The Latest

Honda forms largest EV partner network in the US despite not yet selling an EV in the country

Honda is touting today that drivers of its EVs will soon have access to the most amount of charging locations in America. This is thanks to just-announced agreements with EVgo and Electrify America, t

Your website can now opt out of training Google’s Bard and future AIs

Large language models are trained on all kinds of data, most of which it seems was collected without anyone’s knowledge or consent. Now you have a choice whether to allow your web content to be

Should VCs back the FTC suit against Amazon?

Which do you prefer: Regulators working to contain market power or a potential ceiling being set on exit values for the companies that you back?

Review: Tablo DVR gives users a major upgrade with its free ad-supported TV offering

Tablo has always been a niche product, Grant Hall, founder and CEO of parent company Nuvyyo, admitted to TechCrunch. However, as more cord-cutters become frustrated with streaming services raising the

Apple asks the Supreme Court to reconsider a previous ruling in Epic’s favor

Apple has asked the Supreme Court to reconsider a previous ruling in its fight against Epic Games that would change the rules of the App Store. In a cert petition, filed Thursday and embedded below, A

Ask Sophie: What are your top immigration tips from TechCrunch Disrupt 2023?

I wasn’t able to make it to TechCrunch Disrupt this year. What were your main immigration takeaways for founders and startups?

Mixin hacked for $200M, Worldcoin eyes greater expansion and Haun Ventures’ execs talk crypto regulation

Welcome back to Chain Reaction. We’re gearing up for the highly anticipated Sam Bankman-Fried trial. As for other news, it’s been an interesting and somewhat slower week for the crypto community.

Medium hints at a nascent media coalition to block AI crawlers

Web publishing platform Medium has announced that it will block OpenAI’s GPTBot, an agent that scrapes web pages for content used to train the company’s AI models. But the real news may be

Worldcoin doubles down on emerging markets amid wider criticism

Naysayers reacted to the hype around Worldcoin with almost the same level of intensity as its backers, but the company is still moving forward with its big plans.

Pilot is a social travel hub that uses AI to help you plan, book and share trips

Pilot, a Vancouver-based startup, wants to become “the hub of global travel experience” and connect people via travel.

The generative AI boom could make the OS cool again

New AI tech could upend the status quo, and I think that Microsoft adding AI at the OS level could be a big step in that direction.

Amazon wins interim stay on delivering a public ads archive in early challenge to EU’s Digital Services Act

Amazon has chalked up an early (partial) win in a court challenge related to the European Union’s designation of its ecommerce marketplace as subject to the strictest level of regulation under t

A comprehensive list of 2023 tech layoffs

Last year’s techwide reckoning continues. In 2023, layoffs have yet again cost tens of thousands of tech workers their jobs; this time, the workforce reductions have been driven by the biggest names

ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. It’s able to write essays, code and more given short text prompts, hyper-charging productivity. But it also has

Artifact co-founder Mike Krieger says there’s a ‘flavor’ of Twitter in app’s latest release

The AI-powered news reading app Artifact, built by Instagram’s co-founders, has been transforming itself into a more social experience over time with recent launches like profiles, commenting, l

Zapier launches Canvas, an AI-powered flowchart tool

Zapier today announced the launch of Canvas, a new tool that aims to help its users plan and diagram their business-critical processes — with a fair bit of AI sprinkled in there to help them tur

Apron grabs $15 million to simplify invoice processing

London-based startup Apron announced that it has raised a $15 million funding round in a Series A funding led by Index Ventures with Bessemer Venture Partners and Visionaries Club also participating.

Six imperatives for building AI-first companies

The impact of AI-first companies will be greater, financial returns superior, and moats more enduring than their AI-enabled counterparts.

Google is opening up its generative AI search experience to teenagers

Google is opening up its generative AI search experience to teenagers, the company announced on Thursday. The company is also introducing a new feature to add context to the content that users see, al

Norway seeks to extend ban on Meta’s consentless tracking ads across the EU

Norway’s data protection authority has asked a European Union regulator to take a binding decision on whether its emergency sanction on Facebook and Instagram tracking and profiling users for ad
Load More