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a16z-backed Base Power is offering cheaper electricity to the power grid that needs it most
Energy storage startup Base Power began selling its massive home battery systems to residents of Illinois yesterday, Canary Media reported. Crucially, it’ll be the startup’s first foray into the grid territory operated by PJM Interconnection, the largest U.S. grid...
OpenAI’s updated GPT-5.5 Instant is better at shopping, complex constraints, and understanding user intent — and it’s already in the API
OpenAI has made a significant update to its most widely used language model, GPT-5.5 Instant, which is the default in the free version of ChatGPT. The company announced the upgraded version of GPT-5.5 Instant yesterday on X, calling it "much more fun to talk to" and...
General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world
As soon as I entered General Intuition’s R&D floor at its New York office, the company’s 31-year-old co-founder and CEO Pim de Witte directed my attention to a monitor perched on a standing desk. Someone appeared to be playing something like Fortnite. It wasn’t a...
Databricks’ former AI chief thinks he can cut AI’s power bill by 1,000x
The drive to discover the next big thing in AI has funded some pretty ambitious projects — but one company is taking it as a chance to rebuild computing architecture from the ground up. Led by Naveen Rao, formerly the head of AI at Databricks, Unconventional AI...
Hacked Klue says criminals are deleting stolen customer data, but now other hackers are making threats
Market research provider Klue, which was hacked earlier this month in a breach that allowed cybercriminals to steal reams of data belonging to several of its customers, said that it is communicating with the hackers. The company also said it believes the group is...
Google Finance gets a dedicated app for Android
Google on Thursday launched a dedicated mobile app for Google Finance that houses users’ watchlists and provides real-time market data, live financial news, and Google’s AI-powered “Key Moments” feature, which explains why stocks are moving. The app is launching on...
Parker Conrad knows which employees are worth their AI spend and says Rippling can help you, too
Parker Conrad wants you to believe that a huge chunk of data analytics belongs inside human capital management systems — a claim that conveniently positions Rippling, which started out as an HR software company, to compete directly with dedicated business intelligence...
Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to help AI neoclouds go live faster
The AI boom has encouraged everyone and their uncle to launch a data center business. But spinning up a data center isn’t easy. Even if you solve the problem of securing the GPUs, network switches, and storage, you still have to get everything configured, running, and...
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6 kitchen gadgets that make adulting feel easier
Recently, the biggest trend in kitchen gadgets has been “hands-free” and AI-powered devices that act as automated countertop assistants. There are plenty of devices that exist now for people who want to cook more (or at least look like someone who has their life...
TechCrunch Mobility: Robotaxi reality check
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! Robotaxis are here! And yet, they’re not. That contradiction neatly...
I tried Amazon’s Bee wearable and am both intrigued and slightly creeped out
I recently had the opportunity to test out a wearable from Bee, the AI wrist gadget that Amazon acquired last year and has since updated with a number of new features. Like other AI wearables, Bee is designed as a kind personal assistant: it records, transcribes, and...
The Dreamie alarm clock got me to stop using my phone in bed
I have accomplished the unthinkable: I have learned to sleep soundly through the night without my phone at my bedside. Please, hold your applause. If it weren’t for the Dreamie alarm clock, I’m not sure that this Herculean feat would have been possible. If it feels as...
SolarSquare in talks to raise up to $60M as India’s rooftop solar market draws major VC interest
SolarSquare, an Indian rooftop solar startup that helps households and housing societies adopt solar power, is in advanced talks to raise fresh capital after securing India’s largest solar venture investment in December 2024, TechCrunch has learned. B Capital and...
These special phone and app features can help protect you from spyware
Spyware attacks on journalists, human rights defenders, and political dissidents are no longer rare or exotic. In early 2025, WhatsApp notified roughly 90 users — many of them journalists and civil society members across Europe — that they had been targeted by Israeli...
Ferrari is using IBM’s AI to create F1 superfans
Two years ago, IBM realized there was one glaring omission in its roster of sports partnerships: Formula One. Formula One has become one of the world’s most popular sports, especially in the U.S., where Netflix’s “Drive to Survive” documented the working lives of F1...
Nuclear startup Deep Fission says it’s going public, again, and I have questions
One news headline this week had a whiff of déjà vu about it. Nuclear startup Deep Fission announced that it was going public, hoping to garner investor support to build subterranean reactors to power AI data centers. Wait, didn’t I already write that story? I could...
Elon Musk has given up on solar power (on Earth)
Has Elon Musk given up on Tesla’s Master Plans, on the electrified economy, on solar power as we know it? From the SpaceX IPO filing released this week, it sure seems like it. A recap for those not enmeshed in the Musk-verse: Tesla has released four Master Plans over...
Peec, one of Berlin’s rising startups, more than doubled annualized revenue in months to $10M, sources say
One of Berlin’s rising-star, early stage startups, Peec AI, just crossed $10 million in annualized revenue, according to internal dashboard data seen and verified by TechCrunch. Peec AI raised its $21 million Series A six months ago. While CEO Marius Meiners wouldn’t...
AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots
In the latest sign of these AI-heavy times, the National Transportation Safety Board temporarily removed access to its docket system after discovering that voices of pilots who were killed in a UPS plane crash last year had been re-created using AI and were...
SpaceX launches Starship V3 for the first time, but loses booster on return
SpaceX has launched the upgraded third version of its Starship rocket for the first time, though the test launch did not go perfectly for Elon Musk’s spaceflight company. The 407-foot rocket — the most powerful ever built — lifted off from SpaceX’s company town...
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NASA Space Apps in Dnipro Extended by Max Polyakov‘s Association Noosphere
Image credit: Nasa Space Apps Challenge via Facebook This spring Ukrainian engineering students, were very excited when Max Polyakov’s Association Noosphere and EOS held NASA Space Apps Challenge 2017 in three cities across the country. Now they have more reasons to...
Thing That A Cloud Security Broker Can Help With
Cloud computing is making business easier in may ways, from customer service to internal communications, by making data instantly accessible from any location or device. But making your vital data accessible to vendors, employees, and customers also makes it more...
Why it is Important to Back Up Your Personal Files
You use your computer to create documents, send emails, save photos and a host of other things. It is often where you store some of your most personal information for safekeeping. While your computers are a great source for storing various forms of data, it is not...
Belleville Washers in the Petrochemical Industry
Petrochemicals are defined as chemical products extracted from petroleum such as ethylene, benzene and hydrocarbons. They are used as key components of various manufacturing processes. Many of the products used on a daily basis are made from petrochemicals and...