On February 18, 2024, Ian Laffey posted on X that he and two others he’d just met built a cheap drone at a hackathon that calculated its coordinates simply by using its camera and Google ...

Expense management startup Ramp is being considered for a charge card pilot program by the U.S. government’s General Services Administration, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. The government’s internal expense card program, dubbed SmartPay, ...

Image Credits:Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch 1:40 PM PDT · April 17, 2025 In a bid to more aggressively compete with rival AI companies like Google, OpenAI is launching Flex processing, an API option that provides ...

Image Credits:Brandon Bell / Getty Images 1:05 PM PDT · April 17, 2025 Occidental has bought Holocene, marking the second direct air capture startup the fossil fuel company has bought in two years. The deal ...

President Donald Trump’s tariffs have underscored the increasing geopolitical risk that almost all businesses now face. As the situation continues to shift with Trump’s unpredictable deal-making, it’s also becoming clear how challenging it is for ...

The Chinese e-commerce marketplace app DHgate, which is now the No. 2 free iPhone app in the U.S., isn’t the only one that’s oddly benefiting from President Trump’s tariffs on U.S. imports from China. Another ...

Geoff Ralston, well-known in the startup community for his years at Y Combinator, is back in the formal investing ring, he announced Thursday. His new fund is called Safe Artificial Intelligence Fund, or SAIF, which ...

On Thursday, weeks after launching its most powerful AI model yet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google published a technical report showing the results of its internal safety evaluations. However, the report is light on the details, ...

Image Credits:VCG/VCG / Getty Images 11:49 AM PDT · April 17, 2025 China is cracking down on how automakers advertise driver-assistance features, banning terms like “autonomous driving,” “self-driving,” and “smart driving,” Reuters reported, citing a ...

In Brief Posted: 11:02 AM PDT · April 17, 2025 Image Credits:girafchik123 / Getty Images Chatbot Arena, the crowdsourced benchmarking project major AI labs rely on to test and market their AI models, is forming ...