WhatsApp gets new chief as Meta taps India’s CRED founder Kunal Shah, and invests $900M in startup
As part of the transition, Miten Sampat, who has overseen strategy and finance at…
3 days left to save up to $190 on your TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 pass
You have just 3 days left to save up to $190 on your pass to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 before…
Databricks’ former AI chief thinks he can cut AI’s power bill by 1,000x
The drive to discover the next big thing in AI has funded some pretty…
Writer Ian Bogost says ‘The Small Stuff’ can help us reclaim our lives from dematerialization
Has Silicon Valley been building the wrong things? Despite its self help-y title, writer/designer/academic…
Anthropic’s Claude Science bets on workflow, not a new model, to win over scientists
Anthropic introduced Claude Science on Tuesday, an AI workbench that gives scientists one environment…
Yep, we’re using OpenClaw to date now
Ben Guez has "a bunch of potential international wives in [his] DMs," thanks to…
Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
This week, after Amazon's decision became public, one Reddit user suggested the platform died…
Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images
Discord has acknowledged that a bug in its AI moderation system mistakenly banned more…
Character.AI enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there’s a twist
The company said on Thursday that it is also testing a feature, dubbed c.ai…
China is catching up to Elon Musk’s reusable rockets
China's state-owned space company successfully launched a Long March orbital rocket and landed the…
X cracks down on creators who steal content
Now, Bier said X's newest version of the Grok AI model can detect duplicated…
Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them
Patreon says that it's extending its existing work with Cloudflare to use the company's…
Watch Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley discuss the future of surveillance at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The debate over where the line should be drawn between privacy and public safety…
These are the countries moving to ban social media for children
The regulations and proposals being brought forth by governments around the world aim to…
AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors
"We had no idea how hard it was going to be," Wachen says. "I…
OpenAI’s own model went rogue before Kimi had Wall Street sweating
Chinese AI lab Moonshot's open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that…
