Intuitive Surgical is best-known for building surgery robots. It just froze offers to H-1B candidates due to President Donald Trump's new policy.

An attendee of the billionaire investor’s secretive Antichrist lecture series reveals new details from Peter Thiel's latest talk.

Sen. Josh Hawley's office says Meta hasn't complied with its request to hand over records on how its AI chatbot interacted with children.

Business Insider has hired TechCrunch reporter Charles Rollet as a tech reporter in San Francisco. He has been a senior writer covering artificial intelligence, security and startups. Rollet previousl...

The U.S. Department of Labor has dropped its investigation into Scale AI’s compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, according to a source directly The U.S. Department of Labor has dropped its investigation into Scale AI and it's investigation it's HR partner Upwork, TechCrunch has learned.

This month, ChatGPT unveiled a new image generator as part of its 4o model that is a lot better at generating text inside images.  People are already using it to generate fake restaurant receipts, potentially adding another tool to the already-extensive toolkit of AI deepfakes used by fraudsters. Prolific social media poster and VC Deedy […]

Silicon Valley used to take a backseat to Washington, D.C. But now, the people disrupting technology have taken the wheel at the highest echelons of

SpaceX's Starship spiraled out of control while in space during a test flight on Thursday, marking the second launch in a row that the vehicle has

Scale AI is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Labor for compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Defense tech startup Epirus has raised a $250m Series D to expand its counter-drone solutions.

Singapore just arrested 3 men for allegedly smuggling Nvidia chips. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Biograph, a company co-founded by longevity guru Peter Attia and a prominent Silicon Valley VC, has emerged from stealth.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is more bullish about Nvidia's sales than ever, despite a market panic last month induced by China's DeepSeek.

In its annual letter released Thursday, payments giant Stripe declared that it was “seeing an AI boom” with its data revealing that artificial

Meta is expanding in India, despite recent layoffs of what the tech giant controversially deemed "low performers."

Fintech Varo has been hoping to raise a $55 million Series G round but has, so far, closed on $29 million to date, according to a recent SEC filing. Varo

A senior Elon Musk staffer created a custom AI chatbot that's supposed to help DOGE "eliminate" government waste.

Fifty years after the Vietnam War ended, President Trump’s gutting of foreign aid has halted American efforts to address a toxic legacy and build a strategic partnership.

A DOGE staffer created a custom AI chatbot that's supposed to help "eliminate" government waste.

In a court filing on Wednesday, a lawyer for Elon Musk said the billionaire will withdraw his $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI’s nonprofit if the ChatGPT maker’s board of directors “preserve the charity’s mission” and halt its conversion to a for-profit…

Shopify took down Kanye West’s online store after the musician sold t-shirts with the swastika symbol. West, who also goes by Ye, advertised his online store in a Super Bowl commercial on Sunday, directing viewers to his website, where the only item…

Carta, which previously faced scrutiny over its workplace environment, has settled two lawsuits filed by women who used to work there.

The newspaper owner said it was determining what data, if any, was stolen.

Donald Trump’s pick for FBI director told senators he has no plans to divest his shares, which his financial disclosure form says were received in exchange for consulting services.

The states plan to file the lawsuit in defense of Americans' "right to privacy."

Amazon is joining other Big Tech companies by announcing huge AI spending plans for 2025. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that...

Elon Musk’s DOGE team has accessed highly restricted data maintained by the Office of Personnel Management, including personally identifiable information for millions of federal employees.

Elon Musk's DOGE has taken control and accessed large swathes of Americans' private information held by the U.S. federal government.

A clearer picture of Bench's downfall is emerging thanks to new bankruptcy filings, which show the accounting startup burned $135 million before collapsing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

A former director at Meta filed a lawsuit against the company earlier this week. Kelly Stonelake alleges sex discrimination and harassment.

Alphabet is shrugging off concerns sparked by DeepSeek over AI spending, boosting its capital expenditures to a whopping $75 billion. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

DeepSeek's model is censored at both the application and training layers, a Wired investigation shows.

BANGKOK, Thailand — On Jan. 5, Mongabay journalist Gerald Flynn was denied entry to Cambodia. Flynn has lived and reported in the country since 2019, but upon his return from a brief visit to neighbor...

Authorities said the two forums — Cracked and Nulled — had more than 10 million users.

The number of individuals affected by the data breach is significantly higher than previously reported.

MrBeast is in talks to join a number of bids to buy TikTok, but he hasn't chosen any of them exclusively yet. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

OpenAI’s AI chatbot platform, ChatGPT, suffered a major outage Thursday. Early this morning, ChatGPT users started reporting issues accessing ChatGPT on the web and other platforms. According to the ChatGPT status page on OpenAI’s website, OpenAI…