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.
OpenAI’s new LLM exposes the secrets of how AI really works
ChatGPT maker OpenAI has built an experimental large language model that is far easier to understand than typical models. That’s a big deal, because today’s LLMs are black boxes: Nobody fully understands how they do what they do. Building a model that is more transparent sheds light on how LLMs work in general, helping researchers…
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…
How a 16-year-old company is easing small businesses into AI
Whether AI is a bubble or not, it’s helping some small businesses save real money. Here’s how one has cautiously approached adoption.
TransUnion says hackers stole 4.4 million customers’ personal information
The credit reporting giant confirmed unauthorized access to a third-party application storing the personal information of its customers.
Get ready, EV owners: Here come the dongles
The transition from CCS to NACS will unlock thousands more fast chargers for many EV drivers, but they’ll need to know their adapters to get the most out of it.
From pilot to scale: Making agentic AI work in health care
Over the past 20 years building advanced AI systems—from academic labs to enterprise deployments—I’ve witnessed AI’s waves of success rise and fall. My journey began during the “AI Winter,” when billions were invested in expert systems that ultimately underdelivered. Flash forward to today: large language models (LLMs) represent a quantum leap forward, but their prompt-based…
3 problems with Google’s AI energy use data
Google just announced that a typical query to its Gemini app uses about 0.24 watt-hours of electricity. That’s about the same as running a microwave for one second—something that, to me, feels virtually insignificant. I run the microwave for so many more seconds than that on most days. I was excited to see this report…
More than 10 European startups became unicorns this year
This is a good indication of the sectors that are hot among investors, from biotech and defense tech to AI, AI, and AI.