Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models

Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.

Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images

Discord has acknowledged that a bug in its AI moderation system mistakenly banned more than 8,000 users over the past two months, after harmless images—includin...

Google’s Pixel event is set for August 12

Google's upcoming event in August will introduce new Pixel devices.

Figma acquires team behind a vibe-coding app

The Y Combinator-backed company started a vibe-coding platform and later built an agent-creation product.

Netflix dabbles in shorter video content with its new set of publisher deals with Variety, others

Netflix is bringing 2- to 20-minute videos to its platform through new partnerships with digital publishers, including Rolling Stone and Variety.

Hacked, leaked, and held for ransom: The worst breaches of 2026 so far

From a massive DOGE data breach and the hacking of critical energy and water systems to the hack of an FBI surveillance system, here are the most damaging secur...

Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork is now available on web and mobile for Max subscribers. Until now, Cowork largely lived on a user’s laptop. With the update, users can...

X adds a video editor to encourage creators to post original content, not stolen reposts

X is rolling out a new video editor and recorder for iOS with multilingual captions, green screen effects, and other editing tools.

Chemistry Ventures is raising $500M for its second fund

Chemistry Ventures, the VC firm launched by Bessemer, Index Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz alums, is raising $500M for its second fund.

AI law startup Norm raises $120M, hits unicorn valuation

AI law startup Norm has raised a $120 million Series C round led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the startup at $1.2 billion.

This startup pits dealerships against each other to bid on your used car

Bidbus, which lets dealerships bid on used cars, has raised $15 million in a Series A round that was led by early-stage mobility fund Ibex Investors.

Hacktivists call out Trump by hacking and defacing US Army websites

The U.S. Army has fixed two of its websites that were hacked to display messages calling President Trump a "pedophile" and a "thief."

Savi’s app aims to protect consumers from realistic AI scams like kidnappers demanding ransom

The company just raised $7 million in seed funding, and is launching its app for iPhone and Android on Tuesday.

The first American autonomous ground vehicles are fighting in Ukraine

Forterra has deployed more than 100

Netflix invented binge-watching. Now it may have outgrown it.

A new report suggests Netflix viewers aren’t sticking around for Season 2. The bigger issue may be that binge-watching itself is no longer the advantage it once...

The ‘first’ AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human

An AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time, but new details show a human still chose the victim,...

US investors will soon get access to SK Hynix, another memory maker riding the AI boom

SK Hynix is experiencing a boom credited to AI. It will ride that to a multi-billion dollar US IPO, expected to take place on Friday.

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on the fight to split off models from agents

"The reality is, when you're optimizing for production, you start looking at a price/performance," Guillermo Rauch tells TechCrunch.

You can now customize Siri’s pace and expressivity in the latest iOS 27 beta

The new controls let you control how quickly Siri speaks and expressive its voice is.

The running list: major tech layoffs in 2026 where employers cited AI

A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.

Amazon competitor Bookshop.org says Kobo e-reader support will happen this year after all

Bookship.org seemed to delay this anticipated partnership again, but tells TechCrunch that it has settled business terms and is working on integration.

If you use Google, you’re training its AI. Here’s how to opt out.

PSA: A change to Google's privacy settings let it train its AI on more of your data. Here's how to opt out.

Apple brings back card payments for Apple Account purchases in India after a four-year hiatus

Apple has started a phased rollout of card payments for Apple Account purchases in India after adapting to the country's payments framework.

Reddit is using LLMs to solve a problem LLMs largely created

In the AI era, platforms have no choice but to fight fire with fire to cull spam.

Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees across Xbox, commercial sales

Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday — the latest in a series of layoffs that’s stoking fears of AI replacing jobs. The ...

Canadian spy agency says it hacked drug traffickers, extremists and a ransomware gang last year

The hacking operations disclosed in a Canadian spy agency's annual report underscores some pressing national security threats facing the country and its top all...

How to reserve and change your WhatsApp username

WhatsApp now lets users reserve usernames ahead of the feature’s full rollout, making it possible to connect without sharing a phone number once usernames go li...

Station F ramps up as a launchpad for Europe’s hottest AI startups

Station F, a Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel, is gearing up for a new edition of its F/ai accelerator program in a bid to stre...

Smart glasses maker Even Realities hits $1B valuation with $150M funding led by Meituan, Tencent

Even Realities, an ex-Apple team building camera-free smart glasses, raised $150 million from Meituan and Tencent at a $1 billion valuation.

This humanoid robotics company is going public, but its CEO isn’t promising a robot in your home anytime soon

While other humanoid startups chase sky-high valuations, Agility Robotics is betting its future on execution — and a SPAC.