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The tech industry is witnessing significant advancements in AI, with startups rapidly scaling and drawing investments, while major players like OpenAI and Anthropic engage in conflicts over access to AI resources.
The launch of the Nintendo Switch 2 has generated buzz, showcasing new features such as GameChat and compatibility with various USB-C cameras, though it also faces early compatibility issues and high repair costs.
Walmart is expanding its drone delivery service to five new cities, signaling a major push towards incorporating drone technology in retail logistics.
Concerns are growing regarding cybersecurity, as reports highlight increasing sophistication among cybercriminals using residential proxy services to mask malicious web traffic.
Major shifts in leadership and strategy are occurring within tech companies, exemplified by Tesla's VP of the Optimus robot program resigning and Palantir facing challenges due to its controversial ties with government operations.

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After its data was wiped, KiranaPro’s co-founder cannot rule out an external hack techcrunch.com 4 hours ago by Jagmeet Singh
Security, Exclusive, KiranaPro, ONDC
Exclusive: The company's co-founder and CTO blame a former employee for a breach, but cannot rule out that it wasn't.
Meet the Finalists: VivaTech’s 5 Most Visionary Startups of 2025 techcrunch.com 6 hours ago by Cindy Zackney
Startups
Narrowing down the 30 most visionary startups of the year to just five finalists was no easy feat. VivaTech’s Innovation of the Year attracted…
Trump fast-tracks supersonic travel, amid spate of flight-related executive orders techcrunch.com 7 hours ago by Connie Loizos
TC, Transportation
President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Federal Aviation Administration to lift the 52-year ban on supersonic flight ov…
TechCrunch Mobility: How Jony Ive’s LoveFrom helped Rivian and what Uber’s next-generation playbook looks like techcrunch.com 7 hours ago by Kirsten Korosec
Transportation, Uber, jony ive, techcrunch mobility
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
Omada Health IPO signals healthier market, avoids ‘down-round’ trend techcrunch.com 8 hours ago by Marina Temkin
Biotech & Health, IPO, Omada Health
Omada Health popped in its first day as a public company, validation for founder CEO Sean Duffy.
2025 will be a ‘pivotal year’ for Meta’s augmented and virtual reality, says CTO techcrunch.com 8 hours ago by Rebecca Bellan
AI, Media & Entertainment, augmented reality, Meta, meta ray ban, reality labs, Virtual reality
Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, Meta's CTO, says 2025 will be a pivotal year for Reality Labs, the company's augmented and virtual reality unit.
Why investing in growth-stage AI startups is getting riskier and more complicated techcrunch.com 9 hours ago by Rebecca Bellan
AI, Venture, CapitalG, techcrunch ai sessions
AI startups are reaching growth stage much faster. That's exciting, but also risky, because investors might pour millions into a company only …
Anthropic appoints a national security expert to its governing trust techcrunch.com 9 hours ago by Kyle Wiggers
AI, Government & Policy, Security, Anthropic
Anthropic's long-term benefit trust is a governance mechanism that Anthropic claims helps it promote safety over profit, and which has the pow…
AI startups continue fueling San Francisco’s office recovery techcrunch.com 10 hours ago by Connie Loizos
Startups, In Brief
Early-stage AI startups are imbuing new life into San Francisco’s Northern Waterfront, after years of "for lease" signs dotting the post-pande…
Tesla’s Optimus robot VP is leaving the company techcrunch.com 10 hours ago by Sean O'Kane
Transportation, Elon Musk, Optimus, robotics, Tesla
Milan Kovac, head of Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot program, is leaving the company to spend more time with family, and he said that his suppo…
Italian lawmakers say Italy used spyware to target phones of immigration activists, but not against journalist techcrunch.com 10 hours ago by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Security, Apple, hacking, journalism, WhatsApp, Spyware, surveillance, cybersecurity, paragon, Paragon Solutions
A parliamentary investigation answered some — but not all — the questions related to a spyware scandal involving the use of the Israeli compan…
The Trump-Musk feud has been great for X, which jumped up the App Store charts techcrunch.com 10 hours ago by Sarah Perez
Apps, Social, musk, Trump, X
The Trump-Musk feud has been great for X, which jumped up the App Store charts.
Figure AI CEO skips live demo, sidesteps BMW deal questions onstage at tech conference techcrunch.com 11 hours ago by Marina Temkin
AI, Fundraising, Robotics, figure ai
Figure AI has drawn attention for making claims that its AI-powered robots possess human-like fine motor skills and can manipulate objects wit…
Jony Ive’s LoveFrom helped design Rivian’s first electric bike techcrunch.com 11 hours ago by Kirsten Korosec, Sean O'Kane
Hardware, Transportation, ebikes, Exclusive, jony ive, LoveFrom, micromobility, Rivian, RJ Scaringe
LoveFrom, the creative firm founded by former Apple chief designer Jony Ive, played a role in the development of Rivian’s first electric bike,…
Building Your AI Engine: How OpenAI Works with Startups techcrunch.com 11 hours ago by TC Video
AI, OpenAI, TechCrunch Sessions AI
In the rapidly evolving AI landscape, startups can gain a competitive edge by collaborating closely with model providers. Join Hao Sang from O…
AI startups take to the stage to pitch their companies to a panel of judges techcrunch.com 11 hours ago by TC Video
AI, pitch, TC Sessions AI
During the “So You Think You Can Pitch?” event at TechCrunch Sessions: AI, three AI companies — Fluix AI, Clicka, and Narada AI — had four min…
Building More Scalable GenAI Applications for Startups and Developers techcrunch.com 12 hours ago by TC Video
AI, oracle, TechCrunch Sessions AI
In this TechCrunch Sessions: AI event, Oracle shares a rundown of how MySQL HeatWave empowers you in building AI-based solutions in areas such…
Genetics testing startup Nucleus Genomics criticized for its embryo product: ‘Makes me so nauseous’ techcrunch.com 12 hours ago by Julie Bort
Startups, genomic testing, IVF, Nucleus Genomics
Nucleus Genomics has been courting controversy for years with products that claim to tell people how their genetics correlate to a host of com…
EleutherAI releases massive AI training dataset of licensed and open domain text techcrunch.com 12 hours ago by Kyle Wiggers
AI, EleutherAI
EleutherAI, an AI research organization, has released what it's claiming is one of the largest collections of licensed and open-domain text fo…
Disruption playbook: How to beat AI incumbents at their own game techcrunch.com 13 hours ago by TC Video
AI, TechCrunch Sessions AI
The harsh reality of the AI sector is that it’s dominated by a select group of well-funded incumbents. That doesn’t mean new companies can’t b…