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The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.

Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.

Apple may be developing a new fitness tracker as part of its new generation of hardware devices.

Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.

The theft of agents' personal information could present a major counterintelligence threat, where agents and their families are extorted into cooperating with a foreign government.

This academy for promising high school grads is somewhere between a trade-school, Y Combinator and Peter Thiel's Fellowship Program.

OpenAI is launching two new models, which it says are cut from the same cloth as Astra.

Waymo is opening its robotaxi service to teenagers aged 13 to 17 in Nashville, its second city the offer rides to minors.

Anthropic called it "the strongest-performing model we've tested to date."

Researchers say another looming threat hangs over some of America's most important critical infrastructure.

Autonomy-1 will have a small, transformer-based AI model taking charge of a space probe.

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, five sessions across the AI Stage and Real World AI Stage cover AI safety, featuring leaders from Anthropic, NVIDIA, AWS, Waabi, and more.

Noble Carbon has developed a smart circuit breaker that allows households to electrify without the pain of a main panel upgrade.

Hello Robot CEO and co-founder Aaron Edsinger will bring Stretch 4 for a live demo on the Real World AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.

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Eight months after establishing a U.S. based joint venture, TikTok is getting on board fellow platforms to support industry-wide child safety work.

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Singapore-based Nexstrom has raised new funding to develop equipment that could help chipmakers manufacture 2D semiconductor materials at scale.

Inside two years of fraught AI data center debates in Pennsylvania.

To the investors at Bill Gates's Breakthrough Energy, the coming wave of electrification will make data center energy demands look quaint by comparison.

The British AI data center developer depends on tech giants Microsoft and Anthropic for most of its revenue.

Meta is giving plastic recycling a boost in a new deal with startup MacroCycle, which is building its first commercial plant.

Deeptech company Morphotonics raises €40M from investors including 3M Ventures, Innovation Industries, BOM, and Invest-NL.

Apple Store architect Ron Johnson says Apple's secret sauce has always been its people.

The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research.

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Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period after its mobile debut, according to new estimates from Appfigures.

Future Google supplier Kairos Power inked a deal with Samsung C&T to help build its first 50 megawatt nuclear power plant.

Muse isn't welcome as a shopper anymore.

X is expanding its “Under the Hood” transparency tool to show when posts have been downranked or withheld in response to local laws and government demands, including which country made the request.

Forerunner Ventures plans to sell its entire stake in Oura for as much as $1.26 billion, according to Oura's latest IPO filing.

Tabby is designed to be a real-time bookkeeping interface, handling clients’ paperwork as it gives them up-to-the-minute data on their business’s profit and loss.

Where will the next breakout startup come from?

Google’s AI-native Googlebook ties Gemini to the cursor, dictation, widgets and other parts of the desktop experience.

From first users to billions: Google’s Robby Stein joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.

Meet the next wave of VCs judging the Startup Battlefield 200 contenders on the main stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.

Corridor focuses on SMBs, which it says traditional brokerages often overlook because small accounts generate lower commissions than larger accounts.

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Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually building.

Many of The Boring Company's announced project have not materialized.

On Equity, we debated whether Ai executives are serious about wanting to slow down.

Vocci's lightweight ring costs $249, and might pose some privacy questions

ScrollEd turns textbooks into a scrollable, Instagram-like feed with video, audio, and quizzes.

The new legislation adds teeth to disclosure requirements for online influencers who are paid to post about politics.

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

On the surface, a game console and a leathercraft school don't appear to have much in common.

Without buyouts, Flock would "almost certainly" need to lay off staff.

Trump claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax.

Google said Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each hack immediately.

Navy CTO Justin Fanelli talks co-investing alongside VCs instead of funding early research himself, recent buys like a $562 million autonomous refueling deal, and the Navy's updated wish list — from AI to quantum — for where founders should be building ne…