Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans | TechCrunch — Meta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused offerings unde
AI agents are entering their rebuild era as enterprises confront the reliability problem — <p>As enterprise AI agents move into production, organizations are confronting a growing reliability problem. Many teams are discovering that LLM performance alone does not determine whethe
Si Woo Kim settles for 60 at Byron Nelson after closing bogey — Si Woo Kim just missed out on a 59 at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson on Friday, bogeying the final hole when a par would have given him the 16th sub-60 round in PGA Tour history.
This young startup is taking on a fragrance industry that hasn't changed in a almost half century | TechCrunch — Fragrance tech company Patina announced Thursday a $2 million raise from investors, including Betaworks and True Ventures.
US cyber agency CISA exposed reams of passwords and cloud keys to the open web | TechCrunch — The federal cybersecurity agency left plaintext passwords in a spreadsheet uploaded to a public GitHub repository, per a report by independent journalist Brian Krebs.
PixelRAG beats text parsers on accuracy and cuts AI agent token costs 10x — <p>Most enterprise RAG pipelines start the same way: a text parser converts web pages and documents into plain text so they can be chunked and indexed for retrieval. That conversion step destroys retrieva
Ferrari is using IBM's AI to create F1 superfans | TechCrunch — IBM and Scuderia Ferrari HP take TechCrunch inside how they are redefining the fan experience.
Elon Musk's SpaceXAI has been bleeding staff since its merger | TechCrunch — More than 50 employees have reportedly left Elon Musk’s newly merged SpaceXAI since February, raising questions about burnout, leadership changes, talent poaching, and whether liquidity events weakened r
Why the Slate Truck's repair model is as radical as its price — Open-source repair platform challenges the traditional service model.
Clio's $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante | TechCrunch — Legal tech startups, including Clio, which just hit $500 million in ARR, are seeing massive customer adoption.
How to use Google’s new information agents | TechCrunch — Google is launching AI-powered “information agents” that can monitor topics in the background and proactively alert users to updates and changes.
Filtr is a new privacy tool that blocks ads in almost every iPhone and Mac app | TechCrunch — This popular ad blocker app for iPhones, iPads, and Macs can now block ads from loading inside apps, including web browsers, thanks to a new feature in the latest Apple software.