- April 21, 2025
Columbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to ‘cheat on everything’
On Sunday, 21-year-old Chungin ‘Roy’ Lee announced he’s raised $5.3 million in seed funding from Abstract Ventures and Susa Ventures for his startup, Cluely, that
Flipkart to relocate HQ to India ahead of IPO
Flipkart, the Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce startup that closely fights Amazon in the South Asian market, is preparing to shift its headquarters back to India from
Mark Zuckerberg once suggested spinning out Instgram as a solution to its ‘cannibalization’ of Facebook
In an internal email surfaced as part of the Meta antitrust trial, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg fretted about the potential that the company’s Instagram acquisition
PHNX Materials found a way to decarbonize concrete using dirty coal waste
Coal-fired power plants have done their fair share of damage over the past century. From climate change to acid rain, black lung to heart disease,
Bluesky launches blue check verification
Bluesky announced on Monday that it is rolling out blue check verification, confirming previous rumors that this feature was on its way to the platform.
20 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far
Despite a still tight venture capital market, new unicorns are still being created every month. Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the
Final weeks to secure your exhibit table at Sessions: AI
The countdown is real! Exhibit tables for TechCrunch Sessions: AI are almost gone, and the May 9 deadline is closing in fast. If you’ve been
Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity
OpenAI’s o3 AI model scores lower on a benchmark than the company initially implied
A discrepancy between first- and third-party benchmark results for OpenAI’s o3 AI model is raising questions about the company’s transparency and model testing practices. When
Palantir exec defends company’s immigration surveillance work
One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend of the controversial data analytics company Palantir, leading a company executive