Planned data center construction shows no signs of fading, with new additions to require 2.7x – nearly triple – the sector’s current demand for electricity over the next decade, according to a new report from BloombergNEF.
By 2035, data centers will draw 106 gigawatts, up sharply from the 40 gigawatts they use today. Much of that growth will occur in more rural areas as…
Amazon’s AI chatbot Rufus drove sales on Black Friday
December 2, 2025
Amazon’s AI chatbot, Rufus, saw a surge of adoption on Black Friday, according to new data published over the weekend by market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. In the U.S., Amazon sessions that resulted in a purchase surged 100% on Black Friday compared with the…
In early November, a developer nicknamed Cookie entered a routine conversation with Perplexity. She often tasks it with reading her developer work in quantum algorithms and writing readme files and other documents for GitHub.
She’s a Pro subscriber and uses the…
How OpenAI and Google see AI changing go-to-market strategies
December 1, 2025
For years, when it was time for startups to start selling their product, they could turn to any number of traditional playbooks. But as with so many things, AI is changing how companies prepare to go to market.
“You can do more with less than ever before,” Max Altschuler, general partner at GTMfund, told the audience at TechCrunch Disrupt last month.
The challenge for founders and…
The race to regulate AI has sparked a federal vs state showdown
December 1, 2025
For the first time, Washington is getting close to deciding how to regulate artificial intelligence. And the fight that’s brewing isn’t about the technology, it’s about who gets to do the regulating.
In the absence of a meaningful federal AI standard that…
Last year was monumental for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond.
There were 49 startups that raised funding rounds worth $100 million or more in 2024, per our count at TechCrunch; three companies raised more than one “mega-round,” and seven companies raised…
OpenAI claims teen circumvented safety features before suicide that ChatGPT helped plan
November 28, 2025
In August, parents Matthew and Maria Raine sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, over their 16-year-old son Adam’s suicide, accusing the company of wrongful death. On Tuesday, OpenAI responded to the lawsuit with a filing of its own, arguing that it shouldn’t be held responsible for the teenager’s death.
OpenAI claims that over roughly nine months of usage, ChatGPT directed Raine…
Michael Burry Escalates His High-Stakes Battle With Nvidia
November 28, 2025
While you’ve been sweating the details over Thanksgiving, famed investor Michael Burry – the one portrayed by Christian Bale played in “The Big Short” – has been waging an increasingly aggressive war against Nvidia.
It’s a battle worth…
ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
November 27, 2025
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly…
Are you balding? There’s an AI for that
November 27, 2025
For Cyriac Lefort, the idea for his new startup, MyHair AI, came two years ago. The French native was sitting in a hair salon in New York getting a routine haircut when his hairdresser looked at him and said, “You’re starting to lose a bit of hair,” Lefort, who is 32, recalls being told.
“He didn’t say that to my friend sitting next to me, just to me,” Lefort…
