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The company said it plans to dig more than 150 kilometers of tunnels in the Middle Eastern country.

“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher told TechCrunch. 

Bending Spoons is buying Miro for $1.36B, a huge dip in valuation for the workplace collaboration startup, which was valued at $17.5B in late 2021.

Maven Robotics emerged from stealth today with a $100 million Series A and active deployments.

The four-year agreement will cover rice farms across three Indian states, reaching about 100,000 hectares at peak delivery.

The ID checking company said the data breach included people’s full names and driver’s licenses and other government-issued identity documents.

Snapchat says the new features can be used to organize everything from birthday celebrations and sporting events to study sessions and weekend hangouts.

The buzzy startup raised $600 million in its Series C round.

Amid negotiations for a new EU-wide corporate status, an open letter signed by unicorn founders and investors warns that ‘EU Inc’ shouldn’t be watered down.

Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.

Mullenweg said in a company Slack message that it was against his will.

Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.

Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.

John Ternus made the case in his first keynote as Apple CEO that the iPhone isn’t going anywhere.

Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.

The main event was the tech giant’s highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.

Apple is raising the price of its existing iPhone models by $100, including iPhone 16, iPhone 17, and iPhone Air.

Apple says it used AI and 3D printing in the manufacturing process for its long-awaited foldable phone.

The Siri Recap feature is similar to other note-taking apps like Granola.

The legal AI startup and VC darling has nearly doubled its valuation in nine months.

The update uses Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data.

Most notably, Apple is taking aim at the growing wave of AI wearables with new “Audio Intelligence” features that let you rewind moments and remember details from daily conversations.

The company also argued that its on-device models offer consumers more privacy.

Apple’s new iPhone 18 Pro lineup upgrades the camera and comes in burgundy.

Fox’s $22 billion plan to buy Roku has hit a new hurdle. The Justice Department sent Fox and Roku what’s known as a “second request” on Tuesday, asking the companies to turn over more data and documents as it takes a closer look at the deal. That’s a fairly standard step in a major antitrust … Read more

AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that are more capable than humans. So what happens when we can’t reliably control what these systems do?  On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan is joined by Connor Leahy, an AI researcher, entrepreneur, and now the U.S. Executive Director of … Read more

Instinct’s new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses, handle support requests, and do more on users’ behalf.

inDrive’s ad business, first piloted in July 2025, has served more than 2 billion impressions and attracted over 2,000 paying advertisers a month.

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned over AI extinction fears, calling for pacing agreements between labs.

Users can ask the assistant to do things like “Create a cart for my Saturday tailgate for 25 people and include some brunch items,” or “Build a cart for easy school lunches and after-school snacks,” Shipt says.