Telecom giant is partnering with $9 billion Perplexity AI startup to debut a voice-first smartphone in 2026, promising to succeed where Rabbit R1 and Humane Ai Pin failed Source
On June 5, TechCrunch Sessions: AI will kick off — and you can be part of the industry-changing conversations that will be taking place. We have an open invitation for members…
Hospitality scaleup Mews, based at TNW City in Amsterdam, has secured $75mn in its third major cash injection of the last year. The round follows a raise of $100M in…
Pictory co-founders Vishal Chalana, left, and Abid Mohammed accept the Startup of the Year award at the 2024 GeekWire Awards. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) The finalists are locked in…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points Cohere for AI, AI startup Cohere’s nonprofit research lab, this week released a multimodal “open” AI model, Aya Vision, the lab claimed is…
Anthropic co-founders Dario Amodei (left) and Daniela Amodei. (Anthropic Photo) Anthropic is adding more rocket fuel to its engine as the high-flying San Francisco startup behind the Claude chatbot and…
In recent years, Josef Fares and Hazelight Studios have established themselves as the masters of a certain unique brand of co-op-focused games, including 2018’s prison-escape adventure A Way Out and…
Fintech startup Cino, a TNW community member, has secured €3.5mn for its shared payments app that lets friends and family pay together. Cino is designed for tech-savvy Gen Z’ers, who…
The rooftop park on Ocean Pavilion offers views of the Seattle skyline and Elliott Bay. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Seattle’s startup scene needs more swag and more big swings.…
Venture investment to startups founded by women in Europe declined 12% in 2024, but it was in line with the 11% decrease in venture investment overall. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights…
The obscure world of quantum computing is emerging from the lab and into the public domain — fuelled by Big Tech’s recent progress in quantum processors. In the past few…
Cross-border trade could be getting a lot more tricky with the wave of new tariffs getting introduced across different markets. Today in a timely piece of news, a London-founded startup…
Discover how Rollovers as Business Startups (ROBS) can fund your business using retirement savings — requirements, pros, cons, and compliance tips. Source
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points Agents are the next big thing in AI. Some define these “agents” differently from others, but the general idea is, they’re AI-powered tools…
Back in January, Nubia's Flip 2 foldable smartphone made its official debut in Japan, marking the company's second venture into the foldable space. Now, it's gone global, making its debut…
Despite clouds of uncertainty looming over the economy and geopolitics, people still want to travel. To meet that demand, Mews, an Amsterdam-founded startup building an SaaS platform for hotel management,…
While Venmo or Splitwise are effectively ‘debt collector’ tools, which require one person to pay a full bill and then request funds from others, neither have cracked bill-splitting at the…
Big tech companies aren’t sleeping on quantum chips: Amazon Web Services introduced Ocelot; Microsoft, Majorana; and Google, Willow. But although all of these can be considered to be breakthroughs, quantum…
(Rec Room Image) The eponymous Seattle-based company behind the virtual hangout app Rec Room has cut 16% of its workforce. “This wasn’t an easy decision, but ultimately it’s one we…
Three key investors have left General Catalyst amidst a series of recent changes at the firm, which now describes itself as an ‘investment and transformation company,’ TechCrunch has learned. The…