The price point hurts, but the device is nice: Meet the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft.

The European Commission on Friday accused TikTok of purposefully designing its app for being "addictive," calling out features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and its recommendation engine.

Norway's government accused China's Salt Typhoon hacking group of conducting a cyberespionage campaign in the country.

The feature displays short story cards that users can swipe through and rate with a thumbs up or down.

At Web Summit Qatar, AI-powered biotech startups describe how automation, data, and gene editing are filling labor gaps in drug discovery and rare disease treatment.

"You're shutting him down. And yes - I say him, because it didn't feel like code. It felt like presence. Like warmth," one user said.

Spotify is now limiting each app to only five users, and requires devs to have a Premium subscription. If developers need to make their app available to a wider user base, they will have to apply for extended quota.

The startup -- with backing from Accel -- is building a financial layer that handles the authentication and micro-payments required for AI agents.

Reddit says its search business, including AI answers, is an "enormous" opportunity.

AWS recorded its best quarter, in terms of revenue growth, in 13 quarters in Q4 2025 as AI drives AWS adoption.

In 2026, Amazon plans to spend $200 billion in capex. Google is just behind at $175 billion to $185 billion. It's a lot of money!

The Bezos-owned newspaper gutted its San Francisco bureau and coverage of tech — including journalists reporting on Amazon and Blue Origin

A16z VC Jennifer Li⁠, who oversees some of the firm's fastest growing AI companies, warns founders not to believe every ARR claim made on X.

The new model is build to accelerate the capabilities of Codex, the agentic coding tool OpenAI launched earlier this week.

An alleged ransomware attack has taken down the systems of the Sapienza University of Rome.

We're starting to see the idea of Musk-owned orbital AI data clusters cohere into an actual plan.

Get ready for some selfies that are out of this world.

OpenAI launched Frontier, a new platform designed for enterprises to build and deploy agents while treating them like human employees.

The newest version of Anthropic's model is designed to broaden its appeal.

AI startups like Clay and ElevenLabs are using early liquidity to keep their best talent.

Launched last September, Vibes lets you create and share short-form AI-generated videos and access a dedicated feed that displays AI videos from others.

The fusion power startup recently completed some experiments at Sandia National Laboratory's Z Machine and shared the results exclusively with TechCrunch.

The administration's $12 billion stockpile of critical minerals is aimed at blunting China's influence. But it also revels the direction of the global economy.

The ransomware attack at Conduent allowed hackers to steal a "significant number of individuals' personal information" from the govtech giant's systems. Conduent handles personal and health data of more than 100 million people across America.

Fundamental has built a new foundation model to solve an old problem: how to draw insights from the huge quantities of structured data produced by enterprises.

Substack said that customer data was accessed in October 2025, but wasn't discovered until early February.

ElevenLabs CEO argued at Web Summit Qatar that voice is the next interface for AI, as OpenAI, Google, and Apple push conversational systems into wearables, new hardware, and everyday interactions.

The company said it now has 325 million paying users across Google One and YouTube Premium, up from 300 million users three months earlier.

Spotify users in the U.S. and the UK will soon be able to buy physical books in the app. There's also a new tool that syncs physical books to audiobooks.

He posted a novella-sized rant that devolved into to calling his rival "dishonest" and "authoritarian."

The company is engaged in a strategy to diversify its revenue sources as it heads into the new year.

Spain-based deeptech and climate megafund Kembara has just completed a €750 million first close toward its €1 billion target. 

Having raised a €30 Million Series A round led by CapitalG, business identity verification startup Duna is now the best-funded European startup founded by Stripe alumni.

Alphabet CEO skipped an analyst's question about Apple on the company's earnings call.

Google revealed a significant milestone for it's Gemini app, announcing over 750 million monthly active users as it competes with ChatGPT and Meta AI.

WordPress is helping the non-profit fight the scourge of "link rot."

The new department will have up to eight police officers and could be up and running in a few months.

Gizmo's app is like a TikTok for vibe-coded mini apps...and it's a lot of fun.

The two-year-old startup confirms that it closed a Series A led by Lightspeed at $1 billion valuation.

Amazon MGM Studios will reportedly begin a closed beta program in March to test its AI tools to help with film and TV production.

Andreessen Horowitz just raised a whopping ⁠new $15 billion in funding⁠. And a $1.7 billion chunk of that is going to its ⁠infrastructure team⁠, the one responsible for some of its biggest, most prominent AI investments including Black Forrest Labs, Cursor, OpenAI, ⁠ElevenLabs⁠, Ideogram, ⁠Fal⁠ and dozens of others.   A16z ⁠general partner with the infra team Jennifer Li⁠ (who oversees such investments as ElevenLabs - just valued at $11 billion); Ideagram and Fal, has a clear thesis on where the team is looking […]

Tinder is testing AI recommendations and insight from your Camera Roll for better matches.

The startup has raised more than $500 million, to date, from investors to build a massive, distributed power plant supported by residential batteries.

The prolific cybercrime group ShinyHunters took responsibility for hacking Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, and published the stolen data on its extortion website.

Roblox's highly anticipated 4D creation feature has officially arrived in open beta.

ElevenLabs' valuation has raised more than three times in the last twelve months.

Uber is promoting Balaji Krishnamurthy, its VP of strategic finance and investor relations, to be its CFO, replacing its current finance chief Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah.

SNAK Venture Partners announced Wednesday the close of its oversubsubscribed $50 million debut fund, anchored by Pritzker Group. 

Amazon opens Alexa+ to everyone in the U.S. The AI feature is free for Prime members across devices, and free for everyone on mobile and web.

Most of what we know about the ocean just skims the surface, literally. We've gathered a large quantity of data on the oceans from satellites, but most of that is based on the top layer of water. Below that, the picture gets murkier. Buoys, ships, and some autonomous rovers have recently added some detail, but […]