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OpenAI and Jony Ive may be struggling to figure out their AI device OpenAI and Jony Ive reportedly face significant technical challenges as they work to develop a screen-less, AI-powered…
TechCrunch Mobility: Toyota makes a $1.5B bet on the startup ecosystem Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Welcome…
The Reinforcement Gap — or why some AI skills improve faster than others AI tasks that work well with reinforcement learning are getting better fast — and threatening to leave…
The Young Minds App wants to protect and educate children online and will show its tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 Young Minds gives parents control over what their kids do…
Newsom signs bill giving Uber and Lyft drivers in California the right to unionize Drivers for ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft will soon have the right to unionize in…
If you’re not an AI startup, good luck raising money from VCs New PitchBook data illustrates how dramatically AI is dominating startup investment, with 2025 on-track to become the first…
Startups and the U.S. government: It’s getting complicated Equity co-hosts Anthony Ha, Kirsten Korosec, and Max Zeff explore the how startups are navigating a topsy-turvy relationship with the U.S. government.…
Instacrops will demo its water-saving, crop-boosting AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 Agriculture consumes a vast amount of water, and some countries are under more stress than others. Instacrops pivoted to…
Sam Altman says Sora will add ‘granular,’ opt-in copyright controls OpenAI may be reversing course on how it approaches copyright and intellectual property in its new video app Sora. OpenAI…
Event startup Partiful wasn’t stripping GPS locations from user-uploaded photos The event planning startup, which has raised over $27M from a16z and others, fixed the bug after TechCrunch found that…