By the time voters in New York’s 12th congressional district finish deciding their Democratic nominee in June, they may look back and realize they weren’t just choosing a candidate. They were also watching a high-stakes proxy battle over AI policy…
OpenAI’s foundation is reportedly preparing to spend $250 million on research into how artificial intelligence may reshape the global economy—an early, concrete signal of how the organisation plans to deploy a portion of its resources after a major pledge made…
Robinhood has taken another step toward making investing feel less like a manual chore and more like an automated service. In a new announcement, the company says it is now opening its trading platform to “agents”—software programs that can be…
If you’ve been meaning to throw your hat into the ring for TechCrunch Disrupt, today is the day to act. The application window for Startup Battlefield 200 is closing at 11:59 p.m. PT, and with it goes a rare opportunity…
ElevenLabs has taken another step toward making AI music generation feel less like a one-shot experiment and more like a real production workflow. The company’s newly announced capability centers on something creators have wanted for a long time: control that…
SOND has officially emerged from stealth with $7 million in funding, signaling a fresh push into the sleep-tech category—this time with AI-powered sleep earbuds at the center of the product vision. The company is led by a founder with deep…
If you’ve ever tried to photograph wildlife in your own backyard, you already know the problem: the best moments rarely happen when you’re ready. A bird lands at the exact second you look away. A rare visitor shows up for…
China’s AI boom has always been about more than models and benchmarks. It’s also about people—who gets trained, who gets funded, who gets hired, and, increasingly, who is allowed to leave. Over the past few years, Beijing’s approach to artificial…
ClickHouse has moved another step closer to the kind of milestone that tends to reshape a company’s trajectory: it says it has tripled its annualized revenue to $250 million, and it’s now positioning itself for a potential initial public offering…
YouTube is preparing to change how viewers learn whether a video contains AI-generated visuals—and it’s doing so in a way that shifts responsibility away from creators and toward the platform itself. According to reporting from TechCrunch, YouTube will begin automatically…
YouTube is making a quiet but meaningful shift in how it asks viewers to interpret what they’re watching. Instead of treating AI disclosures as something you might stumble upon only after expanding a description or digging through details, the platform…
Robinhood is taking another step toward turning “AI investing” from a buzzword into something that can actually move markets—at least on a small, user-controlled scale. According to reporting from TechCrunch, the company is rolling out a new capability that lets…