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The new safety features come after numerous incidents of ChatGPT validating users' delusional thinking instead of redirecting harmful conversations -- including the death of a teenage boy by suicide.

The social media giant announced that free access to the feature will be limited to 5GB.

Users in Ohio will have to verify their age to use Bluesky's social network as of Monday.

Baiju Bhatt, co-founder of Robinhood and founder of Aetherflux, shares insights on building transformative companies in fintech and aerospace at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025.

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Early warning signs suggest this whole services-industry metamorphosis may be more complicated than VCs anticipate.

In a recent interview with The New York Times, Oura Health CEO Tom Hale didn’t discuss reports that the company is raising new funding that would value the health-tracking ring maker at nearly $11 billion, but he did talk about whether he has ambitions to take Oura public.

A federal judge has rejected drone maker DJI’s efforts to get off a Department of Defense list of Chinese military companies.

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

Why is Electronic Arts, one of the biggest names in the video game business, reportedly in talks to go private?

The gaming industry notoriously targets kids for in-app purchases. Lootlock gives parents granular control over kids game spending.

Ami Luttwak, CTO of Wiz, breaks down how AI is changing cybersecurity, why startups shouldn't write a single line of code before thinking about security, and opportunities for upstarts in the industry.

Researchers at consulting firm BetterUp Labs, in collaboration with Stanford Social Media Lab, have coined a new term to describe low-quality, AI-generated work

If you’ve been on the New York subway recently, you’ve probably seen stark white ads promoting a wearable AI device called Friend.

“It is my opinion that Microsoft should immediately terminate the employment of Lisa Monaco,” Trump said of a former Biden administration official.

South Korea has launched its most ambitious sovereign AI initiative yet, as the nation's major tech players like LG and SK Telecom develop their own LLMs.

Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying to teach robots dexterity by showing them videos of humans doing tasks. In a new essay, he calls this approach "pure fantasy thinking."

Lauri Moore (Bessemer), David Cramer (Sentry), and Zach Lloyd (Warp) join the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 to debate what founders really need from their first engineering hires — and how AI tooling fits into the equation.

This week on Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff go beyond the headlines to break down what's really going on in these AI infrastructure deals.