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The investment comes as Pronto scales to 26,000 daily bookings and the market heads toward a potential $18 billion size....

Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails....

The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat....

xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models. ...

Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup at $1.3 billion....

The push for new data centers at Microsoft is putting one of the its key clean power goals at risk....

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says more than 150,000 retail investors joined the fintech's new venture fund, which offers exposure to private tech companies like OpenAI, Stripe, Databricks, and Oura before they go public....

Cutthroat negotiations between startup founders are rarely shared so publicly, especially when a company becomes as world-changing as OpenAI....

U.S. prosecutors said a ransomware gang fueled Russian government corruption, and allowed the gang's leaders to avoid paying taxes and dodge the country's military draft....

Braintrust, a startup that makes an “operating system for engineers building AI software,” notified customers that hackers broke into one of its Amazon cloud environments, and is asking customers to rotate their API keys....

SpaceX, Elon Musk's space company that also houses his AI company, xAI, is considering spending $55 billion, at least initially, to build a semiconductor factory in Texas, according to a filing with Grimes County....

In just a few weeks of talks, DeepSeek's potential valuation has reportedly soared from $20 billion to $45 billion....

The new feature is a small win for Android users, as it gives them more control over how much location data they share with websites....

While citing web forums and discussion boards can help users find answers to more niche queries, this design choice could also prove chaotic....

Genesis AI, a startup that raised a $105 million seed round to build foundational AI for robotics, has unveiled its first model, GENE-26.5, but also a demo showcasing a set of robotic hands performing complex tasks....

Match Group said that it's slowing its hiring plans for the rest of the year because AI tools "cost a lot of money."...

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class-action lawsuit for overpromising the arrival of Siri's AI features....

Ethos says it is onboarding 35,000 experts per week...

Aurora said it plans to expand to new routes between McLane distribution centers across the U.S. Sun Belt by the end of 2026....

Leaders from Coinbase, M13, and Mignano Law Group talk about how M&A is an early-stage strategy at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register to hear this live....