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Less than a year after launching, with checks from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, crowdsourced AI model feedback startup Yupp.ai is closing its business, the company said Tuesday.

Meta faces thousands more court cases while Congress has proposed numerous bills addressing childrens online safety, some heavily criticized.

The game is available globally and can be accessed in both one-on-one DM chats and in group chats.

Truecaller now has more than 4 million paying users across the world.

Rec Room, the social platform for user-generated games and virtual experiences, will shutter on June 1.

You can now order from Uber Eats and Grubhub using Alexa+, an experience Amazon says will be similar to chatting with a waiter at a restaurant or placing an order at a drive-thru.

The fitness tracking startup just closed a $575 million Series G with Cristiano Ronaldo and LeBron James among its investors. The obvious question looming over a round of this size at this valuation: Is an IPO coming?

Uber and WeRide have launched robotaxi operations without a human safety operator in Dubai as part of a broader expansion in the Middle East.

A hacker inserted malware in Axios, an open-source web tool downloaded tens of millions of times weekly, in a widespread hack.

FedEx recently announced a partnership with Berkshire Gray as the company works with external players to develop its automation tech.

The company turns footage from robots into structured, searchable datasets with a deep learning model.

CareCloud, a major provider of medical records storage, said hackers accessed one of its repositories of patient data earlier in March. It provides technology for more than 45,000 providers covering millions of patients.

DoorDash joins Greenoaks Capital in another $200 million funding round for Also, bringing its total funding to more than $500 million.

With this new app, Roku says subscribers can access Howdy's library of content on the go.

Meta says these glasses are the most comfortable ones it has ever designed, as they're made for all-day comfort.

Runway is launching a $10 million fund and startup program to back companies building with its AI video models, as it pushes toward interactive, real-time video intelligence applications.

The merger is a sign that the fitness industry is continuing to move toward consolidation to compete at a larger scale. Recent moves include MyFitnessPal acquiring Cal AI, an AI calorie counting app, and Strava buying two apps: cycling app The Breakaway and running app Runna.

It's the fourth airport Waymo is serving, adding to Phoenix Sky Harbor, San Francisco, and San Jose International airports.

Speechify just launched a native Windows app that employs locally stored models to enable dictation and transcription across apps.

Ring's app store will allow the company to target broader use cases beyond security, like elder care or business needs.

Users will be able to change their username only once every 12 months. Plus, they won't be able to delete their new email address for that period of time.

Airbnb is partnering with transportation company Welcome Pickups to let users book a private car service during their trip.

The primary isnt until early June, but the CA-17 race between five-term incumbent Ro Khanna and tech founder Ethan Agarwal is already getting nasty. Agarwal entered the race in March, backed by a roster of prominent tech billionaires largely in response to Khannas public support for a proposed California ballot measure that would impose a []

The collapse of the brand, which was originally venture-backed and that went public in 2021, has been well-documented.

According to a Quinnipiac University poll, 15% of Americans say they'd be willing to have a job where their direct supervisor was an AI program that assigned tasks and set schedules.

LiteLLM had obtained two security compliance certifications via Delve and fell victim to some horrific credential-stealing malware last week.

A few thingsturned investors' heads and drew them to participate in such a big roundout of the gate.

AI adoption is rising in the U.S., but trust remains low, with most Americans concerned about transparency, regulation, and the technologys broader societal impact, according to a new Quinnipiac poll.

Here's what we're looking for in your Startup Battlefield 200 application and how to make sure your application reflects it.

Demands for Apple customer records by federal agents in recent months underscore the privacy limitations of email.

It's a notable exit for Blacklane, which has raised more than $100 million from backers like Mercedes-Benz and Sixt.

ScaleOps just raised $130M to tackle GPU shortages and soaring AI cloud costs by automating infrastructure in real time.

The startup, which is planning to go public later this year, designs chips specifically for AI inference, another challenger to Nvidia's dominance.

Mistral aims to start operating the data center by the second quarter of 2026.

As AI floods software development with code, Qodo is betting the real challenge is making sure it actually works.

Starcloud becomes the fastest Y Combinator startup to reach unicorn status, just 17 months after demo day.

OpenAI's decision last week to shut down Sora, its AI video-generation tool, just six months after releasing it to the public raised immediate suspicions. The app had invited users to upload their own faces so was this some kind of elaborate data grab?

The Google Pixel 10a can lay flat on a table, but otherwise the company hasn't brought a ton of upgrades to its newest budget smartphone.

CEO Neal Mohan insisted that he isnt worried about Netflix luring away YouTube's most popular creators.

Amazons bet on Project Hail Mary has paid off handsomely.

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

SXSW made some changes this year, but some founders loved it all the same.

Blueskys new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.

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.

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.

All but two of Musk's 11 xAI co-founders departed before this week.

Weve compiled a list of some of the best iPad apps for creativity that are available on the App Store.

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.

Fusion, fission, and even natural gas are appeared tied in the race to deliver new power to the grid in the early 2030s.

Boomboxes, instant cameras, and even landlines are making a comeback. Here are the coolest retro-inspired devices available.