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Waymo will begin testing self-driving versions of Toyota's electric bZ4X vehicles in Japan next year as part of a broader partnership with the automaker.

The success of blockbuster hits like Project Hail Mary and Verity is only part of the story, Amazon's CEO says.

Amazon wants to be the king of AI cloud computing and become the first $1 trillion revenue business. But to do that it will have to continue on its capex spending spree, its CEO said Thursday.

Some estimates say hackers stole billions in crypto from Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, during a cyberattack on Thursday.

The biggest ouch of the report was its negative free cash flow of $2.4 billion.

As part of the settlement, GM must get drivers express consent before it collects or shares their driving and location data.

The site has such a passionate user base that, within two hours of the announcement, its status page's posts had garnered millions of views (and much panicked commentary) across social media.

As AI transforms how people find information online, Reddit is rethinking its open-web roots to protect its audience and business.

Rivian doesn't disclose if the value of its $5.8 billion joint venture will expand as a result.

Rivian is seeing strong enough sales of the new EV that it improved its guidance to Wall Street for the second time this year.

OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings is buying ADT in a $15.3 billion deal, with plans to bring AI to the home security business.

Airbnbs nonprofit held its inaugural gala on Wednesday in Los Angeles, and the internet had one reaction the*what*gala?

The app connects to Instagram to build a virtual closet from photos youve already shared, or lets you add items manually by snapping a photo, recording a quick video, or uploading images from your camera roll.

Uno reverse! After Wispr added meeting notes to its dictation app, Granola is adding dictation to its meeting notetaker. The voice AI wars are getting interesting.

Mistral says its new model can afford organizations a kind of control over its cyber defenses that closed models can't.

A top executive of a Singapore AI cloud company that was accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China could also have been a Chinese spy, sources have told the New York Times.

The cloud security startup raised a Series C at a $3.8B valuation, instead of selling itself for the same price.

Microsoft has never disclosed Azure's quarterly revenue in dollars. But for the first time, we can see just how close it is getting to besting the biggest competitor in the market, AWS.

The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25% year over year to $127.6 billion.

Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ending September 30. It underscores the still-enormous financial dependency of the partnership.

Whatever the future of AI might be, the current situation is still very good for Microsoft. The tech giant reported yet another record for quarterly revenue on Wednesday: $92.3 billion, a 19% increase over the year-ago quarter.

A hacker obtained personally identifiable information about more than 40,000 Homeland Security staffers, which has since been published online.

The frontier lab is lifting the curtain on how users spend money on its models ahead of a planned IPO.

The For You feed combines posts from communities users have joined with recommendations tailored to their interests.

Tech leaders are flaunting how out of touch they are when they brag about using AI to connect with their families.

Constellation Energy will get $5 billion in government loans to modernize nuclear reactors. Most of the new capacity is already committed to Google, Amazon, and Meta.

Nvidia just released a free speech-to-text model that can transcribe up to 40 languages, but it only works on recordings, not live audio, so its a big step for meeting and medical transcription tools while still leaving real-time use to rivals like ElevenLabs.

Amazon's other new devices include an upgraded Echo Dot, an Echo Studio with visual intelligence features, and the Echo Show 16.

The move puts TikTok in more direct competition with platforms like Yelp and Google.

Meta has launched a new app called Waddle World, which essentially looks like a Tamagotchi clone, but with AI.

Free Fire India was originally set to launch in September 2023, but Garena postponed its release.

The deal with DTL Transport puts it on a path to become an an asset-light tech supplier, rather than owner and operator.

In just 7 days, TechCrunch Founder Summit takes over Bostons SoWa Power Station on November 4. Your chance to save up to $100 on tickets is running out, and the opportunity to learn and connect directly with experienced founders, investors, and startup leaders is almost here.

Jio has debuted as India's second-most valuable listed company, behind its parent, Reliance Industries.

Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.

A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.

As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sorts of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders say.

Software company Guidewire announced Tuesday that it was buying UK agentic underwriting startup Hyperexponential for $1.7 billion in cash.

A whole crop of venture capital firms are raising significant new funds.

GM eschewed hybrids in favor of battery-electric vehicles. Now it's gearing up to offer hybrid versions of its SUVs.

The banking giant reminds customers that you're responsible for activity resulting from your AI agents' access.

In December, messages from Discord's public discoverable servers will begin appearing in search engine results.

Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.

TechCrunch spoke to the MIT computer scientist charged with explaining OpenAI's latest mind-bending discovery

Rohit Patel is departing Meta after eight years working on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. His startup, Ndoc, aims to take on Microsoft Office Suite.

Ford is rolling out two new chargers capable of powering a home or the grid so-called V2X capability.

The U.S. government cyber agency warns that hackers have figured out a way to exploit the popular PHP software, used in 70% of the web's software.

The new MacBook Pro comes with 24 hours of battery life, and now features support for Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 connectivity.

The latest Apple software update for iPhones and iPads includes new features and important security updates.

Japan's GMO Internet is verifying alleged customer data posted by suspected hackers following a cloud service breach.