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Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 Sean O'Kane 1:16 PM PST · January 28, 2026 Tesla’s profit fell 46% in 2025 compared to the prior year, as CEO Elon Musk assumed a role in the Trump administration and federal electric vehicle subsidies were killed off by Congress, causing sales to plummet. The...

AI security startup Outtake raises $40M from Iconiq, Satya Nadella, Bill Ackman, and other big names Julie Bort 1:18 PM PST · January 28, 2026 Outtake, which makes an agentic cybersecurity platform to help enterprises detect, investigate, and take down identity fraud, has raised a $40 million...

Chrome takes on AI browsers with tighter Gemini integration, agentic features for autonomous tasks Ivan Mehta 10:00 AM PST · January 28, 2026 Last year, a swarm of AI browsers from companies like OpenAI , Perplexity , Opera , and The Browser Company launched with the aim to replace Chrome with...

With Apple’s new Creator Studio Pro, AI is a tool to aid creation, not replace it Sarah Perez 9:04 AM PST · January 28, 2026 Generative AI apps that can create photos, videos, songs, and more are growing in popularity. But with the release of Apple’s new Creator Studio Pro suite , available to...

San Francisco Police Department investigating Zoox collision with a parked car Sean O'Kane 9:04 AM PST · January 28, 2026 The San Francisco Police Department is investigating an accident involving a Zoox autonomous vehicle that crashed into the driver’s side door of a parked car, TechCrunch has...

Allbirds is closing its last brick-and-mortar store in San Francisco Amanda Silberling 8:48 AM PST · January 28, 2026 If the final San Francisco Allbirds store closes its doors and no one is around to hear them shut, did it make a sound? Once symbolic of a mid-2010s San Francisco tech bro, the...

Snap gets serious about Specs, spins AR glasses into standalone company Lucas Ropek 6:00 AM PST · January 28, 2026 Later this year, Snap is expected to launch the latest consumer version of its AR glasses, Specs . In anticipation of that big event, the company has launched a new subsidiary...

The AI infrastructure boom shows no sign of slowing down Russell Brandom 7:21 AM PST · January 28, 2026 One way to track the speed of the AI boom is to follow the hardware supply chain. Nvidia is the classic example: As AI companies build out data centers, they’re buying up billions of dollars...

Standard Nuclear raises $140M as nuclear power enters its gold rush era Tim De Chant 7:07 AM PST · January 28, 2026 As the nuclear power gold rush enters into full swing — spurred by AI companies’ desperate need for electricity — the sellers of “picks and shovels” are starting to cash in, too...

Anthropic, Apple, OpenAI CEOs condemn ICE violence, praise Trump Rebecca Bellan 6:38 AM PST · January 28, 2026 On a Monday night NBC News segment , Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei expressed concern over “some of the things we’ve seen in the last few days,” referring to the violence of Border Patrol...

The price gap between Waymo and Uber is narrowing Sean O'Kane 9:43 AM PST · January 27, 2026 A trip in a Waymo robotaxi still costs more, on average, than a comparable ride in a human-driven Uber or a Lyft. But that gap is narrowing, according to new data published Tuesday by Obi, a company that...

Everything you need to know about viral personal AI assistant Clawdbot (now Moltbot) Anna Heim 4:12 PM PST · January 27, 2026 The latest wave of AI excitement has brought us an unexpected mascot: a lobster. Clawdbot , a personal AI assistant, went viral within weeks of its launch and will keep...

Anduril has invented a wild new drone flying contest where jobs are the prize Julie Bort 1:54 PM PST · January 27, 2026 Palmer Luckey’s eyes light up, and he talks a mile a minute, when discussing his company’s new recruiting event: the AI Grand Prix. This is a drone flying contest with a...

Bluesky teases 2026 roadmap: a better Discover feed, real-time features and more Sarah Perez 1:32 PM PST · January 27, 2026 Social network Bluesky is teasing its roadmap for the year ahead, emphasizing a focus on things like improving the app’s algorithmic Discover feed, offering its users...

Anthropic has doubled the amount of VC funding it aims to raise, the FT reports, increasing the target from $10 billion to $20 billion. The round, expected to close soon, will give the company a valuation of $350 billion, sources told the FT. Anthropic, which makes the popular AI Claude and...

Amid Trump attacks and weaponized sanctions, Europeans look to rely less on US tech Zack Whittaker 9:56 AM PST · January 27, 2026 Imagine a world where your credit card no longer works, your Amazon account is shut down, and using U.S. tech companies is no longer an option. It’s almost impossible...

Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs condemn ICE violence, praise Trump Rebecca Bellan 10:19 AM PST · January 27, 2026 On a Monday night NBC News segment , Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei expressed concern over “some of the things we’ve seen in the last few days,” referring to the violence of Border Patrol...

If you live in the UK, you probably won’t be able to visit Pornhub anymore Amanda Silberling 9:31 AM PST · January 27, 2026 Aylo, the parent company to some of the most popular tube sites like Pornhub, announced on Tuesday that it will restrict access to its platforms in the United Kingdom...

TikTok says it’s still working to recover its U.S. infrastructure Sarah Perez 9:29 AM PST · January 27, 2026 TikTok says it’s making progress on recovering its U.S. infrastructure after an unfortunately timed data center outage, which affected the region shortly after the TikTok U.S. deal went...

Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni’s Phia raises $35M to ‘make shopping fun again’ Amanda Silberling 7:00 AM PST · January 27, 2026 Phia’s team is locked in — literally. The startup is laser-focused on building an AI shopping agent, but also, after a snowstorm barreled through New York City, Phia...