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Silicon Valley’s rule? It’s not cool to be cautious. As OpenAI removes guardrails and VCs criticize companies like Anthropic for supporting AI safety regulations, it’s becoming clearer who the industr

The AI era is giving fracking a second act, a surprising twist for an industry that, even during its early 2010s boom years, was blamed by climate advocates for poisoned water tables, man-made earthqu

Silicon Valley’s rule? It’s not cool to be cautious. As OpenAI removes guardrails and VCs criticize companies like Anthropic for supporting AI safety regulations, it’s becoming clearer who the industr

星巴克中国与飞猪平台近日宣布达成深度战略合作，正式推出联合会员体系，通过“咖啡+出行”的场景融合创新，为消费者打造覆盖日常消费与旅行场景的全新权益生态。此次合作中，星巴克钻星会员可直接升级为飞猪F4会员，享受包括高端酒店、主题乐园、航空服务等在内的40余个品牌会员权益，以及30余家旅行品牌的金卡待遇，实现“一次入会，全域通行”的消费体验升级。在消费场景拓展方面，双方通过会员权益互通构建了复合型消费

Senate Republicans shared a deepfake video of Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, designed to make it seem like Democrats are celebrating the ongoing government shutdown, which has lasted 16 da

Silicon Valley leaders, including White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks and OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon, caused a stir online this week for their comments about groups promoting AI s

Update (15 January, 2025): Meta’s new rules go into effect from today. Companies like OpenAI, Perplexity, and Microsoft have already announced that their WhatsApp chatbot will stop working. Regulators

At a time when startup hustle culture is back, when “locked in” tech founders have even embraced the “996” way of working — 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., 6 days a week — there is something dystopian about using a

Wikipedia is often described as the last good website on an internet increasingly filled with toxic social media and AI slop. But it seems the online encyclopedia is not completely immune to broader t

“Hoisted by their own GPTards.” That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepM

Lee Roberts meets me at the University Club of San Francisco on a Friday morning, hours before his football team will lose to Cal in heartbreaking fashion — a fumble at the goal line, because little a

Bilal Abu-Ghazaleh had just moved to London a few days before our call, splitting his time between there and Dubai. After nearly a decade in the U.S., including a stint at Scale AI, he’s bringing that

Creative design giant Adobe is beefing up the products it offers businesses to include custom generative AI models. Adobe launched Adobe AI Foundry on Monday, a new offering that allows enterprises to

T-minus 7 days until TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 officially kicks off at San Francisco’s Moscone West! One of the year’s biggest tech events is ready to dominate the Bay Area’s thriving tech landscape for

Today begins the 7-day countdown to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, the flagship tech conference bringing together 10,000+ leaders, VCs, operators, and innovators, taking place at Moscone West in San Francis