When Ring founder and CEO Jamie Siminoff decided to use the company’s first-ever Super Bowl commercial to introduce Search Party—an AI-powered feature that uses Ring camera footage to help find lost dogs—he expected Americans to love it. Instead, the TV…
ModRetro, the vintage gaming startup founded by Palmer Luckey, is reportedly in discussions to raise new funding. This investment round could value the company at one billion dollars, according to the Financial Times. The company first launched its debut product,…
In just over a week, negotiations over the Pentagon’s use of Anthropic’s Claude technology fell through. The Trump administration then designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk, and the AI company said it would fight that designation in court. OpenAI, meanwhile, quickly…
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for all things future of transportation. I was out for a few days last week, so we have some catching up to do. I won’t rehash too much, but expect some of the…
To house the hundreds or thousands of temporary workers needed to build an AI data center, developers are increasingly relying on temporary villages known as man camps. This style of camp was popularized as housing for men working in remote…
Caitlin Kalinowski announced today that she has resigned from her role leading OpenAI’s hardware team. Her decision came in response to the company’s controversial agreement with the Department of Defense. “This wasn’t an easy call,” Kalinowski said in a social…
The recent breakdown between Washington and Anthropic exposed the complete lack of coherent rules governing artificial intelligence. In response, a bipartisan coalition of thinkers has assembled something the government has so far declined to produce: a framework for what responsible…
A push by a coalition of telecom operators, device makers, and industry groups to bring forty-dollar smartphones to market is gathering momentum. This price point is seen as key to getting tens of millions more people online. However, questions remain…
Sundar Pichai’s new pay package could be worth up to $692 million. According to a recent filing first noted by the Financial Times, Alphabet has structured a three-year deal for its Google CEO that could make him one of the…
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. Launched in August 2025 as part of a broader set of AI-powered features, Expert Review appears…
