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Steve Ballmer wrote a fiery letter in the sentencing of disgraced founder Joseph Sanberg documenting all the harm that's befalling him as an investor.

The IRS has used Palantir's software since at least 2018, The Intercept reports.

Cohere, the Canada-based AI company that makes AI tools for businesses in regulated industries, announced Friday it would merge with Aleph Alpha, a German company that also builds AI systems for businesses and governments.

Series, a social networking app that's grown popular on college campuses, announced a $5.1 million pre-seed round from some big names in tech.

Meta has been poaching talent from Thinking Machines Lab. But it's a two-way street.

Investors flocked to nuclear power startup X-energy in its first day of public trading on the Nasdaq.

ComfyUI, whose tools give creators more control over AI image, video, and audio generation, just raised $30 million.

X's new app promises private chats, disappearing messages, audio and video calls, and more.

Google plans up to $40B investment in Anthropic as AI rivals race to secure massive compute capacity, following the limited release of its powerful, cybersecurity-focused Mythos model.

Apples sold-out Mac mini is spawning marked-up eBay listings as demand surges for the compact desktop, now favored for running local AI models and tools.

Researchers have found a new case where government authorities used a fake Android app to plant spyware on a targets phone. The company that allegedly developed the spyware was not previously known to sell this type of software.

Surprise! StrictlyVC San Francisco, which will kick off this years events lineup for TechCrunch on April 30 at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center, is getting a new addition to its increasingly stacked lineup of speakers. Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga will join the rest of the lineup to discuss operating at scale in the age of AI.

Nothing's new on-device dictation tool supports over 100 languages.

DeepSeek says both models are more efficient and performant than DeepSeek V3.2 due to architectural improvements, and have almost closed the gap with current leading models, both open and closed, on reasoning benchmarks.

Porsche will start selling the Cayenne Coupe Electric in late summer.

The former Disney CEO hold a stake in Thrive, and has previously held the role of the venture partner at the firm.

The soldier is accused of using classified government information to inform a wager on the prediction market Polymarket.

Former Tesla executive Chris Lister is retiring, and at least three other VPs have left Redwood around the recent restructuring, TechCrunch has learned.

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.

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.

Era thinks that we will see many form factors of AI hardware, including glasses, rings, and pendants

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