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Apple is readying several new iPad Pro tablets, and a budget-friendly MacBook Pro, reports suggest.

The company has grown rapidly by acquiring and revamping last-generation tech brands like AOL, Eventbrite, Evernote, Meetup, and Vimeo.

The co-founders of Bending Spoons, the Italian company quietly buying beloved, ailing Internet brands, learned big lessons from their own startup's failure.

Meta says usernames improve privacy, but critics question whether its safeguards can prevent impersonation.

The AI neocloud provider, which specializes in hosting open source models, last raised at a $3.3 billion valuation in early 2025.

The nine-year-old scooter and bike-share company has said it needs the funds to help pay down around $1 billion in liabilities.

Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.

Honda wants in on the lucrative energy storage market. This week it began producing batteries destined for data centers, not driveways.

The autonomous vehicle space is starting to feel like a repeat of the 2016 hype cycle. Travis Kalanick is back building a robotics company, and the talent wars and capital are heating up the same way they did the first time around. The moneys flowing back, and its the people who lived through that first []

The nine-year-old scooter and bike-share company has said it needs the funds to help pay down around $1 billion in liabilities.

Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.

Google's 24/7 agentic assistant, Gemini Spark, comes to Mac alongside other improvements, like real-time tracking and support for more apps.

Sony will stop producing physical discs for all new PlayStation games beginning in 2028, as the company embraces an all-digital future.

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Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move would pit it against the big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week.

Anthropic said it would begin restoring access to the Fable on July 1.

Wayves offering is part of a growing trend of AI startups using employee tenders as a strategic tool to attract and retain talent.

What if one pitch changed everything? The next company nobody has heard of yet is building something that will matter. It could be yours.

We can take power from a plasma, Kieran Furlong, co-founder and CEO of Realta Fusion, told TechCrunch. The milestone shows whats possible, he added.

Google is updating its image generator to make it faster and cheaper, making it a more useful tool for creators looking to make AI content.

A new video shows the final production version of the upcoming Clicks Communicator, a BlackBerry-like smartphone that runs modern apps.

But the company is still claiming that New Glenn will return to flight this year.

The company may finally be ready to try to deliver on Elon Musk's years-long promise of launching a robotaxi network of its own.

X has launched a hosted MCP server, making it easier for developers to connect AI applications with the companys API.

Stealthy startup Arcturus uses lasers to infuse carbon nanomaterials into copper, dramatically improving its ability to conduct electricity.

Users will be able use AI to create newsletters based on their recordings.

Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.

Proton's Lumo 2.0 is dropping this week, giving users a broader variety of capabilities.

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A new report finds high-intensity AI adopters saw headcount increase 10.2%. Among those companies, entry-level headcount rose by 12%, countering the rhetoric that AI kills junior jobs.

Wix-owned vibe coding platform Base44 has started rolling out its own AI model with hopes that it will eventually outperform frontier models.

VCs remain thirsty to fund AI coding startups. This one, founded by investor Chamath Palihapitiya, is no exception.

Google is expanding Geminis personalized AI image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., allowing the chatbot to create images based on your interests and data from connected Google apps.

Kobo users can now automatically sync their reading progress to StoryGraph, making it easier to track books, reading stats, and challenges without relying on Amazons Goodreads.

The companies confirmed to TechCrunch that their unusual partnership in Phoenix recently ended after nearly three years..

As Anthropic forges a closer relationship with the state of California, the federal government has made an enemy out of the OpenAI rival.

The world's two largest memory chip companies vow to build more memory lab fabs as South Korea positions itself as an AI tech powerhouse country.

The startup, which runs a popular free AI leaderboard, launched its commercial service just last September.

Cursor has launched a new mobile app for remote oversight over coding agents.

The Trump administration's moves threaten $121 billion in new solar and wind power, two energy sources that are the biggest contributors to new capacity in the U.S.

The startup, Proception, is taking a unique approach to collecting training data to tackle one of the hardest problems in robotics: hands.

Pocket sells a $129 credit card-shaped puck, which sticks to the back of your phone, and promises unlimited recordings, transcriptions, and to-do items.

Omen AI raised a $31 million Series A to monitor chip coolant and stop bacterial outbreaks in data centers.

Flipper Device's new Busy Bar will retail for $249.

Streaming ads might be getting a lot quieter.

Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence ... that would produce a high-quality product.

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.

Eager to find more public AI-related companies that may do as well as Nvidia, Wall Street investors think they've found a winner with Micron.

For some people, the ice in a beverage is almost as important as the drink itself. Thats the audience Govee had in mind when designing its latest ice maker, the GoveeLife Smart Nugget Ice Maker Pro.This $500 premium smart home gadget is aimed at those who crave whats called the good ice, the soft, chewable []