Hacker claims to have hacked another organization and defaces school login page
On Tuesday, education technology giant Instructure disclosed a data breach in which hackers stole personal information such as students’ names, personal email addresses, and messages sent and received between teachers and students. Well, it looks like hackers have managed to compromise Instructural again. This time, they defaced several schools’ login pages for Canvas, the company’s […]
Elon Musk’s lawsuit exposes OpenAI’s safety record
Elon Musk’s legal efforts to dismantle OpenAI may hinge on how its commercial subsidiary strengthens or undermines Frontier Labs’ founding mission to ensure humanity benefits from artificial general intelligence. On Thursday, a federal court in Oakland, California, heard testimony from former employees and directors who said the company’s efforts to push AI products to market […]
Bumble is eliminating swipes, CEO says
Will dating app malaise finally end swiping? At least that seems to be the case with Bumble. In an interview with Axios on Thursday, Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd confirmed that Bumble is doing away with swiping, a signature feature of dating apps in the 2010s. “We’re saying goodbye to Swipe and saying hello to […]
Could Lovable’s 10% automatic raise be the cure for a toxic culture?
Stockholm-based vibecoding platform Lovable is growing its revenue at an astronomical rate. And we’re doing things that most American companies, startup or otherwise, don’t even think about. The idea is to voluntarily commit to a 10% annual raise on every employee’s anniversary. In the American corporate world, employees typically cannot receive built-in raises unless they […]
How Anthropic’s Mythos rewrites Firefox’s approach to cybersecurity
When Anthropic announced its new Mythos model in April, it also issued a stark warning to those developing the software. The institute says its model is extremely powerful at sniffing out software vulnerabilities, finding thousands of high-severity bugs that need to be fixed before they can be released publicly. Now, security researchers for Mozilla’s Firefox […]
Google unveils Whoop-like screenless Fitbit Air
Google on Thursday announced a new Fitbit Air, a screenless wearable similar to Whoop, priced at $100. The device includes 24/7 heart rate monitoring, heart rhythm monitoring with AFib (atrial fibrillation) alerts, and health and fitness tracking features such as blood oxygen level, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep stages and duration. The tech […]
2 days left: Get 50% off your second pass to Disrupt 2026
It’s been 2 days. That’s all you need to secure your spot with your partners, co-founders, and colleagues at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Currently, when you buy one pass, you get 50% off a second pass of the same type of ticket, but that offer ends on May 8th at 11:59pm PT. Then the price goes […]
China’s Moonshot AI raises $2 billion at $20 billion valuation as demand for open source AI soars
Chinese AI companies may not be raking in as much cash as their Western rivals, but their open-source models still have no shortage of interest from people who don’t mind sacrificing performance in exchange for cheaper inference. And investors are paying attention, too. Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based AI lab behind the popular Kimi series of […]
5 architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels come off
Earlier this week, five people from every layer of the AI supply chain gathered at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills to discuss everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the entire architecture behind the technology is wrong. On stage at TechCrunch: Christophe Fouquet, CEO of ASML. ASML is […]
A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto, backed by Lachy Groom
Rashi Groom, one of Silicon Valley’s hottest private investors, decided to back Indian startup Pronto just 20 minutes after his first meeting with the 24-year-old founder. Through this mutual connection, the meeting, held in February, led Groom to invest $20 million in Pronto as an extension of its Series B round, valuing the startup at […]