Old faces seem to crease and crumble as we watch in Richard Avedon Immortal: Portraits of Aging, 1951–2004. Avedon was a pioneer in presenting cool, stark, tough beauty. Shades of decadence are one thing, but decrepitude? Old age is timeless as well as time-limited.

Phota Labs is a new iOS app that uses a personal AI photo assistant to turn everyday snapshots into professional-looking shots while preserving personal identity and authenticity. Founded by former Adobe employees, the startup aims to automate the editing process so anyone can easily get better photos.

California voters narrowly rejected Proposition 40, a wealth tax that threatened the state's startup economy. The measure originated from an intellectual movement driven by a French academic project, an elite public university, and union backing. Wealth-tax advocates are regrouping, making this California battle a preview of fights nationwide.

Republicans face a defining choice between free-market principles and interventionist visions, while Democrats’ ideological divisions could push health-care proposals toward full government control. Looming entitlement shortfalls and AI disruption will make policy debates harder to avoid. Will be the election when policy makes a comeback.

Elizabeth Warren thinks interest on consumer credit cards is too high and wants to cap it at 10 percent. Like any other price ceiling, this would create a shortage of the product it attempts to make more affordable. In trying to rescue consumers from their own financial decisions, Warren would deprive them of their plastic and consign them to infinitely more treacherous alternatives.

Following the resignation of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Donald Trump floated Apple executive chairman Tim Cook as his potential successor, pointing to Cook's unparalleled track record of succeeding a bigger-than-life founder.

The Trump administration is right to take on the problem of improper enrollment. Democratic senators criticizing the crackdown get insurers' financial incentives backward, ignoring how expanded subsidies fueled phantom enrollments that reward unscrupulous brokers and leave taxpayers to foot the bill. Renewing those subsidies risks reviving fraud incentives.

Private firms are engineering Halifax harbour to remove atmospheric carbon by adding an alkaline slurry to seawater, speeding up naturally occurring cycles. While proponents champion this ocean alkalinity enhancement to combat the climate crisis, marine scientists warn that adding materials to a stressed ecosystem without sufficient research risks toxic effects.

Congressional Democrats are already eyeing your money with expansive spending agendas, renewing calls for massive federal programs. But the Trump administration's veto power offers a vital constitutional check against these ambitions. Legislative restraint is a feature of the Founders' design, not a failure.

We meet the unnamed narrator of Transcription on a train to Providence, Rhode Island. Ben Lerner’s novella is a thoughtful meditation on memory, storytelling and lives lived through technology. The narrator’s anxiety over his phone falls away as he engages with the world around him and with his past.

Fitness band maker Whoop is launching a social network called Whoop Humans that lets members share health data with friends and family, as the company pushes further into medical wellness and targets an aging population.

United Airlines will restrict access to AI agents seeking to book flights and manage reservations, joining banks in citing cybersecurity risks and password-sharing dangers. The airline warns that autonomous assistants expose sensitive data and threaten compliance with federal aviation rules.

An 11-month-old South Carolina boy buried alive in a dog crate by his father was rescued after 24 hours, crying and covered in dirt, and is expected to make a full recovery. The father has been charged with attempted murder after the dramatic search in the woods.

Marketing operating system Nectar is launching an AI agent designed to automate influencer marketing, from finding the right creators across hundreds of millions of profiles to contacting them with personalized messages, managing partnerships, and tracking campaign results.

More than 40 years after Jill Posener immortalised a graffitied Fiat billboard with a big fuck you to the establishment, a new retrospective celebrates a 50-year career of cheeky, feminist photography and social justice.

Jensen Huang’s resignation leaves Nvidia’s commitment to open source in limbo, as the loss of its chief advocate threatens to shift company strategy and embolden Washington critics pushing for tighter restrictions on open-weight AI models.

Nine early-stage South Korean startups pitched at DETO 2026 in Seoul to earn a spot in TechCrunch Disrupt 2027's Startup Battlefield 200 competition. Voinosis, an AI healthcare startup that detects changes in brain health through voice analysis, won the competition and is raising a Series A round.

Norwest has raised its largest fund yet at $4 billion, aiming to capitalize on AI startups developing products and services across core industries like consumer, healthcare, and technology with a broad, multi-country investment approach.

Ex-Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has agreed to testify before Congress behind closed doors by Thanksgiving. The development follows threats of subpoenas from House committee chairs amid questions surrounding Huang's departure following reports of an alleged affair with a woman suspected of spying for China.

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue called Jensen Huang's exit a really sad day while vowing to keep fighting harder than ever for open-source AI. Nvidia's proposed acquisition of the platform faces antitrust scrutiny, raising questions about the future of open-weight models without Huang's vocal advocacy.

Donald Trump is the biggest loser we’ve seen in a long time for scrapping climate action and ceding the clean energy race to China. By walking away from the battlefield and blackballing an entire sector of the economy, he completely missed the marketplace for goods that could be produced in the United States.

Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia's president and CEO after admitting to an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, throwing the tech giant's sprawling AI investments and soaring market dominance into sudden uncertainty as CFO Colette Kress takes over as interim chief.

Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang resigned following revelations of affairs with an alleged Chinese spy and a company executive, upending the AI industry kingpin's career and sparking U.S. national security concerns amid a high-stakes technological arms race between Washington and Beijing.

Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia CEO following reports of affairs with an alleged Chinese spy and a direct report. Nvidia CFO Colette Kress has stepped in as interim replacement while the board searches for a permanent successor.