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Its been 20 years since the first tweet
On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted a simple message: just setting up my twittr.
Publisher pulls horror novel Shy Girl over AI concerns
Hachette Book Group said it will not be publishing Shy Girl over concerns that artificial intelligence was used to generate the text.
Delve accused of misleading customers with fake compliance
An anonymous Substack post accuses compliance startup Delve of falsely convincing hundreds of customers they were compliant with privacy and security regulations.
Why Wall Street wasnt won over by Nvidias big conference
Despite investor fears of an AI bubble, Nvidia's latest conference shows that most in the industry aren't concerned by that possibility.
How fusion power works and the startups pursuing it
Fusion power promises to generate large amounts of clean electricity from nearly limitless fuel. This article explains the main approaches and the companies that use them.
Anthropic submitted two sworn declarations to a California federal court late Friday afternoon, pushing back on the Pentagon's assertion that the AI company poses an unacceptable risk to national security and arguing that the government's case relies on technical misunderstandings and claims that were never actually raised during the months of negotiations.
Microsoft rolls back some of its Copilot AI bloat on Windows
The company is reducing Copilot entry points on Windows, starting with Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and other apps.
What happened at Nvidia GTC:NemoClaw, Robot Olaf, and a$1 trillionbet
CEOJensen Huang took the stage atNvidias GTC conferencethis week in his signature leather jacket to deliver a two-and-a-half-hour keynote, projecting$1 trillionin AI chip sales through 2027, declaring that every company needs an OpenClaw strategy, and closing with a rambling Olaf robot that had to get its mic cut. The message was hard to miss: Nvidia []
Amidst legal turmoil, Kalshi is temporarily banned in Nevada
It's the latest escalation in a regulatory battle over the future of prediction markets.
Pinterest CEO calls on governments to ban social media for users under 16
Pinterests chief compares social media to tobacco and alcohol, saying children need similar protections.
Amazon acquires Rivr, maker of a stair-climbing delivery robot
Amazon and Jeff Bezos had previously invested in the startup.
Polymarket continues its partnership spree with a Major League Baseball deal
MLB is only the latest in a string of recently announced partnerships involving the prediction market.
Online bot traffic will exceed human traffic by 2027, Cloudflare CEO says
AI bots may outnumber humans online by 2027, says Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, as generative AI agents dramatically increase web traffic and infrastructure demands.
Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition
The additional funds have been used to scale Bluesky's team, while the company continues to develop Bluesky's app and the underlying ATProto that powers it.
Meta decides not to shut down Horizon Worlds on VR after all
Horizon Worlds was once a cornerstone of Meta's plans to build a social metaverse -- four years later, the company almost shut it down.
FBI seizes pro-Iranian hacking groups websites after destructive Stryker hack
The FBI and the Justice Department took down two websites linked to the pro-Iranian hacktivist group Handala, which last week hacked medical tech giant Stryker.
CISA urges companies to secure Microsoft Intune systems after hackers mass-wipe Stryker devices
The U.S. cybersecurity agency urged companies to prevent access to systems used for remotely managing their fleets of employee devices after hackers broke into a major U.S. medical tech giant and remotely wiped thousands of phones and computers.
TechCrunchStartup Battlefield 200 nominationsare stillopen
Nominate your startup, or one you know, for TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 before May 27. Chance to win $100,000 equity-free funding and VC access.
Rivian sacrifices 2027 profit goal to push deeper into autonomy
Rivian admitted in a regulatory filing that it is delaying its goal of reaching positive EBITDA next year because of how much it is spending on developing self-driving technology.
K2 to launch its first high-powered satellite for space compute
K2's Gravitas is an ambitious project that aims to demonstrate the tech needed to build data centers in space.
Tools for founders to navigate and move past conflict
Founders can create frameworks for working through conflict and change when the team is just two or three people, and if done correctly, it can scale with the company.
Anori, Alphabets new X spinout, is tackling one of the worlds most expensive bureaucratic nightmares
Anori aims to shrink down the pre-development process by getting all parties, including the city, on to a unified platform from the start so that compliance conflicts are surfaced in weeks instead of months or years.
Tubi joins forces with popular TikTokers to create original streaming content
Tubi launched its Creatorverse Incubator to help TikTokers create original shows exclusively for the streaming service.
Arc expands into electric commercial and defense boats with $50M raise
The Los Angeles startup raised $50 million from Eclipse, a16z, Menlo Ventures, and others as it seeks to expand beyond sport boats.
Feds intensify investigation into Teslas Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has upgraded its probe after finding more instances of Tesla's driving software struggling in low-visibility conditions.
Multiverse Computing pushes its compressed AI models into the mainstream
After compressing models from major AI labs including OpenAI, Meta, DeepSeek and Mistral AI, Multiverse Computing has launched both an app that showcases the capabilities of its compressed models and an API that makes them more widely available.
Two Palantir veterans just came out of stealth with $30 million and a Sequoia stamp of approval
The founders are worth paying attention to.
Meta is having trouble with rogue AI agents
A rogue AI agent inadvertently exposed Meta company and user data to engineers who didn't have permission to see it.
Sam Altmans thank-you to coders draws the memes
Altman expresses gratitude for people who knew how to write their code from scratch. The internet replies with salty jokes.
Nvidia is quietly building a multibillion-dollar behemoth to rival its chips business
Nvidia's networking business raked in $11 billion last quarter despite getting significantly less fanfare than chips and gaming.
The leaderboard you cant game, funded by the companies it ranks
Artificial intelligencemodels are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff. With so many players crowding the space, which one will be the best and who decides that?Arena, formerly LM Arena, hasemergedas the de facto public leaderboard for frontier LLMs, influencing funding, launches, and PR cycles. In just seven months, the startup went from aUCBerkeley PhD research []
Facebook launches a new monetization program to attract popular creators from TikTok, YouTube
Facebook says it paid creators nearly $3 billion through its monetization programs in 2025, a 35% increase from the previous year and its highest annual total to date.
This startup wants to make enterprise software look more like a prompt
The company has raised $12 million in seed funding to build an AI operating system for enterprise.
Sequen snags $16M to bring TikTok-style personalization tech to any consumer company
With its Series A, Sequen is bringing its proprietary AI ranking and personalization technology to large consumer business.
Microsoft hires the team of Sequoia-backed AI collaboration platform, Cove
AI collaboration startup Cove is shutting down after its team joined Microsoft, with service ending April 1 and customer data set for deletion.
Marquis says over 672,000 people had personal and financial data stolen in ransomware attack
Fintech company Marquis is notifying hundreds of thousands of people that hackers stole their personal and financial information, including their Social Security numbers.
Russians caught stealing personal data from Ukrainians with new advanced iPhone hacking tools
A suspected group of Russian government hackers was caught targeting Ukrainians with new iPhone hacking tools designed for espionage and potentially to steal crypto.
DOD says Anthropics red lines make it an unacceptable risk to national security
The Defense Department said concerns that Anthropic might attempt to disable its technology during warfighting operations validate its decision to label the AI firm a supply chain risk.
