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Startups

Last Chance: Startup Battlefield 200 Applications Close May 27 – $100K in Equity-Free Funding Available

The application window for TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield 200 closes Friday, May 27, giving early-stage founders one final opportunity to gain access to venture capital, international media exposure, and $100,000 in equity-free funding. The program, which selects 200 of the wor

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Industry May 25

What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work

ClickUp, the collaboration software startup once valued at $4 billion, laid off 22% of its workforce last Thursday, but CEO Zeb Evans insist

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Industry May 25

Pope's 'AI' Encyclical Is Really About Inequality, Conflict, Democracy

Pope Leo XIV released his inaugural encyclical on Monday, titled "Magnifica Humanitas," focused on protecting human dignity amid artificial

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Industry May 22

The literary world isn’t prepared for AI

British literary magazine Granta has found itself at the center of a controversy after questions emerged about whether one of its prize-winn

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Industry May 24

Chatbot 'Personalities' Become Hacker Playground With Simple Tricks

Early attempts to hack AI chatbots required almost no technical skill. Users could sometimes bypass expensive safety measures with simple tr

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Industry May 24

Google Cloud COO: AI Security Must Be Foundational, Not Optional

Francis de Souza, COO of Google Cloud, recently shared his perspective on the evolving AI security landscape during an interview at a Los An

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Tools May 24

I tried Amazon’s Bee wearable and am both intrigued and slightly creeped out

Amazon's Bee wearable, the AI wrist gadget the tech giant acquired in 2025, has received a significant feature update, and TechCrunch contri

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Industry May 22

Grok Falters: Musk's AI Chatbot Barely Registers

Elon Musk's "truth-seeking" AI chatbot Grok is struggling to gain traction, according to a new Reuters investigation. The report reveals tha

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Industry May 22

Google's AI Bug: Tell It to 'Ignore' and It Will

Google's AI Overviews feature is experiencing a peculiar bug that's causing it to misinterpret certain search queries. When users search for

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Models May 23

Google’s new anything-to-anything AI model is wild

Google has launched Omni, a new family of generative AI models that can supposedly convert any input—photos, videos, text—into any other for

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Industry May 23

IBM Partners with Ferrari to Create F1 Superfans Through AI

IBM has entered into a partnership with Formula One and Scuderia Ferrari HP, marking the tech giant's first major motorsport sponsorship. Th

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Industry May 23

Elon Musk has given up on solar power (on Earth)

SpaceX's recent IPO filing reveals a significant shift in Elon Musk's energy strategy. While Musk built Tesla on the promise of electrifying

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Startups May 22

How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to crown AI startups

Scott Stevenson, co-founder and CEO of legal AI startup Spellbook, sparked a heated debate in the tech community last month by publicly call

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Industry May 22

AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots

The National Transportation Safety Board temporarily shut down public access to its docket system after discovering that AI technology had b

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Tools May 22

Google's AI Search Can't Handle the Word 'Disregard

Google's newly redesigned Search experience is running into unexpected problems. The company recently deployed a major overhaul that priorit

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Tools May 22

Google's AI Glasses With Displays Almost Ready for Fall Launch

Google gave attendees at this week's I/O developer conference a chance to test its upcoming AI-powered glasses with visual displays, offerin

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Tools May 21

Spotify takes on Google’s NotebookLM with its new app

Spotify has launched a new desktop application called Studio by Spotify Labs that generates personalized AI podcasts on any topic, directly

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Industry May 22

Samsung Chip Workers Secure $340K Bonuses After Threatening Strike

Samsung and its semiconductor workers have reached a tentative agreement that could see some employees receive bonuses totaling $340,000 ann

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Regulation May 21

Trump delays AI security executive order, saying language ‘could have been a blocker’

President Donald Trump has postponed signing an executive order that would have established a process for the government to review AI models

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Tools May 21

Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts

Spotify is launching AI-powered features that let users generate their own personal podcasts directly within the app. The feature allows sub

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Industry May 21

Six search engines worth trying now that Google isn’t really Google anymore

Google unveiled sweeping changes to its Search platform at the I/O 2026 keynote this week, fundamentally shifting toward a conversational, A

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Industry May 21

Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes

Spotify announced a partnership with Universal Music Group (UMG) on Thursday that will let fans create AI-generated covers and remixes of so

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Regulation May 21

Trump delays AI security executive order: ‘I don’t want to get in the way of that leading’

President Donald Trump has put off signing an executive order that would have established a process for the government to review AI models b

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Tools May 21

Spotify launches an ElevenLabs-powered audiobook creation tool

Spotify unveiled a new AI-powered audiobook creation tool at its Investor Day event, developed in partnership with voice AI company ElevenLa

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Industry May 20

Nvidia posts another record quarter, reveals $43B of holdings in startups

Nvidia reported another quarter of record-breaking financial results, with $81.6 billion in revenue for the period ending April 26, represen

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Industry May 21

Anthropic says it’s about to have its first profitable quarter

Anthropic is on track to report its first profitable quarter, with the AI startup telling investors it expects to more than double its reven

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Tools May 20

Clouted wants to take the guesswork out of making short videos go viral

Clouted, a startup that participated in a16z's Speedrun accelerator program in 2024, has secured $7 million in seed funding to solve a major

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Industry May 20

xAI burned $6.4B last year — SpaceX’s IPO filing shows why the spending is far from over

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence venture xAI reported operating losses of $6.4 billion against just $3.2 billion in revenue for 2025, acc

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Industry May 20

OpenAI Pushes Toward IPO After Musk's Legal Challenge Fails

A day after Elon Musk's legal challenge against OpenAI fell apart in court, the artificial intelligence company is pushing ahead with plans

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Startups May 20

AI Search Wars Heat Up as Exa Labs Bags $250M From Andreessen Horowitz

Google's announcement that it plans to overhaul its traditional search product with AI features grabbed headlines this week, but the tech gi

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