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Meta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused offerings under its broader “Meta One” subscription brand.

As Cognition reaches $492 in annualized revenue run rate, it more than doubled its valuation in eight months, it says.

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SOND, a startup led by Bose’s former head of sleep products, emerged from stealth with $7M in funding for its AI-powered sleep earbuds.

China's AI boom is producing world-class talent, and Beijing is increasingly reluctant to let them go elsewhere.

YouTube will now automatically label videos that use significant photorealistic AI, instead of relying solely on creators to disclose AI-generated content themselves. It's also making AI labels more prominent.

"CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis," Box CEO Aaron Levie opines. Maybe that explains the almost religious belief in AI productivity gains.

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We're in the transition period -- all of us.

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.