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OpenAI, a company already valued at $500 billion, has made it known that it’s on the hunt for another $100 billion in investment. Such a funding round could lead the company’s valuation to shoot up to

A new tab is in your Google Search bar, and it feels a lot more like an AI chatbot than a traditional search engine.Google started testing AI Mode earlier this year and announced the full rollout at i

Three of Elon Musk’s companies — SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla — are in play for a potential merger. While the talks appear to be in the early stage, according to reports from Bloomberg and Reuters, it could

Apple exceeded expectations when it reported its quarterly earnings on Thursday, revealing that it made $143.8 billion in revenue for a 16% year-over-year increase. As analysts peppered CEO Tim Cook w

Amazon's fleet of warehouse robots just hit a new milestone. The company announced Monday that it deployed its millionth bot to begin operations at a fulfillment center in Japan.Amazon's ambitions for

This is it. The clock is running out. With demand surging and early inventory nearly gone, tonight is your last chance to lock in record-low pricing for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and secure a plus-one p

Wikis with way too many details to wade through. Presentations that should've been dissertations. Massive, confusing business reports. We've all experienced those "too long, didn't read" moments when

A friend recently shared how overwhelming it was to lose (and thankfully find) their pet, with no idea how to reach the nearly 4 million people living in Los Angeles.This -- and the slew of national p

There's good news and bad news: The bad news is that Meta's continued development of generative AI has led it to add a privacy nightmare setting to its Facebook app. The good news is that, in a big de

Search engines hadn't changed much in a very long time -- until AI search entered the scene. Perplexity is one of the artificial intelligence platforms trying to reshape how we find answers online by

AI companies might find it harder to access the entire web to train their large language models after the internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare said this week it would block AI data crawlers by

If you're planning s summer vacation, you've probably thought about using an artificial intelligence chatbot to help save money on flights.Hunting for flights is all part of the summer travel adventur

Earlier this month, Anthropic launched Cowork, a new agentic tool designed to take the benefits of its AI coding assistant Claude Code and transform it into a more general-use tool that non-coders cou

I'd spent an hour driving a $250,000-plus Aston Martin up the Los Angeles coast when my hunger pangs became impossible to ignore, and as I've done many times before, I asked Siri (through Apple CarPla

The viral personal AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot has a new name — again. After a legal challenge from Claude’s maker, Anthropic, it had briefly rebranded as Moltbot, but has now settled on O