If you’ve been meaning to attend TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 but kept telling yourself “later,” this is the moment to stop negotiating with your calendar. Early Bird pricing is set to end on June 26 at 11:59 p.m. PT, and…
Right out of the box, Google’s new Home Speaker makes a strong first impression—especially if your main concern is whether it can actually hear you. In hands-on testing, the device demonstrated wake-word reliability that feels unusually consistent for a category…
Natural disasters have always been difficult to predict, not because scientists lack imagination, but because the systems they study are brutally complex. A hurricane is not just wind; it is ocean heat, atmospheric chemistry, pressure gradients, sea-surface salinity, coastal geometry,…
Workers at Hyundai Motor’s South Korean operations have voted on whether to strike, underscoring how quickly the conversation around artificial intelligence and automation is shifting from productivity promises to workplace power and governance. The dispute, driven by concerns that robot-led…
Caracas is preparing to lift the veil on the scale of Venezuela’s financial obligations, with the government set to disclose a debt pile estimated at roughly $240 billion as it moves toward what creditors and market participants are already calling…
The price of certain Nvidia AI processors in China’s shadow market has reportedly surged after a renewed US crackdown on illicit exports, according to a new report that points to a familiar pattern in geopolitics and technology: when legal supply…
MoEngage has made a bet that the next phase of marketing won’t be defined by better segmentation or smarter campaign scheduling, but by something closer to an “agentic” customer experience—where software doesn’t just recommend what to do next, but effectively…
Google Home is getting a quieter kind of upgrade—one that doesn’t sound dramatic until you realize how often smart home cameras get things wrong. Starting June 23, Google is expanding the way its Familiar Faces feature works, aiming to reduce…
Hollywood’s relationship with Big Tech has always been complicated, but the latest scramble around Luca Guadagnino’s biographical drama Artificial suggests the industry may be entering a new phase—one where even stories that are already in motion can suddenly lose their…
AI money is pouring into a New York Democratic primary race, turning what would normally be a local contest into an early referendum on how the next wave of technology governance may be written. The spending—described by multiple reports as…
US chipmakers helped drag Wall Street lower again on Tuesday, turning a familiar macro worry into a very specific pressure point for the technology complex. The Nasdaq’s second consecutive decline was not just another “risk-off” day; it reflected how quickly…
SpaceX has begun pitching a large bond offering that could total as much as $25 billion, a move designed to meet investor demand in a market where corporate borrowers are finding that “good enough” yields no longer cut it. Bankers…