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Will the Epstein revelations lead to broader fallout in Silicon Valley?

Students are losing some interest in computer science broadly but gaining interest in AI-specific majors and courses.

The Department of Homeland Security has been increasing pressure on tech companies to identify the owners of accounts that criticize ICE.

Elon Musk is "actively" working to make xAI's Grok chatbot "more unhinged, according to a former employee.

As much of Silicon Valley chases mega-rounds and buzzy AI deals, Stacy Brown-Philpot is running Cherryrock Capital like a throwback to venture capital's earlier days

This week, Alta unveiled its first integration collaboration, teaming up with Public School, a storied New York City brand.

Hollywood organizations are pushing back against a new AI video model called Seedance 2.0, which they say has quickly become a tool for "blatant" copyright infringement.

Designer Kate Barton teams up with Fiducia AI and IBM for a NYFW presentation.

India's $1.1B fund-of-funds will invest through private VCs to support deep-tech and manufacturing startups.

The two-story location will sell products from Nothing and the more affordable, mass-market brand CMF.

A backend flaw in web admin dashboards used by one of India's largest pharmacy chains, exposed thousands of online pharmacy orders.

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said the company wants to increase its use of large language models for customer discovery, support and engineering.

Airbnb has shifted a third of its North American customer service to its AI agent, CEO Brian Chesky said.

The company said hackers downloaded "a limited number of files" after breaking into an employee's account. The hacking group ShinyHunters took responsibility for the breach.

AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI's founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through "restructuring" — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its mission alignment team to the firing of a policy exec who opposed its "adult mode" feature.  Watch as TechCrunch's Equity podcast hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony […]

The Japanese sex toy maker said a hacker broke into an employee's inbox and stole customer names, email addresses, and correspondence, including order details and customer service inquiries.

The model is known for its overly sycophantic nature and its role in several lawsuits involving users' unhealthy relationships to the chatbot.

The financial regulator revealed in a response to a TechCrunch records request that the probe was closed in September 2025.

India turns to Alibaba.com's B2B network of 50 million buyers in 200 countries to help businesses scale global exports.

After Anthropic's Super Bowl ads, Claude's app reached the top 10 on the U.S. App Store.

Roku delivered an impressive Q4, posting net income of $80.5 million. The company also outlined plans for streaming bundles.

"Our matches convert to actual dates at about 10x the rate of Tinder," Weng told TechCrunch.

The Dutch phone giant Odido is the latest phone and internet company to be hacked in recent months, as governments and financially motivated hackers continue to steal highly confidential information about phone customers.

This news comes less than a week after Ring's Super Bowl commercial stoked controversy over the company's capacity for mass surveillance.

Cohere surpassed $240 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, highlighting strong enterprise AI demand as the Canadian startup positions itself for a potential IPO amid intensifying competition from OpenAI and Anthropic.

The feature, internally known as "Name Tag," would allow smart glasses wearers to identify people and get information about them via Meta's AI assistant.

Two years ago, a controversial dating app was launched and quickly shuttered: for people with good-to-excellent credit. Now, the founder is relaunching it, open to anyone.

Helion's Polaris device hit 150 million degrees C recently, a milestone that nudges the company toward its commercial power plant that will sell electricity to Microsoft.

If a passenger accidentally leaves a Waymo door open, the vehicle can get stuck in place.

The longevity-obsessed investor Bryan Johnson is charging $1 million to sign up for his "Immortals" program.

Pinterest's stock tumbles after an earnings miss, with higher-than-expected usage its only bright spot.

IBM plans to triple its entry-level hiring in the U.S. in 2026 but these jobs will have different tasks than in previous years.

The company's annual revenue was boosted by its technology joint venture with Volkswagen Group.

"I really want to see a mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space."

Didero functions as an agentic AI layer that sits on top of a company's existing ERP, acting as a coordinator that reads incoming communications and automatically executes the necessary updates and tasks.

The chatbot maker has, once again, ramped up its valuation significantly.

When Apple Vision Pro first launched two years ago, YouTube hesitated to launch a dedicated app. Today is the day they officially launch one.

Emails published by the Justice Department revealed cybersecurity veteran Vincenzo Iozzo emailed, and arranged to meet, Jeffrey Epstein multiple times between 2014 and 2018.

The EPA's new rule seeks to undo a 2009 finding that allowed the federal government to regulate six greenhouse gases.

WP Engine claims Automattic was going to target more hosting companies with royalty fees.

Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.

OpenAI calls the new coding tool the "first milestone" in its relationship with the chipmaker.

CEO Chris Urmson called it a "superhuman" moment, adding that Aurora's trucks can now carry freight 1,000 miles in 15 hours — faster than what a human driver can legally accomplish.

Coupang's massive data breach has sparked U.S. investor lawsuits against the South Korean government over alleged discrimination

The show is expected to run for four seasons, with the possibility of spin-offs, a prequel, and foreign versions.

In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, FTC chair Andrew Ferguson cited reports from Media Research Center, a right-leaning think tank, which accused Apple of excluding right-leaning outlets from the top 20 articles in the Apple News feed.

The San Francisco-based startup says its AI-first approach has allowed it to scale faster.

On Wednesday, xAI took the rare step of publishing its full 45-minute all-hands presentation to the X platform, making it widely available.

General Catalyst is in talks to lead the round for the four-year-old startup, according to our sources.