An unidentified bidder submitted a Hail Mary offer that was "substantially higher" than the winning bid at auction. Founder Austin Russell has been circling a bid, but it's not clear he was behind it.
WhatsApp plans to charge developers of AI chatbots per message.
The organic kids' snack food company may debut as soon as next week. It has issued a price range for shares, an SEC filing shows.
The deal’s purpose is primarily to acquire talent, aka an acqui-hire, adding nine key Cleanlab employees to Handshake’s research organization.
Google Chrome is adding Gemini in the sidebar and is rolling out an agentic feature for AI Pro and Ultra users.
Patreon isn’t happy about Apple’s new subscription billing mandate, arguing Apple’s shifting rules create uncertainty for creators.
30-person startup Arcee AI has released a 400B model called Trinity, which it says is one of the biggest open source foundation models from a U.S. company.
SpaceX eyes June for IPO to align with Musk's birthday and the planets.
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Shadowfax shares fell about 9% on theirdebut, valuing the logistics firm near its last private valuation.
ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, recently established a separate American entity to run the app’s U.S. operations. This restructuring aims to separate U.S. TikTok from its Chinese parent, addressing concerns about data privacy and foreign control. The move came after years of pressure from lawmakers, who feared the Chinese government’s potential access to Americans’ data. […]
Personal AI assistant Moltbot —formerly Clawdbot — has gone viral in a matter of weeks. But there’s more you should know before jumping on the bandwagon.
By Rotation, one of the U.K.’s most popular peer-to-peer fashion rental platforms, is partnering with Uber to deliver ski clothes.
This is a race series for software programmers and the brainchild of founder Palmer Luckey, he tells TechCrunch.
Bluesky is teasing new features and improvements ranging from the Discover feed to video support.
Anthropic looks to raise $20 billion at more than $300 billion valuation, according to reports.
The lawsuit, filed in 2023, alleged that Amazon caused "substantial unjustified monetary losses” for consumers who returned an item but were still charged for it.
Jury selection begins Tuesday as this case moves closer to trial.
Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman spoke out against ICE enforcement tactics following Minneapolis violence, with one addressing concerns publicly and the other in an internal message.
Gemini 3 Pro and other AI tools are now available globally through the Google AI Plus plan, which is $7.99 per month in the United States.
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