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What the jury will actually decide in the case of Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman
Here's what the biggest tech court case of the year is all about.
View the articleElon Musk’s SpaceXAI has been bleeding staff since its merger
More than 50 employees have reportedly left Elon Musk’s newly merged SpaceXAI since February, raising questions about burnout, leadership changes, talent poaching, and whether liquidity events weake...
View the articleOpenAI says Codex is coming to your phone
The update gives users enhanced flexibility over how they can manage their workflows.
View the articleTwo from MIT named 2026 Knight-Hennessy Scholars
The prestigious fellowship funds graduate studies at Stanford University.
View the articleLovable just backed a company that’s looking to bring vibe coding to hardware
Hardware company Atech raised $800,000 in pre-seed funding, including from a16z’s scout fund, Sequoia Scout Fund, and Nordic Makers.
View the articleAn Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta
Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workers’ keystrokes and mouse activity.
View the articleCerebras IPO makes billions for Benchmark but VC Eric Vishria almost didn’t take the meeting
Benchmark almost never backs hardware startups. So Eric Vishria dragged his feet ten years ago before agreeing to hear Cerebras' pitch.
View the articleWhat happens when AI starts building itself?
Richard Socher's new $650 million startup wants to build an AI that can research and improve itself indefinitely — and he insists it will actually ship products.
View the articleOpenAI is reportedly preparing legal action against Apple; it wouldn’t be the first partner to feel burned
OpenAI is so frustrated with Apple over a ChatGPT integration that failed to deliver the subscribers and prominence it expected that the company is now actively exploring legal action against the iPho...
View the articleClawdmeter turns your Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard
A new open source gadget called Clawdmeter turns Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard for AI coding power users.
View the articleTrump’s Tech Posse in China, Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman, and Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories
Today on Uncanny Valley, we discuss how Donald Trump’s visit to China could influence conversations between world leaders at a moment when the economic and foreign policy stakes couldn’t be higher...
View the articleYouTube viewers watch 2 billion hours of Shorts on TVs each month
Short-form video is built for mobile, so it may seem counterintuitive, but it's true: YouTube Shorts are becoming quite popular on the big screen.
View the articleCerebras raises $5.5B, then stock pops $108%, in the first huge tech IPO of 2026
A year ago, it looked like this day would never happen for Cerebras.
View the articleOpenAI says hackers stole some data after latest code security issue
OpenAI said the damage was limited to the employees’ devices, and did not affect user data nor its production systems, and none of its intellectual property was stolen.
View the articleSpotify to adopt Apple’s new video podcast tech, offering creators easier cross-platform distribution
Spotify will let creators distribute and monetize video podcasts on Apple Podcasts using Apple’s HLS streaming technology, without changing their existing workflows.
View the articleKhosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose first startup, Bench, imploded
Crosby is building Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service for other startups.
View the articleHow to turn off Instagram’s new Instants feature and retract photos you accidentally shared
While the Meta-owned social network billed Instants as a new format to share real-life moments as they’re happening, many users are looking for a way to turn off the feature, especially those who ...
View the articleA spyware investigator exposed Russian government hackers trying to hijack Signal accounts
A group of likely Russian government hackers tried to hack a security researcher who investigates spyware attacks. He was then able to turn the tables on the hackers and reveal details of their espion...
View the articleCisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to spend more on AI, reports ‘record quarterly revenue’
This is Cisco's latest layoff in recent years, while the company's chief executive touts record revenue and growth.
View the articleTwo weeks left: Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27
Your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100K equity-free funding is running out. Deadline to apply is May 27. Apply now.
View the articleWirestock raises $23M to supply creative multimodal data to AI labs
Wirestock has over 700,000 creators on its platform, which supplies photos, videos and 3D content to AI labs.
View the articleUber to open 2 campuses in India to support product development, operations
Uber plans to open two new engineering campuses with a capacity of nearly 10,000 people in India by the end of 2027.
View the articleAI Promised the Audemars Piguet x Swatch Wristwatch. China Will Deliver It
Watch fans spent a week falling in love with colorful Royal Oak wristwatches that didn’t exist—then the real thing arrived. Now, fantasy is becoming a manufacturing opportunity.
View the articleGen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth
The first generation to truly grow up online, Generation Z and their cohort live in a social media ecosystem that blends facts and feelings. It’s significantly shifting how they understand what’s ...
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