Wall Street’s mood turned risk-off again as US chipmakers helped drag the Nasdaq lower for a second straight session, with investors pointing to renewed worries about interest rates and what they could mean for the valuation of growth stocks. The…
Anthropic’s latest move with Claude Tag is easy to summarize on the surface: it’s an always-on AI presence inside Slack, built to help teams respond faster, summarize threads, and keep work moving without forcing people to leave the channel they’re…
Corporate AI super PACs are spending like they’ve already decided the future is local. A new report highlighted by The Verge describes how corporate-backed political groups poured roughly $27 million into a single local election—an amount large enough to reshape…
Credit ratings have always been treated as shorthand for risk. But in the bond market, they can also function like something more powerful than a summary: a permission system. For some investors, a “good enough” rating isn’t merely informative—it determines…
In Manhattan, where politics is usually fought with old-school instincts—coalitions, endorsements, neighborhood networks—this year’s primary has acquired a new kind of muscle. It isn’t just money in the abstract. It’s money with a theme, a target, and a theory of…
Midjourney has always lived in the realm of pixels—turning text prompts into images that look like they came from a camera, a studio, or a dream. So when the company announced a medical imaging concept that involves dunking a person…
Google’s latest attempt to make wearables feel less like dashboards and more like decision-making tools arrives with the Fitbit Air, a tracker that leans hard into AI health coaching. The pitch is familiar—use sensors to understand your body, then translate…
Markets have a way of turning uncertainty into momentum. In recent weeks, investors have pushed down parts of the IT consulting sector as if demand were about to collapse in a straight line. Yet the more closely you look at…
If you’re building a startup and you’ve been telling yourself you’ll “figure out the next step” after the next fundraising round, after the next product milestone, or after things calm down—TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 is being positioned as the kind…
Sony’s Xperia 1 VIII has arrived with a promise that sounds, on paper, like the natural next step for mobile photography: an AI Camera Assistant designed to guide you toward better shots. The problem is that the “better” part doesn’t…
Stockholm-based startup Fika Jobs has raised $4 million to build what it calls a video-first hiring platform—one that leans on AI interview agents and short-form video profiles to reshape how candidates are discovered, screened, and evaluated. In a market where…
Meta is quietly rewriting the smart glasses playbook—and it starts with something you can see immediately: the frames. For the past few years, Meta’s wearable ambitions have been inseparable from Ray-Ban. The company’s smart glasses arrived wearing the familiar Ray-Ban…