Here’s your first look at the rebooted Digg
The rebooted version of Digg’s news aggregator has entered testing, offering users a first look at what this would-be Reddit competitor, built for the AI era, has in store.
At its height in 2008, Digg’s site was valued at $175 million, but it was split up and sold for parts a deca
Google’s AI Mode can now have back-and-forth voice conversations
Google is rolling out the ability for users to have a back-and-forth voice conversation with AI Mode, its experimental Search feature that lets users ask complex, multi-part questions. With the new Search Live integration, users can have a free-flowing voice conversation with Search and e
Tubi now features content from popular YouTube channels like Mythical Kitchen and more
In a bid to broaden its content library and attract a younger demographic, Fox-owned streaming service Tubi announced on Wednesday a new program that brings content from well-known YouTubers.
The new Creators program features over 500 videos of episodic content from six YouTubers, including Rhet
Hackers steal and destroy millions from Iran’s largest crypto exchange
Iran’s largest crypto exchange, Nobitex, said Wednesday that it was hacked and funds have been drained from its hot wallet.
In a statement on its website translated by TechCrunch, Nobitex said it detected unauthorized access to its infrastructure and hot wallet, in which the company stores a
Grifin secures $11M to make investing less intimidating
Grifin, an investment app that simplifies investing by automatically purchasing stocks in brands where users regularly shop, announced on Wednesday that it has secured an $11 million Series A funding round, bringing the total amount raised to around $22 million.
Alongside the announcement, G
After Shopify bought his last startup, Birk Jernström wants to help developers build one-person unicorns
Sam Altman and “his tech CEO friends” have a betting pool on the year we will see the first one-person billion-dollar company.
The idea of a single person reaching a billion-dollar valuation for a startup would have been unthinkable without AI. But single-person, AI-first businesses have been
Police shut down Cluely’s party, the ‘cheat at everything’ startup
The latest San Francisco startup culture drama happened on Monday night. And it centered around “the most legendary party that never happened,” Cluely founder and CEO Roy Lee tells TechCrunch.
Cluely had hoped to throw an after-party for a Y Combinator event occurring on Monday and Tuesday cal
Sam Altman says Meta tried and failed to poach OpenAI’s talent with $100M offers
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on something of a hiring spree lately, trying to staff up Meta’s new superintelligence team with top-tier AI researchers from competing labs. To work on a team led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and at a desk physically near Zuckerberg, Meta has reporte
OpenAI’s $200M DoD contract could squeeze frenemy Microsoft
OpenAI said Monday the U.S. Department of Defense granted it a contract for up to $200 million to help the agency identify and build prototype systems that use its frontier models for administrative tasks and more.
OpenAI provides a few examples of possible tasking, such as helping service members
EVs dominate the most American-made cars index and it’s not just because of Tesla
Tesla vehicles took the four top spots of the 2025 American-Made Index (AMI), an annual list calculated by Cars.com that ranks qualifying vehicles built and bought in the United States.
Tesla’s dominance in the AMI isn’t new. The U.S. automaker, which assembles its four light-duty pass
Google’s Gemini panicked when playing Pokémon
AI companies are battling to dominate the industry, but sometimes they’re also battling in Pokémon gyms.
As Google and Anthropic both study how their latest AI models navigate early Pokémon games, the results can be as amusing as they are enlightening — and this time, Google DeepMind
A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs
The tech layoff wave is still kicking in 2025. Last year saw more than 150,000 job cuts across 549 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. So far this year, more than 22,000 workers have been the victim of reductions across the tech industry, with a staggering 16,084 cuts t
Tumblr’s content-filtering systems have been falsely flagging posts as ‘mature,’ users blame AI
Tumblr is the latest tech company to grapple with automated flagging and takedowns that have gone haywire and raised the ire of users.
In recent days, Tumblr users have complained their content is being flagged as “mature,” even when that’s not the case. The problem has reduced t