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IBM and Scuderia Ferrari HP take TechCrunch inside how they are redefining the fan experience.

Elon Muks's xAI has gone all in on natural gas, while SpaceX is obsessed with orbital data centers. What happened to the "solar-electric economy" he promised?

People used AI on a spectrogram image of cockpit recordings to reconstruct them, forcing the NTSB to temporarily block access to its docket system.

You can now disco ball-ify your entire Pixel homescreen, says Google.

Some AI startups are stretching traditional revenue metrics when talking about progress publicly. And their investors are fully aware.

The SpaceX S-1 is finally here, and the story it tells goes way further than rockets. The filing runs to 36 pages of risk factors alone, and the numbers inside match the ambition: a $28 trillion total addressable market, a pay package tied to establishing a Mars colony, and a valuation target that w...

After Google Search's AI update, the word "disregard" now effectively breaks the search interface.

Google demoed prototype Android XR glasses that overlay Gemini-powered translation, navigation, and other information directly into your field of view.

Google is about to look really different, and if you're not a fan of the AI overview feature, then you're not going to like what's coming.

Spotify is releasing the new desktop app as a research preview in more than 20 markets

Spotify will let you generate daily or weekly briefs based on your prompts

Brett Adcock's new AI startup is now valued at $6 billion by its investors.

Anthropic has told its investors that it will more than double revenue to around $10.9 billion in its second quarter.

SpaceX's IPO filing reveals xAI lost $6.4 billion in 2025 while planning a massive Grok expansion — offering the first public look at Elon Musk's AI financials and more details about his ambitions.

Nvidia announced another record revenue figure after market close on Wednesday, but forecasted that revenue growth would slow in the following quarter.

Elon Musk's xAI surprised the AI world when it made a deal to sell compute to Anthropic. Now we know how much it's worth.

Initially billed as an "AI butler," Iris watches what happens on a user's desktop and automatically learns how to do tasks for them, its co-founder says.

Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27. Pitch at TechCrunch Disrupt, get investor access, win $100K, plus more scaling perks. Nominate an early-stage founder or submit your startup here.

Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27. Pitch at TechCrunch Disrupt, get investor access, win $100K, plus more scaling perks. Nominate an early-stage founder or submit your startup here.

NanoCo, the company behind OpenClaw alternative NanoClaw, has raised a $12 million seed after a viral launch, the founders tell TechCrunch.

Google says it's designed the app to be accessible to everyone, from teachers to small business owners.

Google expands Gmail’s AI Inbox with conversational voice search, letting users ask Gemini to find buried email details.

Google is launching AI-powered “information agents” that can monitor topics in the background and proactively alert users to updates and changes.