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Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has acquired Hotshot, a startup working on AI-powered video generation tools along the lines of OpenAI’s Sora....

On the heels of its IPO filing, Swedish fintech giant Klarna announced on Monday that it will exclusively provide buy now, pay later loans f...

Artificial intelligence continues stirring things up in chemistry. To wit: YC-backed Cambridge, U.K.-based ReactWise is using AI to speed up...

Software developer Davis Lu was found guilty of sabotaging the company's systems. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use...

TikTok is introducing a new “Security Checkup” tool that allows users to quickly review and update their account’s security settings from a...

Security researchers say that a threat actor it calls Mora_001 has ‘close ties’ to the Russia-linked hacking group© 2024 TechCrunch. All ri...

GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, begins Monday and runs till Friday in San Jose, with the biggest announcements probably coming...

Bumble is finally catching up with competitor Tinder with a new ID verification feature as dating app users urge for more safety measures. ...

Last week, at the Abundance Summit in Los Angeles, billionaire entrepreneur Travis Kalanick gave attendees a rare glimpse into his vision fo...

We’ve been blown away by the overwhelming response to speak at TechCrunch Sessions: AI on June 5 in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley. After th...

It’s only been around six months since Snap released the fifth generation of Spectacles, its AR glasses for developers, and the company is a...

Roblox announced Monday that it’s launching the first iteration of its 3D model, dubbed “Cube,” to allow creators to create 3D objects using...

Discord on Monday announced the launch of its Discord Social SDK, a free toolkit that allows developers to leverage the platform’s social in...

As duties under the U.K.’s Online Safety Act (OSA) related to tackling illegal content came into force Monday, the internet watchdog, Ofcom,...

A lot of the focus in generative AI up to now has been on text-based interfaces used to generate text, images and more. The next wave appear...

A broad coalition drawn from across the ranks of Europe’s tech industry is calling for “radical action” from European Union lawmakers to shr...

After reporting in January that Apple is adding an “Air” option to its iPhone lineup, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is offering more details about...

Meta won a legal victory this week against Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former employee who recently published a memoir of her time at the company...

Users on social media have discovered a controversial use case for Google’s new Gemini AI model: removing watermarks from images, including...

Chinese search engine Baidu has launched two new AI models — Ernie 4.5, the latest version of the company’s foundational model first release...

Cal AI has generated over 5 million downloads in 8 months, it says. Founders Zach Yadegari and Henry Langmack are just 18.© 2024 TechCrunch...

In this week’s episode of the StrictlyVC Download podcast, veteran VC Aileen Lee was direct about a major consequence of the recent boom-and...

Joby Aviation is partnering with Virgin Atlantic to launch electric air taxis in the U.K., marking the seventh country in which the startup...

Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa requests locally, which means all of their voice recordings will be...

GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, will return this week, with the biggest announcements probably coming Tuesday. If you can’t ma...