TECH

Mira Murati’s AI startup gains prominent ex-OpenAI advisers

Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s new AI venture, Thinking Machines Lab, has gained two new prominent advisers: Bob McGrew, previously OpenAI’s

TECH

Audience Choice winners to lead breakouts at Sessions: AI

You voted. They rose to the top! Meet the two Audience Choice winners who’ll take the breakout stage at TechCrunch

TECH

Waymo may use interior camera data to train generative AI models, but riders will be able to opt out

Waymo is preparing to use data from its robotaxis, including video from interior cameras tied to rider identities, to train

TECH

Trump to endorse coal for data center power in the face of grim market realities

President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order on Tuesday aimed at boosting coal’s flagging fortunes, reports Bloomberg.

TECH

Los Angeles-based Rain raised a $75M Series B in another good sign for fintech

Rain, a startup offering an employer-integrated earned wage access (EWA) app coupled with financial-wellness features like overdraft alerts and spending

TECH

Startup Battlefield 200 is calling. Apply to enter

Founders, the battlefield is calling! Startup Battlefield 200 applications are now live — and the race has begun. If you’ve

TECH

Take the stage at Disrupt 2025: Apply to speak now

If you’re reading this, consider it your signal: The opportunity to influence the future of tech is here. TechCrunch Disrupt

TECH

Amazon’s Zoox begins robotaxi testing in Los Angeles 

Zoox, Amazon’s autonomous vehicle unit, is deploying a small fleet of retrofitted test vehicles on the streets of Los Angeles

TECH

At last, MrBeast weighs in on the global economic crisis du jour

Your 401k is suffering. The billionaires are fighting. The gamers are imperiled. Not even the penguins on McDonald Island, where

TECH

Inside the EV startup secretly backed by Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos is funding a secretive EV startup based in Michigan called Slate Auto that could start production as soon