Innovation

What the jury will actually decide in the case of Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman | TechCrunch
Nine California jurors are now deliberating over the future of OpenAI, the world-leading artificial intelligence lab. While the trial exploring Elon Musk’s case against OpenAI’s other co-founders and Microsoft...
Who decides what AI tells you? Campbell Brown, once Meta’s news chief, has thoughts | TechCrunch
Campbell Brown has spent her career chasing accurate information, first as a renowned TV journalist, then as Facebook’s first, and only, dedicated news chief. Now, watching AI reshape how...
Anduril raises $5B, doubles valuation to $61B | TechCrunch
Another year, another massive influx of capital for Anduril: the funding round that was rumored to be in process in March has officially closed. Anduril has raised a $5...
Anthropic warns investors against secondary platforms offering access to its shares | TechCrunch
As investors scramble to get their hands on shares of AI companies of all stripes, Anthropic this week updated its website to warn investors that a slew of private...
Daniel Ek-backed defense tech Helsing to raise $1.2B at $18B valuation | TechCrunch
Five-year-old European military drone startup Helsing is reportedly close to raising a new $1.2 billion round at about an $18 billion valuation. The round is expected to be led...
Get ready for the whisper-filled office of the future | TechCrunch
How will work setups change if we spend more and more time talking to our computers? A recent feature in the Wall Street Journal looks at the rising popularity...
Voice AI in India is hard. Wispr Flow is betting on it anyway. | TechCrunch
India’s internet users already rely heavily on voice notes, voice search, and multilingual messaging. Turning those habits into a scalable AI business, however, remains difficult because of the country’s...
Laid-off Oracle workers tried to negotiate better severance. Oracle said no.  | TechCrunch
As was widely reported, Oracle axed an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 people via email on March 31. One of the employees cut that day told TechCrunch about the experience:...
Why you can never get your doctor to call you back | TechCrunch
A lot of the conversation around AI in healthcare focuses on diagnostics and drug discovery or on doctor-patient visits. But a less visible part of the system affects whether...
Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off | TechCrunch
Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with this...
All your M&A questions will be answered at Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch
The year keeps moving swiftly, and so is all of our planning for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026! We have an exciting new panel in store for founders in need of...
OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant, a new default model for ChatGPT | TechCrunch
On Monday, OpenAI released a new foundation model called GPT-5.5 Instant, which will replace GPT-5.3 Instant as the default ChatGPT model. The company said the model reduces hallucination in...