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!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...

Two U.S. senators on Thursday fired the latest salvo in an increasingly active front against data centers and their energy use. Senators Josh Hawley and Elizabe...

In Brief Posted: 11:05 AM PDT · March 26, 2026 !Shield AI co‑founder Brandon Tsenghttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/20240708_Foreign-Policy-NAT...

The common assumption among iPhone security experts has been that finding vulnerabilities and developing exploits for iOS was difficult, requiring a lot of time...

Google expands Search Live globally Google announcedhttps://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-live-global-expansion/ that its AI‑powere...

Malware discovered in LiteLLM This week, a serious malware infection was found in the open‑source project LiteLLM, a Y Combinator graduate that gives developer...

OpenAI may be dialing back its efforts in the video generation market with the shutdown of its Sora apphttps://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/openais-sora-was-the-cr...

Building at Breakneck Speed When you’re building at breakneck speed, hiring a trusted team is crucial for an early‑stage startup. In this episode of Build Mode...

Background The surveillance tech industry is under intense scrutiny. Controversies such as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tapping into Flock’s camera...

Enterprise AI company Cohere on Thursday launched its first voice model: Transcribe, an open‑source automatic speech recognition ASR model designed for note‑tak...

Overview Enterprise AI company Cohere launched its first voice model, Transcribe, an open‑source automatic speech recognition ASR system designed for note‑taki...

AI‑generated suggested replies WhatsApp is rolling out a slew of new features and updates, including one that generates AI‑powered suggested replies based on y...

AI‑related Job Displacement Signals The signs that AI could lead to mass job displacement are already piling up: entry‑level job postings in the U.S. have sunk...

AI Job Displacement Concerns The signs that AI could lead to mass job displacement are already piling up: entry‑level job postings in the U.S. have sunk 35 % s...

New Open‑Source Speech Generation Model from Mistral French AI company Mistral released a new open‑source text‑to‑speech model on Thursday that can be used by...

Overview French AI company Mistral released a new open‑source text‑to‑speech model, Voxtral TTS, on Thursday. The model is designed for voice AI assistants and...

Background Mate Rimac, founder of the Croatian electric‑vehicle maker Rimac Group, began working on electric robotaxis seven years ago. His vision is now movin...

Okay, so the U.S. and China are locked in an all‑out race to build the most powerful AI on the planet. Beijing is throwing billions at home‑grown models, tighte...

As demand grows for training and refining AI models, Deccan AIhttps://www.deccan.ai/ — a startup supplying post‑training data and evaluation work — has raised $...

Overview This week a serious malware infection was discovered in the open‑source project LiteLLM, a Y Combinator graduate that gives developers easy access to...

Anthropic’s latest researchhttps://www.anthropic.com/research/economic-index-march-2026-report suggests that while AI is rapidly changing how work gets done, it...

Spyware maker Intellexa conviction and appeal The founder of spyware maker Intellexa said he plans to appeal a conviction handed down by a Greek court on charg...

TurboQuant is Google Research’s newly announced AI memory‑compression algorithm, described as a “novel way to shrink AI’s working memory without impacting perfo...

At a press conferencehttps://x.com/Figure_robot/status/2036857384283644256?s=20 at the White House on Wednesday, First Lady Melania Trump appeared with a humano...

Overview The number of med‑spas, weight‑loss clinics, and concierge practices where patients pay a membership fee for direct, often same‑day access to physicia...

Verdict and Damages One day after Meta lost a similar child‑safety lawsuit in New Mexico, a Los Angeles jury on Wednesday handed the social‑media giant — along...

Verdict and Damages One day after Meta lost a similar child‑safety lawsuit in New Mexico, a Los Angeles jury on Wednesday handed the social‑media giant — along...

In Brief Posted: 10:49 AM PDT · March 25, 2026 !The Meta Platforms Inc. pavilion ahead of the World Economic Forum WEF in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 19, 2025....

Apple has announced a major update to App Store Connect, adding more than 100 new metrics that give developers deeper insight into monetization, subscriptions,...

The explosion of new data‑center projects in the United States has sparked a growing backlash against the infrastructure that powers AI. Two influential politic...

Block Party founder Tracy Chou announcedhttps://bsky.app/profile/triketora.com/post/3mhu3d3wtf22n on Wednesday that the company has been acquired by DeleteMehtt...

Overview Google announced on Wednesday that it is releasing Lyria 3 Pro, a music‑generation model, just a month after the launch of Lyria 3. The new model lets...

!Russian Police officers walk during a snowstorm at Red Square, on February 16, 2026, in Moscow, Russia.https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/russia...

Over the past few years, a new category of mobile apps has quietly exploded into a multi‑billion‑dollar businesshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/tiktok-like-mi...

In Brief Posted: 8:27 AM PDT · March 25, 2026 !Harvey founder CEO Winston Weinberghttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-14-at-11...

Funding round Granola secured $125 million in a Series C round led by Danny Rimer at Index Ventures, with participation from Mamoon Hamid at Kleiner Perkins. E...

In Brief Posted: 7:45 AM PDT · March 25, 2026 !Mark Zuckerberghttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2233066222.jpg?w=1024 Image Credits...

Energy startup Arbor Energy announced it has sold up to 5 GW of its modular turbines to GridMarket, a firm that arranges power projects for data centers and ind...

Meta is looking to leverage AI’s ability to inform and potentially influence shoppers to increase sales on the company’s social media platforms, like Facebook a...

Sony Honda Mobility, the joint venture established by the two Japanese conglomerates, has decidedhttps://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/News/Press/202603/26-0325E/ to...

Background Social media platform X announced new rules for creator monetization that would weight payouts toward impressions from a creator’s local audience. T...

Deal Overview Trucking startup Harbinger is still a relatively new company, but the flexibility of its electric‑vehicle platform has helped it capture another...

The cry of “atoms, not bits!” — a phrase capturing Silicon Valley’s growing obsession with physical manufacturing over digital products — reached a fever pitch...

Funding round Dispute‑tracking fintech Glimpse announced a $35 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from 8VC and Y Combinator. The c...

Arinna, a startup founded by Stanford PhDs Koosha Nazif CEO and Alex Shearer CTO, announced a $4 million seed round to develop ultrathin solar panels for spacec...