Let’s just get this out of the way: Mark Wahlberg is as A-list as it gets. He broke out in 1997’s “Boogie Nights,” and in the nearly three decades since, he’s built one of the highest-wattage careers in Hollywood: two Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe nod for “The Fighter,”…

Whenever I think of a good Western movie, it’s hard not to think of one of John Wayne’s classics. Over his five-decade career, Wayne helped define and popularize the Western genre with films like Stagecoach, Red River, The Searchers, Hondo, and True Grit, the latter of which earned him an…

Anthropic will spend $11.6 billion over seven years on Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, Akamai said Thursday. That’s more than six times the size of a $1.8 billion deal between the two companies that Bloomberg reported in May. The commitment isn’t ironclad; according to Akamai’s securities filing, it depends on Akamai meeting…

If you’re a horror fan like me, you’ll likely spend this October streaming scary movies to celebrate Halloween. You may even want to do a frightening double feature, as that has become quite a trend among audiences in recent years. However, you may not want to spend money to watch…

Farmers around the world face a pressing problem: The equipment they use to till, plant, and harvest their fields is killing their margins. Studies have estimated that soil compaction can reduce yields by 20% to 60%.  Plowing can help, but it’s a laborious and expensive task that harms soil health…

I’m a big tablet fan, and when I’m at home, I use one far more often than I do my phone. Maybe that’s part of why my phone’s life can continue long after it’s received its last security update. Tablets just feel a lot more comfortable for me to use,…

Technology giant Kiteworks is urging customers to shut down their systems after the company received information that hackers may attempt to target them. Kiteworks (formerly Accellion), which makes tools for transferring large files and sensitive datasets over the internet, confirmed to TechCrunch that it had notified its customers about a…

Muse’s traction is surging, fueled by Meta’s promotion of the AI app at its annual developer conference this week and strong early reviews that praised its polished design and highly capable AI model under the hood. At the start of the week, Muse had surpassed 2.5 million downloads since its…

AI needs increasingly powerful chips. But designing those chips is itself a slow, complex process. What happens when AI starts doing some of that work, too? That’s the idea behind Ricursive Intelligence. The startup is developing AI that can design chips, learn from the process, and improve the next design…

This is the last 24 hours to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket before prices increase. As our countdown ends, the next reason is all about what can happen when you compress months of research, conversations, and decision-making into three days at San Francisco’s Moscone West…