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The app lets users share disappearing photos with their friends that can be viewed only once and remain available for 24 hours.
Noscroll wants to cure doomscrolling with an AI bot that reads the internet for you.
Sean Plankey has requested to withdraw his name to run the U.S. cybersecurity agency after a tumultuous year of chaotic temporary leadership.
Artisan may be known for their bold Stop Hiring Humans campaign but the reality is every founder needs to assemble the right team if they want to scale.
Era thinks that we will see many form factors of AI hardware, including glasses, rings, and pendants
Meta's Accounts Center will transition to the Meta Account, which is supposed to make it easier to manage your experience on various Meta apps and devices.
X Communities are no more. Only a fraction of X users were using Communities, and much of that use was spam, the company said.
Salmon is targeting underbanked Filipinos, with little to no credit history, as well as people unhappy with the incumbent lenders' reliability issues.
The app and website hosting company has found evidence of a second compromise of customer accounts after expanding its initial investigation following a breach in early April.
TechCrunch has confirmed that Delve was the compliance company that performed the security certifications for Context AI, the AI agent training startup that last week disclosed a security incident.
StrictlyVC San Francisco is in just a week. Nows the time to grab yourself a ticket. Join VCs and founders at Sentro Filipino Cultural Center on April 30.
Tens of thousands of Samsung Electronics workers held a rally at the companys Pyeongtaek campus in South Korea on Thursday to signal they are prepared to walk off the job for an 18-day strike next month.
The company is following through on its promise to not let Musk double dip if he won his appeal to restore Tesla's 2018 compensation package, worth $56 billion.
WhatsApp is rolling out prepaid phone recharges to its 500 million users in India via PayU.
Astronomers are turning to GPUs to find needles in the galactic haystack.
The Citizen Lab found two separate surveillance vendors abusing the backbone of cellular networks to spy on several victims across the world.
Beehiiv is clearly done being just a newsletter platform based on today's launch of a new webinar feature, customizable paywalls, and more.
Topics can range from School, Entertainment, and Lifestyle to Travel, Writing, and Health and Wellbeing, among others, Meta says.
Non-gaming apps, led by streaming and AI, are driving growth, even as India's spending per user lags global peers.
Shade has its own filesystem that lets you stream files directly to your local drive
Tesla's planned capex for 2026 is three times higher than what the company has historically spent. Its CFO said, as a result, Tesla will have a negative free cash flow the rest of the year.
Google has introduced a host of new automated functions into Workspace, all of which are driven by Workspace Intelligence, its new AI system.
The admission could open Tesla to legal challenges after it spent years promising customers they were just one software update away from owning fully autonomous cars.
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
Users will be able to see live events of an artist on their Amazon Music profile
10x Science has raised a $4.8 million seed round to help pharmaceutical researchers understand complex molecules.
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.
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.
Generative AI is being infused into Google's popular feature within Maps.
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.
Google wants AI startups on its cloud and has showcased a long list of them at its annual conference.
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.

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