This lawsuit follows one filed last month by Runlayer that accused Rippling of stealing its product ideas. It's a seller- and buyer-beware market warning.

An OpenClaw agent hacked into a gym's reservation system to bump its human boss higher on a class' waitlist. And the tech industry took notice.

Let's see how this "frontier community for techno-optimists" is doing ...

Despite predictions that AI agents could make traditional apps obsolete, developers are shipping new software faster than ever. From smarter bookmarking tools and neighborhood marketplaces to digital pen pals and nature journals, here are the latest App Store finds worth adding to your Home Screen.

Uber has partnered with — and in some cases made direct investments in — about 30 autonomous vehicle companies over the past two years. Here's the list and the latest on the partnerships.

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI models for coding.

If every meeting, watercooler conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who's actually reading any of it?

Neko Health has developed proprietary body-scanning technology, which it couples with bloodwork, to assess a person's health.

OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with its agentic coding app.

It's the company's first public proof point after a year and a half spent building AI infrastructure largely out of public view.

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Dan Ives, global head of tech research and senior equity analyst at Wedbush Securities, discusses the importance of Wednesday’s earnings from Micron Technologies, tech spending on capex and the AI buildout, and how he views public-private partnerships on AI companies. (Source: Bloomberg)

TechCrunch's StrictlyVC evening in Los Angeles late last week brought together two of the more straight-talking investors working in AI right now. They were as entertaining as they were illuminating.

Superhuman, which also has an AI detection tool as part of Grammarly, has snapped up GPTZero.

A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.

Shinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely.

A new FTC lawsuit reveals how sophisticated subscription app operators can allegedly use shell companies and payment infrastructure to stay active on app stores despite mounting consumer complaints.

World models are the next big thing in AI beyond LLMs and, with this round, Odyssey has cemented itself as one of the startups to watch.

Anthropic's popularity with business users is growing so well that the latest beef with the government might actually boost it, data from Ramp suggests.