer companies startups are actually spending money on .

Phia co-founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni are redefining how Gen Z shops with AI. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, they’ll share how they’re scaling one of the year’s hottest startups into a...

Google says hackers associated with the Clop ransomware gang are emailing executives at multiple organizations claiming to have stolen their personal information from a suite of Oracle E-Business...

OpenAI employees sold $6.6B in shares, leading company's valuation to jump to $500B.

Bloomberg reports that the tech giant is developing at least two types of smart glasses.

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Spacecoin envisions a decentralized rival to SpaceX's Starlink.

Perplexity has acquired Visual Electric, an AI Design tool. Its team is going to lead a new agents experience group at Perplexity.

Of the 25 offshore crypto exchanges targeted by India, 14 hold more than $9 billion in assets.