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India orders antitrust probe into Google’s app store billing practicesIndia’s antitrust regulator has ordered an investigation into Alphabet’s Google amid a dispute with some Indian developers over its...
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Scrap coercive ‘privacy fee,’ MEPs urge Meta’s Nick Clegg in open letterMeta is facing a call from lawmakers in the European Union to scrap its controversial “consent or pay” tactic on Facebook and...
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Apple acquires AI startup specializing in overseeing manufacturing componentsApple has added another AI startup to its acquisition list with Canada-based DarwinAI, which specializes in vision-based tech to observe...
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These 61 robotics companies are hiringIt’s extremely heartening to see our little list effectively double since the last time we did one of these. While it’s true that...
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Reliance buys Paramount’s stake in Indian media Viacom18 for $517 millionMukesh Ambani’s Reliance is buying Paramount Global’s 13% stake in Viacom18 for $517 million as Asia’s richest man broadens his...
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Women in AI: Sandra Wachter, professor of data ethics at OxfordTo give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a...
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A third of Bumble’s Texas workforce moved after state passed restrictive ‘Heartbeat Act’ abortion billBumble has lost a third of its Texas workforce in the months since the state passed the controversial abortion SB 8 (Senate Bill 8), also known as...
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What’s next for Twitch? A big app redesign and more social sharingIn an open letter published on Wednesday, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy outlined the livestreaming company’s plans for 2024, with a focus on helping...
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This Swedish startup wants to reduce the cost, and controversy, around stem cells productionWith the news yesterday that “mini organs” have been grown for the first time using human stem cells, this futuristic area of bio-medicine is...
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Fisker is laying off 15% of staff and says it needs more cash ahead of a ‘difficult year’Electric vehicle startup Fisker is planning to lay off 15% of its workforce and says it likely does not have enough cash on hand to survive the...
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The Ring Car Cam appears to be finished, doomed by an unclear target marketOnce upon a time, gadgets knew what they were truly for. Toaster? Brown thy bread. Smartphone? Connect thy user. But the Ring Car Cam? Ever since...
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Reddit IPO could usher in the next big meme stock, users speculateJeremiah Johnson says he has “an embarrassing amount” of Reddit karma. So, as a longtime moderator of subreddits like r/economics, he was part of...
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Qatar plots a $1B pipeline to VCsThe Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) is launching a $1 billion venture capital fund of funds for international and regional venture capital funds,...
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EU opens formal probe of TikTok under Digital Services Act, citing child safety, risk management and other concernsThe European Union is formally investigating TikTok’s compliance with the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA), the Commission has...
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India’s central bank extends Paytm Payments Bank deadline by 15 daysIndia’s central bank has extended the deadline for some business restrictions on Paytm’s Payments Bank to March 15 in “larger...
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Largest text-to-speech AI model yet shows ’emergent abilities’Researchers at Amazon have trained the largest ever text-to-speech model yet, which they claim exhibits “emergent” qualities improving...
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TechCrunch is heading to MWC. We want to hear about your startup.It’s [checks calendar] a week and a half until Mobile World Congress 2024 [mild panic creeps in], and TechCrunch will be returning to Barcelona...
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As Threads deprioritizes politics, Bluesky’s CEO touts custom feeds and user choice in social mediaMeta is in hot water after announcing plans to remove politics from its recommendations across Instagram and Threads, its new Twitter-like app for...
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These founders want a more ethical company structure for startupsCalled Regenerative and Circular Operations, this organizational model aims to be a practical approach to integrating sustainability at the core....
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Singularities are a pain in the neck for robot arms — Jacobi Robotics is trying to solve themIt’s easy to lose track of the fact that robotics is as much a software problem as a hardware one. The programming understandably gets...
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Happy Valentine’s Day, dating app downloads are slowing downIt may be Valentine’s Day here in the U.S., but the dating app market isn’t looking as promising as it used to. According to a new...
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SpaceX will de-orbit 100 Starlink satellites with unidentified flawSpaceX announced today that it will be sending some 100 Starlink satellites to an early retirement after a flaw was identified that could make...
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BMW security lapse exposed sensitive company information, researcher findsA misconfigured cloud storage server belonging to automotive giant BMW exposed sensitive company information, including private keys and internal...
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Rasa, an enterprise-focused dev platform for conversational GenAI, raises $30MIt’s no fun as a customer to have an interaction with a bot when it’s clearly a bot with which you’re engaging. Rasa is a startup that claims to...
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Equity: Bret Taylor has a brand-new AI startupThis is our Wednesday show, where we dig into the critical startup and venture capital stories from the week thus far. © 2024 TechCrunch. All...
