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X's AI-powered custom timelines are replacing Communities, with Grok-curated feeds...and new ad slots.

Ryan Roslansky has stepped down as LinkedIn's CEO after six years running the world's largest professional network. Dan Shapero, the company's COO, takes over immediately.

Sales rebounded a bit from the first quarter of 2025, as Tesla throws a ton of money at massive bets like robotics, AI, and its own chip fab.

The company's all-important mass-market EV is just about ready to start heading to customers.

The cosmetics retailer, which counts 41 million customers in its membership data, declined to provide an accurate total number of customers affected.

Lucra offers corporate loyalty programs reimagined as interactive eSports. But winning ARK as a lead wasn't easy.

Infosys said the integration will be used to help its clients modernize software development, automate workflows and deploy AI systems, initially focusing software engineering, legacy modernization, and DevOps.

The U.K.'s cybersecurity chief warned that U.K. businesses and critical infrastructure are underestimating the threat from spyware attacks and other cyberthreats, with more governments having access to the powerful surveillance technology than ever.

Posting links on X through its API is now 1,900% more costly

If youre in the top 25% of users who visit a certain place, youll see your ranking on the Snap Map and can choose to share it with others.

10x Science has raised a $4.8 million seed round to help pharmaceutical researchers understand complex molecules.

Users will be able to see live events of an artist on their Amazon Music profile

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has signed a multi-billion-dollar deal with Google Cloud for AI infrastructure powered by Nvidia's latest GB300 chips, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.

Google wants AI startups on its cloud and has showcased a long list of them at its annual conference.

Duolingo is opening up its advanced language learning content offering to free users, allowing them to acquire skills that were previously reserved to paid subscribers.

Generative AI is being infused into Google's popular feature within Maps.

The company is restructuring some teams to accommodate a booming energy storage business, according to emails viewed by TechCrunch.

Meta says that it has a new internal tool that is converting mouse movements and button clicks into data that can train its AI models.

Anthropic told TechCrunch it is investigating the claims, but maintains that there is no evidence that its systems have been impacted.

Only Elon would do this before an IPO.

Cook, who joined Apple in 1998, succeeded Steve Jobs as CEO in 2011 and went on to transform Apple into a $4 trillion powerhouse.

The photo deletion comes after an FTC settlement with Clarifai. The company had asked OkCupid whose executives had invested in Clarifai to share data in 2014, according to court documents.

Extra, from a team of former Pinterest designers and engineers, reimagines email around your life instead of the traditional inbox.

Latitude's new AI-native platform, Voyage, aims to help gamers create their very own role-playing game.

A former employee of a cybersecurity firm pleaded guilty to aiding ransomware criminals to maximize their profits, with the goal of taking a cut of the ransom.

Bond wants you to get off the couch and get back into the real world, its creator says. The new platform's AI system is designed to motivate users to do things away from the app.

YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection tool to celebrities, giving talent and their reps a way to find and remove deepfakes.

The agreement comes just as Einride is finalizing a merger with blank-check company Legato Merger Corp. to go public.

Fintech giant Revolut, which secured a full banking license in the U.K. in March after years of waiting, was most recently valued at $75 billion in a secondary share sale.

AI music startup GRAI says fans want to remix tracks, not generate songs from scratch.

Tech companies are constantly on the hunt for new customers, and Cash App, the fintech company owned by Jack Dorseys Block, believes it has found a promising new demographic: children. The company, which already offers financial services to teens, said this week that it is expanding its youth-focused services in an effort to build a []

AuX Labs says it has found a better way to make vegan cheese that tastes and feels like the real thing and costs the same.

By building reactors in shipyards, Blue Energy says it will tame nuclear power's cost problems, giving it access to cheaper financing.

Starting on September 1, Ternus will lead one of the world's most valuable companies, but if you're not a dedicated Apple enthusiast, you've probably never heard of this man, who has largely remained out of the spotlight until now.

Amazon has made another circular AI deal: It's investing another $5 billion in Anthropic. Anthropic has agreed to spend $100 billion on AWS in return.

Google is rolling out Gemini in Chrome in Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam.

The transition has been expected for some time and ends one of the longer and more impactful runs a CEO has had at any company. Cook had inherited a company that many industry watchers and enthusiasts struggled to separate from its famed founder. What he leaves behind is a $4 trillion business with annual revenue that has more than quadrupled on his watch.

You can use the new tools to remove blemishes, refine skin texture, brighten eyes, or whiten teeth in photos.

This sentence construction (It's not just this it's that) has become so common in AI-generated writing that it's no longer just a clue that a piece of writing may be synthetic it's almost a guarantee.

The hack against Kelp DAO is the largest crypto heist of the year so far.

The DDoS attack against Mastodon's flagship server comes less than a week after Bluesky was targeted with junk web traffic.

Nobody was hurt after an EF-1 tornado hit the part of the factory where the R2 SUV is supposed to be built.

On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss OpenAI's latest acquisitions and whether they address wo big existential problems for the company.

A lot of AI startups exist partly because the foundation models haven't expanded into their category yet. As many jokingly acknowledge, that won't last forever.

The first major failure of Blue Origin's new heavy-launch system could create delays to its ambition to help NASA and the Trump administration return to the Moon.

The winning time is a massive improvement over last years race, when the fastest robot finished in two hours and 40 minutes.

Fusion startups and investors risk deepening fissures if some key disagreements aren't settled amicably.

It's a major milestone for the company's new mega-rocket system, putting it in position to challenge SpaceX's dominance of the global launch market.