This Chef Lost His Restaurant the Week Michelin Called. Now He’s Made a Comeback By Perfecting One Recipe.

May 20, 2025

Chef Frank Neri discusses how a trip to Tijuana changed his view on flavor, a WhatsApp group kept him in the game, and doing one thing well became his recipe for success.

Google DeepMind’s Logan Kilpatrick is coming to TechCrunch Sessions: AI

May 20, 2025

Google DeepMind is at the forefront of AI innovation, and no one is more poised to speak to this than Senior Product Manager Logan Kilpatrick. We are pleased to announce he will be joining us on the main stage at TechCrunch Sessions: AI, happening June 5th at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. TC Sessions: AI is […]

Amazon Music tests an AI-powered search experience for fans to learn more about their favorite artists

May 20, 2025

Amazon Music announced Tuesday that it’s testing a new AI-powered search feature called “Explore,” designed to help fans learn more about their favorite artists. To use this feature, users can tap the “Find” button at the bottom of the screen and enter an artist’s name in the search bar. Then, by selecting the “Explore” tab […]

Adaptation Ventures is a new angel investor group focused on disability and accessibility tech

May 20, 2025

The global assistive technology market was valued at more than $22 billion in 2023 and is projected to grow substantially by 2030. Despite the potential market size, many founders building tech to help people with disabilities struggle to secure the kind of early funding needed to get their companies off the ground in the first […]

Why Are Some Business Owners Ditching OpenAI for This Less Expensive Tool?

May 20, 2025

GPT-4o, Midjourney, Gemini, and other AI models are yours forever with 1min.AI.

SparkCharge raises $30M to help fleets electrify without commitments

May 20, 2025

SparkCharge raised $15.5 million in equity and secured a $15 million loan to expand its fleet charging operations.

Alation acquires Numbers Station to bolster its AI agent offerings

May 20, 2025

Alation plans to integrate Numbers Station’s products into its own as soon as the end of this quarter, Alation co-founder and CEO Satyen Sangani told TechCrunch.

South Loop Ventures closes $21M fund in Houston to build up local tech ecosystem

May 20, 2025

South Loop Ventures, a Houston-based venture firm, announced a $21 million Fund I, with Rice Management Company and Chevron Technology Ventures serving as anchor investors. The firm, which launched in 2022, focuses on seed and pre-seed companies, with $400,000 as the average check size. It also primarily hopes to focus on backing founders of color. […]

Brex partners with former competitor Zip, with an eye on reducing cash burn to get to an IPO

May 20, 2025

Brex has once again made the surprising, but perhaps realistic, decision to partner with another one-time competitor. This time Zip, the CEOs of both companies told TechCrunch exclusively. In April 2022, fintech Brex announced it was making “a big push” into both the enterprise and software. The news was notable considering that Brex originally was […]

The Download: introducing the AI energy package

May 20, 2025

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. We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. It’s well documented that AI is a power-hungry technology. But there has been far less reporting on the extent…

The Download: US climate studies are being shut down, and building cities from lava