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YouTube megastar MrBeast announced on Monday that his company, Beast Industries, is buying Step, a teen-focused banking app.

The move comes as Blueskys competitors, X and Threads, have long supported drafts.

AI isn't going to replace major SaaS apps with vibe-coded versions, Databricks Ali Ghodsi believes. But it could give rise to competitors.

India's Anthropic Software has taken the U.S. AI giant to court over a name dispute.

OpenAI faced a backlash late last year when it tested app suggestions that looked like unwanted ads. Still, the AI company needs to generate revenue from its popular chatbot to cover the costs of developing its technology and growing the business.

Ouster is paying $35 million along with 1.8 million shares.

Is Musicboard shutting down? Company says no, but users are worried.

After announcing $190 million in ARR in December, Harvey may be raising again a big leap in valuation.

Bhusri said in a statement that the company's next chapter would be focused on AI.

The new Lyft service comes with a number of guardrails. Only a parent or guardian can create a teen account and drivers who are matched with these underage passengers must meet additional criteria and pass yearly background checks.

According to TechCrunchs ongoing tally, including the most recent data spill involving uMobix, there have been at least 27 stalkerware companies since 2017 that are known to have been hacked, or leaked customer and victims data online.

The company raised $13 billion in equity funding just five months ago, but intense competition between frontier labs and the ongoing cost of compute have made them eager to raise as quickly as possible.

With its new Arrival Notifications, users can now set one-time or recurring alerts for locations beyond their home, providing an automatic way to share when theyve arrived at their destination.

Founded by former Google Japan leaders, InfiniMind is building enterprise AI to turn vast, unused video archives into searchable, actionable business intelligence.

More than half-a-million people who bought access to phone surveillance and social media snooping apps had their email address and partial payment card numbers published online.

YouTube TV is offering new, less expensive plans that can be customized around topics like sports, news, and entertainment.

All users will be put into a een-appropriate experience by default unless they prove that they are adults.

The deal will see Uber paying $335 million at the outset to purchase Getir's food delivery business. Uber will also pay $100 million for a 15% stake in Getir's grocery, retail and water delivery business.

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Gather AI has closed funding from former Salesforce CEO's firm Smith Point Capital. Its warehouse AI system doesn't just scan. It seeks out specific data.

After a better-than-expected opening weekend in theaters, box office for Amazons Melaniafell 67%.

The purchase rewrites the domain record books -- not that the crypto industry has ever been accused of restraint when it comes to spending.

But this is still a bad idea.

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A march supporting Californias billionaires didnt exactly draw a huge crowd on Saturday.

India is adjusting startup rules to help more of its deep tech startups with funding and long-term success.

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan is expected to be there. Apple's Tim Cook, too.

Antetokounmpo is the first NBA player to directly invest in Kalshi.

Although the bills prospects are uncertain, New York is at least the sixth state to consider pausing construction of new data centers.

Benchmark Capital has been an investor in the Nvidia rival since 2016.

The organizer of the event swears it's not a joke.

This latest season of the TV show Industry takes a look at the world of money and power through the eyes of a fintech baron.

Apple engineers are working to support AI chatbot apps over the next few months.

From the first AI-generated Big Game ad courtesy of Svedka to Anthropic's beef with OpenAI, here are the biggest ads from Super Bowl LX.

WordPress users can now leverage Claude to analyze web traffic or find information about other internal site metrics.

The mysterious businessman pitched Jeffrey Epstein on numerous mobility startups in an era when the sector was white hot, according to TechCrunch's review of hundreds of documents released by the Department of Justice.

The acquisition could mark the beginning of consolidation in the carbon-removal market since removal costs remain higher than buyers would like to pay.

This week's release of Opus 4.6 shook up the agentic AI leaderboards.

Elon MuskhasmergedSpaceX and xAI,creatingwhat might be the blueprint for a new Silicon Valley power structure. With his$800 billionnet worth already rivaling historic conglomerate GEs peak market cap,and Musk being vocal about his view that tech victory is decided by velocity of innovation, the questionisntwhether apersonal conglomeratecan be built, but rather how far Musk himself is []

Reddit said during earnings it's looking to buy 'capabilities' and 'companies.'

The company says it has continuous age check systems running in the background to ensure age accuracy.

The two-line letter to the CIA's director is the latest warning in recent years from a long-serving Democratic senator with knowledge of secret government programs and intelligence operations.