Trending Technology News
The hottest place for startups to strike a deal? The F1 paddock
Over cold drinks in the Florida heat, this TechCrunch reporter watched from the paddock as founders and investors — the rich and the richer — mingled in search of deals. Conversations barely paused, except for the occasional glance at the track where drivers, sealed...
Voice AI in India is hard. Wispr Flow is betting on it anyway.
India’s internet users already rely heavily on voice notes, voice search, and multilingual messaging. Turning those habits into a scalable AI business, however, remains difficult because of the country’s linguistic complexity, mixed-language usage, and uneven...
So you’ve heard these AI terms and nodded along; let’s fix that
Artificial intelligence is changing the world, and simultaneously inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Spend five minutes reading about AI and you’ll run into LLMs, RAG, RLHF, and a dozen other terms that can make even very smart people in the...
Fintech startup Parker files for bankruptcy
Parker, a well-funded startup offering corporate credit cards and banking services for e-commerce businesses, has filed for bankruptcy and is widely reported to have shut down. The startup was part of Y Combinator’s winter 2019 cohort, and its Series A was led by...
GM agrees to pay $12.75M in California driver privacy settlement
General Motors has reached a privacy-related settlement with a group of law enforcement agencies led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta. Back in 2024, The New York Times reported that automakers including GM were sharing information about their customers’...
Intent-based chaos testing is designed for when AI behaves confidently — and wrongly
Here is a scenario that should concern every enterprise architect shipping autonomous AI systems right now: An observability agent is running in production. Its job is to detect infrastructure anomalies and trigger the appropriate response. Late one night, it flags an...
The Instax Wide 400 builds on instant photography’s simplicity and stretches it, literally
In an increasingly AI-driven and digital world, analog instant film and retro-style cameras remain popular, fueled by a combination of both nostalgia and charm. Instant cameras, in particular, stand out for their simplicity and an experience that has remained largely...
Nvidia has already committed $40B to equity AI deals this year
Nvidia continues to be a major investor in the AI ecosystem, committing more than $40 billion to equity investments in AI companies — and that’s just in these early months of 2026, according to CNBC. Much of that total comes from a single bet, a $30 billion investment...
Laid-off Oracle workers tried to negotiate better severance. Oracle said no.
As was widely reported, Oracle axed an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 people via email on March 31. One of the employees cut that day told TechCrunch about the experience: “I had, like, this weird feeling in my stomach. I went to go sign into the VPN, and the VPN was...
Apple Maps may be about to get ads
Apple Maps has never been considered the crème de la crème of navigation apps (that honor obviously goes to Google Maps) and now, if reports are correct, its user experience is about to get ads, Bloomberg reports. Apple is gearing up to introduce the change later this...
Show us your agents: VB Transform 2026 is looking for the most innovative agentic AI technologies
The Innovation Showcase is back at Transform 2026: The Orchestration of Enterprise Agentic AI at Scale, taking place July 14 and 15 in Menlo Park.This year, we are moving beyond generative AI to autonomous agents, focusing on enterprise agentic orchestration, LLM...
Someone has publicly leaked an exploit kit that can hack millions of iPhones
Last week, cybersecurity researchers uncovered a hacking campaign targeting iPhone users that used an advanced hacking tool called DarkSword. Now someone has leaked a newer version of DarkSword and published it on the code-sharing site GitHub. Researchers are warning...
Zipline snaps up another $200M to fuel its drone delivery expansion
U.S. autonomous drone delivery and logistics startup Zipline has raised another $200 million, adding to a recent funding round originally announced in January. “Things have moved a little faster than we expected,” founder and CEO Keller Cliffton said in a video...
Bernie Sanders’ AI ‘gotcha’ video flops, but the memes are great
In a new viral video, Senator Bernie Sanders attempted to expose how the AI industry is a threat to Americans’ privacy, but ended up demonstrating how AI chatbots’ tendency to agree with and flatter their users can lead the chatbots themselves to become a mirror of...
Russian authorities block paywall removal site Archive.today
Paywall bypass website Archive.today and several of its associated domains (including .is and .ph) have been blocked by Russian authorities, according to error pages that appeared when loading its websites. The pages appear blocked as of Monday when TechCrunch visited...
Bipartisan bill seeks to ban sports betting on Kalshi and Polymarket
Senators Adam Schiff (D-CA) and John Curtis (R-UT) introduced a bill on Monday that could prevent prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket from allowing users to wager money on sports events or play casino-style games. This bipartisan bill would not apply to...
Vibe-coding startup Lovable is on the hunt for acquisitions
Lovable, the AI-powered app-building platform last valued at $6.6 billion, is on the hunt for acquisitions. On Monday, the startup’s co-founder and CEO, Anton Osika, announced on X that the company was looking for “more great teams and startups to join Lovable.” “Many...
From lab to market: Rose Rock Bridge fast-tracks energy innovation in Tulsa
Presented by Tulsa Innovation LabsAs the global energy system evolves, companies are racing to adopt technologies that can deliver real-world solutions, especially in hard-to-abate industries. Oklahoma, long known as the oil capital of the world, is a center for...
Leonid Radvinsky, the owner of OnlyFans, has passed away
Leonid Radvinsky, the billionaire owner of the adult creator network OnlyFans, has passed away at the age of 43 after a battle with cancer. OnlyFans confirmed Radvinsky’s death on Monday. The company said it was “deeply saddened” by his passing, according to a...
Littlebird raises $11M for its AI-assisted ‘recall’ tool that reads your computer screen
There has been a lot of talk around building context for AI systems. In consumer software, we have seen startups being built around search, documents, and meetings. All of them want to capture context from your digital life, provide connections to other tools, and let...
Startup Gimlet Labs is solving the AI inference bottleneck in a surprisingly elegant way
Stanford adjunct professor and successfully exited founder Zain Asgar just raised an $80 million Series A for a startup that solve the AI inference bottleneck problem in an astute way. The round was led by Menlo Ventures. The company, Gimlet Labs, has created what it...
FEATURED
Technology Articles
What Samsung Galaxy Note7 Owners Need to Know
Samsung has made the news lately due to its Galaxy Note7 phones overheating. As a result, Samsung has announced a voluntary recall and exchange program on certain devices sold in the U.S. before September 15, 2016. Here are some of the steps Samsung has taken to...
How You Can Make a Clean Tech Future a Reality
Clean energy and clean technology are the latest trend. Why? Because the Earth is still revolving while we’re wasting energy instead of recycling it. If we don’t change our ways and adopt to these technologies, we’ll cause irreversible damage to the planet. Here are...
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.