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Researchers at consulting firm BetterUp Labs, in collaboration with Stanford Social Media Lab, have coined a new term to describe low-quality, AI-generated work

If you’ve been on the New York subway recently, you’ve probably seen stark white ads promoting a wearable AI device called Friend.

“It is my opinion that Microsoft should immediately terminate the employment of Lisa Monaco,” Trump said of a former Biden administration official.

South Korea has launched its most ambitious sovereign AI initiative yet, as the nation's major tech players like LG and SK Telecom develop their own LLMs.

Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying to teach robots dexterity by showing them videos of humans doing tasks....

Lauri Moore (Bessemer), David Cramer (Sentry), and Zach Lloyd (Warp) join the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 to debate what founders really need from their first engineering hires — and...

This week on Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff go beyond the headlines to break down what's really going on in these AI infrastructure deals.

Checkout.com is boosting its valuation as part of an employee stock buy-back program, and now says it's profitable.

The rumored buyers of EA include investors like Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.

Fifteen years after "The Social Network," director Aaron Sorkin is making a sequel film about Facebook called "The Social Reckoning."

YouTube Music's new AI hosts are currently being tested through YouTube Labs, the platform's new hub for AI experiments.

We've compiled a list of friendship apps, from friend discovery platforms like BFF to event-focused ones like Timeleft.

A wider leadership shake-up at Hyundai's electric air taxi startup Supernal is underway just a few weeks after it paused work on its vehicle program and its CEO and CTO left.

From $100 billion OpenAI commitments to $100,000 visa fees, this week showed just how much the tech landscape is shifting. On the latest episode of Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff unpack the AI...

Age-verification laws are a privacy and security nightmare. This startup performs age checks on-device, without users having to upload their IDs to the internet.

Security researchers found the exposed Indian bank transfer records, and the data was eventually secured. Indian fintech company NuPay took responsibility for the "configuration" error.

The gap between Apple's standard and budget smart watches has never felt smaller. 

Flipkart is set to become the most valuable startup to shift its headquarters back to India ahead of a planned IPO.

The Trump administration wants the industry to reach a 1:1 ratio of domestically produced and imported chips.

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