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Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises increasingly want open models, due to cost, accessibility, and ownership. Do frontier models still matter if most production AI ends up running on open models?

Kid-friendly tech company Pinwheel announced the launch of a new landline phone designed to let children stay connected without the distractions of a smartphone.

They're rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI's defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even more money -- potentially a lot more.

Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company's financial-services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and how AI is starting to show up in ways riders and drivers will actually notice.

Singapore-based video generation startup PixVerse closed a Series C extension on the strength of 15 million monthly active users, it said.

The social media site says it will amplify posts made by users' mutual followers' to give the feed more of a communal feel.

The company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors.

Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary models are somehow acting like Trojan horses.

Apple would not comment on the security breach, which allegedly allowed a former employee to download sensitive files from Apple's network long after he departed the company for rival OpenAI.

The creator of TV Time is building a successor app that will let users import their watch histories and preserve the community that formed around discussing their favorite shows.

Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.

This will be the first Starship test flight for SpaceX as a public company, testing the market's appetite for the company's fly, fail, fix approach to rocket development, which often ends in fireballs.

Some of the new features are powered by Google's Gemini AI assistant, which reflects the the tech giant's broader push to integrate Gemini across its products while also better positioning Waze to compete with rival services such as Apple Maps.

The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.

Washington D.C. has become a battleground for Uber and Waymo's competing views.

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

When we last sat down with Jobs at TechCrunch Disrupt nearly three years ago, his firm Yosemite was brand new and biotech was still reeling from its post-pandemic crash. Now, the venture outfit has a team of 17; a cluster of blockbuster drugs are all losing patent protection in roughly the same window, creating all kinds of new opportunities; and AI has gone from a curiosity to, in Jobs's words, a huge part of what Yosemite does. I didn't expect Yosemite to be moving this fast, he said.

Last weekends brutal NYC heat wave had me craving a frozen drink almost every afternoon. Normally, that would mean sweating through a walk to 7-Eleven for a slurpee. This time, though, I stayed home and put the new Ninja Slushi Twist to the test. Ninjas latest slushie machine builds on the popularity of the original []

The glasses are targeted at people who might be constantly in meetings, giving presentations, and traveling to countries where different languages are spoken.

ChatGPT is hiring a dedicated product manager to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults, according to a job posting.