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Box survey: Why enterprise AI leaders are outperforming their peers
Presented by Box Content access, governance, and platform flexibility are emerging as the dividing lines between AI leaders and laggards, according to the new State of AI in the enterprise report from Box, which surveyed 1,640 IT decision makers across the US, UK,...
Anthropic brings Claude Cowork to mobile and web as usage data shows most users aren’t coding
Anthropic on Tuesday launched Claude Cowork on mobile and web, expanding a tool that has quietly become the company's bridge between the developer-centric world of AI coding agents and the far larger market of knowledge workers who never open a terminal.The rollout,...
This startup pits dealerships against each other to bid on your used car
Selling a car is a pain. You can take the easy route and use services like Carvana, but you may wind up with thousands of dollars less than your car is worth. Or, you could hope for more by going to a dealership, but the dealer’s offer can vary wildly depending on...
Hacktivists call out Trump by hacking and defacing US Army websites
The U.S. Army has reportedly fixed two of its websites that had been defaced to display pro-Kurdish messages and to call out President Donald Trump, the latest case of hackers compromising systems run by the federal government in recent months. Security researcher...
Savi’s app aims to protect consumers from realistic AI scams like kidnappers demanding ransom
Brothers Patrick and Ryan Coughlin, each with impressive careers in the tech industry (Patrick worked in national cyber defense, and at Splunk and Cisco; and Ryan with consumer products at Apple and Spotify), have launched a new kind of security startup. Savi...
The first American autonomous ground vehicles are fighting in Ukraine
Forterra, a US builder of autonomous vehicles, revealed today that more than 100 of its self-driving ATVs have been deployed in conflict zones in Ukraine for the past nine months, in what the company believes is the largest deployment of autonomous ground vehicles in...
Netflix invented binge-watching. Now it may have outgrown it.
A buzzy Bloomberg report citing Netflix data suggests viewers are increasingly abandoning popular shows before the second season. The likely reasons aren’t hard to guess: Netflix frequently cancels shows, there’s too long a wait in between seasons, and much of...
The ‘first’ AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human
Last week, researchers at cloud security firm Sysdig said they’d documented the first known case of “agentic ransomware.” It was an extortion operation, dubbed JadePuffer, in which an AI agent — not a human — handled the technical execution of a real-world cyberattack...
US investors will soon get access to SK Hynix, another memory maker riding the AI boom
South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix, rival to Samsung and U.S.-based Micron, is planning to sell nearly 17.8 million shares in a U.S. IPO, the company said on Monday. Should its shares sell well (and there’s indication that they will), the company could raise...
TechCrunch Mobility: Inside GM’s $900M EV battery gamble
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Senior reporter (and resident battery expert) Tim De Chant traveled to...
Agentic AI solved coding — and exposed every other problem in software engineering
Agentic AI is now a core part of the engineering process, driving massive execution leverage and helping us generate more code than ever before. Yet, a difficult question I’ve increasingly heard from business leaders is: if we’re shipping code faster than ever, why...
Hacked, leaked, and held for ransom: the worst breaches of 2026 so far
If anything, 2026 has made clear that cybersecurity is no longer a background concern — it’s front and center, woven into almost every major story of the year. Yes, wars are still raging, the climate keeps worsening, and we’re seemingly one dodgy sneeze away from the...
When Claude changed, everything changed: Managing AI blast radius in production
Our system did one thing, and it did it well: It turned natural-language questions into API calls.The users were analysts, account managers, and operations leads. They knew what data they needed, but assembling it manually meant pulling from four dashboards, two BI...
OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks
OpenAI announced a new feature that it says will provide additional protection from prompt injection attacks, where malicious chatbot instructions are hidden in webpages and other content sources. Among other things, Lockdown Mode will disable live web browsing (so...
The Trump administration might take an equity stake in OpenAI
President Donald Trump said on Friday that he’s spoken to AI companies about striking deals “where the American people can benefit from the success of AI.” Trump does not seem to have mentioned specific companies in his comments, but OpenAI is a likely candidate,...
Beyond Instagram: Introducing the next generation of social apps
For years, our social media experiences have been dominated by Big Tech players like Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp), Google (YouTube), Snapchat, TikTok, and X. But a growing number of startups are taking aim at these giants by building new, often smaller and...
Microsoft AI chief says company was “set free” from OpenAI to pursue superintelligence
For three years, Microsoft's artificial intelligence story has been inseparable from OpenAI. The partnership — cemented by a cumulative investment exceeding $13 billion — gave Microsoft early access to the most advanced AI models on the planet, catapulting its Copilot...
Reid Hoffman is leaving Microsoft’s board to go ‘founder mode’ with startup Manus
After a very profitable decade on Microsoft’s board, Reid Hoffman is stepping down, the company announced Thursday. Hoffman joined the board after Microsoft bought his company LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in 2016. Hoffman was on Microsoft’s board when it invested its...
Founders share VC horror stories, and some are naming names
Asking venture capitalists for investment is a rite of passage for tech founders. This has led to another universal experience: the VC pitching horror story. A massive conversation sharing such stories has taken place all week on X with the comments both funny and...
Former cyber executive turned whistleblower accuses IBM of covering up several data breaches
A former IBM cybersecurity executive accused the company of getting hacked three times in the previous decade by foreign governments and then covering up the breaches. In a lawsuit unsealed this week but filed in 2020, William Barlow, who was IBM’s vice president of...
Startup Battlefield 200 applications officially close in 3 days
Founders, your window to enter Startup Battlefield 200 closes in just three short days. Applications for Startup Battlefield 200 officially close on June 8, 11:59 p.m. PT. Do not wait any longer. Secure your shot at competing on the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt...
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One of Amazon’s biggest partners launches ‘Cloud Education Center’
Megazone, one of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) biggest partners in the APAC region, recently announced its launch of the ‘Cloud Education Center’ in Seoul, South Korea. Megazone is a premier AWS consultant, and its mission with the CEC is to offer students the...
The Best Gaming Laptop Of 2018
Now, most of the advanced laptops come with high-end processor performance and graphics. If you are a gaming lover, you need to know that the many branded laptops are also available for gaming. Choosing the right gaming laptop is not a simple task, because there are...
iOS 9 is on 6 out of 10 of Apple’s mobile devices
facebooktwitterlinkedingoogleplusemailcommentsmoreredditpinteresttumblriOS 9 adoption has slowed in recent weeks. James Martin/CNET Apple's iOS 9 adoption rate has leveled off following an initial spike when the software was first released last month.As of Monday,...
This is heavy: The Internet is ready to party with Marty
facebooktwitterlinkedingoogleplusemailcommentsmoreredditpinteresttumblrEnlarge ImageThe future is here! October 21, 2015, is "Back to the Future Day." Universal Pictures Never before have we been so nostalgic for something that never happened. For the better part of...