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The founder of Hinge raised $18M to build a new AI dating service, Overtone
Hinge founder Justin McLeod announced an $18 million fundraise for his new dating company, Overtone. McLeod stepped down from his CEO role at Hinge just last year, and Hinge owner Match Group — which also owns apps like Tinder and OkCupid — is helping to fund his new...
Lucid Motors denies report it’s considering bankruptcy
Lucid Motors is denying a report that it’s weighing filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Nick Twork, the company’s chief communications officer, told TechCrunch in a statement that the “rumors are completely false.” “The company has sufficient liquidity to...
Google faces another AI training lawsuit from major publishers
A group of publishers and authors have filed a class action lawsuit against Google, accusing the tech giant of using their copyrighted works to train its AI platform, Gemini. The group of plaintiffs, which includes Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, author Scott Turow, and...
DeepSeek reportedly in talks to raise $1.5B, then IPO
DeepSeek, the Chinese large language model developer, is preparing for a 2027 IPO debut, but it could come as early as the end of this year as it also looks to raise around $1.5 billion in new funds at about a $71 billion valuation, Bloomberg reports. The news comes...
Meta’s Adam Mosseri says AI token budgets could soon be capped per engineer
In a recent interview, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said he can see a time in the future, perhaps only a year or two, when putting limits on Meta employees’ AI token spend will become necessary. “I think that you can imagine, at least in a year or two … that the burn...
Google Images gets a Pinterest-like redesign focused on discovery
Google Images, the tech giant’s image search engine, is taking on Pinterest with its latest redesign that turns the site into a browsable, dynamic gallery of images from across the web. Google is also adding a way for users to create AI images right in Search, as it...
New York State halts construction of all new data centers
New York became the first state to halt data center construction after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order today that temporarily bars the state from approving new permits for large projects. Hochul’s order applies to data centers 50 megawatts or larger,...
Iran abused mobile networks’ vulnerabilities to locate US military in the Middle East, report says
The Iranian government abused well-known vulnerabilities in the global telecoms infrastructure to locate U.S. military personnel in the build-up to the Iran War, as well as in the early days of the conflict, according to Financial Times. The Iranian government...
I’m de-influencing you from buying the RingConn 3 (even though it’s pretty)
I would’ve bought a wearable health tracker a lot sooner if they all weren’t so ugly. I don’t want a glowing screen on my wrist, and the woven Whoop bracelet looks like something I would’ve made at summer camp. But in the last few months, both RingConn and Oura have...
The 11 standout startups from YC’s Demo Day, according to VCs
With each new season comes another YC Demo Day. On Tuesday, the Spring 2026 cohort was unveiled, filled with defense tech, robotics, AI infrastructure and developer tools, and of course, AI agents themselves. TechCrunch spoke to eight investors to determine which ones...
Rivian owners file lawsuit alleging false promises on self-driving features
Rivian has been sued over allegations that the EV maker made false claims about the autonomous driving capabilities of its R1T truck and R1S SUV models. The class action complaint, which was filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of...
Almost half of U.S. singles feel negatively about AI in dating, Match says
Dating app giant Match Group — which owns apps like Tinder, Hinge, and OkCupid — conducted a study to determine how U.S. singles really feel about the relationship between AI and dating. Turns out, people don’t want AI messing with every aspect of human life. Across...
New AI optimization framework beats Claude Code and Codex by 2.5x on the same compute budget
Imagine your engineering team just deployed an AI agent to search through internal company documents and answer employee questions. It works perfectly in development, but in production, it consistently hallucinates or misses key constraints. Fixing this is rarely a...
Copilot searched your mailbox. LiteLLM handed out admin keys. Run this 5-check audit before your stack is next
Two AI tools broke in the same way in the same two weeks, and four research teams proved it. The pattern underneath every disclosure is one sentence: enterprise AI accepts external input with no trust boundary. On June 15, Varonis disclosed SearchLeak...
‘Queer Eye’s’ life coach Karamo Brown launches Kē, a wellness app featuring his AI digital clone
Karamo Brown, famous for his pep talks on Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” has jumped into the wellness and AI space with his new app, Kē. After spending a year and a half focusing on his own journey—from fitness and nutrition to meditation, sobriety, relationships, and...
Apple opens up App Store to new competition in Brazil
Apple announced on Thursday that developers in Brazil are now allowed to distribute their iOS apps through alternative app stores and process payments for digital goods and services outside the App Store. The changes, which are part of Apple’s agreement with Brazil’s...
General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation
General Intuition, the New York-based startup building a foundation model that trains AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise around $300 million, sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The raise comes eight months after General...
A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech’s $100M gunfight
Loading the player… A grassroots movement is forming among everyday tech workers who are demanding their companies develop and deploy AI responsibly. And the Guardrails Alliance, a new super PAC dedicated to supporting AI legislation, aims to leverage that discontent....
Adobe embeds agentic AI workflows across Creative Cloud, shifting from media generation to production orchestration
Adobe has announced a major expansion of its "creative agent" across its flagship Creative Cloud suite and upgraded Firefly AI studio. Available in public beta starting today across Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io, the agent is designed to...
Spotify’s reserved ticket sales to music superfans are now going live
Spotify’s move to cater to music’s superfans is now going live. On Thursday, the streaming giant announced the launch of “Reserved by Spotify,” a new system that will identify eligible top fans of an artist, then hold two tour tickets for them before the general...
Adobe adds its AI assistant to Premiere, Illustrator and InDesign
Adobe is updating its Firefly AI assistant with new chops, and adding it to Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign and Frame.io. The company has given the assistant new abilities to make brand kits, product videos, and storyboards . Plus, the Firefly app now lets users save...
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The invention of cryptocurrency and improved technology may have opened new gates for businesses, but they have also introduced new risks into the business world. The world of the internet is becoming more and more unsafe with each passing day. If you think that only...
How to Start a Blog in 2018… And Make it a Success
Royalty Free Photo Blogging is an excellent way to take in-depth knowledge on a certain topic and turn it into a platform to make money. Almost no one has overnight success with blogging. It takes time to find your voice and build an interested audience that return...
Work From Home? Mitigate These 3 IT Risks
Safe, Secure, And Remote: 3 Ways To Protect Enterprise Data Remote workers come to your company in two main ways: some are current employees who manage working from the home with appropriate scheduling and space, while others are hired specifically as remote workers...
Virtual Reality Brings Arcades Back
Video game arcades are dead... or are they? Virtual reality, once a forgotten relic of the 90‘s is making a huge comeback. In fact, this is a comeback so great, it will change everything and leave nothing untouched. The upheaval is so big, it might just revive video...