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!AI bosshttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/id-work.jpg?w=1024 Would you trade your manager for a chatbot? A growing number of Americans are sayin...

AI Adoption vs Trust Americans are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence for research, writing, school or work projects, and data analysis. Yet, trus...

Startup Battlefield – What We’re Looking For Every year I read through thousands of applications for Startup Battlefieldhttps://techcrunch.com/startup-battlefi...

In Brief Posted: 11:26 AM PDT · March 30, 2026 !Delve team photohttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_1542.jpeg?w=1024 Image Credits: Delve A d...

Meta has begun testing a premium subscription on Instagram in a few countries, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. The subscription, called Instagram...

Bluesky has launched an AI assistant called Attiehttps://attie.ai/login that lets users design custom social‑media algorithms and build personalized feeds withi...

Bluesky has launched an AI assistant called Attiehttps://attie.ai/login that lets users design their own social‑media algorithms and create custom feeds within...

Hide My Email and law‑enforcement access Apple’s “Hide My Email” feature lets iCloud+ subscribers create anonymous email addresses that forward messages to the...

In Brief Posted: 7:46 AM PDT · March 30, 2026 !Uber acquires Blacklanehttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Uber-Blacklane.jpg?w=1024 Uber is buyin...

The Promise and Challenge of Large Language Models in Biomedicine Large language models LLMs trained on vast datasets could speed genomics research, streamline...

AI may be booming, but behind the scenes companies are wasting vast amounts of expensive compute. GPUs sit idle, workloads are over‑provisioned, and cloud costs...

Funding round Fresh off a successful Series C fundinghttps://rebellions.ai/newsroom/rebellions-scales-global-growth-with-silicon-valley-backed-series-c/ round...

In Brief Posted: 5:49 AM PDT · March 30, 2026 !The logo of the French company Mistral AI.https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-22197865...

Qodo raises $70M for code verification as AI coding scales As AI coding tools generate billions of lines of code each month, a new bottleneck is emerging: ensur...

Funding round Starcloud’s latest funding round values the space‑compute company at $1.1 billion, making it one of the fastest startups to reach unicorn status...

Funding round and valuation Starcloud’s latest funding round values the space‑compute company at $1.1 billion, making it one of the fastest startups to reach u...

In Brief Posted: 8:09 PM PDT · March 29, 2026 !Sora, ChatGPT and Gemini app icons on screen.https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/sora-app-GettyIma...

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Amazon’s bet on Project Hail Mary has paid off handsomely, with the film recently surpassing Creed III to become the company’s highest‑grossing movie ever. The...

OpenAI Shuts Down Sora – What It Means for the AI Video Landscape OpenAI announced this week that it’s shutting down its Sora apphttps://techcrunch.com/2026/03...

SXSW 2026 – A Fresh Take on an Old Favorite The air felt different at this year’s SXSW, the annual March festival where tech meets pop culture in Austin. I was...

Bluesky Unveils Attie – An AI‑Powered Feed Builder The team from Bluesky has built another app — and this time, it’s not a social network, but an AI assistant t...

In Brief Posted: 2:23 PM PDT · March 28, 2026 !Mark Zuckerberg is seen in attendance during the UFC 313 event at T‑Mobile Arena on March 08, 2025 in Las Vegas....

While there’s been plenty of debate about the tendency of AI chatbots to flatter users and confirm their existing beliefs — also known as AI sycophancyhttps://t...

In Brief Posted: 9:11 AM PDT · March 28, 2026 !Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during the World Economic Forum WEF in Davos, Switzerland, on...

Claude’s popularity with paying U.S. consumers is soaring Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude has seen a dramatic surge in paid subscriptions, according to an analy...

Investors have flocked to Y Combinator’s Demo Days for years to get their hands on promising startups building cool tech. After all, the accelerator has produce...

Whoop’s Evolution: From Elite Performance Tool to Everyday Health Monitor For the better part of a decade, Whoop sold itself as a secret weapon for serious athl...

For the better part of a decade, Whoop sold itself as a secret weapon for serious athletes. LeBron James was convinced to slap on the company’s fitness band in...

In Brief Posted: 4:59 PM PDT · March 27, 2026 !Physical Intelligencehttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_4026.jpeg?w=1024 Image Credits: Conni...

Overview SoftBank has taken on a new $40 billion loan to help cover its $30 billion commitment to invest in OpenAI as part of the AI model maker’s record‑break...

SK hynix, the South Korean memory‑chip giant already listed on the KOSPI, is preparing a potential U.S. listing that could raise an estimated $10 billion to $14...

Waymo is now providing 500,000 paid robotaxi rides every week across 10 U.S. cities, as the company announced in a post on X this week. This figure reflects Alp...

Incident Overview The European Union’s top executive body has confirmed a cyberattack after hackers reportedly stole reams of data from its cloud storage. Euro...

In Brief Posted: 10:05 AM PDT · March 27, 2026 !Baiju Bhatthttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/54600471248_4e3d1e80c3_c.jpg?w=799 Image Credits:...

Investment Overview - Volkswagen Group has unlocked an additional $1 billion investment in Rivian following the completion of winter testing for the VW ID EVER...

Leak Announcement A hacking group backed by the Iranian government dubbed “Handala” claimed on Friday that it has breached the personal email account of FBI di...

Almost four years after launching a security feature called Lockdown Mode, Apple says it has yet to see a case where someone’s device was hacked with these addi...

When an 82‑year‑old Kentucky woman was offered $26 millionhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/kentucky-woman-rejects-26-million-offer-to-turn-her-farm-into-a-data...

David Sacks has used up his days as Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar. Speaking with Bloomberg on Thursday, the longtime entrepreneur, investor, and podcaster c...

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When it comes to AI chatbots, there’s currently a war for consumer attention. All the big chatbot providers are looking to increase their user count, and Google...

!Illustration of the Wikipedia website applicationhttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-2195019925.jpg?w=1024 Image Credits: Riccardo Mi...

Mastodon is making changeshttps://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-redesign-for-profiles/ to make its decentralized social networking service more appealing and...

!The streaming services Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney Plus, Paramount Plus, Max, and Discovery Plus app appear on the screen of a smartphonehttps://techcr...

YC Winter ’26 Demo Day – 16 Start‑ups That Stood Out AI was once again the buzzword for this latest batch of YC Demo Day companies. Nearly 190 companies partic...

Overview Google announced that Live Translate, its AI‑powered Google Translate feature that lets you hear real‑time translations in your headphones, is expandi...

OpenAI has put the kibosh on yet another project—at least for the time being. On Thursday, the Financial Times reported that the AI company would be “indefinite...