TechCrunch

Instagram is testing a new Reels-first UI in India and South Korea to give short videos more prominence in the app.

X said last week’s Indian court ruling allows millions of police officers to issue “arbitrary” content takedown orders.

Maximor has come out of stealth with a human-in-the-loop agentic platform that does the finance team’s grunt work.

Paid offers an interesting contribution to the AI agentic world: a platform for so-called “results-based” billing.

Early warning signs suggest this whole services-industry metamorphosis may be more complicated than VCs anticipate.

In a recent interview with The New York Times, Oura Health CEO Tom Hale didn’t discuss reports that the company is raising new funding that would value the health-tracking ring maker at nearly $11 billion, but he did talk about whether he has ambitions to take Oura public.

A federal judge has rejected drone maker DJI’s efforts to get off a Department of Defense list of Chinese military companies.

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

Why is Electronic Arts, one of the biggest names in the video game business, reportedly in talks to go private?

The gaming industry notoriously targets kids for in-app purchases. Lootlock gives parents granular control over kids game spending.

Ami Luttwak, CTO of Wiz, breaks down how AI is changing cybersecurity, why startups shouldn’t write a single line of code before thinking about security, and opportunities for upstarts in the industry.

Researchers at consulting firm BetterUp Labs, in collaboration with Stanford Social Media Lab, have coined a new term to describe low-quality, AI-generated work

If you’ve been on the New York subway recently, you’ve probably seen stark white ads promoting a wearable AI device called Friend.

“It is my opinion that Microsoft should immediately terminate the employment of Lisa Monaco,” Trump said of a former Biden administration official.

South Korea has launched its most ambitious sovereign AI initiative yet, as the nation’s major tech players like LG and SK Telecom develop their own LLMs.

Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying to teach robots dexterity by showing them videos of humans doing tasks. In a new essay, he calls this approach “pure fantasy thinking.”

This week on Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff go beyond the headlines to break down what’s really going on in these AI infrastructure deals.

Checkout.com is boosting its valuation as part of an employee stock buy-back program, and now says it’s profitable.

The rumored buyers of EA include investors like Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.

Fifteen years after “The Social Network,” director Aaron Sorkin is making a sequel film about Facebook called “The Social Reckoning.”

YouTube Music’s new AI hosts are currently being tested through YouTube Labs, the platform’s new hub for AI experiments.

We’ve compiled a list of friendship apps, from friend discovery platforms like BFF to event-focused ones like Timeleft.

The wider shakeup comes a few weeks since its CEO and CTO left.

From $100 billion OpenAI commitments to $100,000 visa fees, this week showed just how much the tech landscape is shifting. On the latest episode of Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff unpack the AI infrastructure gold rush and tech’s talent shuffle. Watch the full episode for more about:   Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast, produced by … Read more

Age verification laws are a privacy and security nightmare. This Battlefield startup performs age checks on-device, without users having to upload their IDs to the internet.

The gap between Apple’s standard and budget smart watches has never felt smaller. 

Flipkart is set to become the most valuable startup to shift its headquarters back to India ahead of a planned IPO.

The Trump administration wants the industry to reach a 1:1 ratio of domestically produced and imported chips.

Today is the last chance to save up to $668 on TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. Join 250+ top tech leaders, explore 200+ sessions, and connect with 10,000+ innovators, investors, and founders.

Anode Technology Company wants to build mobile battery generators for construction sites, live events, and EV fleets. But first it has to avoid the pitfalls that claimed its predecessor, Moxion.