Technology

Vice clauses often exclude the sex tech industry from most VCs’ investment areas, but the fervor around reproductive rights could drive the conversation forward for this industry.

AI companies are using online labor to outsource the large amounts of hidden manual work needed to build their applications.

Why should you go to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in San Francisco on September 19–21? Let us count the reasons. We could hit double digits, but we’ll stop at five because you’re busy people with unicorns to chase. Besides, these five should be tempting enough for anyone interested in building a bigger, better startup — in […]

There’s already a handful of great examples of SaaS companies leveraging usage-based pricing to monetize AI.

YouTube announced today how it plans to approach the impact AI technology is having on the music industry with regard to its video hosting platform and its existing partnerships across the music industry, including with artists, labels and other rightsholders. While the company is bullish on AI’s potential to “enhance music’s unique creative expression,” it […]

You won’t have to search very hard or go very far to engage in compelling conversations next month at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. In fact, you’ll find more than two dozen in the agenda — just look for the roundtable discussions. One of the most popular attractions at Disrupt, roundtables are expert-led, small-group conversations focused on […]

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. This startup has engineered a clever way to reuse waste heat from cloud computing The idea of using the wasted heat of computing to do something else has been mooted plenty of times…

Tesla has said that insider wrongdoing was to blame for a data breach affecting more than 75,000 company employees. Tesla, the electric car maker owned by Elon Musk, said in a data breach notice filed with Maine’s attorney general that an investigation had found that two former employees leaked over 75,000 individuals’ personal information to […]

In the past year, the company grew its membership base to over 1,000 brands and retailers and saw its year over year gross merchandise value run rate grow over 10 times.