AI Is The Key Powering Qualcomm’s Rise To Top Of Automotive Stack

Qualcomm has rapidly shot past its peers to become a leader in the automotive sector with a record 15 consecutive quarters of growth. How?

Cerebras raises $5.5B, kicking off 2026’s IPO season with a bang

A year ago, it looked like this day would never happen for Cerebras.

Americans do not want AI data centers in their backyards
Americans do not want AI data centers in their backyards

Over 70 percent of Americans oppose AI data center construction in their area, according to a new Gallup survey. Just 7 percent said they were “strongly” in favor of new data centers. According to Gallup, data centers are so strongly disliked that Americans would prefer to live near a nuclear power plant than a data […]

Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose last startup, Bench, imploded

Crosby is building Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service for other startups.

Cisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to spend more on AI, reports ‘record quarterly revenue’

This is Cisco’s latest layoff in recent years, while the company’s chief executive touts record revenue and growth.

Two weeks left: Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27

Your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100K equity-free funding is running out. Deadline to apply is May 27. Apply now.

Wirestock raises $23M to supply creative multi-modal data to AI labs

Wirestock has over 700,000 creators on its platform, which supplies photos, videos and 3D content to AI labs.

I tested Honor 600 Pro’s AI Image to Video 2.0, and it’s better than I expected

Honor’s AI Image to Video 2.0 is a significant step up from what launched with the 400 series last year. I tested the templates, tried custom prompts, and here’s what you need to know.

You can make an app for that
You can make an app for that

The tyranny of software is almost over. Since the first computer programmers wrote the first computer programs, we, the users of that software, have been forced to live in the worlds those programs create. The features are the features. The design is the design. Want something else, something better? Learn to code, I guess. Until […]

Tarot card readers are using ChatGPT for divinations, I am utterly surprised at this AI pivot

Tarot card readers are using ChatGPT to interpret spreads, showing how AI is moving from productivity into grief, faith, and meaning-making, where confident answers can flatten human uncertainty.