Governments grapple with the flood of non-consensual nudity on X
For the past two weeks, X has been flooded with AI-manipulated nude images, created by the Grok AI chatbot — and governments around the world are promising to take action.
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How Elon Musk Influences Millions Without Saying Much
Elon Musk can send shockwaves through markets and headlines with just a few characters. Forget long speeches or fancy press ...
Elon Musk Said Rand Paul Is the One Person in Washington Who 'Gets It'
In an interview with Reason, CNN's Scott Jennings recounts the conversation he had with the tech entrepreneur about his ...
Elon Musk responds to a former MSNBC host calling for 2028 Democrats to prosecute him
MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan after he said the next Democratic president should prosecute Musk as part of an accountability ...
Who Is Strider Sekhar? Elon Musk’s Son Whose Name Has an India Connection
Elon Musk recently shared a personal post on X featuring his twins, Strider Sekhar and Comet Azure. He also shared an India ...
Musk’s X could be banned in Britain over AI chatbot row
Britain could ban Elon Musk’s X amid a row over its AI undressing women and children in photographs. Sir Keir Starmer said ...
Elon Musk’s xAI under fire for failing to rein in ‘digital undressing’
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, has been flooded with sexual images of mainly women, many of them real people, by being ...
Elon Musk Shares Rare Comments About His Twins as He Reveals the Inspiration Behind Their Unique Names
Elon Musk commented on a snap of himself with his twins, Strider and Azure. Under the photo that showed the Tesla founder ...
GTMfund has rewritten the distribution playbook for the AI era
Building software products has never been easier, so why are so many well-funded startups failing to take off no matter how good their product is? In this season finale episode of Build Mode, our guest has an answer: Startups have focused too much on product development and not enough on distribution excellence. Paul Irving is partner and […]
Critics pan spyware maker NSO’s transparency claims amid its push to enter US market
The infamous spyware maker released a new transparency report claiming to be a responsible spyware maker, without providing insight into how the company dealt with problematic customers in the past.
EverNitro is simplifying the process of crafting silky nitro coffee at CES 2026
EverNitro is positioning itself against competitors such as NitroBrew as a long-term more affordable all-in-one solution. “We offer the quality of a commercial tap with the footprint of a coffee maker. While others sell you gas, we give you technology to harvest it for free,” founder and CEO Terry Tan said.
I watched LG’s new home robot CLOid do laundry but I have questions
CES is always chock-full of robots, and this year electronics giant LG announced a new bot, dubbed CLOid, that it claims will revolutionize household chores (as in, you won't have to do them anymore).
Internet collapses in Iran amid protests over economic crisis
Internet monitoring firms and experts say Iran’s internet has almost completely shut down, as protests spread through major cities.
OpenAI to acquire the team behind executive coaching AI tool Convogo
OpenAI is acquiring the team behind executive coaching AI tool Convogo in an all-stock deal, adding to the firm's M&A spree.
Anduril’s Palmer Luckey thinks the future of tech is in the past
Luckey, who initially made his fortune in VR and now runs the defense contractor Anduril, and Ohanian both seemed to agree: Stuff was better in the old days.
Disney+ is launching short-form videos this year
The move comes as Disney launched a personalized vertical video feed in the ESPN app last year.
The most bizarre tech announced so far at CES 2026
From an AI panda pet to an anime girl hologram for your desk, here are the wildest products at CES 2026.
Claude Code 2.1.0 arrives with smoother workflows and smarter agents
Anthropic has released Claude Code v2.1.0, a notable update to its "vibe coding" development environment for autonomously building software, spinning up AI agents, and completing a wide range of computer tasks, according to Head of Claude Code Boris Cherny in a post on X last night.The release introduces improvements across agent lifecycle control, skill development, session portability, and multilingual output — all bundled in a dense package of 1,096 commits. It comes amid a growing
Why this VC thinks 2026 will be ‘the year of the consumer’
AI adoption in enterprise is stalling as companies don't know where to start. Vanessa Larco of Premise VC thinks 2026 will be the year of the consumer.
Hands on with a prototype of Clicks’ Communicator, a new BlackBerry-like smartphone
TechCrunch goes hands-on at the CES 2025 show with the new Clicks Communicator, a new Android smartphone with a physical keyboard.