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Eric Wu, who built and ran Opendoor before stepping away in 2022, has had his new company, NavigateAI, out of stealth since May building AI copilots that give construction workers real-time, hands-free guidance through smartphones and Meta's AI glasses, backed by $25 million from Elad Gil, Khosla Ventures, and Lennar to tackle a labor shortage severe enough that data center projects alone now need 4,000 to 5,000 workers apiece.

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's secret Elizabeth Holmes documentary, You Can See Everything, stunned Telluride audiences Sunday night with its generous access to the Theranos founder.

Authors say publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of settlement payments.

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.

Clucky's new alarm app has an option where users are woken up to the sound of a rooster. They then complete a mission to turn it off.

While Oura has largely dominated the smart ring market for years, a growing number of rivals are now racing to dethrone it by trying all sorts of approaches to get an edge over it.

Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.

It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.

U.S. CD revenue jumped 58.6% in the first half of 2026, reversing last years decline as interest in retro tech and physical media continues to grow.

Krafton's planned investment in India is set to surpass $500 million with its latest commitment.

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A senator's letter confirms the U.S. military moved to prevent the tracking after foreign adversaries used location data to target troops.

The investigation was launched just a few hours after Tesla put the first production Cybercabs on the road in Austin.

While restaurant owners might look to generative AI as a shortcut to sprucing up their menu, customers can viscerally sense that something is wrong with the food.