From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

AI voice startup ElevenLabs was initially viewed as a pariah in Hollywood. These days, it has become a creative partner—a shift that has proved good for business. After launching its voice-generation ...

Apple has acquired an Israeli startup that worked on AI for audio called Q.ai, a company representative confirmed on Thursday. No purchase price was disclosed. Aviad Maizels, the CEO of Q.ai, ...

Jan 20 (Reuters) - AI startup Humans&, founded by former OpenAI, Alphabet and xAI researchers, has raised $480 million in a seed financing ‌round, which values the company at $4.48 billion, it said on ...

Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to acquire Singapore-based AI startup Manus, which makes an artificial intelligence agent that it sells to small and medium-sized businesses. The deal is part of a ...

Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and of them, the top 20 compete on the big stage ...

A fast charging EV startup is filing for bankruptcy protection amid broader disruption across the electric vehicle industry. San Francisco-based Ample filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week, citing ...

The high-powered Duke basketball squad scored only seven points across the first seven minutes of its 80-71 CBS Sports Thanksgiving Classic win over the No. 22-ranked Arkansas Razorbacks (5-2, 0-0 SEC ...

Jeff Bezos is gainfully employed once more, after having left his post as Amazon CEO back in 2021. Cade Metz at The New York Times reports that the billionaire founder of space tech giant Blue Origin ...

The latest U.S. Drought Monitor shows that while extreme and severe drought areas in Colorado remain unchanged, moderate drought and abnormally dry conditions have expanded across the Front Range and ...

Third-year phenom Victor Wembanyama has the Spurs off to their best start since 2017. Daniel Dunn / Imagn Images SAN ANTONIO — Victor Wembanyama’s thrilling start to the season continued with a ...

Household-battery startup Base Power Inc. raised $1 billion to expand its energy-storage business and build a manufacturing plant in Texas. The Series C funding round led by venture capital firm ...