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The media giant is pushing to expand its mobile and gaming business.

The most AI-obsessed firms are spending roughly $7,500 monthly per employee on AI, per Ramp AI Index. That's not more than an engineer's salary yet.

Problems with Starlink's India expansion could challenge SpaceX's IPO growth story.

New research suggests that AI memory systems can degrade model performance and encourage sycophantic tendencies.

Backed by Alexis Ohanians 776 and Kindred Ventures, Zest uses transaction data and AI to generate restaurant recommendations based on users real dining habits and the places they frequent.

Cybersecurity researchers are complaining that Anthropic's new model Fable has guardrails that are too strict for any cybersecurity work.

While Silicon Valley continues pushing aggressively into large language models and consumer-facing AI products, many European companies are focused on applying AI to complex systems already embedded into everyday life.

AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round from a who's who of angels. It's betting companies will want power over, not lock-in with model makers.

Most of the value in SpaceX's IPO is effectively a call option on the company's ambitious space data center plans.

Pinterest is adding support for Amazon Storefronts, allowing creators to earn affiliate commissions more easily while showcasing their product recommendations in one place.

Through the acquisition, WMG aims to better track when its artists' work is used in AI-generated content or for training AI models.

ServiceNow is used by thousands of enterprises to automate their internal processes, but says several customers had data accessed because of a security bug.

The funding round was led by Norwest, with participation S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor.

Decart is launching Oasis 3, a real-time world model that generates photorealistic driving environments for autonomous vehicle testing, now available via API for developers to build on.

Users under 16 years old will get a separate profile to show Stories and Spotlight posts to friends that they follow back.

Electricity demand from AI data centers is pushing everyone including automakers like GM and Ford into the energy storage business.

Fusion power startup Avalanche Energy said its reactor prototype heated a plasma to over 10 million degrees C.

Ambrosia Energy wants to build power plants in less than 12 months while undercutting natural gas. It hopes to build gigawatts worth by 2030.

Waymo created a new computer model to help it better understand how humans behave in crash scenarios that its robotaxis encounter.

The 168-megawatt facility will support Meta's global AI computing needs and can be expanded over time.

The exec, Emad Dlala, has left just a few months after being promoted to SVP of engineering and digital, TechCrunch has learned.

Google just made it significantly cheaper to enjoy its budget AI subscription tier.

Instead of spending a year raising a formal venture fund, the Sabertooth VC founder used a captive network of LPs to invest in startups like Anthropic, Anduril, and SpaceX.

GM is developing an entirely new sodium-ion battery chemistry for use in everything from data centers to its own factories.

I'm desperate for a personal AI assistant, but do I really want to become the kind of person who can't function without the friendly robot voice in my phone?

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 is going to be a big hit with the web's vibe coders.

Apple primarily made the case for an improved experience with its longstanding Siri assistant, which like most other announcements had a hefty helping of AI.

Check Point said hackers broke into dozens of organizations by exploiting a VPN bug in several of its products used across the government.

Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5, its first Mythos-class model available to the public. The model comes with guardrails that block responses in high-risk areas like cybersecurity and biology.

The iOS 27 developer beta includes code that references the fold state and screen angle of a device.

With SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI all eyeing massive public debuts, the tech industry may soon have a new class of corporate overlords and a new acronym to match. Say goodbye to FAANG and hello to MANGOS.

Apple may begin removing existing apps that it considers stale, low-value, or unable to attract users.

While iOS 27 isn't bringing major changes, it's still got many small features that could improve everyday usage for iPhone users.

Apple is expanding its App Bundles feature to allow developers to partner with one another on discounted subscription packages.

Apple will now recommend apps based on your downloads and behavior.

Sandstone's Series A was led by Lightspeed Partners, with participation from Sequoia.

Lovable says it has now surpassed $500 million in annualized run-rate revenue and its users are building businesses and replacing internal software.

Orbital founder Euwyn Poon built 250,000 scooters at Spin. Now he wants to launch 10,000 space data centers.

The startup is one of many entering the RV space, but it's banking on a hybrid power system that can go far beyond campsites.

Zepto's advertising revenue jumped 151%, outpacing the company's 104% growth in operating revenue.

Tools for Humanity, Sam Altman's identity verification company, is reportedly struggling to generate revenue and will downsize its staff.

The vibe of Apple's 2026 WWDC keynote felt like a spouse proudly listing all the honey-do-list items tackled. One subtle example: the many AI demos of someone standing, phone in hand.

The filing comes a little more than a week after its main rival, Anthropic, also filed to go public, ramping up the race between the two AI firms.

Apple spent much of its WWDC keynote highlighting fixes, performance improvements, and long-requested features before unveiling its upgraded AI-powered Siri, signaling that the company wants users to see AI as just one part of a broader effort to improve its software.

As AI experimentation grows more expensive, Apple is waiving cloud API costs for developers with fewer than 2 million first-time App Store downloads.

Waymo has acquired a massive 5,500-acre proving ground in Arizona owned by Route 14 Investment Partners LLC, a Delaware shell company associated with Apple, according to documents filed with Maricopa County.

If you're grabbing a bite with friends and point your iPhone at the bill, then [you can] select what you ordered to split the tab with Apple Cash, said Apple VP of Software Sebastien Marineau-Mes.

Apple is putting control back into the hands of parents with more granular screen time features.

Cycle tracker will now notify women when their cycle patterns are suggestive of perimenopause.

Apple's new dictation system could compete with Wispr Flow and others.