Rivian has a challenging year ahead — and the first quarter is off to a tepid start. The EV startup announced Tuesday that it built 13,980 vehicles and delivered 13,588 of them in the first quarter of 2024. Both of those figures are down from the fourth quarter of...

To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews  focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the...

U.S. police departments are increasingly relying on a controversial surveillance practice to demand large amounts of users’ data from tech companies, with the aim of identifying criminal suspects. So-called “reverse” searches allow law enforcement and federal agencies...

During the congressional online safety hearing in January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg argued that mobile app store providers like Apple and Google should be the ones to implement parental controls for social media. Now, it appears Meta is using its Quest VR store to...

In March, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that could force ByteDance to divest TikTok or face a ban in U.S. app stores. Much of the related discussion and debate has centered around American data security and speech rights , but a...

There are a lot of ways to describe what’s happening to the Earth’s climate: Global warming. Climate change. Climate crisis . Global weirding . They all try to capture in different ways the phenomena caused by our world’s weather systems gone awry. Yet despite a...

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at Robinhood’s new Gold Card, challenges in the BaaS space and how a tiny startup caught Stripe’s eye. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories...

To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews  focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the...

In recent months , the big three cloud vendors — Amazon, Microsoft and Google — have relaxed their egress fees , which are a tax of sorts that the cloud companies charge customers to move their data to another vendor. It’s a way to keep existing customers in the fold,...

The Linux Foundation last week announced that it will host Valkey , a fork of the Redis in-memory data store. Valkey is backed by Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Oracle , Ericsson and Snap . AWS and Google Cloud rarely back an open source fork together. Yet, when...