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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Pit-team-2.-Photo-by-Hugo-Thambert.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Swedish startup Pit may have gained notice for some rage-bait social media posts, but it has also become another Stockholm AI startup to watch. Pit is led by the co-founders of European scooter giant Voi, including Voi CEO Fredrik Hjelm. He is joined by former iZettle and Klarna engineers. And it is…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/shinyhunters-instructure-canvas-login-defacement.jpg?resize=1200,807″] On Tuesday, education tech giant Instructure disclosed a data breach where hackers stole students’ private information, including their names, personal email addresses, and messages sent between teachers and students.  Now, it appears hackers were able to compromise Instructure again — this time defacing several schools’ login pages to the company’s platform Canvas,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-1259130766.jpg?w=1024″] While AI disruption looms over many legacy SaaS companies, several HR tech startups seem to be thriving. One of these companies is small-business payroll provider Gusto. The 14-year-old company, last valued at over $9 billion, just announced that it surpassed $1 billion in revenue earlier this year. Unlike many startups that report…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2195918462.jpg?w=1024″] On Thursday OpenAI announced a new feature called Trusted Contact, designed to alert a trusted third party if mentions of self-harm are expressed within a conversation. The feature allows an adult ChatGPT user to designate another person as a trusted contact within their account, such as a friend or family member. In…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/tesla-model-y-juniper-north-america.jpg?resize=1200,850″] The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Tuesday that the later release 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first vehicle to meet the agency’s new benchmark for advanced driver assistance systems. Four pass-fail tests were added to the agency’s safety ratings program, assessing a car’s automatic emergency braking for pedestrians, blind-spot…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/personal-computer.jpeg?w=1199″] Perplexity’s Personal Computer, its answer to OpenClaw and other local AI agents, is now available to all Mac users via its desktop app, the company announced on Thursday. As a reminder, Personal Computer is an expansion on Perplexity’s general-purpose, multi-model digital worker dubbed, confusingly, Perplexity Computer. “Personal Computer,” meanwhile, is designed to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2265445010.jpg?w=1024″] Elon Musk’s legal effort to dismantle OpenAI may hinge on how its for-profit subsidiary enhances or detracts from the frontier lab’s founding mission of ensuring that humanity benefits from artificial general intelligence. On Thursday, a federal court in Oakland, California, heard a former employee and board member say the company’s efforts to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1704865759.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Will dating app malaise finally kill off the swipe? For Bumble, at least, that seems to be the case. In an interview with Axios on Thursday, Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd confirmed that Bumble will get rid of swiping, the defining feature of 2010s dating apps. “We are going to be saying…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/tc-backlight-e1689786273147.png?w=1200″] Tome, a book-tracking app and book lovers community, is closing its doors. Built on the back of the sizable and influential BookTok community — creators who discuss and review books on TikTok — the app offered readers a place to chronicle and rate their books, get recommendations, and even add photos of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2245627953.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Stockholm-based vibe-coding platform Lovable is growing revenue at an astronomical rate — and doing something that few U.S. companies, startup or otherwise, would even contemplate: voluntarily promising annual 10% salary raises for all employees on their work anniversaries. In the U.S. corporate world, employees don’t generally get built-in raises unless they’ve unionized,…