OpenAI hires the team behind Xcode coding assistant Alex

Google's Gemini comes up short on kids' safety, says Common Sense Media.

Leaders from Pulley, 645 Ventures, and Epigram Legal join the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 in San Francisco. Register to join.

From leadership changes at legacy semiconductor companies to wishy washy policy around chip exports, a lot has happened already.

Users can scroll through a feed of gameplay moments shared by the Roblox community and react to the clips using emojis, and they can jump into an experience right from a video.

Tesla spent a fraction on X in early 2025 compared to 2024. It also paid $300,000 to Kimbal Musk's drone company.

Warner Bros. says that Midjourney knowingly engaged in wrongful conduct, noting that the company previously restricted subscribers from generating content based on infringing images but recently...

The sodium-ion battery startup went from announcing a $1.4 billion factory to filing for liquidation in just over a year. Natron's troubled journey illustrates the challenges in making batteries...

X's new encrypted messaging feature, XChat, has some red flags.

Isotopes, co-founded by Arun Murthy, launched a sophisticated analytics agent. Arun was one of the creators of Hadoop who later joined Scale AI.

When you design for people instead of institutions, you don’t just build a product. You build a movement. That’s the idea behind this Builders Stage session called “Creating Communities and...

A shareholder proposal would allow Tesla to invest in Elon Musk's rival AI firm, xAI if approved. Tesla's board didn't recommend one way or another.

If you want to get in front of more than 10,000 startup and VC leaders, connect with media, and generate a nonstop pipeline this October, you need to act now.

While Snapchat already has numerous generative AI Lenses, the company notes that Imagine Lens is its first open prompt image-generation Lens.

Tesla has proposed a new 10-year compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk that could be worth as much as $1 trillion even as the EV maker's car business stumbles and it sets its sights on humanoid...

Customer service AI agent startup Sierra claims to have hundreds of customers, including SoFi, Ramp, and Brex, among others.

The company previously laid off around 140 workers in its manufacturing division in June.

The poke-tracking feature is largely designed to appeal to younger users who have grown up with gamification elements built into their social apps, like Snapchat and TikTok Streaks.

Stripe is funding a new blockchain called Tempo to process stablecoins faster. And many big names are joining the effort.

Mark S. Zuckerberg, an attorney, says that he's losing business because his Facebook business profile keeps getting disabled.

The new fund hopes to send a "Seqouia-like" signal to other investors that there are promising later-stage climate tech startups waiting to be funded.