A self-driving car in Texas hit and killed a mother duck, sparking neighborhood outrage
The death of a duck in the Austin, Texas enclave of Mueller Lake has neighbors raising concerns about autonomous vehicles and whether they belong there.
I can’t help rooting for tiny open source AI model maker Arcee
Arcee, a tiny 26-person U.S. startup that built a massive, 400B-parameter open source LLM on a $20 million shoestring budget, has released its new reasoning
AI design platform Picsart launches a creator monetization program
AI-powered design platform Picsart is launching a creator monetization program, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The program is open to all creators, with no invite
Polymarket took down wagers tied to rescue of downed Air Force officer
A Democratic congressman had harsh criticism for Polymarket for allowing users to bet on the date the United States would confirm the rescue of Air
Embattled startup Delve has ‘parted ways’ with Y Combinator
The controversy around Delve appears to have cost the compliance startup its relationship with accelerator Y Combinator. Delve is no longer listed among YC’s directory
Lucid blames dip in Q1 sales on seat supplier issue
Lucid Group finished 2025 on an upswing — building twice as many EVs as the previous year and reporting a 55% uptick in sales. Then
Telehealth giant Hims & Hers says its customer support system was hacked
Hims & Hers, the telehealth company that sells weight-loss drugs and sexual health prescriptions, has confirmed a data breach affecting its third-party customer service platform.
Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident
Anthropic accidentally caused thousands of code repositories on GitHub to be taken down while trying to pull copies of its most popular product’s source code
Toyota’s Woven Capital appoints new CIO and COO in push for finding the ‘future of mobility’
Sometimes, Michiko Kato thinks back on the great challenges of her life. She once dropped everything in her native city of Tokyo to attend Harvard
The Silicon Valley congressional race is getting ugly
The primary isn’t until early June, but the CA-17 race between five-term incumbent Ro Khanna and tech founder Ethan Agarwal is already getting nasty. Agarwal