​Raising in 2025 doesn’t look anything like it did in 2021 — and that’s exactly the point. At TechCrunch All Stage on July 15 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station, Kristen Craft, Head of Business Development at Fidelity Private Shares, will lead a roundtable session titled “It’s Not 2021 Anymore. Navigating the 2025 VC Landscape,” happening […]  

​Tinder is requiring new users in California to use facial recognition technology to verify their profiles.  

​Google will invest in Commonwealth Fusion Systems and buy 200 MW of electricity from its forthcoming power plant.  

​Spotify is making Discover Weekly more customizable by genre.  

​Navin Chaddha, managing director of the 55-year-old Silicon Valley venture firm Mayfield, is betting big on AI’s ability to transform people-heavy industries like consulting, law, and accounting. The veteran investor, whose wins include Lyft, Poshmark, and HashiCorp, recently discussed at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC evening in Menlo Park why he believes “AI teammates” can create software-like margins […]  

​With Meta successfully poaching a number of its senior researchers, an OpenAI executive reportedly reassured team members Saturday that company leadership has not “been standing idly by.”  

​A group of “very wealthy people” is set to buy short-form video app TikTok, according to President Donald Trump.  

​Looks like Apple has its first bona fide box office hit.  

​An open letter from authors including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Geoffrey Maguire calls on book publishers to pledge to limit their use of AI tools, for example by committing to only hire human audiobook narrators.  

​Looks like Meta isn’t done poaching talent from OpenAI.