5 Companies Winning With AI And What They Are Doing Differently

Companies including Duolingo, Salesforce, Klarna, Harvey & Adobe are using AI to create new products, improve customer experiences and reshape established business models

Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again

They’re rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI’s defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even more money — potentially a lot more.

Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be “everything for everyone”

Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company’s financial-services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and how AI is starting to show up in ways riders and dri…

Video generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B

Singapore-based video generation startup PixVerse closed a Series C extension on the strength of 15 million monthly active users, it said.

Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation

The company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors.

Did Meta Signal The AI Boom Is Overbuilt? Wall Street Cheered Anyway

Meta’s $50 Billion Data Center Raises AI Overbuild Questions

Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI

Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley — that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary models are somehow acting like Trojan horses.

Siri AI is already changing how I use my iPhone
Siri AI is already changing how I use my iPhone

iOS 27 escaped the developer world today with the launch of the first public beta. I’ve been testing the new operating system since early June, looking for quirks and seeing if it can live up to the hype Apple promised in the keynote. This year’s iOS upgrades are what one might call a Snow Leopard […]

The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI

Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI contains allegations that range from employees joking about unauthorized access to Apple’s systems to claims that job candidates were asked to bring Apple hardware to interviews. Here are the complaint’s mos…

Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe

Responding to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said, “homeboy you’re the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters.”