After the Justice Department released a trove of new documents tied to infamous sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, journalists digging through them have found extensive connections to Silicon Valley. TechCrunch’s Sean O’Kane examined how a mysterious businessman named David Stern built…
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. We are in the midst of one of my four favorite times of year: earnings season. I enjoy these numbers because the required…
The battle for enterprise AI is heating up. Microsoft is bundling Copilot into Office. Google is pushing Gemini into Workspace. OpenAI and Anthropic are selling directly to enterprises. Every SaaS vendor now ships an AI assistant. In this scramble for…
India has 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users, making the country one of OpenAI’s largest markets globally. CEO Sam Altman shared this ahead of a government-hosted AI summit. In an article published in the Times of India, Altman outlined ChatGPT’s…
Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% this year after declining 3% the previous year, according to reporting by the San…
Elon Musk is actively working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot more unhinged, according to a former employee who spoke to The Verge about recent departures from Musk’s AI company. This week, following the announcement that Musk’s SpaceX is acquiring xAI,…
The Department of Homeland Security has increased pressure on technology companies to reveal the identities of social media account owners who criticize Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This information comes from recent reporting, which indicates the department has sought to identify…
Much of Silicon Valley has spent years chasing mega-rounds and buzzy AI deals. Meanwhile, Stacy Brown-Philpot is running Cherryrock Capital like a throwback to venture capital’s earlier days, writing smaller Series A and B checks to founders that larger firms…
Elon Musk is actively working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot more unhinged, according to a former employee who spoke to The Verge about recent departures from Musk’s AI company. This week, following the announcement that Musk’s SpaceX is acquiring xAI,…
Hollywood organizations are pushing back against a new AI video model called Seedance 2.0, which they say has quickly become a tool for blatant copyright infringement. ByteDance, the Chinese company that recently finalized a deal to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations,…
