The desk
James Whitaker
Technology Editor
Reports on semiconductors, cloud infrastructure, and the industrial politics of AI.
Stories
Tech
U.S. chipmakers confront historic labor shortage, turn to university partnershipsTech
Salesforce targets over $63 billion in revenue for fiscal 2030Tech
US House approves bipartisan legislation to require standard AM radio in new vehiclesTech
Costco expands Uber Eats delivery partnership to 47 statesTech
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to attend state dinner for Trump-Xi summit in WashingtonTech
Marketing platform Noise launches initiative to turn smartphone users into paid creatorsTech
Cap table management platform Pulley to shut down in DecemberTech
Anthropic and OpenAI push to embed safety evaluators inside AI labsTech
Google says some Pixel phone owners were hacked in zero-day attacksTech
Meta prepares camera-free smart glasses following privacy backlashTech
X rolls out direct trading for U.S. users via CashtagsTech
May Mobility to go public in $1.4B SPAC deal targeting $300M in primary fundingTech
Automattic executives signed reciprocal severance deals during Mullenweg ousterTech
Hackers publish thousands of drivers’ data after breaching Florida motor vehicle databaseTech
Fortell raises $163M from Founders Fund and others to deploy AI in hearing aid marketTech
Google opens Google Home to third-party AI agents via Model Context ProtocolTech
Sen. Blumenthal warns lawmakers are losing control over AI as Washington debates regulationTech
Pentagon CTO Emil Michael opposes government tech stakes and questions AI rulesTech
Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork into a single interfaceTech
Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak to outline screen-free interface vision at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026Tech
Anthropic and OpenAI push embedded AI risk evaluators, raising structural oversight concernsTech
Nvidia’s Les Karpas says robotics is still waiting for its ChatGPT momentTech
Threads rolls out new discovery and management tools for podcastersTech
OpenAI investors approach artificial intelligence developer regarding new funding round ahead of IPOTech
Clean tech startup Fluxnium develops fiber technology to extract uranium from seawaterTech
Intel and SK Hynix shares rise on report of U.S. memory chip manufacturing talksTech
Amazon Launches Alexa+ in India with Hindi Support in Early AccessTech
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang criticizes Anthropic's proposal for AI safety antitrust waiverTech
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff warns of AI risks as enterprise software deployment acceleratesTech
The AI graveyard: TechCrunch tracks the startups and projects that missed the markTech
Washington AI regulation debate divides tech leaders into two campsTech
Meta rolls out WhatsApp Business MCP server for AI-driven agent setupTech
Senate cloture vote on Clarity Act fails, dealing regulatory blow to crypto industryTech
OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic discuss AI safety collaborationTech
Trump administration argues private sector must solve AI threats as critics push backTech
Meta expands subscription push with new AI-focused plansTech
Nitter and XCancel shut down following escalated legal actions by XTech
AEO startup Profound hits unicorn valuation, raises $180M Series DTech
India ends free ride for larger transactions on its digital payments networkTech
AI pioneers divide over existential risk warnings at OpenAI and AnthropicTech
Italian startup Exein hits $1.7B valuation with $270M funding round led by HeadlineTech
Trump phones Nvidia’s Huang at All-In Summit, calls data center opposition a ‘hoax’Tech
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump ‘we’re not going to let an AI slowdown happen’Tech
China dismisses US AI CEOs' call for slowdown as fear mongeringTech
OpenAI acquires smartphone camera developer Glass Imaging for $300 millionTech
AI infrastructure company Cornelis raises $205M to challenge Nvidia's networking dominanceTech
Apple rolls out redesigned Siri AI test ahead of iPhone 18 retail debutTech
Amazon Prime Video enters short-form news market to challenge social video platformsTech
ClickFix social engineering attacks target Mac and Windows enterprise usersTech
Apple deploys long-delayed Siri overhaul with iOS 27 releaseTech
Fashion discovery app Daydream integrates Apple Intelligence for camera roll and Siri shoppingTech
AI stocks slide after major CEOs unite to urge slowdownTech
Former Spotify Executive Launches A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya, a Startup Shunning AI Music PromptsTech
OpenAI faces escalating pushback from mathematicians over AI training dataTech
Khosla Ventures opens its first office outside Sand Hill Road in New YorkTech
Y Combinator's Garry Tan calls for U.S. open-weight AI labs to distill frontier modelsTech
Roblox expands AI creation tools and enables cross-platform web distributionTech
Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff he is back in control following board ousterTech
Nscale adds former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo to board ahead of potential IPOTech
OpenAI targets Wall Street junior banker workflows with ChatGPT for Financial Services