tech crunch

On Sunday, 21-year-old Chungin ‘Roy’ Lee announced he’s raised $5.3 million in seed funding from Abstract Ventures and Susa Ventures for his...

Flipkart, the Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce startup that closely fights Amazon in the South Asian market, is preparing to shift its headqu...

ChatGPT search, OpenAI’s feature within ChatGPT that allows the chatbot to access and incorporate up-to-date information from the web into i...

In an internal email surfaced as part of the Meta antitrust trial, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg fretted about the potential that the company’s I...

The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit Monday against Uber, alleging the ride-hail and delivery giant charged customers for its Uber O...

The tech market doesn’t need to be soaring up and to the right to foster healthy M&A activity. Deals can get done even in down markets. But...

PHNX Materials has devised a way to strip fly ash of sulfur and aluminum, impurities that concrete companies would rather avoid.

Andreessen Horowitz’s hiring spree continues. On Monday, Erik Torenberg announced that the giant VC firm had acquired his Turpentine podcast...

Bluesky announced on Monday that it is rolling out blue check verification, confirming previous rumors that this feature was on its way to t...

An AI doctoral student in California had their SEVIS record — the digital proof of their valid student visa — terminated, putting their immi...

Despite a still tight venture capital market, new unicorns are still being created every month. Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, Te...

The countdown is real! Exhibit tables for TechCrunch Sessions: AI are almost gone, and the May 9 deadline is closing in fast. If you’ve been...

Meta is using AI technology to search for kids who are lying about their age on Instagram in order to bypass safeguards, the company announc...

Tesla is pushing back the promised launch of a more affordable EV by months, according to a report from Reuters. The new model, which is sup...

One of the chief complaints of Airbnb users over the years has been not being able to tell right away how much they would pay for their stay...

One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend of the controversial data analytics company...

A discrepancy between first- and third-party benchmark results for OpenAI’s o3 AI model is raising questions about the company’s transparenc...

“A Minecraft Movie” isn’t just a hit — after three weekends in theaters, the film is estimated to have grossed $344 million domestically and...

“I wonder how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to their models.” It was a seeming...

With the first week of Meta’s antitrust trial behind us, documents shared by the U.S Federal Trade Commission (FTC) offered more insight int...

3The leaders of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce said they are investigating how 23andMe’s bankruptcy might affect customers’ data...

It looks like humanoid robots have a long way to go before catching up with human runners. Beijing’s E-Town tech hub hosted what it describe...

Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got tons of stuff for you this week: antitrust lawsuits against Google and Meta; Grok can now remember...

Every now and then, a Silicon Valley startup launches with such an “absurdly” described mission that it’s difficult to discern if the startu...

The first week of the Meta antitrust trial brought new revelations about how the company formerly known as Facebook approached the competiti...