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In Brief Posted: 11:20 AM PST · February 11, 2026 !Signage at the Warner Bros. Discovery headquarters in New Yorkhttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025...

Former L3Harris Executive Pleads Guilty to Selling Zero‑Day Exploits The former boss of a U.S. maker of hacking and surveillance tools stole and sold technology...

!The Google Android logo and mascot, known as Bugdroid by the community, is being displayed as a statue resembling a strawberry ice‑cream cone on Android Avenue...

!The Google Android logo and mascot, known as Bugdroid by the community, displayed as a statue resembling a strawberry ice‑cream cone on Android Avenue at the M...

Threads introduces “Dear Algo” AI feature to personalize your feed Threadshttps://techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/what-is-instagrams-threads-app-all-your-questions-a...

Interview with Amanda Silver – Microsoft Core AI For 24 years, Microsoft’s Amanda Silver has been working to help developers — and in the last few years, that’s...

UpScrolled, a social network that caught firehttps://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/upscrolleds-founder-says-the-social-network-has-zoomed-past-2-5m-users/ after Tik...

Recent xAI Engineer Departures At least nine engineers, including two co‑foundershttps://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/nearly-half-of-xais-founding-team-has-now-le...

Inertia Enterprises has raised $450 million to build one of the world’s most powerful lasers, which it hopes will serve as the foundation of a grid‑scale power...

When Sam Blond left his role as a VC at Founders Fund a year ago — just 18 months after joining — he announced that “being a VC wasn’t for me and I’m going back...

Upside Robotics builds lightweight solar‑powered autonomous robots that deliver right‑sized amounts of fertilizer and nutrients to crops exactly when they’re ne...

Expansion Details Amazon Pharmacy plans to bring same‑day prescription delivery to almost 4,500 U.S. cities and towns by the end of this year, adding nearly 2,...

From October 13–15 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and decision‑makers converge at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026https://techc...

TikTok on Wednesday announced the launch of a new Local Feed in the U.S. version of the app, which displays content related to travel, news, events, shopping, a...

Introduction TikTok announced the launch of a new Local Feed in the U.S. version of the app. The feed displays content related to travel, news, events, shoppin...

John Conafay, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, has spent most of his career leading business development at public and private aerospace companies, including Sp...

Funding Announcement Complyance announced a $20 million Series A round led by GV. The round also included participation from Speedinvest, Everywhere Ventures,...

Funding round University of Texas spinout Apptronikhttps://apptronik.com/, a builder of humanoid robots for Google DeepMind among others, announced that it re‑...

The fight to tame spreadsheets with AI isn’t over yet. A new company called Meridianhttps://www.meridian.ai/ has emerged from stealth with a more comprehensive...

!SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - AUGUST 25: The Samsung logo is displayed at the Samsung office on August 25, 2017 in Seoul, South Korea. Prosecutors are seeking a 12‑year...

On Tuesday night, Elon Musk gathered the employees of xAI for an all‑hands meeting to discuss the future of his AI company and its relationship to the moon. Acc...

!ChatGPT logohttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2195918462.jpg?w=1024 Ryan Beiermeister, who served as Open AI’s vice president of pr...

Monday night, xAI co‑founder Yuhuai Tony Wu announced he was leaving the company. “It’s time for my next chapter,” Wu wrote in a late‑night post on X. “It is an...

The AI industry’s pursuit of licensable content has been a messy affair, filled with lawsuits and accusations of copyright infringement. As tech companies look...

Olympic debut and AI music Czech ice dancers Kateřina Mrázková and Daniel Mrázek made their Olympic debut on Monday, a feat that reflects a lifetime of dedicat...

In Brief Posted: 1:20 PM PST · February 10, 2026 !Former Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playterhttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Robert-Playter-e17...

Masha Bucher, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist and founder of Day One Ventures, addressed recent reports about her close business and personal relationship w...

Google handed over a trove of personal data about a student and journalist to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE in response to a subpoena that had no...

!xAI logo displayed on a screen and Grok on App Store displayed on a phone screenhttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-2223576505.jpg?w=...

Background on Electronic Door Handles There’s been a lot of pushback on electronic door handleshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/china-is-leading-the-fight-aga...

New AI-Powered Features on Facebook Facebook announced new AI-powered features designed to let users express themselves in more playful ways across the platfor...

The fake‑goods crisis cuts two ways. Luxury brands lose more than $30 billion a yearhttps://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/cons-products/fashion-/-cosmet...

Background Singapore’s government has blamed a known Chinese cyber‑espionage group, UNC3886, for targeting the country’s four largest telecommunications compan...

Modern enterprises generate enormous amounts of security data, but legacy tools like Splunk still require companies to store all of it in one place before they...

!3D Google logohttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/GettyImages-2198713751.jpg?w=1024 Image credit: Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto / Getty Images Expande...

The Trump administration’s EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, is looking to repeal the 2009 “endangerment finding” that concluded greenhouse gases pose a threat to...

Hauler Hero has picked up fresh funds as demand for its AI‑powered waste‑management software continues to grow. The New York‑based startup raised $16 million in...

India Tightens Rules on Deepfakes and AI‑Generated Impersonations India has ordered social media platforms to step up policing of deepfakes and other AI‑genera...

Funding round Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has raised the largest‑ever seed round for a developer‑tool startup, according to lead backer Felicis. The startu...

User Growth Spotify reported a record 38 million new users in the fourth quarter, bringing its total to 751 million monthly active users, up 11 % year‑over‑yea...

Funding Round AI video generation startup Runwayhttps://techcrunch.com/2025/04/03/runway-best-known-for-its-video-generating-models-raises-308m/ has raised a $...

Primary Ventures has closed a $625 million Fund V — focused on seed investing nationwide. The size of the fund highlights how early‑stage round sizes have grown...

Mohamed Mohamed spent much of his career at institutions such as BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and McKinsey, where he observed that “real estate was treated as a co...

In Brief Posted: 3:52 AM PST · February 10, 2026 !The YouTube Music app seen displayed on a smartphone screen and a YouTube Music logo in the background.https:...

The most seductive narrative in American work culture right now isn’t that AI will take your job. It’s that AI will save you from it. That’s the version the ind...

As AI data centers drive up electricity priceshttps://techcrunch.com/2025/12/01/data-center-energy-demand-forecasted-to-soar-nearly-300-through-2035/, London‑ba...

India Pushes Aadhaar Deeper into Daily Life The Unique Identification Authority of India UIDAI announced in late January a new Aadhaar app and an offline verif...

In Brief Posted: 2:59 PM PST · February 9, 2026 !A Waymo vehiclehttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/waymo-getty-streets.jpg?w=1024 Image Credits:...