“I wonder how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to their models.” It was a seemingly random

“A Minecraft Movie” isn’t just a hit — after three weekends in theaters, the film is estimated to have grossed $344 million domestically and $720 million

A discrepancy between first- and third-party benchmark results for OpenAI's o3 AI model is raising questions about the company's transparency and model testing practices.

One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend of the controversial data analytics company Palantir,

One of the chief complaints of Airbnb users over the years has been not being able to tell right away how much they would pay for their stay, including

Tesla has reportedly delayed the launch of new low-cost model by months, pushing the vehicle's mass production to late 2025 at the earliest.

Meta is using AI technology to search for kids who are lying about their age on Instagram in order to bypass safeguards, the company announced on Monday.

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Despite a still tight venture capital market, new unicorns are still being created every month. Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch

An AI doctoral student in California had their SEVIS record — the digital proof of their valid student visa — terminated, putting their immigration status at risk.

Popular social network and forum site Reddit reported significant outages on Monday morning.  The connection errors started at around 11:20 a.m. ET,

Bluesky announced on Monday that it is rolling out blue check verification, confirming previous rumors that this feature was on its way to the platform.

Andreessen Horowitz’s hiring spree continues. On Monday, Erik Torenberg announced that the giant VC firm had acquired his Turpentine podcast, with him

PHNX Materials has devised a way to strip fly ash of sulfur and aluminum, impurities that concrete companies would rather avoid.

While investors had good reason to believe 2025 would be the year startup M&A started to return, tariffs have meddled with that plan.

Jeff Bezos-backed Slate Auto has planted multiple concept versions of its EV on the streets of California. It's a marketing tactic that teases the

The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit Monday against Uber, alleging the ride-hail and delivery giant charged customers for its Uber One

According to an internal email, Mark Zuckerberg once suggested spinning out Instgram as solution to its 'cannibalization' of Facebook.

ChatGPT search is growing quickly in Europe, according to data reported by OpenAI to comply with the EU's Digital Services Act.