AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscars The organization behind the Academy Awards released new Oscar rules on Friday, including several that address the use of generative artificial intelligence. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said that only performances “credited in the film’s legal billing and demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” will...

TechCrunch is heading to Tokyo — and bringing the Startup Battlefield with it TechCrunch is partnering with SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026, Asia’s largest global innovation conference, taking place April 27–29 at Tokyo Big Sight. And we’re not just showing up to cover it — our very own Startup Battlefield program manager, Isabelle Johannessen, will be on the ground as a judge for the SusHi Tech...

A team of midlife cheerleaders in Ukraine refuses to let war defeat them The Sunrise cheerleading team from Kharkiv, Ukraine, competes in the Ukraine Cheer Cup competition in the capital, Kyiv, on Dec. 13, 2025. Anton Shtuka for...

Meta and Google found liable in social media addiction trialNardine Saad,Regan MorrisandKali HaysReutersMeta's chairman and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg testified in the caseA Los Angeles jury has handed down an unprecedented win for a young woman who sued Meta and Google over her childhood addiction to social media.A panel of jurors found Meta and Google intentionally built addictive social...

Frontier Airlines plane hits and kills person on runway at Denver International Airport'We just hit somebody' - Frontier Airlines plane kills runway trespasser at Denver airportGetty ImagesThe moment after a Frontier Airlines plane killed a person who was on a runway after jumping a perimeter fence at Denver International Airport on Friday night is captured in air traffic control audio. "We...