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Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.

Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?

The report, which spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises, is the most complete accounting of the incident to date.

The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into the arms of eyewear frames.

Before Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting line away from President Greg Brockman and putting Vice President Sachin Katti in charge of the group.

Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects, preferences, and other context.

TechCrunch talks agents, UX, and reporting to Greg Brockman with OpenAI's head of product.

The AI hedge fund went from "the talk of Wall Street" to "subject of federal subpoenas" faster than you can say "diversify your portfolio."

The president bought when the stock was in the mid-$150 range. SpaceX finished trading on Monday back at its IPO price of $135.

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Replit CEO Amjad Masad will share his perspective on the future of programming and Replit's role in developing it.

Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the founders' feeling of responsibility to community, doubts arise as to whether a sale will happen.

Flock Safety faces a growing public outcry over concerns that its surveillance technology could be misused.

In the HBS Foundry program, AI avatars provide feedback during practice pitches and board meetings.

OpenAI is calling for California to strengthen SB 53, an AI safety bill that the company previously opposed.

Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.

There's about to be a big fight to secure access to space.

Jason Kelce joked that people should cool data centers with their pee, rather than potable water -- his suggestion is not completely ludicrous.

Affected users told TechCrunch say they were using Grok Lite, and noticed the issues as early as Wednesday morning.

ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.

Fusion power startup Inertia Enterprises reduced the fuel filling process from a week to just a few hours. It's one of ten hurdles the company must overcome to make a profitable power plant.

A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.

SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.

As AI becomes harder to avoid, consumers are growing more wary of the technology — and Silicon Valley is discovering that widespread adoption doesn’t necessarily lead to acceptance.

The launch of the new study features marks Google's latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying, as it continues to compete with companies like OpenAI.