Last year was monumental for the AI industry in the United States and beyond. According to our count at TechCrunch, forty-nine startups raised funding rounds worth one hundred million dollars or more in 2024. Three companies raised more than one…
Elon Musk’s The Boring Company has begun testing Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system in its Las Vegas tunnels. These tunnels connect the city’s Convention Center to several nearby hotels. According to reports, testing has been ongoing for a few months…
Chipolo, the maker of item tracking devices that compete with AirTags, launched its latest additions to its lineup of rechargeable products on Wednesday. The new devices include an updated version of its colorful LOOP tracker and the slim Chipolo CARD.…
A judge has denied Meta’s request to dismiss a lawsuit brought against it by early employee Kelly Stonelake. U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein, who is overseeing the case, ruled this month that parts of Stonelake’s suit had merit, and the…
Malaysia has developed its first domestic edge AI processor. Malaysian chip design company SkyeChip announced its MARS1000 processor at an industry event on Monday. While an edge processor is not as powerful as an advanced Nvidia chip, it still represents…
Pixel devices have always reflected Google’s vision for Android, serving as a platform to showcase the company’s apps and technological advances. In the current era, this vision is deeply intertwined with Google’s consumer AI suite. The company aims for Pixel…
We are thrilled to unveil the 2025 Startup Battlefield 200, TechCrunch’s annual, handpicked list of the 200 most promising early-stage startups from around the world. These founders rose to the top from thousands of applications spanning every industry and geography.…
Hardware company Plaud.ai has released its new physical note taker, the Plaud Note Pro, on Wednesday. The device is priced at $179 and arrives two years after the original Plaud Note was released, and a year after the company released…
The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned an international fraud network used by North Korea to infiltrate American companies. The scheme involves hackers posing as legitimate job seekers using fake identities and documents. Once employed, these individuals earn a wage while also…
Confession time: my household owns two cars, one with leather and one with “leather.” The former feels amazing, while the latter is not fooling anyone. Based on the samples currently on my desk, leather alternatives do not have to feel…
