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On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we discussed what the controversy means for other startups seeking to work with the federal government.

AI data center developers are increasingly relying on a style of camp popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields.

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for all things “future of transportation.” 

The Pro-Human Declaration was finalized before last week's Pentagon-Anthropic standoff, but the collision of the two events wasn’t lost on anyone involved.

A coalition of telecom operators and device makers is pushing $40 smartphones to bring up to 20 million people online, but rising component costs threaten the plan.

Most of it is tied to performance, including new stock incentives linked to Waymo and Wing, its drone delivery venture.

A recently-added feature in Grammarly purports to improve users’ writing with help from the world's great writers and thinkers — and some tech journalists, too.

Hardware executive Caitlin Kalinowski announced today that in response to OpenAI's controversial agreement with the Department of Defense, she’s resigned from her role leading the company's robotics team.

David Barnett, founder of PopSocket, stops by Equity to talk about scaling the business and what he's learned as a leader.

The feature, which will give verified adult users access to erotica and other adult content, had already been delayed from December.

The fund currently offers retail investors exposure to eight startups, including Mercor, Ramp, and Stripe, with plans to expand its portfolio.

An ad test on X promotes Musk's Starlink beneath original content.

This lawsuit comes after a Supreme Court decision struck down some of the president's sweeping tariffs, which had impacted Nintendo and thousands of other companies.

The Rad Power brand is expected to live on.

A 61-year-old worker died on Thursday after reportedly getting stuck between a tractor trailer and a loading dock.

Trump's Department of War feud with Anthropic won't impact other companies that are using Claude via Microsoft and Google products.

It's the first permit to be issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in nearly a decade.

In a recent security partnership with Mozilla, Anthropic found 22 separate vulnerabilities in Firefox — 14 of them classified as "high-severity."

The Pentagon has officially designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk after the two failed to agree on how much control the military should have over its AI models, including its use in autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. As Anthropic’s $200 million contract fell apart, the DoD turned to OpenAI instead, which accepted and then watched ChatGPT uninstalls surge 295%. As the stakes keep rising, the question remains: how much unrestricted […]

Claude's app is now seeing more new installs than ChatGPT and is growing its daily active users.