Perplexity’s free AI offer left it with millions more users in India

Perplexity's India revenue rose about 60% after the Airtel offer ended for new users, even as downloads declined.

Apple’s new macOS update reportedly contains a video of AirPods with a camera

A video in a MacOS Tahoe release candidate version shows a user wearing AirPods, looking at a book, and talking to Siri.

Daniel Ek’s body-scanning startup Neko Health opens first US office, in New York

The scanning and bloodwork health startup founded by Spotify's founder will officially launch in New York in about a month.

Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to ‘expand human potential’

Reach Capital announced Tuesday an oversubscribed $265M Fund V.

Fairphone is launching its latest repairable phone in the US too

The Fairphone 6+ is priced at $649 and will be available on Amazon.

Einride strikes deal to add 500 Tesla Semis to its fleet

Einride will buy the Tesla Semis, which will be made to Amazon and other customers.

Detroit startup Grounded raises $5M to customize electric and gas-powered vans

The company has shifted from making van-life builds to custom outfitting vehicles for small businesses, all while the EV landscape in the US changed dramaticall...

Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B

The model maker added $18 billion in annualized revenue in two months.

AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team

Relay, which offered businesses workflow automation, will stop operating next month. Its CEO and some of its staff plan to get to work on Google Chrome next.

‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators

Cybersecurity experts who investigate spyware attacks say the number of people who received a recent threat notification from Apple is unusually high.

Save up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until August 21

If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the startup community gatherin...

Spotify’s new Playlist Notes let users and editors explain their song picks

Spotify launches a new feature that gives users a chance to explain the stories and reasoning behind their favorite music. Editors will be using the feature, to...

Higgsfield raises $400M Series B, quadrupling its valuation in 8 months to $5.4B

Higgsfield, founded by former Snap exec Alex Mashrabov, lets users create AI images and videos.

Reddit begins testing a new audio and video experience, similar to popular TikTok videos

Reddit is beginning to test video and audio versions of popular posts, allowing users to watch or listen to Reddit stories instead of just reading them.

Sound-powered fire protection startup gets $15M to snuff out fires before they turn catastrophic

Sonic Fire Protection raised its new funding to help get its sound-powered fire protection system into everything from commercial kitchens to apartment building...

YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing

The change comes a year after YouTube applied the same approach to counting views on Shorts videos.

Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, not its AI pivot

Feedly says a bug is behind the performance issues that have made its web app nearly "unusable" for some users, while complaints about its mobile apps and custo...

Amazon, once an online bookseller, is destroying rare books to train AI models

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.

Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud

Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footpri...

Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project

Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.

Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South

African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52 million.

WordPress.com targets the next generation of web creators with a free student plan

WordPress.com Education lets teachers offer their students free domains, plugin support and professional website-building tools.

Uber adds Zipline drones to its Eats delivery network

Uber is also making investing in Zipline as part of the tie-up.

Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation

Wispr’s total funding is now over $361 million.

Crypto hardware wallet owners face fresh security risks after recent spate of personal data thefts

The hacks at shipping companies used to mail out hardware wallets puts crypto owners at greater risk of real-world attacks.

Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+

OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.

Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future

On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.

Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’

Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he's been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.

TechCrunch Mobility: The shifting flight path of electric air taxis

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery

The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."