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In a Slack message seen by TechCrunch, Matt Mullenweg told Automattic employees hes back in control of the company, days after its board put him on leave. Automattic has not yet confirmed the apparent reversal.

Collaborative Fund just bought into D.C. United and its stadium, with firm founder Craig Shapiro pitching it as a way to showcase for the firm's startups.

Nvidia has its finger in every pie, and sees another year of plenty in its future, Jensen Huang says. But, he insists, its deals are not circular.

Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness and building businesses.

The company said Pro subscriptions put the most strain on its systems, so it's pausing sign-ups while adding more capacity.

A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.

Proxima Fusion said Wednesday it plans to build a 140 million ($162.6 million) factory to produce fusion-grade high-temperature superconducting (HTS) tape, which will provide the startup with key component to its reactor design.

Amazon is expanding shopping integrations across Prime Video, letting viewers discover products tied to thousands of shows, movies, and live sports through X-Ray, its shopping app, and a new Lens-powered Shop the Scene feature.

Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it's human.

Maven Robotics emerged from stealth today with a $100 million Series A and active deployments.

The four-year agreement will cover rice farms across three Indian states, reaching about 100,000 hectares at peak delivery.

The ID checking company said the data breach included people's full names and driver's licenses and other government-issued identity documents.

Snapchat says the new features can be used to organize everything from birthday celebrations and sporting events to study sessions and weekend hangouts.

The buzzy startup raised $600 million in its Series C round.

Amid negotiations for a new EU-wide corporate status, an open letter signed by unicorn founders and investors warns that 'EU Inc' shouldnt be watered down.

Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.

Mullenweg said in a company Slack message that it was against his will.

Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.

Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.

The main event was the tech giant's highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.

Apple is raising the price of its existing iPhone models by $100, including iPhone 16, iPhone 17, and iPhone Air.

Apple says it used AI and 3D printing in the manufacturing process for its long-awaited foldable phone.

The legal AI startup and VC darling has nearly doubled its valuation in nine months.

Most notably, Apple is taking aim at the growing wave of AI wearables with new Audio Intelligence features that let you rewind moments and remember details from daily conversations.

Apple introduced Apple Reference Image to help users determine whether photos have been edited, including alterations made by AI.

The AirPods 5 support better noise cancellation, Siri AI, and offer volume controls on the stem.

Apple today introduced its first foldable device, named the iPhone Duo, at its Surprise and Shine iPhone event held in Cupertino. The phone is the first marquee device launched under the companys new CEO, John Ternus. Unlike early iterations of foldables, which looked like vertical slabs, Apple adopted a wider form factor that could aid []

The company also argued that its on-device models offer consumers more privacy.

Apple's new iPhone 18 Pro lineup upgrades the camera and comes in burgundy.

Foxs $22 billion plan to buy Roku has hit a new hurdle. The Justice Department sent Fox and Roku whats known as a second request on Tuesday, asking the companies to turn over more data and documents as it takes a closer look at the deal. Thats a fairly standard step in a major antitrust []

AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI likeitsinevitable, but recentsafety incidentslikeOpenAIsHugging Face breacharedemonstratingthe potential dangers of deploying AI systems that are more capable thanhumans.Sowhat happens when wecantreliably control what these systems do? On this episode of TechCrunchsEquitypodcast, Rebecca Bellan is joined byConnor Leahy, an AI researcher, entrepreneur, and now the U.S. Executive Director of []

Instincts new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses, handle support requests, and do more on users' behalf.

inDrive's ad business, first piloted in July 2025, has served more than 2 billion impressions and attracted over 2,000 paying advertisers a month.

Users can ask the assistant to do things like Create a cart for my Saturday tailgate for 25 people and include some brunch items,orBuild a cart for easy school lunches and after-school snacks, Shipt says.

Carrum Mobility operates about 5,100 vehicles in India and is Uber's largest fleet partner for its premium Uber Black service in the country.

If you want to manufacture in spaceand bring the products back againtheres a limited set of options: Wait to go to the International Space Station, or partner with a handful of start-ups launching spacecraft that spend time in orbit before they return to Earth. But the vehicle that goes to space and comes back to []

As it grapples with a bevy of lawsuits, Suno said its new model, Suno v6, is not trained using music it used to train previous versions of the AI model.

Fusionality is developing control systems and simulation environments to help fusion power startups move faster.

UK-based manufacturing software startup CloudNC announced Wednesday a $20 million B extension round, bringing its lifetime total raised amount to $128 million.

Last month, a Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens even though he wasn't working. Anthropic has since warned users about hackers.

Cognition's valuation multiple is higher than Cursor's was before selling to SpaceX.

The Exploration Company (TEC) has raised $450 million to build reusable spacecraft, in what it describes as the largest-ever Series C by a European space company.

Meta's new personal AI agent Muse wants access to users' email, calendars, payments, health services, and more making the company's biggest consumer AI bet yet a major test of whether people still trust Meta with their data.

There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.

Google Cloud expands its enterprise AI push with Accenture, betting on forward-deployed engineers to drive adoption and overcome deployment bottlenecks.

Google is speeding up Chromes release schedule to ship security patches and new features faster.

The latest heist is one of the largest thefts of cryptocurrency to date.

Bluecore Energy announced Tuesday an oversubscribed $50 million seed round just months after raising a $10 million pre-seed and coming out of stealth.

The startup is trying to rethink the economics of cargo aircraft by removing pilots from the equation entirely.