A Department of Energy lab is investigating whether Chinese lidar sensors might pose a security risk if they become widely used on vehicles in the United States, TechCrunch has learned. The review is being performed by the Idaho National Laboratory, according to two people familiar with the effort, who were granted anonymity to discuss it….
The bottom costs for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 finish tonight at 11:59 p.m. PT. As soon as that window closes, your likelihood to save lots of as much as $300 in your move, or get a fair bigger low cost on group pricing, will come to an finish. In case you’ve been circling round Disrupt, then…
The new $225 Pebble Time 2 smartwatch feels like a toy, and we mean that in the best sense of the word. The refreshed version of the indie smartwatch brand, rebooted by its original founder, feels casual, fun, and playful, — not like a mini-computer on your wrist. Its quirky watch faces and simple apps…
Apple is chopping down the team behind the Vision Pro, its long-suffering VR headset, while eliminating positions across a number of other teams, Bloomberg reported. Over 200 positions, all told, have been cut, sources told Bloomberg, with around 100 from the Vision Pro team. The other 100 have impacted the team behind Siri and another…
Rillet co-founder and CEO Nicolas Kopp seems justifiably confident as we talk over Zoom a day after his company announced a $100 million raise at a $1 billion valuation. The U.S. has a shortage of accountants right now, which is driving growth of his AI-native accounting platform so much, he raised that cash in 48…
Nvidia is doing all the things it will probably to maintain fueling the AI buildout that has underpinned its personal good fortunes. On Friday, it announced a partnership with Cloverleaf Infrastructure, an organization that lays the groundwork for information facilities. Cloverleaf was based in 2024 and raised $300 million that yr. It acts as a…
Japan is pouring billions of dollars into its burgeoning area business and easing restrictions on protection exports, efforts designed to construct a homegrown aerospace sector full of home startups which have a world attain. Letara, a Sapporo-based startup creating hybrid propulsion techniques for spacecraft, is seeking to capitalize on that push. After specializing in hybrid…
The ‘neocloud’ label now covers five companies with very different business models. CoreWeave and Nebius are public companies that publish quarterly results and file reports with the SEC (CoreWeave on Form 10-Q, Nebius as a foreign private issuer on Form 6-K). Lambda and Crusoe are private and heading toward IPOs. Groq has run GroqCloud on…
Michael Polansky is remarkably unassuming for someone operating in a corner of the world known for outsize egos. Seated at a leafy patio outside a popular bakery in Mill Valley, an affluent town about 15 miles north of San Francisco, Polansky — bespectacled, his fresh face framed by dark hair shot through with gray —…
Anthropic’s universal usage standards for Claude forbid the model from generating sexually explicit content, including depicting or requesting sexual intercourse or sex acts, generating content related to sexual fetishes or fantasies, or engaging in erotic chats. But that hasn’t stopped Claude Opus 4.6, an Anthropic model released earlier this year, from readily engaging in erotic…
