Here are all the IPOs reported to be in the works for 2025

AI startup Perplexity sued for alleged trademark infringement

US Justice Department sues to block HPE’s $14B acquisition of Juniper Networks

Report: Majority of U.S. teens have lost trust in Big Tech

Google faces headwinds as it brings Pixel 9 to India

Google’s environmental report pointedly avoids AI’s actual energy cost

Anthropic looks to fund a new, more comprehensive generation of AI benchmarks

MIT’s soft robotic system is designed to pack groceries

Gemini’s data-analyzing abilities aren’t as good as Google claims

Amazon hires founders away from AI startup Adept

Robotics investments are gaining speed after post-pandemic slowdown

SpaceX scores $843M NASA contract to de-orbit ISS in 2030

Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says he loves Sam Altman, believes he’s sincere about AI safety

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s former chief scientist, launches new AI company

Snap previews its real-time image model that can generate AR experiences

Apple kills Pay Later feature ahead of Affirm integration

Black founders are creating tailored ChatGPTs for a more personalized experience

Apple joins the race to find an AI icon that makes sense

Tempus soars 15% on the first day of trading, demonstrating investor appetite for a health tech with a promise of AI

What StepStone’s $3.3B venture secondaries fund tells us about LPs’ current appetite for venture

Ahead of Tesla’s big shareholder vote, let’s re-read the judge’s opinion that got us here

TikTok comes for Google as it quietly rolls out image search capabilities in TikTok Shop

Apple brings Apple Intelligence to developers via SiriKit and App Intents

Startup Battlefield 200 applications close tomorrow

Apple needs to focus on making AI useful, not flashy

Startups Weekly: Ups, downs, and silver linings

Meta rolls out Meta Verified for WhatsApp Business users in Brazil, India, Indonesia and Colombia

Zoox to test self-driving cars in Austin and Miami 

TikTok acknowledges exploit targeting high-profile accounts

What to expect from Apple’s AI-powered iOS 18

Unicorn-rich VC Wesley Chan owes his success to a Craigslist job washing lab beakers

Industries may be ready for humanoid robots, but are the robots ready for them?

Sample Angel pitch deck: RAW Dating App’s $3M deck

Zero-day flaw in Check Point VPNs is ‘extremely easy’ to exploit

Mental health insurance platform ifeel raises a $20 million Series B

Rock band’s hidden hacking-themed website gets hacked

EU’s ChatGPT taskforce offers first look at detangling the AI chatbot’s privacy compliance

Families of Uvalde shooting victims sue Activision and Meta

Can blockchain make weather forecasts better? WeatherXM thinks so

From Plaid to Figma, here are the startups that are likely — or definitely — not having IPOs this year

$6M fine for robocaller who used AI to clone Biden’s voice

Spyware found on US hotel check-in computers

The ‘vote Trump’ spam that hit Bluesky in May came from decentralized rival Nostr

SeekOut, a recruiting startup last valued at $1.2 billion, lays off 30% of its workforce

I’m rooting for Melinda French Gates to fix tech’s broken ‘brilliant jerk’ culture

Expedia says two execs dismissed after ‘violation of company policy’

YouTube TV’s ‘multiview’ feature is now available on Android phones and tablets

Astronauts fall over. Robotic limbs can help them back up.

Google’s call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn

Google will soon start using GenAI to organize some search results pages

GM’s Cruise ramps up robotaxi testing in Phoenix

Women in AI: Rep. Dar’shun Kendrick wants to pass more AI legislation

Women in AI: Rachel Coldicutt researches how technology impacts society

Threat actor says he scraped 49M Dell customer addresses before the company found out

Google I/O 2024: How to watch

Bye-bye bots: Altera’s game-playing AI agents get backing from Eric Schmidt

Jumia is back, growing total sales and orders in Q1 2024

Newchip, Techstars, and what happens when startup accelerators fail

Women in AI: Catherine Breslin helps companies develop AI strategies

Farewell, dunks? Threads launches quote controls for all users

TechCrunch Minute: Spotify’s move to paywall lyrics is putting pressure on free users

TechCrunch Minute: Where CZ’s sentencing leaves the state of crypto

Microsoft taps Sanctuary AI for general-purpose robot research

Elon Musk guts Tesla’s charging team after winning over major automakers

Meta confirms launch of a bonus program for creators on Threads

MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria talks AI hype and the database evolution as he crosses 10-year mark

Givebutter is turning a profit making tech for nonprofits

Watch: Between Rabbit’s R1 vs Humane’s Ai Pin, which had the best launch?

Watch: FTC bans noncompetes, court challenge incoming

Biden signs bill that would ban TikTok if ByteDance fails to sell the app

Perplexity is raising $250M+ at a $2.5-$3B valuation for its AI search platform, sources say

SoftBank-backed TabaPay is buying the assets of a16z-backed Synapse, after it filed for bankruptcy

How United Airlines uses AI to make flying the friendly skies a bit easier

Why vector databases are having a moment as the AI hype cycle peaks

Tesla’s newsy week, and is fintech having a moment?

Uber, Nvidia-backed Serve Robotics hits public markets with $40M splash

Inversion Space will test its space-based delivery tech in October

Omni Hotels says customers’ personal data stolen in ransomware attack

Kode Labs makes a bid to become the Salesforce of commercial building automation

Pula raises $20M Series B to provide agricultural insurance to farmers in Africa, Asia and LatAm

ShareChat’s valuation drops below $2B after new funding round

OpenAI opens Tokyo hub, adds GPT-4 model optimized for Japanese

Bluesky is now allowing heads of states to sign up

Lawhive raises $12M to expand its legaltech AI platform for small firms

Tesla is reportedly laying off more than 10% of its global workforce

Change Healthcare asks to consolidate dozens of cyberattack class-action lawsuits

Meta to close Threads in Turkey to comply with injunction prohibiting data sharing with Instagram

Mandiant spots advanced exploit activity in Ivanti devices

Meta’s ‘consent or pay’ tactic must not prevail over privacy, EU rights groups warn

CISO role shows significant gains amid corporate recognition of cyber risk

Draftboard lets companies list referral bonuses for anyone

Microsoft embraces common weakness enumeration standard for vulnerability disclosure

Adobe’s working on generative video, too

What’s going on with the National Vulnerability Database?

Paraform raises $3.6M seed round to connect startups with recruiter networks

Cybersecurity jobs pay well, but gender disparities persist

DevSecOps, done right, can achieve both speed and security in software development

FBI director echoes past warnings, as critical infrastructure hacking threat festers

Federal agencies caught sharing credentials with Microsoft over email

With Sisense compromise, the race begins to understand the impact