911 Call Centers Are Understaffed. This Startup Just Raised $14 Million to Use AI to Reduce Wait Times.
The Y Combinator-backed startup, called Aurelian, is building an AI voice assistant to help fill in the gaps for 911 call centers.
Elon Musk and Sam Altman are going to court over OpenAI’s future
After a yearslong legal feud, Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are heading to trial this week in Northern California in a case that could have sweeping consequences. Ahead of OpenAI’s highly anticipated IPO, the court could rule on whether the company is allowed to exist as a for-profit enterprise and might even oust…
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‘Pick Things Back Up When the Internet Calms Down’: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Engagement Caused This Tax Prep Company to Send Its Staff Home
Kansas City-based H&R Block gave its staff the afternoon off to “celebrate love.”
Acquisitions Fail When Leaders Ignore These Drivers of Business Value
Most acquisitions fail not because of bad numbers, but because leaders overlook the hidden drivers of value — brand equity, customer trust and frontline relationships.
No-code website builder Framer reaches $2B valuation
Framer, a no-code website builder that claims over half a million monthly active users,has reached a $2 billion valuation after raising a $100 million Series D funding round led by existing investors Meritech and Atomico.
Mark Cuban’s war on America’s $5 trillion healthcare machine: ‘They can’t react as quickly’
Cuban said drug prices are opaque by design. He launched Cost Plus Drugs in 2022 to pull back the curtain on drug pricing, bring down costs to the average consumer, and disrupt the traditional pharmacy industry.
Honor’s slim Magic V5 foldable is fun to use, minus the huge camera bump
Honor’s slim Magic V5 has a nice build and a good camera, but the camera bump is a bit of a menace.
Here’s What’s Open and Closed for Labor Day 2025, Including Food Stores, Retail, and the Mail
Costco is closed, but Walmart is open. Here’s what to know about Labor Day 2025.
Investors are loving Lovable
Investors are clambering to get onto Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable’s cap table, making unsolicited offers of investment that value the company at more than $4 billion.
AI hires or human hustle? Inside the next frontier of startup operations at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
What happens when your first 10 hires aren’t people at all? At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, we’re digging into the new wave of startups replacing or augmenting early employees with AI agents.
The Download: Google’s AI energy use, and the AI Hype Index
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Google’s still not giving us the full picture on AI energy use —Casey Crownhart Google just announced that a typical query to its Gemini app uses about 0.24 watt-hours of electricity. That’s about…