The groupthink boom: what three top VCs really think about the AI frenzy
This week at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in Athens — part of the Panathenea festival…
Rocket engine startup Impulse raises $500 million to hire people, not AI
Impulse Space, a startup founded by SpaceX engine guru Tom Mueller to build highly-maneuverable…
Meta mercifully spun out VR fitness game Supernatural instead of just killing it
But Meta had a rare moment of mercy and listened to the Supernatural users…
Airbnb’s Brian Chesky plans to launch a new AI lab
Chesky also won't be going into "founder mode" at this operation; a person familiar…
Apple says it’s fixed the awful search function for emails, photos
"We've all had that moment where you search for something you know is there,…
Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars
Monday's announcement suggests the same logic that drove those emerging-market moves — undercut, bundle,…
Anthropic taps TCS to scale its enterprise AI deployments
Anthropic has partnered with Indian IT services giant Tata Consultancy Services in a bid…
Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google
Google is suing to dismantle the infrastructure behind an alleged massive AI-powered cybercrime operation.…
Threads adds new personalization and community features as it reaches 500M monthly users
Nearly three years after launching as a competitor to Twitter (now X), Threads has…
Cybercriminals allegedly hacked tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls used by major companies all over the world
Cybercriminals have compromised tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls and VPNs used by major…
AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega round
Launched in 2019, Baseten is a startup benefiting from what The Next Wave hailed…
A new unpatchable flaw in Apple chips opens the door to an iPhone jailbreak
Public iPhone jailbreaks were relatively widespread in the past, but they have become rarer…
OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
On Wednesday, OpenAI unveiled its first custom-built inference processor, designed and manufactured in collaboration…
Notion Mail shuts down amid agent takeover
Productivity company Notion is shutting down its email product, Notion Mail, on September 22.…
Flipper Device’s new Busy Bar is a customizable display for productivity
Flipper Devices first announced the device last year, and now it is putting it…
Realta Fusion generates electricity directly from a fusion reaction, an apparent first
For fusion startups, the hard part is over: thanks to a groundbreaking experiment in…
