Elon Musk enters Kentucky US Senate race with $10M donation
Elon Musk has turned his attention to the race to replace U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell with an eight-digit donation to a PAC backing a GOP candidate.
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Mother of Elon Musk's son sued xAI for creating 'perverted images' of her. It sued back
Ashley St. Clair, the mother of Musk's son Romulus, filed suit in New York. xAI says her case must be filed in Texas.
Elon Musk says production for Cybercab robotaxi and Optimus robot will initially be 'agonizingly slow'
The Tesla Cybercab robotaxi and Optimus robot are both set to enter production this year as Elon Musk bets Tesla's future on AI and robotics.
Billionaires Elon Musk and Sam Altman explode in ugly online fight over whose tech killed more people
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman fired back at Elon Musk on Tuesday after Musk posted on X warning people not to use ChatGPT, linking it ...
Elon Musk pours a staggering $10M into Kentucky Senate race, backing pro-Trump business outsider
Businessman Nate Morris receives $10 million in support from Elon Musk for his Kentucky Senate campaign, as the outsider runs on a pro-Trump platform to replace Mitch McConnell.
Threads rolls out ads to all users worldwide
Ads on Threads will roll out gradually to users over the coming months, Meta says.
YouTube TV’s multiview is getting a huge upgrade, letting viewers mix and match channels
Soon, YouTube TV will allow viewers to customize the multiview feature to watch any four channels they want side by side.
We’re not nostalgic for 2016 — we’re nostalgic for the internet before all the slop
At the time, people felt like 2016 was cursed -- but at least we did not yet have a word for "doomscrolling."
OpenAI’s former sales leader joins VC firm Acrew: OpenAI taught her where startups can build a ‘moat’
Aliisa Rosenthal has found a new career as a VC. She knows what startups can do to protect themselves from the model makers eating their markets.
YouTube will soon let creators make Shorts with their own AI likeness
YouTube Shorts viewers might soon see AI versions of their favorite creators when scrolling through their feeds.
OpenAI aims to ship its first device in 2026, and it could be earbuds
The AI startup is on track to announce its first hardware device in the second half of this year, OpenAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane said during an interview Davos.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 tickets now on sale: Lowest rates all year
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 tickets are officially on sale. Save up to $680 on your ticket and be among the first 500 registrants to score a +1 pass at 50% off. Don't miss 10,000 tech leaders, founders, and VCs in San Francisco from Oct 13-15. Register before these one-time deals vanish.
Adobe Acrobat now lets you edit files using prompts, generate podcast summaries
Adobe is adding AI tools to Acrobat, including the ability to generate podcast summaries of files, create presentations, and a way for users to edit files using prompts.
TrueFoundry launches TrueFailover to automatically reroute enterprise AI traffic during model outages
When OpenAI went down in December, one of TrueFoundry’s customers faced a crisis that had nothing to do with chatbots or content generation. The company uses large language models to help refill prescriptions. Every second of downtime meant thousands of dollars in lost revenue — and patients who could not access their medications on time.TrueFoundry, an enterprise AI infrastructure company, announced Wednesday a new product called TrueFailover designed to prevent exactly that scenario. The syste
PraxisPro raises $6M seed from AlleyCorp to coach medical sales reps
PraxisPro, founded by a former pharma sales rep, offers small language model AI training specifically designed for medical product sales.
NYT Games’ Scrabble-like game Crossplay is a dream come true
This new Scrabble inspired game is a distraction-free alternative to ad-loaded competitors like Words With Friends.
Berlin’s Cloover secures over $1.2 Billion to build the “Shopify of Energy”
Berlin’s energy transition sector got a defining boost today as Cloover, a climate fintech based in Berlin, announced it has secured more than $1.2 billion in total capital commitments, combining Series A equity and a substantial debt facility to accelerate the rollout of its software and financing platform across Europe. The financing package includes €18.8 million (approximately $22 million) in Series A equity, led by MMC Ventures and QED Investors, with participation from Lowercarbon Capital,
When corporate knowledge becomes invaluable
To many readers, this may sound like a paradox: how can knowledge ever become invaluable? In this article, I want to explore how corporate knowledge, when poorly structured and rigidly transferred, can slowly transform from an asset into a disadvantage. Not only for companies, but especially for employees. And over time, that disadvantage compounds. The journey usually looks familiar. You apply for a job, speak with a recruiter, send your CV, go through interviews, and eventually receive the gre
Elon Musk puts $10 million into heated US Senate race in Kentucky
Elon Musk has turned his attention to the race to replace U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell with an eight-digit donation to a PAC backing a GOP candidate.
Ryanair Announces 'Big Idiot Seat Sale' As Elon Musk Feuds With CEO
O’Leary and Musk have called each other idiots online and Musk has said he “really” wants to buy low-cost airline Ryanair.