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Project Hail Mary becomes Amazon MGMs biggest box office hit
Amazons bet on Project Hail Mary has paid off handsomely.
TechCrunch Mobility: When a robotaxi has to call 911
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
SXSW rebounds as a top networking, ideas festival for founders and VCs
SXSW made some changes this year, but some founders loved it all the same.
Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds
Blueskys new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.
Mark Zuckerberg texted Elon Musk to offer help with DOGE
While the relationship was once thorny enough that Musk challenged Zuckerberg to a cagefight, things seem to have warmed up by the early days of the second Trump administration.
Stanford study outlines dangers of asking AI chatbots for personal advice
While theres been plenty of debate about AI sycophancy, a new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how harmful that tendency might be.
These iPad apps will make you wish you had more free time
Weve compiled a list of some of the best iPad apps for creativity that are available on the App Store.
Anthropics Claude popularity with paying consumers is skyrocketing
Estimates for total Claude consumer users are all over the map (we've seen figures ranging from 18 million to 30 million). Anthropic hasn't disclosed this data, but a spokesperson did tell TechCrunch that Claude paid subscriptions have more than doubled this year.
What will power the grid in 2035? The race is wide open
Fusion, fission, and even natural gas are appeared tied in the race to deliver new power to the grid in the early 2030s.
Lets take a look at the retro tech making a comeback
Boomboxes, instant cameras, and even landlines are making a comeback. Here are the coolest retro-inspired devices available.
From Moon hotels to cattle herding: 8 startups investors chased at YC Demo Day
We polled nearly a dozen VCs to find out which W26 startups are the sought after in the batch.
Whoop has LeBron now it wants your mom
Whoop founder Will Ahmed has spent 14 years building a health wearable beloved by elite athletes, and is now racing Oura and the FDA, and the limits of consumer medicine to turn it into something that could one day save your life.
Physical Intelligence is reportedly in talks to raise $1 billion, again
The deal would effectively double the company's $5.6 billion valuation in just four months.
Memory chip giant SK hynix could help end RAMmageddon with blockbuster US IPO
SK hynixs potential U.S. listing could raise $10-$14 billion to help it build more capacity, encourage others to follow, and end the 'RAMmageddon' memory shortage.
European Commission confirms cyberattack after hackers claim data breach
The European Union's top executive body has confirmed a cyberattack after hackers reportedly stole reams of data from the European Commission's cloud storage.
Aetherflux reportedly raising Series B at $2 billion valuation
Index Ventures is said to be leading a $250 million to $350 million round.
Rivian gets another $1B from Volkswagen
The two companies have been collaborating on a joint venture that would see Rivian tech go in VW's EVs.
Iranian hackers claim breach of FBI director Kash Patels personal email account
Handala, a pro-Iranian hacking group allegedly working for Irans government, published emails it said were taken from the Gmail account of FBI director Kash Patel.
Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware
The tech giant's claim that it has not seen any successful spyware attacks targeting Apple devices with Lockdown Mode enabled comes amid a leak of hacking tools targeting users running devices with older software.
David Sacks is done as AI czar heres what hes doing instead
Sacks will be much further from power center in Washington than since the outset of this second Trump administration.
Anthropic wins injunction against Trump administration over Defense Department saga
A federal judge has ordered that the Trump administration rescind recent restrictions it placed on the AI company.
You can now transfer your chats and personal information from other chatbots directly into Gemini
Google is launching switching tools that, just as it sounds, will make it easier for users of other chatbots to switch to Gemini.
Mastodon is making its decentralized social network easier to use with its latest revamp
Mastodon is redesigning user profiles to simplify the experience and better appeal to mainstream users and organizations.
Netflix confirms its raising prices again
The standard plan without ads now costs $19.99 per month, a $2 increase from the previous $17.99 subscription fee, while the premium plan is also going up by $2 and will now cost $26.99 per month.
16 of the most interesting startups from YC W26 Demo Day
From redirecting doomscrolling to training humanoid robots, these 16 startupsstood out as the most interesting ones from an overflowing YC cohort.
Google Translates real-time headphone translations feature expands to iOS and more countries
The real-time headphone translations experience keeps each speakers tone, emphasis, and cadence intact, so its easier to follow the conversation and tell whos saying what.
OpenAI abandons yet another side quest: ChatGPTs erotic mode
It's only the latest of several side projects that the AI startup has ditched over the past week.
Data centers get ready the Senate wants to see your power bills
Sens. Josh Hawley and Elizabeth Warren want the Energy Information Administration to gather more details about how data centers use power and how that affects the grid.
Defense startup Shield AI lands $12.7B valuation, up 140%, after US Air Force deal
In one year, Shield AI's value has leaped 140%. This after it won a contract to be the software provider to Anduril's Fury fighter jet for the U.S. Air Force.
Leaked hacking tools threaten the security of millions of older iPhones. Cybersecurity experts weigh in.
Silicon Valleys two biggest dramas have intersected: LiteLLM and Delve
LiteLLM offers an AI open source project used by millions that was infected by credential harvesting malware.
ByteDances new AI video generation model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, comes to CapCut
The new model in CapCut will have built-in protections for making video from real faces or unauthorized intellectual property.
When youre building at breakneck speed, hiring a trusted team is crucial for an early-stage startup. Bland CEO and co-founder Isaiah Granet has tactical advice on how the company managed to find hidden talent in unlikely places.
Heres what we know, and what you need to know, about Coruna and DarkSword, two advanced iPhone hacking tools discovered by security researchers. DarkSword has now leaked online.
Conntour uses AI models to let security teams query camera feeds using natural language to find any object, person, or situation.
Cohere launches an open-source voice model specifically for transcription
Relatively light at just 2 billion parameters, the model is meant for use with consumer-grade GPUs for those who want to self-host it. It currently supports 14 languages.
WhatsApp can now draft AI-generated responses based on your conversations
The Meta-owned messaging platform is also launching a way to free up space, the ability to touch up photos with Meta AI, and more.
A pound of flesh from data centers: one senators answer to AI job losses
Fears of AI-driven job loss are growing fast, and theyre fueling backlash against data centers. Sen. Mark Warner suggests taxing them to help workers survive the transition.
A little-known Croatian startup is coming for the robotaxi market with help from Uber
Verne, the robotaxi company launched under Rimac Group, is starting with a service in Zagreb, Croatia.
The least surprising chapter of the Manus story is whats happening right now
Did anyone think there would not be a reckoning over this tie-up?
