For the last two years, the UK government has been telling the British public that the country could receive an economic boost of £400 billion, thanks to AI, a figure intended to calm fears that the technology would lead to sweeping job losses and even an economic crash. But the UK AI minister admitted last…
Today at 9 a.m. ET, founders, investors, and startup leaders are gathering at SoWa Power Station in Boston for TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 for a full day dedicated to the strategies, insights, and connections that help startups scale faster and smarter. That is also when prices will increase to full rates. Discounts and deals will…
Design software maker Canva is cutting 22% of its staff, amounting to 1,271 people, amid a growth slowdown. The company’s co-founder and CEO, Melanie Perkins, in a note to employees said while Canva has scaled so far, it needs to change to address slowing growth. “Over the past thirteen years, we’ve turned a dream in…
Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike is buying two AI security companies that expand its products to more broadly monitor, test, and cover AI models and agents, as companies across industries start rolling out AI agents and models wholesale. CrowdStrike said it will buy Fiddler AI, which makes observability software for monitoring AI agents inside enterprises, and Dreadnode,…
The Luce, Ferrari’s first electric car and one of its most polarizing models, isn’t just selling. It’s selling out. The five-seater EV designed by Jony Ive, Apple’s longtime design chief, was mocked and widely panned when it debuted in May, sending Ferrari’s stock price lower. But all that criticism hasn’t dampened demand, according to CEO…
In the lead-up to a presidential election that would irrefutably transform American culture, Hillary Clinton took the stage at a rally in Virginia as she campaigned to become the first female president. “We’re going to have a lot of jobs — jobs from building infrastructure to coding. Creating new apps,” she said. “I don’t know…
Just days after warning investors about declining search traffic and a weaker-than-expected revenue forecast, Reddit is looking for more ways to make money from its existing users. On Tuesday, the company announced that it’s beginning to test ad placements in its search results pages, allowing advertisers to reach users as they search for products, recommendations,…
Tencent’s WeChat Vision team has released WeVisOne-VL, an open vision language model in 2B and 4B sizes. The WeVisOne-VL vision language model handles detection, referring, counting, pointing, OCR, segmentation and alpha matting in one model. Pixel outputs come from a 9.6M-parameter decoder, so no separate SAM is needed. It also answers “None” when a queried…
A satellite built by the German startup Orbital Matter 3D-printed a half-meter long beam out of a custom plastic material, in what executives called a first for a free-flying spacecraft in orbit, and a step toward constructing large structures in space. The company’s small satellite, Replicator 2, was launched on a SpaceX rideshare mission this…
More than 118 million users watch microdramas every month as the serialized format has taken off in India. EloElo’s Story TV is one of the top apps for microdramas, with over 33 million active users, according to analysts. Banking on that scale, the company has raised $80 million in Series C from Hornbill Capital and…
