The AI researchers at Andon Labs, the same group that gave Anthropic’s Claude an office vending machine to run with hilarious results, have published the findings of a new experiment. This time they programmed a vacuum robot with various state-of-the-art…
This week, the four cofounders of Bending Spoons joined the billionaire ranks. According to Forbes estimates based on shareholder data from the Italian Business Register, CEO Luca Ferrari’s stake in the Milan-based tech conglomerate is now worth $1.4 billion. His…
Core Scientific shareholders voted down an all-stock acquisition offer from partner and competitor CoreWeave on Thursday. The offer was valued at nine billion dollars at the time. The decision followed a vote-no recommendation from the company’s largest shareholder, Sina Toussi…
Social network Bluesky, which recently announced a new milestone of 40 million users, will soon begin testing a “dislikes” feature. This new tool is intended to improve personalization on its main Discover feed and other areas of the platform. The…
Meta signed three deals this week to procure nearly one gigawatt of solar power as it races to power its ambitious AI goals. These new agreements bring Meta’s total solar purchases to over three gigawatts of capacity this year. Solar…
Core Scientific shareholders voted down an all-stock acquisition offer from partner and competitor CoreWeave on Thursday. The offer was valued at nine billion dollars at the time. The decision followed a vote-no recommendation from the company’s largest shareholder, Sina Toussi…
U.S. telecommunications giant Ribbon has confirmed that government-backed hackers had access to its network for almost a year before being discovered. The company disclosed this information in a public filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In its filing,…
Amazon Web Services, the cloud infrastructure service from Amazon, is on track to record its strongest year of growth in three years. This surge is fueled by the artificial intelligence industry’s unprecedented demand for computing power. AWS is growing at…
On Friday morning, University of Pennsylvania alumni, students, staff, and community affiliates received several emails from hackers claiming to represent the university’s Graduate School of Education. The email read, “We have terrible security practices and are completely unmeritocratic,” and added,…
On Tuesday morning at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, our Senior Producer Maggie Nyero showed me her new tattoo by rolling up her jacket sleeve. The design was a classic, pixelated cursor arrow. TechCrunch’s Becca Szkutak got a matching cursor tattoo, while…
