Cars in European cities are smaller than ever. But as Europe’s appetite for microcars has grown, the cute Italian ‘yoghurt pots’ have largely given way…
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Grindr wants to be the everything app for gay men; investors are still deciding whether it can pull it off |
When George Arison took over Grindr in 2022, he inherited a company that had been bounced from Chinese ownership to a forced divestiture to a…
Mobility: The hidden human cost of robotaxis |
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To…
Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine |
The hype around humanoid robots isn’t particularly new. Thank Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his Optimus robot, as well as the myriad videos of Boston…
Is the best way to watch a movie on a pair of sunglasses? |
I am nothing if not a huge movie buff. I watch way too many of them, and I’m always on the hunt for a new…
Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips |
In Brief Posted: 1:24 PM PDT · August 28, 2026 Lambda, an AI cloud company that buys computing chips and rents them out to businesses,…
An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI |
12:30 PM PDT · August 28, 2026 Training AI models with other AI models has become a very popular goal for neolabs — and now,…
Open-weight AI companies are the Valley's hottest acquisition targets |
Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia to confirm this week’s most interesting tech deal: A reported $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, a platform for sharing open-weight…
Brave's browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases |
11:50 AM PDT · August 28, 2026 Chrome alternative Brave just added a good reason to make the switch to its browser: email aliases. The…