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On Monday, the network announced a $1.6 million seed round from top players in the media ecosystem, including Powerhouse Capital, Axel Springer SE (which owns Business Insider and Politico), the popular media publication LadBible, and angel investors from OpenAI and DeepMind. With this fresh capital, the network is announcing its largest expansion yet.

Forget YouTube videosfrontier physical AI models need multiple camera angles, dense annotation, and soon, brain wave readings.

As Apple prepares to launch its first smart glasses, the company may also be wrestling with how to address consumer privacy concerns.

On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI's Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

How one founder house is betting work-life balance can beat burnout .

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

A running look in reverse chronological order at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.

The lawsuit will likely renew debates about whether term employment agreements are enforceable under California. law

An awe-inspiring hacktivist who hacked two controversial government spyware makers may be the most prolific hacker to have never gotten caught. What do we know about Phineas Fisher?

Elon Musk's tunneling startup is reportedly in talks for a major new funding round.

At libraries around the country, Avoiding AI workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem.

OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.

The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue relighting the booster's rocket engines.

The indictment, which was unsealed Friday, alleges the Volkswagen engineers used confidential insider information to buy stock in Rivian.

ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.

Seller is a dedicated Marketplace app for people who list and sell items frequently.

We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAIs and Anthropics guardrails affect their work.

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is coming to Australia and we're partnering with Stripe to find the country's most exciting early-stage startups.

Shashua has been invited to take the chairman of the board seat.

AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.

In a memo to staff that was posted online, Conte the company's core business is strong, but that the platform has to respond to market changes and adjust its cost structure to remain stable.

Corgi had announced a B1 round of $106 million at a $2.6 billion valuation at the end of May.

The new rule-making process follows a series of incidents, including fatal ones, in which people have become stuck inside cars.

Meta has made significant investments in natural gas over the past year. Now it's dropping out of an industry renewable energy group.

Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email.

AegisAI co-founders developed AI agents that quickly analyze each message as a human would, paying attention to small anomalies that even the most elaborate checklist wouldnt catch.

An updated government advisory warns that Iranian hackers are exploiting systems used by water and energy providers.

The Media Router is a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model for a request based on whether a developer prioritizes quality, speed or cost.

Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.

The number of paid robotaxi miles traveled fell 36% in the second quarter, despite expanding to new cities, according to Tesla's own figures.

David Bowie's song Five Years, which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.

The tech giant says selfie videos give users more options to sign in if they're ever locked out or don't have access to their usual phone or computer.

If there's a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.

Imagi announced a $4.5 million seed round, with investors including Brighteye Ventures, Day One Capital, and artist Will.i.am.

Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs required, it says.

Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.

Amazon is hoping the addition of games can turn Prime Video into a one-stop entertainment destination, borrowing a strategy from Netflix, which has increasingly embraced party games over the past several years.

MeBeMe delivers small tasks to help users become their best selves instead of endlessly scrolling.

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Ford is the first automaker to use a new set of developer tools that will let it embed Apple Maps navigation and mapping directly into its vehicles' infotainment systems.

ServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.