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If becoming a corporate spy sounds exciting, let this newest affidavit from confessed Rippling spy Keith O’Brien serve as a warning.

Thinking Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, has closed a $2 billion see...

The controversial AI startup was founded earlier this year.

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Several weeks after Anthropic released research claiming that its Claude Opus 4 AI model resorted to blackmailing engineers who tried to tur...

Charles Hudson had just closed his fifth fund several months ago – $66 million for Precursor Ventures – when one of his limited partners ask...

Snap has acquired Saturn, a calendar app that helps students manage their school schedules and share them with others.

A handful of early stage micromobility startups out of Europe that are filling the gaps in a maturing ecosystem.

Some startups accrued value at lightning speed this week, and we got confirmation that defense tech is red hot.

X’s plans for a payments service may extend beyond the digital realm, new data suggests. According to findings from mobile app intelligence...

Deezer announced on Friday that it will start labeling albums that include AI-generated tracks as part of its efforts to combat streaming fr...

African B2B e-commerce startup Sabi has laid off around 20% of its workforce (~50 employees) as it pivots from its original retail-focused p...

Mark Zuckerberg’s AI talent hiring spree continues. In recent months, Meta tried to acquire Safe Superintelligence, the $32 billion AI start...

The investing conglomerate is looking to team up with TSMC on the initiative as SoftBank continues to pour money into AI.

Dutch e-bike startup VanMoof is back two years after bankruptcy with its first model designed under new leadership. And despite past critici...

Startups live and die by their early hires. And in a world where top talent has options — and stock options — you’ve got to offer more than...

The 48-hour take-home program will be available to attendees of the upcoming Electrify Expo in Los Angeles, with more automakers joining soo...

After months of rumors, Meta has officially announced its next pair of smart glasses with Oakley.

Baiju Bhatt is building something the space industry has largely dismissed, and it might be more groundbreaking than anyone realizes. When B...

Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies. 

Startups don’t build themselves. The Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West,...

At the pre-seed stage, there’s not much for a VC to analyze — no revenue curve, no retention metrics, no CAC. That doesn’t mean they’re gues...

If you’re serious about traction, scale, and funding, you have 4 days left to secure your pass to TechCrunch All Stage — and save up to $210...

It's the latest in a string of setbacks for the mega-rocket, which SpaceX hopes to use to build Starlink and one day go to Mars.

It’s already been a tumultuous year for the U.S. semiconductor industry. The semiconductor industry plays a sizable role in the “AI race” th...