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[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,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/crypto-hack-mixin.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Regular internet users and corporations are not the only victims of malicious hackers. Sometimes, the hackers themselves get hacked. That is what happened in an unusual hacking campaign, where an unknown group of hackers targeted systems already compromised by a prolific cybercrime group known as TeamPCP. Once the hackers broke into those…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Kalshi-on-mobile.jpg?w=1024″] Prediction market startup Kalshi announced on Thursday a $1 billion Series F round, valuing the company at $22 billion. That’s double the $11 billion valuation Kalshi nabbed just five months ago after raising a $1 billion Series E. This latest round was led by Coatue, with participation from Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-2208733347.jpg?w=1024″] The head of Jeff Bezos’ family office has left the board of directors of Slate Auto, the electric vehicle startup backed by the Amazon founder, according to numerous state filings reviewed by TechCrunch. Melinda Lewison, who leads investments at Bezos Expeditions, appears to have stepped down at some point in the last…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Dario-Amodei-Anthropic-viva-tech.jpg?w=1024″] When Anthropic unveiled its new Mythos model in April, it also delivered a stern warning to anyone developing software. The model was so powerful at sniffing out software vulnerabilities, the lab claimed, that it had discovered thousands of high-severity bugs that would need to be fixed before it could be made public.…