Tag: Startup

It’s not just you: AI startups are taking in a huge amount of seed funding, and in the process making things harder for anyone looking for funding even at a pre-seed stage. We’ve covered the trend in detail, and at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt event, we want to help pre-seed founders now being held to seed-stage…

Some Amazon customers logged on Friday to a surprise bill estimate claiming that they owed the tech and cloud giant billions in fees…

The internet map of the world is not drawn by engineers. It is drawn by lawyers, by regulators, and by whoever is willing to sign the local paperwork. A rocket can reach any patch of ground on Earth. A license cannot. That gap between what a technology can do and what a government will let…

It’s one of those things that you hope you never need but should absolutely have…

South Korea-US team unveils robotic technology that dresses the wearer

Tom Dunlop is cofounder and CEO of Summize, an AI-powered CLM solution, and a former General Counsel for high-growth technology companies. getty​First came the excitement. AI and machine learning meant that people could analyze data faster and automate work that used to take hours. Then came the reality check. Despite widespread adoption, many organizations struggled…

While the rest of the AI industry races to label its work as “AGI” or “superintelligence,” Alexandre LeBrun, the CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, avoids the terms altogether. Lebrun said in an interview with TechCrunch that the company doesn’t use terms like “AGI” or “superintelligence” at all. “We never used the word…

4:00 AM PDT · July 16, 2026 Meta announced on Thursday that it will now notify parents if their teen discusses suicide or self-harm with the company’s Meta AI chatbot. Meta says it’s also working on the ability to contact emergency services if someone’s conversations suggest they may be at imminent risk of suicide. These…

I can’t imagine holding the 2019 Echo Studio like this. The new model is considerably smaller and lighter.Prakhar KhannaThe Amazon Echo Studio (2025) was unveiled at Amazon’s fall hardware event in September last year and launched in India in May 2026. Amazon says its new-generation smart speaker is 40% smaller, boasts “premium audio,” and utilizes…

IBM shares crashed toward their worst single trading day in nearly four decades on Tuesday, July 14, after CEO Arvind Krishna told investors the company’s second quarter fell short of what Wall Street expected. Within hours of that warning, one bank cut its price target and told clients to consider …