OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is planning to visit India in mid-February, marking his first trip to the country in nearly a year. The visit coincides with New Delhi’s preparations to host a major AI summit, the India AI Impact Summit…
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has signed a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to form a majority American-owned joint venture. This arrangement will keep the social app operating in the United States. The agreement concludes a six-year political saga…
Emily is a college student by day, but she works the night shift at a strip club to pay her tuition. She believes her secret is safe, until one day, her mysterious English teacher shows up at the club. Did…
Microsoft provided the FBI with the recovery keys to unlock encrypted data on the hard drives of three laptops as part of a federal investigation, according to a Forbes report. Many modern Windows computers rely on full-disk encryption, called BitLocker,…
Ryan Mitchell, the founder of a startup called Space Beyond, remembers looking at the night sky while camping at a state park and wondering what he should do next. A manufacturing engineer who worked on NASA’s space shuttle program before…
Time flies, and so will these savings. The lowest ticket prices for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, along with the exclusive 50% off plus-one pass for the first 500 registrations, are almost gone. If you have been considering which tech conferences to…
Tesla has discontinued Autopilot, its basic driver-assistance system. The company is making this move to boost adoption of its more advanced technology, called Full Self-Driving (Supervised). This decision coincides with Tesla facing a 30-day suspension of its manufacturing and dealer…
There is a feeling of schadenfreude in Silicon Valley when a unicorn stumbles. So when the news broke on Thursday afternoon that Capital One will acquire Brex for $5.15 billion in cash and stock, you could practically hear the collective…
Kais Khimji has spent most of his professional career as a venture investor, including six years as a partner at the prominent VC firm Sequoia Capital. Like several other former Sequoia partners, such as Nubank founder David Vélez, Khimji always…
Defense technology company Anduril announced its plans on Thursday to expand its Southern California presence with a major new campus in Long Beach. This coastal city is where founder Palmer Luckey grew up. The expanded campus will eventually support approximately…
