Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.
From the opening moments of bitknot, it's obvious that Feeble Little Horse has found an entirely new gear. Where on Girl with Fish the blown-out textures were more '90s indie rock and shoegaze, on their latest LP, there's a more modern edge to the distortion and the riffs cut cleaner. Similarly, where the digital glitchiness […]
United flight 236 from Newark to Palma de Mallorca on Saturday night was forced to turn around just an hour after takeoff due to security concerns around a Bluetooth signal. Multiple Redditors claimed to be on the flight and reported that the crew repeatedly requested passengers to turn off their Bluetooth. According to one poster, […]
On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether tech CEOs are "uniquely prone to AI psychosis."
Speaking to TechCrunch, Crunchbase’s head of research Gené Teare, said the factors holding back Black founders include “access to networks, relationships, and early introductions."
My eyes have seen the PC gaming promised land, and it's a beautifully bright world without a shred of blurriness. It's warm, it looks lovely, and it's impeccably sharp. Also, it's expensive as hell. I've dipped my toe in this world by testing a pre-production version of the upcoming Asus ROG Strix Scar 18, which […]
IO Interactive’s 007 First Light is here, and it’s just as stunning a James Bond mov — err, video game — as we hoped it would be. Pardon the confusion, the title’s engaging tutorial really feels like you’re watching a great Bond movie at times. Whether you’re a longtime Hitman fan who’s been eagerly waiting […]
Earlier this month, I finally achieved the elusive goal I had set for myself in Bungie's Marathon. I collected six of the game's rarest items, allowing me to attempt and then successfully clear the raid-style Compiler boss. I felt a massive weight lift off my shoulders - nearly 185 hours of playtime and I had […]
On Saturday, at around 2:06 pm ET, a meteor streaked over the northeastern US and exploded north of Cape Cod Bay. The fireball was caught on camera by several people, shook houses, and can even be seen clearly in satellite imagery, lighting up the sky. Some residents initially thought that the shaking and boom may […]
The Enhanced Games — a singular sporting competition where a majority of the athletes were on performance enhancing drugs — may herald a new business model that the tech industry is ready to embrace.
The crypto weed vape found me on 4/20, the high holiday of cannabis enthusiasts everywhere. It arrived over Slack with the thumbnail of a man exhaling a plume of vapor, the words "every hit delivers Bitcoin" emblazoned across it. It claimed to be advertising a device called Gudtrip, and I thought everything about it sounded […]
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about gadgets and smartphones, follow Dominic Preston. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started In 2023, the European Union agreed on two landmark pieces […]
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The M-Track Duo HD Producer Pack removes the last remaining excuse for terrible audio and potentially terrible opinions.
Despite headwinds from the current administration, automakers continue to release well-equipped EVs with bigger battery packs and increasingly faster charging speeds. For those who want to travel further between plugging in, the future is still bright, just slightly tinted. But there haven't been many sedans starting around or below $50,000, as crossover SUVs have largely […]
Find out whether a single Wi-Fi router or a mesh system makes the most sense for your home network.
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From specialized motors to the use of machine learning algorithms, Turkey’s billion-dollar hair-transplant industry is the result of a constant process of innovation.
The goal, the firm said, is to develop and operate up to 5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity.
The Spanish soccer player posted a bunch of images featuring the mystery product.
The YouTube-to-prestige-horror pipeline is looking very strong.
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A group of 20 Snap alumni has come together to launch a fund called Ghost Angels to back the next generation of social media.
The Kane Parsons' film Backrooms is expected to earn up to $90 million in its opening weekend after pulling down $38 million on Friday alone. That's not only above expectations, but absolutely obliterates A24's previous opening weekend record of $25.5 million for Alex Garland's Civil War. It's also a better opening day than The Mandalorian […]
The golden age of Microsoft's Github Copilot appears to be at an end.
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Meta seems to be making big bets on AI-powered hardware.
Gemini Spark helps automate everyday tasks, from inbox summaries to local event planning, but it’s unclear why Google made it a separate product.
"If you're 22 years old in San Francisco and building something in AI, there may be a seed term sheet in your inbox — but if you're 19, oh my God, this means you're really good; you might already have a Series A [offer]," said one, half-kiddingly.
The Fitbit Air isn't the only Whoop alternative that you can buy without a subscription.
We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.
The Ninja Artisan Outdoor Pizza Oven is aimed at people who want delicious pizza nights without having to deal with things like propane or wood pellets, unlike many other pizza ovens.
TikTok may be working to become the app that people use for most of their digital activities.
A new book looks into the long history of people who have opposed vaccines.
Keychron's K2 HE Concrete Edition sounds like a cute gimmick, but as I discovered, there's a really solid keyboard beyond the absurd choice of materials.
Kane Parsons was just 16 years old when he created a viral YouTube horror series based on a 4chan meme. Now he’s ready to conquer the big screen.
With inflation and gas prices rising, I’m trying to save money wherever I can. I tested Tello’s budget cell phone plan, and for me, it turns out prepaid can be just as good.
Plus: A ransomware group is now stealing data in person, BusPatrol wants to hand its license plate surveillance data to the cops, and more.
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Trump admin wants to rely on states for coal ash monitoring, enforcement, allow them to bypass national standards.
A walk in the cemetery led to Cornell researchers discovering an underground colony of bees with an estimated population of 5.5 million—one of the largest ever recorded.
I tested Wispr Flow and various AI-powered transcription software to see whether you should bother subscribing or stick with free services.
The first electric Ferrari is already this year’s most divisive car. We asked three Italian auto industry professionals to explain where the EV’s design makes sense, and where it doesn’t add up.
The activewear giant has used chemical recycling to make jersey for 16 teams competing in the tournament. But the technique is unlikely to help solve fashion’s waste issue.
The ruling drew support from founders, while lawyers said it could force platforms to revisit how they handle trademarked keywords.
Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.
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SpaceX already generated one-fifth of its 2025 revenue from government contracts, the company revealed in its IPO filing.
While AI is helping coders produce code faster, it may not be producing better code, researchers warn. And that could cause problems down the road for them.
The US has previously built specialized facilities just for this purpose.
Loryn Brantz created The Good Advice Cupcake for BuzzFeed years ago. The company licensed the character for a new Amazon series—made with AI—without her consent.
The website, which compares human beings to extraterrestrials, touts arrest numbers from the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown. But some of its details are really out there.
Soon-to-be-laid-off Meta contractors say they’re being treated differently than Mark Zuckerberg’s full-time employees, who stand to receive more generous severance packages.
Google’s new AI agent combed through my emails, documents, and calendar to plan a birthday party and still didn’t clock the person most important to me.
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.
The botnet was reportedly tied to a Russia-based residential proxy network.
About 1 in 5 cases were hospitalized and most of those developed complications.
"The crown is a weight that crushes. You'll do things that spell death for all involved."
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The people deciding that AI can replace your job are also the ones least likely to understand what your job truly involves, according to Box founder Aaron Levie, who pointed to this as an example of “AI psychosis.” Indeed, ClickUp recently cut 22% of its workforce for AI agents, tech layoffs in 2026 are already nearly matching all of 2025, […]
DOJ keeps accusing ICE monitoring sites of doxing, but evidence remains scarce.
Send the pool guy packing. Let one of these robotic buddies maintain your water quality instead.
Chipmaker Groq is looking to raise $650 million in internal funding as it pivots from hardware to focus more on AI inference, the process of refining the way AI models respond to prompted requests, per Axios.
A book about how AI shapes perceptions of reality came under fire for using AI-generated quotes. Its problems go beyond that.
The latest twist in paying humans to wear head cameras for robot training data.
Until recently, a driver had maybe a six in ten chance of finishing a race.
Made for those who hate having a TV in the home, Samsung’s Movingstyle monitor-on-wheels brings the entertainment when you need it and hides away in a closet when you don’t.
They seem to reorganize their tissues and then just keep living.
Pope Leo XIV may not be able to disarm AI, but he’s got the attention of the industry.
The detonation of the New Glenn rocket resulted in a huge fireball in Florida and may have long-term implications for the company's ambitions.
A new crew launched to China's Tiangong space station, and one of the astronauts will stay for a year.
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Stop fumbling for cables in the dark. These WIRED-tested stands and pads will take the hassle out of refueling your phone, wireless earbuds, and watch.
I'm one of those people who enjoys working on planes and in public spaces in general. But the issue of privacy was always a hurdle.
To get to $600, Apple and HP made different compromises. If you demand more power and performance, the HP Omnibook 3 delivers.
US Infectious diseases centers launched during COVID have lost their funding under Trump.
Consoles with disc drives are the easiest way to enjoy all kinds of physical media, but that could end with the next-gen PlayStation 6 and Microsoft's Project Helix.
Built like a tank, the endlessly capable GoRuck GR1 is as close to a do-it-all bag as you can get.
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New Glenn was due to play a starring role in NASA's Artemis Program.
Claims about low testosterone and false accusations of veganism might play well to the online far right, but will they win an election?
Audi has developed an entirely new electric torque-vectoring rear differential.
Fine-tuning tests show "bias... toward confidently representing the claims as true."
LinkerBot makes dexterous robotic hands for as little as $600. It wants to become the standard for humanoids and automated factories—and eventually replace human labor altogether.
Meta’s upcoming Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus subscriptions are the latest example of the company seeing what works elsewhere and mimicking it.
The US military has long known that cheap fixes could stop location data from exposing its troops. It adopted almost none—and now says adversaries are using the data to target soldiers during a war.
The pale-blue Ojai vehicles will start picking up members of the public in California and Arizona in the next few weeks.
Robotics is entering a new phase: moving from controlled demos and scripted automation toward generalizable, reliable embodied autonomy in the real world. At the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), eight of NVIDIA Research’s 28 accepted papers show how simulation-to-real transfer is becoming a foundation for that shift, helping robots perceive, reason, plan and […]
License to stream, shaken and stirred. GeForce NOW is dialing up the espionage with the launch of 007 First Light, letting members slip into James Bond’s reimagined origin story from almost any device — no tux or preloads required. For a limited time, the game is included with the purchase of a 12‑month GeForce NOW […]
It’s slimmer, lighter, and more durable. But the real upgrade is Oura’s push into AI-powered health insights and proactive monitoring.
Created from fabric scraps that would otherwise end up in a landfill, this thoughtfully constructed bag looks great and can carry everything you need for a weeklong trip.
New mothers working in software development are staring down an AI-pilled workplace they barely recognize.
With sharper resolution and lightning-fast performance, Canon’s latest full-frame mirrorless punches well above its class.
The Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases were launched during the Covid-19 pandemic. The group lost its funding under Trump in part due to conspiracy theories.
The tech giant says a breakthrough in data center networking has dramatically accelerated the flow of information through its massive cloud infrastructure.
Customer data from more than 350 hotels around the world may have been accessed as part of realistic reservation-hijacking scams.
Meet the wet bulb globe temperature, the ominous measure that shows when it's too hot to go outside.
So far this year, authorities have seized or demanded ballots from elections in four states. Experts fear the trend could throw the midterms into chaos unless courts draw a line.
AI factories are token factories, converting power into intelligence in real time. And as agentic AI scales and autonomous, always-on special agents are deployed in the enterprise, performance per watt and cost per token become the economics that matter.
The shift to agentic AI creates a new CPU requirement for the AI factory: fast cores, massive memory bandwidth and the ability to sustain high performance when all cores are active. Initial benchmark results published by Phoronix today show that the NVIDIA Vera CPU meets this need. For this first public look, the benchmark scope […]
At NVIDIA GTC Taipei at COMPUTEX, the world’s developers, researchers and industry leaders are converging to dive into the latest breakthroughs shaping every industry, covering topics spanning AI factories and scaling infrastructure to agentic and physical AI and more.
The mission begins now. GeForce NOW is dialing up the action with a blockbuster mix of spy thrills, high-speed racing and member rewards — plus eight new games joining the cloud this week, all ready to stream instantly. Leading the drop: the 007 First Light Ultimate Membership Bundle, which brings a brand-new way to jump […]
At this year’s Google I/O conference, NVIDIA and Google Cloud are accelerating the work of more than 100,000 developers in the companies’ joint developer community, which provides curated learning paths, hands-on labs and events that help them build using the full-stack NVIDIA AI platform on Google Cloud. Launched at Google I/O last year, the community […]
For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On Tuesday, Google will formally retire that paradigm. At its annual I/O developer conference , Google announced a sweeping redesign of the search box itself — the literal text field where billions of queries begin every day — transforming it from a simple keyword input into a dynamic, AI-driven con
Agentic AI inference at one-tenth the cost per token with NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72. Agent sandboxes run 50% faster on NVIDIA Vera than traditional CPUs — while enterprise data queries are up to 3x faster with the Vera CPU. And 5,000 enterprises like Lilly, Samsung and Honeywell are running AI workloads on Dell AI Factories […]
The first NVIDIA Vera CPUs arrived at three of the world's leading AI labs on Friday — Anthropic in San Francisco, OpenAI in Mission Bay, SpaceXAI in Palo Alto — followed by a delivery to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Santa Clara on Monday. NVIDIA Vice President of Hyperscale and High-Performance Computing Ian Buck hand-delivered them.
Editor’s note: The Gaijin single sign-on feature is now up and running. Dive masks on — Subnautica 2 is making a splash on GeForce NOW day-and-date with launch, so members can plunge into the title’s brand-new alien ocean from almost any device. It leads 11 new games joining the cloud this week. A limited-time HITMAN […]
Reinforcement-learning agents — AI systems that learn by trial and error — can convert computation into new knowledge. That’s the focus of a new engineering-level collaboration between NVIDIA and Ineffable Intelligence, the London-based AI lab founded by AlphaGo architect David Silver in the wake of Ineffable’s emergence from stealth last week. “The next frontier of […]
Agentic AI is changing the way users get work done. Following the success of OpenClaw, the community is embracing new open source agentic frameworks. The latest is Hermes Agent, which crossed 140,000 GitHub stars in under three months.
Announced today at SAP Sapphire — where NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang joined SAP CEO Christian Klein’s keynote by video — SAP and NVIDIA’s expanded collaboration helps enterprises run specialized agents with security and governance controls.
“You are entering the world at an extraordinary moment,” NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates as he delivered the keynote address at Carnegie Mellon University’s 128th commencement ceremony on Sunday. “A new industry is being born. A new era of science and discovery is beginning.” “No generation has entered the world with more […]
AI will help build the energy it needs. That’s the case U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and NVIDIA Vice President of Hyperscale and High-Performance Computing Ian Buck made Thursday morning at the SCSP AI+ Expo. The 30-minute fireside chat, moderated by SCSP president Ylli Bajraktari, was called “Powering the Next American Century.” Their argument: American […]
Less typing, more tanking. Faster logins mean more time in the gaming action — and this week provides GeForce NOW members with a smoother path straight into the battlefield. Cloud gaming is all about instant access to titles across devices, and the latest GeForce NOW update removes another layer for members jumping into their Gaijin […]
Around 170 roles are said to be affected.
At least there's a toggle to easily turn this off.
It's consciously designed to appeal more to corporate buyers.
There's an obvious conflict between business and ordinary users.
The race to build the world’s most powerful AI factories demands networking that keeps pace with the ambitions of AI itself. NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet scale-out infrastructure stands at the forefront of that race as the most advanced AI networking technology available today, deployed by industry leaders who can’t afford to compromise on performance, resilience or […]
Uber and Nuro plan to start fully autonomous testing later this year.
Its parent company Aylo says age-verified iOS users in the UK will now be able to fully access the adult website.
Make and mod your own accessories if you've already got the gamepad.
The proposed settlement is the result of a class action lawsuit filed in California.
This five-year deal is one of many circular agreements keeping the AI sector afloat.
The AI assistant is no longer coming to consoles and will be removed from the Xbox mobile app.
Both remakes were already released on Steam and the macOS App Store.
European law requires large platforms to offer alternative feeds.
iPads and Macs are also expected to embrace external options for generative AI.
State investigators found a chatbot that claimed it had a medical license and could write prescriptions.
Activision Blizzard seems to be focusing on next-gen platforms.
Enterprise AI has learned to generate. It has learned to reason. Now companies are asking the next question: How should AI act? Early agent systems have shown what’s possible, moving beyond simple prompts to take on more complex tasks. The next step is bringing those capabilities into enterprise environments — where agents must operate with […]
Railway , a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surging demand for artificial intelligence applications exposes the limitations of legacy cloud infrastructure. TQ Ventures led the round, with participation from FPV Ventures , Redpoint , and Unusual Ventures . The investment values Railway as one of the most significant infrast
The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code , Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination of software developers worldwide. But its pricing — ranging from $20 to $200 per month depending on usage — has sparked a growing rebellion among the very programmers it aims to serve. Now, a free alternative is gaining traction. Goose , an open-source AI agent develope
Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs , needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent $5,000 — a fifth of his marketing budget — on a billboard in San Francisco displaying what looked like gibberish: five strings of random numbers. The numbers were actually AI tokens. Decoded, they led to a coding challenge: build an algorithm to act as a digital bouncer at Berghain, the Ber
Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot , the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and taking action on behalf of employees. The new Slackbot, now generally available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, is Salesforce's most aggressive move yet to position Slack at the center of the emergin
Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude Code itself. The launch marks a major inflection point in the race to deliver practical AI agents to mainstream users, positioning Anthropic to compete not just with OpenAI and Google in conversational AI, but w
Nous Research , the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm , released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several larger proprietary systems — trained in just four days using 48 of Nvidia's latest B200 graphics processors . The model, called NousCoder-14B , is another entry in a crowded field of AI coding assistants, but arrives at a particularly charged moment: Claude Code , the agentic programming t