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Bill Gates on stage at TC Sessions: Climate 2022
In Brief

Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI | TechCrunch

Bill Gates posted a long essay to his Gates Notes site today, showing just how much the Microsoft...

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Security

Apple will hide your email address from apps and websites, but not cops | TechCrunch

Apple has provided federal agents with the real identities of at least two customers who used one of...

The logo of the Chinese artificial intelligence startup Zhipu AI is displayed on a smartphone with the home page in background.
In Brief

Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model | TechCrunch

Over the weekend, the nerds were buzzing with speculation over which AI lab was behind Ox Alpha, the...

An illustration of a blue Lockdown Mode icon on a red phone on a blue background featuring Apple logos with padlocks.
Security

Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware | TechCrunch

Almost four years after launching a security feature called Lockdown Mode, Apple says it has yet to see...

An exhibitor demonstrates a Unitree Robotics G1 humanoid robot at the Humanoids Summit in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, May 29, 2026. The summit is scheduled to continue through May 29. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg
Robotics

Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era | TechCrunch

Physical AI is one of the hottest sectors in venture investing, with companies raising billions to apply the...

iPhone screen is seen through the broken glass in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on April 25, 2024.
Security

Apple made strides with iOS 26 security, but leaked hacking tools still leave millions exposed to spyware attacks | TechCrunch

The common assumption among iPhone security experts has been that finding vulnerabilities and developing exploits for iOS was...

QueryStory co-founders Shapor Naghibzadeh, Dave Glusic, and Stanley Yang.
AI

QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling you | TechCrunch

Shapor Naghibzadeh learned the value of a good story in 2009 as a Google SysOps engineer. When hackers...

Broken iPhones are seen as a part of replica of Formula E car made by used electronics, on the opening day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on November 30, 2023.
Security

A major hacking tool has leaked online, putting millions of iPhones at risk. Here’s what you need to know. | TechCrunch

Security researchers have uncovered a series of cyberattacks targeting Apple customers across the world. The tools used in...

AI

Arga Labs is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents | TechCrunch

Making AI agents work in practice is a lot harder than many companies expected — but there’s help...

Smashed Iphones are seen during COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on November 30, 2023.
Security

Someone has publicly leaked an exploit kit that can hack millions of iPhones | TechCrunch

Last week, cybersecurity researchers uncovered a hacking campaign targeting iPhone users that used an advanced hacking tool called...