techcrunch.comadded August 2026
TechCrunchby Aisha Malik5d ago
Paramount announced on Tuesday that it has completed its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery to create a combined company called Skydance.
TechCrunchby Tim De Chant5d ago
Recalls are no joke. Take the one that sidelined every Chevy Bolt made between 2017 and 2022: A problem at an LG battery factory caused some parts inside the cells to be installed improperly, which...
TechCrunchby Sean O'Kane5d ago
When Flai was raising its seed round last year, it was just a team of three people pounding the pavement to get car dealerships to use the startup’s software to manage phone calls, emails, and...
TechCrunchby Jagmeet Singh5d ago
Meta has started testing a new Facebook UX in India that sends some users directly into full-screen video when they open the app, putting Reels front and center.
TechCrunchby Tim De Chant6d ago
Type One Energy, a Knoxville, Tennessee-based startup founded in 2019 to build fusion power plants, announced Tuesday morning that it has raised $200 million from investors.
TechCrunchby Sean O'Kane6d ago
Lucid Motors built 2,954 electric vehicles (EVs) in the third quarter of this year, a 54% drop from a year ago, as the company purposely limits production to better meet demand for its EVs.
TechCrunchby Aditya Mehta6d ago
OpenAI will start adding an invisible watermark to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex in the European Union to comply with the EU AI Act, the company said Monday in a blog post.
TechCrunchby Marina Temkin6d ago
Although it’s only been a couple of months since Etched raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, the AI chip startup is already being plied with investment offers at double or more its...
TechCrunchby Julie Bort6d ago
Menlo Ventures partner Matt Murphy and his team announced Monday in a blog post that the firm has invested in AI coding startup Factory.
TechCrunchby Rebecca Bellan6d ago
Reflection AI is officially unveiling Beam, its first frontier, open-weight AI model. The two-year-old, Brooklyn-based startup claims Beam matches the performance of leading Chinese open models on...
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez6d ago
Instinct, the AI agent now valued at $10 billion as of its latest funding round, is expanding into group chats.
TechCrunchby Aisha Malik6d ago
TikTok announced Monday that it’s launching an AI shopping assistant and a new in-app checkout feature that lets users buy directly from brands.
TechCrunchby Dominic-Madori Davis6d ago
For much of his life, Zain Javaid, 19, wanted to be a quant who uses math and data to guide his investment decisions. And for a while, he was one. But he got bored.
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez6d ago
Women throughout history have always sought out relationship advice, whether from newspaper columnists like “Dear Abby,” letters to Cosmo, or just chatting with girlfriends.
TechCrunchby Marina Temkin6d ago
There isn’t a shortage of accelerators for startups, but one of the few that investors watch closely is PearX, a 12-week program that caps its cohorts at a mere 20 startups and is run by Pear VC, a...
TechCrunchby Jagmeet Singh6d ago
What happens when AI moves from helping job candidates to evaluating them? HackerRank, a platform used by companies to assess and hire developers, is offering a glimpse at what that future of job...
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez6d ago
ChatGPT is getting more ads. Specifically, OpenAI is adding visual display ads to its ad product line-up so that ads will appear alongside images that users ask ChatGPT to generate.
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events6d ago
For AI startups, choosing a model isn’t necessarily a one-time architecture decision anymore. Open models are improving. Frontier APIs keep advancing.
TechCrunchby Dominic-Madori Davis6d ago
The story begins almost 12 years ago, when Tayo Adesanya started a career working with microchips and AI processors.
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events6d ago
Thousands of startups applied. Just 200 made Startup Battlefield. Only 20 will pitch on the Disrupt Stage across all three days. Competition goes from October 13-15 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
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