Scale AI alum raises $9M for AI serving critical industries in MENA

When Liam Fedus announced he was quitting OpenAI, VCs swarmed. One even wrote a love letter. Here's how Felicis' Peter Deng won the deal.

Leaders of the country's governments announced they would work together to secure critical minerals supplies outside of Chinese control. The deal includes a new gallium refinery in Western Australia.

New data from Similarweb shows Meta AI’s mobile app is surging in popularity, jumping from 775,000 to 2.7 million daily active users in just four weeks. The app is now seeing roughly 300,000 new...

The Department of Energy said it was canceling grants to build new factories in places like Alabama and Kentucky. Three startups are affected.

Anthropic now lets developers spin up Claude Code agents, and manage them, from their web browser on desktop and mobile.

The dispute centered on a plot of land along the Rio Grande River in Cameron County, Texas, that Cards Against Humanity purchased in 2017.

One post, authored by Khan’s staff, was published on January 3, 2025 with the title “AI and the Risk of Consumer Harm.” It noted that the FTC was “taking note of AI’s potential for real-world...

Shin Starr's OLHSO food truck is an autonomous kitchen on wheels, serving Korean BBQ cooked by a robot.

At WordCamp Canada 2025, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg called Tumblr his “biggest failure,” noting the challenge of maintaining the platform’s half-billion blogs while it remains unprofitable....

The incident happened in Atlanta, Georgia, earlier this month. Waymo says it has already updated the software on its robotaxis.

Newly elected mayor Daniel Lurie steps onto the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, October 27-29 at Moscone West, in a homecoming of sorts for both tech and the city that helped define it....

Trained on medical journals like JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine, the platform helps users quickly get answers to existing medical knowledge to help treat patients. Verified medical...

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Seven days until TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 officially kicks off at San Francisco’s Moscone West and ticket prices increase. Save up to $444 now, and get 60% off a second ticket.

Rare handles could be priced at anywhere from $2,500 to over seven figures, X says. Examples of "Rare" handles include usernames like @Pizza, @Tom, and @One.

Venues you follow are saved in your library, and you can browse them to see event calendars, information on scheduled concerts, and announcements. Users can also filter upcoming shows at venues by...

Adobe will build custom AI models by training its Firefly model family on a brand's intellectual property.

The company also shared that it's pursuing FDA clearance for blood pressure features that give users a likelihood assessment of hypertension.

The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom, and Amazon's own products, including Ring.

UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts is making big bets on AI and Bill Belichick, and he sounds like a Silicon Valley CEO while doing it.