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The PR firm was enlisted shortly after an October 2025 New York Times report described Alice Huang's business dealings with Jensen Huang, Wired reported.
Exclusive: Wyndham left a hardcoded credential in its customer app, allowing anyone to access customer data. The hotel giant wouldn't say if it has the ability to check for any past unauthorized access.
Six months before Nvidia's spy scandal erupted, Culper Research was already questioning Jensen Huang's unusually close relationship with a Chinese executive.
Geothermal company Fervo is targeting natural gas as it brings down geothermal drilling costs at its 8.4 GW resource in Utah.
The Nvidia CEO also pulled out of an Anthropic event earlier.
YouTube will resume sharing streaming data with Billboard in 2027 after changes to the chart formula give more weight to free, ad-supported music streams.
Anthropic says the new models "show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision," as well as in communicating more clearly with users.
France's foreign minister blamed Iran for launching at least two waves of cyberattacks targeting industrial refrigerated and freezer units across France and wider Europe.
Jensen Huang’s alleged affair with a suspected Chinese spy threatens to complicate Nvidia’s lobbying efforts to loosen U.S. chip export restrictions and maintain access to China’s lucrative AI market.
At 10 cents per million input tokens, Ember is significantly cheaper than frontier competitors like Haiku and Luna.
The AI company is expected to set its valuation range this week, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Nvidia’s stock slid more than 4% after its board opened an investigation into Jensen Huang’s relationship with a suspected Chinese spy, and one securities law expert says the company’s earlier insistence that it was all “normal” could turn into a very expensive problem.
Nominal, a startup that offers an AI platform for hardware engineering and claims Anduril as a major customer, has raised another big round of financing that triples its valuation.
Uber Parking is the latest example of the company offering products beyond its core ride-hailing service.
Anthropic bought billions of dollars' worth of natural gas turbines in a deal that could give it buyer's remorse.
Medium's new writing app embraces AI-assisted writing, despite growing controversy over the technology's role in publishing.
Meta says it will use its AI technology to look for clues about people it suspects to be teenagers — even if they use an adult birthday.
The update to Waymo's self-driving system was rolled out nearly a year ago.
Automattic aims to compete with the likes of Lovable with Spacefast.
The new music discovery app lets users scroll through 10- to 30-second snippets of songs, comment, and share with friends.
Elon Musk defended the company's decision to stop making the Cybertruck, which will go out of production in around eight months.
This will be the next Texas city in which Tesla will launch robotaxis.
Nvidia’s board is investigating Jensen Huang over his relationship with a suspected Chinese spy, and Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld thinks it’s roughly a coin flip whether Huang stays on as CEO.
It's hard to break the cycle of doomscrolling, but there are plenty of apps that can help you spend more time on content that’s engaging and productive.
In a memo to the company, Huang admitted that he had an affair.
Snap's Specs, which have been in development for many years now, are going to market this fall. Will they be a hit with users?
Mystery solved: Coordinated power drops have been haunting power grids worldwide, but a team of researchers in Germany found the culprit.
A new report claims Sequoia's recent changes undo the legacy of the firm's former steward.
SNL seems to have its knives out for tech executives.
Stephen Ward, a former Secret Service agent and Home Depot CISO, is preparing a second fund of roughly $250 million for Brightmind Partners.
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
The AutoBarista's "Grind iQ" technology allows the machine to analyze your coffee beans to inform how it pulls a shot of espresso.
On Equity, we unpacked what the midterms mean for the tech industry.
As parents look for alternatives to unrestricted smartphones, a growing number of companies are building phones designed specifically for kids, from feature-limited mobile devices to minimalist home phones.
The announcement comes barely more than a week after hackers stole $6.3 billion worth of cryptocurrency from Binance users.
Amazon's redesigned basic Kindle costs more than before, but its lighter build and improved display make a compelling case for skipping the pricier models.
A memo circulated earlier this year reportedly claimed that China’s Ministry of State Security recruited a female technology executive to spy on Nvidia's CEO.
Sequoia pioneered the scouts model and many VC firms followed suit, but a consensus now seems to be forming that the model has reached limits in its current form.
After spending two years getting cozy with the White House, Big Tech is suddenly trying to make friends with Democrats, and the open question is whether that image makeover can hold up against what states, local communities, and the markets are about to do.
The deal highlights the challenges of developing massive AI data centers.
OpenAI has reportedly raised an additional $11 billion as part of a funding round that hasn't closed yet but is expected to in the coming weeks.
There are now 100,000 Duo-optimized apps, says Apple, and thousands more arrive daily.
Security researchers found hundreds of servers hosting the penetration testing tool Artex exposed to the internet, allowing anyone access to the hacking tool.
Meta's Muse agents continue to get new features and integrations. Spaces promises to be a new way to interact with the AI helpers.
Democrats’ historic victories in this week’s U.S. midterm elections could also transform the tech industry. The public voted on 41 data center-related ballot measures on Tuesday — in all but one, the majority voted to impose more restrictions on data center development. And even when data centers weren’t on the ballot…
The Pentagon has conditionally approved a $250 million loan to help 6K scale up its microwave-plasma battery material manufacturing process.
A few months after DOJ investigators were probing the deal, Fox just completed its $22B acquisition of the streaming giant Roku.
AI usage keeps climbing, but spending has stalled. Price cuts and smarter cost controls among the biggest spenders could challenge investor assumptions about AI hypergrowth.
Amazon said that the feature will roll out to millions of users in coming weeks.
Despite its small size, Underdog's new model can generate both speech and music.
Physicl is trying to solve the sim-to-real gap with a pipeline originally built to market goods online.
The decision to wind down the EV comes after just a few short years of underwhelming sales. Elon Musk said the company will use the factory space to make more Cybercabs.
Clutch, backed by Lightspeed and SignalFire, was last valued at $85 million, according to a source.
Letterboxd, an online platform for movie lovers, has grown dramatically in recent years.
If it goes into effect next year, this California law would restrict social media access for children under 16.
Serve Robotics announced alonsgside its third-quarter earnings that it will launch a new business line called Physical AI Services to offer customers its connectivity and data tools.
Meta's AI agent can now take calls as a customizable animated avatar, ahead of the launch of a Tamagotchi-like wearable designed to bring Muse to life.
Meta warns that growing political opposition to data centers could threaten future AI investments, as communities push back against massive infrastructure projects.
OpenAI's newest cybersecurity model comes out as AI labs face scrutiny of their work to protect digital infrastructure.
A joint U.S. government statement says the hacks are affecting the food, transportation, and healthcare industries after reports of global mass hacks.
Speaking at a Wall Street Journal tech conference on Wednesday, the executive touted how the company had been gaining ground in the enterprise market, where rival Anthropic had already successfully made inroads.
With Personal Finance in Claude, users can connect their bank and card accounts through Plaid and ask questions about their finances.
Stephen Ward, a former Secret Service agent and Home Depot CISO, is preparing a second fund of roughly $250 million for Brightmind Partners.
The Los Angeles-based startup has now raised more than $650 million, and is working on electric trucks, emergency vehicles, and a driverless platform for the military.
Following years of fundraising, acquisitions, and expansion, food delivery startup Wonder is moving closer to becoming a publicly traded company.
The concerns range from privacy to how data is shared (and with whom) to procurement concerns.
Airbnb says its upcoming AI agent will help travelers plan trips, compare options, manage bookings, and get assistance throughout their stay.
As AI floods math with unchecked proofs, Axiom Math is betting on verification. The startup’s AI agents just formally verified the Stacks Project, one of the field’s biggest libraries.
Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said posts and likes doubled during to the U.S. midterm elections on Tuesday.
Zipline raised $1.5 billion and ramped up its partnership with Walmart.
The app will offer personalized product recommendations, shopping through livestreams and short-form videos, app-exclusive deals, in-app checkout, order tracking, and customer support.
The deal is expected to support the development of DBX Agent Cloud, a new storage platform aimed at developers building AI models and agents.
ElevenLabs said more than 25 million tracks have been generated using its music models.
The move puts Edits in more direct competition with ByteDance's CapCut, the video-editing app Meta sought to challenge when it launched Edits last year.
Aina's ring can also take calls and help you dictate notes on your Mac.
The system can supposedly answer queries four times faster, with 20% fewer errors and 90% fewer tokens used.
Today’s portable devices are too hungry to run on traditional solar panels, but RadianX says its perovskite cells promise to make charging obsolete in some cases.
While frontier AI models have solved a remarkable series of outstanding mathematics problems and made progress in the life sciences, they have yet to truly plumb the complex physics in advanced materials.
Agility arrives on the Nasdaq today as the first publicly traded pure-play humanoid robotics company.
Amazon has made Uber Eats its official restaurant delivery partner for Prime members in the United States.
The tokenmaxxing frenzy has been short-lived as bills for said tokens came due, and companies decided that token rationing might be a more fiscally sensible approach.
Data center opposition crossed party lines in Tuesday’s midterms.
AI industry PACs spent millions influencing the 2026 midterms, with mixed results. Political groups are already looking toward the next election cycle.
While it's not yet clear what kind of product the smartphone startup is cooking up, Nothing's CEO said the product is designed to leverage AI for productivity gains.
During its busiest week last quarter, Uber said only four people booked a ride using an AI agent.
The milestone comes a year after Snapchat announced a controversial limit on free storage for its Memories feature and informed users it would start requiring users to pay $1.99 per month for additional storage or subscribe to Snapchat+ to retain their Memories.
OpenAI’s Chris Lehane wants AI to define the 2028 election, proposing a new social contract that could benefit Americans while also advancing the AI giant’s own business interests.
The startup allows software engineers to deploy teams of agents to work on various aspects of a project simultaneously.
The web host said hackers exploited a vulnerability to access customer emails and files during a "deliberate attack."
Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility. But as increasingly capable models become more freely available, how do companies capture value? And with Chinese open models gaining ground, can…
DuckDuckGo is courting schools frustrated by Google's AI restrictions, pointing educators to its search engine and options to disable AI features.
The change will set up direct competition in those markets, as Uber has many other autonomous vehicle partners on its network.
The split will set up direct competition in those markets, as Uber has many other autonomous vehicle partners on its network.
The split will set up direct competition in those markets, as Uber has many other autonomous vehicle partners on its network.
It is easier to watch the Elizabeth Holmes documentary "You Can See Everything" in low Earth orbit than in London.
Sequoia is consolidating into a smaller, Bay Area–centered firm, shutting down the programs and offices it built during a 20-year expansion while announcing roughly $10 billion in new funds.
Apple's AI-powered Siri Recaps won me over in just one day, despite my privacy reservations. But there's still room for improvement.
Politicians on the left, like NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani and former FTC chair Lina Khan, accused Google of acting as an unregulated monopoly.
Titan OS has raised $110 million in funding to date.
Glade Brook, Coatue, and T. Rowe Price were among the investors that led the share sale.