The xAI–X merger is a good deal — if you’re betting on Musk’s empire

When Elon Musk announced that his AI startup, xAI, had acquired his social media company, X…

Forerunner’s long game: As startups stall before IPO, all options are on the table

Thirteen years ago, Forerunner Ventures began helping to usher in a new era of consumer startups,…

TechCrunch Mobility: Jeff Bezos backs a secretive EV startup and Lucid snaps up Nikola’s assets 

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future…

Accel and Paladin Capital Group join the stage at StrictlyVC London

Mark your calendar — StrictlyVC London is just around the corner on 13 May. Designed for…

Stripe CEO says he ensures his top leaders interview a customer twice a month

Digital payments platform Stripe invites customers to join its management team meetings on a bi-weekly basis…

Incident.io raises $62M at a $400M valuation to help IT teams move fast when things break

In the world of tech, some might argue that the term of the decade is AI,…

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, launches an API for Grok 3

Billionaire Elon Musk might’ve just been countersued by OpenAI. But that isn’t stopping his AI company,…

OpenAI launches program to design new ‘domain-specific’ AI benchmarks

OpenAI, like many AI labs, thinks AI benchmarks are broken. It says it wants to fix…

A 25-year-old police drone founder just raised $75M led by Index

If you ever call 911 from an area that’s hard to get to, you might hear…

Deep Cogito emerges from stealth with hybrid AI ‘reasoning’ models

A new company, Deep Cogito, has emerged from stealth with a family of openly available AI…