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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.

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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.

Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane is facing an identity crisis after NASA changed contract terms to remove its guarantee to buy cargo flights to the ISS.

Security researchers found the exposed Indian bank transfer records and the data was eventually secured, but nobody wants to take responsibility for the security lapse.

Vice President JD Vance said that the deal would value TikTok US at “around $14 billion.”

Think TikTok or Instagram Reels, but every single video you come across is essentially just AI slop.

Call recording app Neon was one of the top-ranked iPhone apps, but was pulled offline after a security bug allowed any logged-in user to access the call recordings and transcripts of any other user.

The investigation was sparked by a story in The Guardian that reported that Unit 8200, the elite Israel military intelligence unit, was using Azure cloud storage to house data on phone calls obtained through the surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.  

The price hike for H1B visas could have detrimental impact on the startup industry, experts say.

The company’s regulatory policy team is trying to clean up a mess that CEO Elon Musk spent $300 million to help create.

Spotify sets the record straight about the distribution rights of artists, podcasters, creators, and authors on the platform.

Subscribers to ChatGPT’s $200-a-month Pro plan will get to try out Pulse, OpenAI’s latest agent product.

Threads is developing a new feature that would let users control what they see by ‘tagging’ the algorithm.

The recruiting startup has over 2,500 customers, including recruiters at Perplexity, Ramp and OpenAI.