Reddit is pausing its plans to let people make subreddits with content behind a paywall, CEO Steve Huffman said as part of Thursdayâs earnings. The company is making the change as part of a shift in how itâs prioritizing its resources. Huffman said last year that the company was looking into a way for users […]
VCs and founders took much of the $2.4 billion, but money was left for a payout to all employees, sources say.
Long before ChatGPT, a group of AI luminaries gathered on an island to discuss the future of artificial intelligence. Their funder ultimately cast a shadow on all who attended.
Fundamental Research Labs is releasing multiple AI products related to gaming and productivity.
Thereâs a new turn in the itch.io story. In a forum post, itch.io creator and founder Leaf Corcoran has notified users that the company has begun the process of restoring thousands of NSFW pages that were deindexed â that is, content that has been removed from search results and recommendation lists. The catch is that […]
The internet-connected sex toy maker said it fixed the vulnerabilities that exposed users' private email addresses and accounts to takeovers, but said it was also planning to take legal action following the disclosure.
Startup Brilliant Labs has announced a successor to its $349 open-source Frame smart glasses, which debuted early last year with features like AI-powered translations and the ability to identify what you were looking at. Its new $299 Halo smart glasses are priced closer to Metaâs entry-level Ray-Ban models and come with upgraded AI capabilities, including […]
The app's call recording feature will no longer be available on iPhones starting September 30. Users with saved call recordings can either download them to their devices, share them via email or messaging apps, or switch their storage preference to iCloud to keep the recordings accessible.
The app features TikTok's new "Sunshine Programme," which allows users to support charitable organizations.
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27â29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, weâre getting real about what it takes to land a Series A in todayâs market â no smoke, no mirrors, just the unfiltered perspective from the people signing the checks. Series A has changed â hereâs how to win in 2026 […]
Ryan Coogler's first Black Panther feature set itself apart by pushing audiences to think about how comic book heroes and villains would fit into a world shaped by horrors like the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Black Panther and its 2022 sequel, Wakanda Forever, used their characters to comment on our reality's complicated and oftentimes ugly history […]
The oversubscribed round came months ahead of schedule, and is part of OpenAI's strategy to raise $40 billion.
Until now, Instagram allowed anyone to go live, regardless of their follower count or whether their account was public or private.
Autonomous weapons, decentralized strategy, and startup speed â this isnât the future of defense, itâs the now. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Ethan Thornton, CEO and founder of Mach Industries, steps onto the AI Stage to talk about how next-gen defense is being built from the ground up with AI at its core. Inside the AI […]
Nintendo is raising the price of the original Switch âfamily of systems and products,â the company announced on Friday. Along with the first-generation Nintendo Switch, the price change also affects the Switch OLED, Switch Lite, and âselectâ accessories. Nintendo is also raising the price of some Switch 2 accessories, certain amiibo, and the Alarmo. The […]
Investors have bought into Pearl Edison's idea and recently poured $3 .3 million into the startup.
The Trump administration may have just axed the IRS Direct File program. During a summit earlier this week, IRS Commissioner Billy Long said the free tax filing service is âgone,â adding that âbig beautiful Billy wiped that out,â as reported earlier by Bloomberg Law. President Donald Trumpâs Big Beautiful Bill includes a provision to establish […]
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The round could make the AI data storage company one of the most valuable in the world.
German authorities said they have seized the servers used by the long-running ransomware gang, BlackSuit, which is blamed for cyberattacks across Europe and the U.S., including the City of Dallas.
Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine.
Details are slim, though, regarding when Klarna will schedule its debut; no final decisions have been made.
All Raise released a report that said 18.6% of the top roles at leading VC firms are held by women, which is double what it was in 2018.
Vivobarefoot’s barely there shoes are perfect for casual wear, workouts, trail running, and walking around town.
Your gadgets run on direct current, but the electricity in your home is alternating current. What’s up with that?
I ordered the world’s smallest folding Bosch ebike in purple, and now it’s the only bike I want to ride.
Microsoft is ending support for Windows 11 SE next year, five years after it launched the operating system on low-cost laptops that were designed to compete with Google Chromebooks. Windows 11 SE was only available on devices for education customers, such as schools, and it was supposed to convince them not to switch to Chrome […]
Reddit is working on a new unified interface that will merge its legacy search and AI-powered Q&A features, as well as make its search box more prominently visible in the app.
Whether you’re skiing in the backcountry or trampolining in the backyard, we have an activity tracker for you.
Joby's years of R&D with the DoD may be paying off. The company has signed an agreement with defense contractor L3Harris to develop a gas-turbine hybrid VTOL that can fly autonomously â for defense applications.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wanted to make Google dance two years ago, with an AI overhaul of Bing that was designed to steal Google's all-important search market share. Now, there are plenty of signs that Microsoft has successfully taken search share off Google, both in the US and worldwide. Earlier this week Microsoft reported that […]
Samsung smart TVs appear to be functioning normally again after experiencing a global outage yesterday. Users across Reddit and Samsungâs community forum started reporting issues with their TVs at around 5PM ET on Thursday, finding themselves unable to open apps like YouTube, Apple TV, Hulu, and Prime Video. While apps were still visible on the […]
Google released its first publicly available "multi-agent" AI system, which uses more computational resources, but produces better answers.
A “gooner” tells WIRED he became hooked on the cartoonish nature of AI porn. Several addictions experts say the genre could pose a problem for people prone to compulsive sexual behavior.
Palantir has become one of the few winners in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts, offering other contractors a lifeline while consolidating its own reach and power.
TikTokkers and biohackers are fast to recommend mouth tape for better sleep. But it’s not a solution for everyone.
It doesn’t matter who makes the tech—when you call a robocar, Uber’s mission now is to make sure you use its app.
Nintendoâs financial year is off to a bumper start thanks to explosive sales of its Switch 2 console. Following its launch in June, the Switch 2 console has now sold 5.82 million units according to Nintendoâs Q1 earnings report, more than double the 2.7 million unit sales achieved by the original Switch in its first […]
Latvian startup Handwave aims to compete with Amazon palm payments by offering an independent alternative.
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LeapFrog has announced a new electronic learning system that swaps controllers for a camera. In fact, the LeapMove looks like an oversized, kid-friendly webcam, but is designed to connect to TVs like a console and get kids off the couch using educational games that require full-body movements to play. Itâs reminiscent of the Xbox Kinect […]
SixSense offers an AI-powered platform that helps chip makers prevent defects. It landed backing led by Peak XVâs Surge (formerly Sequoia India & SEA).
Amazon is spending a fortune on AI infrastructure and CEO Andy Jassy sees a new way to pay for it with Alexa+.
That's an uptick from the $800 million hit last quarter.
Apple has been the target of a fair amount of criticism over the past year, from its AI missteps to a strong distaste for its new design ethos. But the numbers donât lie, and if Apple knows how to do anything itâs sell iPhones. Specifically, three billion of them, as CEO Tim Cook announced on […]
Reddit reported its Q2 earnings, and itâs clear that its focus on AI has ramped up significantly.
Apple is spending a lot on President Donald Trumpâs tariffs. During an earnings call on Thursday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the duties could add $1.1 billion to its costs during the September quarter. Cook says Apple has already spent around $800 million during the June quarter, which is less than the $900 million that […]
The rate of iPhone sales growth has accelerated too. This uptick in sales might be temporary, though.
Apple is open to M&A to accelerate its AI strategy, and says it's made seven acquisitions this year so far.
Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company is âopenâ to mergers and acquisitions as it âsignificantlyâ increases its investment in AI, as reported by CNBC. Cookâs statements were made alongside the release of Appleâs third-quarter earnings results, which revealed that the iPhone-maker raked in $94 billion between April and June, marking a 10 percent increase […]
During the most recent Prime Day, the Google Pixel Tablet with Wi-Fi and 256GB of storage briefly dropped to just $309 ($190 off) â but the deal disappeared in a matter of hours. Fast forward to today, and the deal is back, but this time itâs available at Best Buy. Unfortunately, the discount is for […]
Reddit knows that it has valuable data from actual people â itâs already reached deals with big AI companies like OpenAI and Google to share its data with them. But Reddit is also investing in improving its own search capabilities, and in its latest note to investors, CEO Steve Huffman says that the company is […]
Will Griffith is a seed investor in Figma. Investors didn't want to sell millions of shares. He explains why they did it anyway.
Anthropic holds 32% of enterprise LLM market share by usage. This is sharp reversal from just two years ago when OpenAI held 50%.
We knew DJI had a hard time importing its drones into the United States to the point that many shelves have gone bare, but itâs not just drones anymore. Today marks the first time itâs formally skipping the US with a non-drone product, its 8K Osmo 360 camera â and itâs not clear if it […]
Yoel Roth shares concerns about the open social web's ability to combat misinformation, spam, and other illegal content.
While the 2010 original film focused on Mark Zuckerberg's rise, âSocial Network Part IIâ is said to draw from Jeff Horwitz's âThe Facebook Files,â which exposed Facebook's harmful effects on teens and its role in spreading misinformation.
With the Switch 2, Nintendo seems to be closing the release date gap with some of its third-party games. It's a problem that plagued previous Nintendo consoles, which often received games years after other platforms, if at all. While today's Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase may have lacked the splash of anticipated third-party games like Hades […]
Search engines are indexing links to ChatGPT conversations that have been made sharable with a link.
As federal vaccine policy shifts under US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lawmakers are looking to give state-level public health officials authority to ignore federal recommendations.
Following an appeals court victory on Thursday, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney tweeted that “the Epic Games Store for Android will be coming to the Google Play Store.â This is despite Googleâs plan to appeal the Ninth Circuit panelâs decision, which declined to overturn a 2023 jury verdict that Googleâs app store and payment system had […]
There has been so much demand for this stock that people on X are posting funny pictures of their orders being fulfilled.
If you're not ready to upgrade, you can still get security updates until October 2026 by enrolling in Microsoft's ESU program.
Aaron Sorkin is writing and directing a follow-up to The Social Network, and Jeremy Strong is reportedly the lead candidate to play Mark Zuckerberg. âSources say no formal offer has been presented but that he is the top choice to play the Facebook founder,â according to Deadline. Jesse Eisenberg played the role in the first […]
The court rejected Googleâs argument that the trial judge made legal errors in the antitrust case that unfairly favored Epic Games.
With dating app fatigue rising, some peopl are finding love in unexpected places â the forums and sites they use to pass idle time online, as opposed to those dedicated to online dating.
Side products can no longer be maintained, even if they have "loads of happy and loyal customers," as the Iconfactory's co-founder, Ged Maheux, says.
The WHO believes one in five children in Gaza are acutely malnourished, with the health effects potentially lasting for generations.
Teslaâs newly-launched ride-hailing service in San Francisco isnât quite ready for the ârobotaxiâ designation. After launching its robotaxi rides in Austin, Texas, with a âsafety monitorâ in the passenger seat last month, a video of Teslaâs service in San Francisco shows a vehicle arriving with a human at the wheel, as reported earlier by Business […]
Epic has won again. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will not overturn the unanimous jury verdict from 2023 that Googleâs app store and payments system had become illegal monopolies. Today, that appeals court affirmed the lower courtâs decision in Epic v. Google, according to an full opinion you can read below â and Google […]
Quora's Poe platform is releasing an API to let developers access more than 100 models across text, image, video, and voice.
Believe it or not, summer break is winding down and itâs almost time to head back to school. Itâs sad, I know, but look at the bright side: retailers like Amazon are using the occasion as an excuse to launch yet another sale. Weâre not complaining, mainly because the deals encompass a wide range of […]
As part of the changes, TikTok's head of Operations and Trust & Safety Adam Presser will become the General Manager of TikTok USDS, a separate entity of TikTok that's tasked with safeguarding U.S. national security interests, TechCrunch confirmed with TikTok.
The FSB cyberespionage group known as Turla seems to have used its control of Russia's network infrastructure to meddle with web traffic and trick diplomats into infecting their computers.
Microsoftâs stock price has risen so much today that it has passed a $4 trillion market valuation for the first time in its 50-year history. The software maker is the second company to be valued at $4 trillion, after Nvidia reached a market cap of over $4 trillion earlier this month. Microsoft has reached this […]
Ford is preparing a major electric vehicle announcement that CEO Jim Farley calls a âModel T moment,â as reported earlier by InsideEVs. During an earnings call on Wednesday, Farley said the company will reveal plans to design and build a âbreakthroughâ EV, along with a new platform, at an August 11th event in Kentucky. Even […]
In a lengthy report, federal government officials set out a roadmap for delivering on president Donald Trump’s promise to turn the US into the “crypto capital of the planet.”
It's always a risk betting on new video game hardware from a little-known company: what if game developers never show up? But the $50 Thumby Color, on sale this week, is an easier sell - the two-inch handheld is cute as a button, fits on your keychain, lets aspiring programmers build and publish games right […]
GuliKit is following the release of its $49.99 Elves 2 Pro controller last May with a slightly cheaper alternative that brings a feature thatâs still somewhat rare amongst third-party gamepads: remotely waking the Switch 2. The new GuliKit Elves 2 sacrifices some of the Proâs more premium features like advanced haptics, but for $29.99 â […]
Behind closed doors, Chinese researchers are laying the groundwork for a new global AI agenda—without input from the US.
Nintendo announced the latest Switch 2 games Thursday, along with a new Monster Hunter expected next year.
OpenAI said the new Norway-based datacenter comes as the European Union races to achieve AI sovereignty by investing in data center and compute power.
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27â29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, a candid conversation is coming to the Builder Stage â one that unpacks what startup funding looks like beyond the venture capital echo chamber. Funding routes that donât start in the Valley Founders today have more capital paths than ever. But how […]
Jim Farley, Ford's CEO, has touted this as a "Model T moment" -- but the first of these new EVs won't come out until 2027.
A new crypto mining company is flexing the Trump name and connections to get ahead.
Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Alex Heath, your Thursday episode guest host and deputy editor at The Verge. Today, I’m joined by Hayden Field, The Vergeâs senior AI reporter. Weâre talking about the AI talent wars and why some researchers are suddenly getting traded like theyâre NBA superstars. If youâve been paying attention at […]
Autonomous vehicles have long been touted as âjust around the corner,â but the reality of what it takes to bring self-driving cars to the streets is anything but simple. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27â29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana joins the Disrupt Stage for a wide-ranging conversation on […]
Weâve already seen what every Pixel 10 model looks like, and now we might know the pricing, too. A new leak from Android Headlines suggests the base Pixel 10 with 128GB of storage will have the same $799 starting price as its predecessor, while the rest of the lineup isnât seeing any major changes, either. […]
On September 15, WIRED is gathering a panel of leaders across technology, politics, and media to tell you everything you need to know about the future of generative AI.
Google will use machine learning and user data to estimate age of users in the U.S.
About two years ago, we ran an article in which Verge staffers talked about their favorite backpacks and other bags. Itâs time for a new one, and so we asked the staff to tell us about their favorite travel packs, day-to-day bags, and other ways to carry stuff around. Hereâs what they told us. Backpacks […]
Nvidia is releasing a new GeForce Game Ready Driver today that expands support for Windows 10 devices, alongside some games and G-Sync displays. Windows 10 Game Ready Driver support will now be available for GeForce RTX GPUs until October 2026, a year beyond when Microsoft is planning to stop supporting the operating system on October […]
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It was a sweltering Sunday in Brooklyn. Instead of being wasteful and spending $10 on a five-minute Uber, I decided to walk the 20 minutes to a cutesy Japanese stationery cafe with an even cutesier name. Despite the 85 percent humidity, my vanity demanded I wear a full face of makeup with a snatched nose […]
It’s been a little over a month since the Switch 2 launched, and Nintendo’s ready to share more of the games coming to the console. Todayâs Nintendo Direct presentation will be a short one at only 25 minutes long, and focused exclusively on third-party games. It’s likely that Hades 2 will make an appearance. The […]
Whether you’re on a road trip or a plane ride, these are our favorite travel strollers that fold as flat as possible.
DJI has announced the companyâs first 360-degree action camera designed to compete with the Insta360 X5 and the aging GoPro Max (which the company is planning to replace soon). The new DJI Osmo 360 slightly edges out the X5âs recording capabilities by capturing 8K videos at 50fps instead of 30fps, and features a design thatâs […]
You could fill a stadium or two with all the cheap headphones out there. We tested a ton of the best headphones under $100 to help you pick the right pair.