Kevin Hartz has a history of being an early pioneer. In 2001, he co-founded Xoom at a time when sending money internationally typically required a visit to a Western Union office. The company went public in 2013 and was later…
Wikipedia is often described as the last good website on an internet increasingly filled with toxic social media and AI-generated content. However, the online encyclopedia is not completely immune to broader trends. According to a new blog post from Marshall…
A federal judge has granted a request from Meta-owned WhatsApp for a permanent injunction. This order blocks the Israeli cyberintelligence company NSO Group from targeting users of the messaging application. Earlier this year, a jury decided that NSO Group must…
The Trump administration is extending its social media attacks on Democratic opponents to a new platform. The White House and numerous other government agencies joined Bluesky on Friday. In its first post, the new White House account uploaded a highlight…
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. There is another twist in the road for lidar company Luminar, and it includes some inside-the-boardroom intrigue. First, let us catch up. You…
Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun described the situation as being “hoisted by their own GPTards.” This comment came after OpenAI researchers celebrated what they claimed were major math breakthroughs for GPT-5. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis also weighed in,…
Home goods company Kohler recently unveiled a new device called the Dekoda. It is a five hundred ninety-nine dollar camera that can be attached to your toilet bowl to take pictures of what is inside. According to reports, the Dekoda…
Lee Roberts meets me at the University Club of San Francisco on a Friday morning. Hours later, his football team will lose to Cal in heartbreaking fashion due to a fumbled goal line play. Little about the University of North…
Bilal Abu-Ghazaleh had just moved to London a few days before our call, splitting his time between there and Dubai. After nearly a decade in the United States, including a period at Scale AI, he is bringing that experience to…
An outage affecting web hosting giant Amazon Web Services, or AWS, took out vast portions of the web. This included websites, banks, and some government services. Amazon stated that the outage was fully mitigated and that most services are returning…
