A comprehensive list of 2024 and 2025 tech layoffs
The tech layoff wave continued through 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, 2024 saw more than 150,000 job cuts across 542 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Large companies like Tesla,...
X expands its vertical video feed to global users
Elon Musk’s X has started expanding the rollout of its dedicated vertical video feed to users around the globe just days after its debut in the U.S., TechCrunch has exclusively learned and confirmed with the...
Meta is studying how humans and robots can collaborate on housework
Meta Friday announced PARTNR, a new program designed to study human-robot interaction (HRI). The research is specifically focused on how humans and robots might collaborate in the home environment. That includes mundane tasks like cleaning,...
Spotify reports its first full year of profitability, adds 35M monthly active users
On Tuesday morning, Spotify announced its fourth-quarter earnings, marking its first full year of profitability since its inception 17 years ago. The operating income for the quarter reached a record €477 million ($509.48 million) and...
Hidden Waymo feature let researcher customize robotaxi’s display
A security researcher found a hidden unreleased feature in the Waymo app that allowed her to display whatever characters she wanted on the robotaxi’s top display.
Jane Manchun Wong, a well-known security researcher, posted an image...
Anthropic’s new Citations feature aims to reduce AI errors
In an announcement perhaps timed to divert attention away from OpenAI’s Operator, Anthropic Thursday unveiled a new feature for its developer API called Citations, which lets devs “ground” answers from its Claude family of AI...
ElevenLabs has raised a new round at $3B+ valuation led by ICONIQ Growth, sources...
Companies that want to build AI voice into their products are rushing to work with ElevenLabs, the startup that develops synthetic voice technology like voice cloning and dubbing tools. Now ElevenLabs is turning up the...
DeepSeek: The countries and agencies that have banned the AI company’s tech
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company, is raising the ire of regulators around the world. DeepSeek’s viral AI models and chatbot apps have been banned by a growing number of countries and government bodies, which have...
Check out the futuristic Honda 0 SUV
Honda has unveiled its latest EV, the 0 SUV, at CES 2025. The midsize SUV prototype is the first in the 0-line to head to customers with a production version set to ship in 2026....
Miist, founded by a 25-year-old, wants people to vape their way out of smoking...
As a university student, Dalton Signor was troubled by how many people around him smoked or vaped, including his grandmother and 14-year-old sister.
Signor (pictured center) felt that existing smoking cessation medicines, whether patches, gums, or...
