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He Couldn’t Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?
Armed with some Python and a white-hot sense of injustice, one medical student spent six months trying to figure out whether an algorithm trashed his job application.
View the articleAs workers worry about AI, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI is ‘creating an enormous number of jobs’
The Nvidia CEO seems to feel that claims of AI's job-killing potential have been greatly exaggerated.
View the articleGeothermal startup Fervo Energy to raise up to $1.3B in IPO
Enhanced geothermal startup Fervo Energy’s IPO could value the company at up to $6.5 billion.
View the articleGreg Brockman Defends $30B OpenAI Stake: ‘Blood, Sweat, and Tears’
OpenAI’s cofounder and president revealed in federal court on Monday that he’s one of the largest individual stakeholders in the AI lab.
View the articleUS government warns of severe CopyFail bug affecting major versions of Linux
U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says the CopyFail bug is being actively used in hacking campaigns, and poses a major risk to servers and data centers that rely on Linux.
View the articleOpenAI’s cozy partner Cerebras is on track for a blockbuster IPO
AI chip maker Cerebras is heading for a blockbuster IPO that could value it at $26.6 billion or more. Its relationship with OpenAI is deep and rich.
View the articleKatie Haun raises $1B for new venture funds
Katie Haun announced on Monday that $1 billion has been raised across new funds to continue the firm’s thesis of backing crypto and blockchain startups.
View the articleImage AI models now drive app growth, beating chatbot upgrades
Appfigures finds visual model launches generate 6.5x more downloads — but most don’t convert that spike into revenue.
View the articleHackers are mass-exploiting the cPanel bug to gain control of thousands of websites
Days after the disclosure of a critical vulnerability in popular web hosting software cPanel and WHM, hackers are now targeting and hacking thousands of vulnerable websites.
View the articleElon Musk’s only AI expert witness at the OpenAI trial fears an AGI arms race
Stuart Russell is a long-time AI researcher who thinks governments need to restrain frontier labs.
View the articleSierra raises $950M as the race to own enterprise AI gets serious
The raise gives Sierra more than $1 billion to work with — capital the company says it will use to become the "global standard" for AI-powered customer experiences.
View the articleElon Musk sent ominous texts to Greg Brockman, Sam Altman after asking for a settlement, OpenAI claims
Musk texted OpenAI's president and co-founder saying that he and CEO Sam Altman "will be the most hated men in America."
View the articleAnthropic and OpenAI are both launching joint ventures for enterprise AI services
Both Anthropic and OpenAI have partnered with asset managers to more aggressively market their enterprise AI products.
View the articleAs X shuts down Communities, Acorn debuts an alternative that puts creators in control
Acorn lets organizations build and run their own online communities using decentralized tech, with custom feeds, moderation, and analytics tools.
View the articleUS healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
Virginia and Washington, D.C. paused the data collection and sharing, after Bloomberg's investigation found their health insurance marketplaces were sharing users' information with advertisers.
View the articleAmazon opens up its global logistics network to all businesses
The new service, called Amazon Supply Chain Services, pits the e-commerce giant directly against UPS and FedEx.
View the article5 days only: Bring a partner or colleague and get 50% off a second TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass
The BOGO offer is live. For a limited time, buy one pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and get 50% off a second of the same ticket type. Offer ends this Friday, May 8. Save here.
View the articleBarocal can cool your food and drink by squeezing a hunk of plastic crystals
Barocal might have discovered a cheap, nonpolluting material that could dethrone today's refrigeration technology.
View the articleDoorDash adds AI tools to speed up merchant onboarding, edit photos of dishes
DoorDash on Monday added new AI-powered tools that let merchants speed up onboarding, edit photos to make dishes look better, and create new websites from existing content.
View the articleOuster’s new color lidar is coming to replace cameras
A sensor that can simultaneously capture depth and image data has long been a "holy grail," Ouster CEO Angus Pacala told TechCrunch.
View the articleNicolas Sauvage is betting on the boring parts of AI
The portfolio he has assembled since 2019 is dotted with technologies that have become more widely interesting to VCs over the last year:
View the articleWe’ll take it: a TikToker rallies pledges to buy Spirit Airlines after its abrupt weekend collapse
Within hours he'd thrown up a website — a janky, one-hour job, by his own admission — and by Sunday, 36,000 "founding patrons" had pledged nearly $23 million, crashing his servers in the process.
View the article‘This is fine’ creator says AI startup stole his art
The ad comes from Artisan, the AI startup behind billboards urging businesses to "stop hiring humans."
View the articleIn Harvard study, AI offered more accurate emergency room diagnoses than two human doctors
A new study examines how large language models perform in a variety of medical contexts, including real emergency room cases — where at least one model seemed to be more accurate than human doctors....
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