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The nozzle is just the beginning what company founder Sunny Sethi calls he muscle on the ground.

Information from the conservative-leaning, AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musks xAI is beginning to appear in answers from ChatGPT.

Some of the major players in science fiction and pop culture are taking firmer stances against generative AI.

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

Were about to get our first real look at the results of the recently announced AI partnership between Apple and Google.

Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.

If your Gmail account doesnt seem to be working properly today, youre not alone.

If your Gmail account doesnt seem to be working properly today, youre not alone.

There were times at this weeks meeting of the World Economic Forum when Davos seemed transformed into a high-powered tech conference.

Itsgetting hard to tell which AI labs. areactually tryingto make money. We created a rating system to help sort it out.

PopWheels realized its battery swapping network could be used for more than food delivery workers who need to charge their e-bikes. Now, its planning for an aggressive rollout this summer.

Hexus founder and CEO Sakshi Pratap, who previously held engineering roles at Walmart, Oracle, and Google, tells TechCrunch that her San Francisco-based team has already joined Harvey, while the startup's India-based engineers will come onboard once Harvey establishes a Bangalore office.

Apple shipped a record 14 million iPhones in India in 2025 and gained market share.

TikTok users are freaking out over a mention of immigration status data collection, but lawyers explain the disclosure is related to state privacy laws.

Yann LeCun's new venture, AMI Labs, has drawn intense attention since the AI scientist left Meta to found it.

The NTSB joins the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in investigating Waymo vehicles illegally passing stopped school buses.

The Department of Justice may be conducting a criminal investigation. This is arguably the biggest drama between two HR startups ever.

Learn more about Netflix's acquisition of Warner Bros., considered the most historic megadeal in Hollywood, as it continues to develop.

Security researchers have attributed the attempted use of destructive wiper malware across Poland's energy infrastructure in late December to a Russian-backed hacking group known for causing power outages in neighboring Ukraine.

The World Economic Forums annual meeting in Davosfelt different this year, and not just because Meta and Salesforce took over storefronts on the main promenade.AI dominated the conversation in a way that overshadowed traditional topics like climate change and global poverty, and the CEOswerentholding back. There was public criticism of trade policy, warnings about AI []

The new feature lets you insert yourself into a meme in Google Photos.

Meta will developed new versions of AI characters that will give age-appropriate responses

Started by an engineer who worked on the space shuttle program, and at Blue Origin, Space Beyond has a spot on a 2027 Falcon 9 flight.

The FBI served Microsoft a warrant requesting encryption recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of people involved in an alleged fraud case in Guam.

The business model behind these apps replicates the same dark patterns as mobile games.

The deal ends a six-year long political saga that thatstarted in 2020 when PresidentDonald Trumptried to ban the app over national security concerns during his first term.

Sam Altman is set for his first India visit in nearly a year.

Register nowtosave up to $680 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass and get a second ticket at 50% off.This offer endsnext week on January 30, or once the first500 ticketsare claimed whichever comes first.

The company is also currently facing a 30-day suspension of its manufacturing and dealer licenses in California for deceptive marketing about Autopilot's capabilities.

Blockit, an AI agent that communicates directly with other calendars, has raised $5 million in seed funding led by Sequoia.

Anduril on Thursday announced its plans to expand its Southern California presence with a major campus in Long Beach, the town where founder Palmer Luckey grew up.

OpenAI has reportedly appointed Barret Zoph to lead its push into enterprise just a week after Zoph rejoined the company.

Vimeo is in the process of laying off some of its global staff after being acquired last year by Bending Spoons for $1.38B.

The factory musical chairs reflect an economic and political environment, shaped by the Trump administration's tariff policy and its decision to end the federal EV tax credit.

Before everyone sharpens their knives, consider that for the VCs who backed Brex at its outset, the sale is a triumph.

An hours-long outage is preventing Microsoft's enterprise customers from accessing their inboxes, files, and video meetings.

Ring says the new feature will identify if video edits have been made, even if they're minor.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says the tech giant isn't pressuring him to insert ads into the AI chatbot experience.

Humans&, a new startup founded by alumni of Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind, is building the next generation of foundation models for collaboration, not chat.

The move comes as Substack has been investing more heavily in video and livestreaming, as it looks to compete with platforms like YouTube and Patreon for both creators and viewers.

A number of investors are competing for the opportunity to purchase the app, and if a deal were to go through, the platform's U.S. business could have its valuation soar to upward of $60 billion.

TechCrunch obtained a sample of the stolen data, which contained names, email addresses, dates of birth, and the user's approximate geographic location. Under Armour confirmed some sensitive information was taken in the breach.

Google has hired the CEO and top top behind voice AI startup Hume AI, signaling that voice is increasingly becoming the preferred interface over screens.

Neurophos is taking a crack at solving the AI industry's power efficiency problem with an optical chip that uses a composite material to do the math required in AI inferencing tasks.

Since 2024, Anthropic's performance optimization team has given job seekers a take-home test to make sure they know their stuff but as AI coding tools have gotten better, the test has had to change a lot to stay ahead of AI-assisted cheating.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin had previously suggested that the third launch of the mega-rocket would take the space company's robotic lunar lander to the moon.

Now available in the US and Canada, Spotify's AI-powered Prompted Playlists let users describe what they want to hear using natural language commands.

Quadric aims to help companies and governments build programmable on-device AI chips that can run fast-changing models locally.

With these new features, Snap is likely looking to appease regulators and parents over concerns about safety and screen time on its platform.

Tiger Global and Microsoft are offering up their full stakes in the company, while Walmart is choosing to retain its majority stake, and selling up to 45.9 million shares.