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In Brief Posted: 2:53 PM PDT · April 24, 2026 !Image Credit: Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Imageshttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Get...
Deal Overview Cohere, the Canada‑based enterprise AI unicorn, announced Friday that it will merge with Germany‑based enterprise AI company Aleph Alpha. The dea...
Overview Series, a social‑networking app, announced a $5.1 million pre‑seed round backed by investors including Venmo co‑founder Iqram Magdon‑Ismail, Pear VC,...
Background Weiyao Wang spent eight years at Meta — his first job out of college — helping build multimodal perception systems and contributing to open‑world se...
IPO Performance X‑energy’s stock popped on its debut on the Nasdaq, opening at $30.11 and closing at $29.20 – a 27% gain over the IPO price of $23 per share. T...
Funding Round ComfyUIhttps://www.comfy.org/, a startup that helps creators control image, video, and audio outputs from diffusion models with a node‑based work...
XChat, X’s stand‑alone messaging app, launched to the public on Fridayhttps://x.com/nikitabier/status/2047747631624183889. Initially available on iOS devices, t...
Launch and Availability XChathttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/xchat/id6760873038, X’s standalone messaging app, launched to the public on Fridayhttps://x.com/niki...
Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, providing both cash and compute resources. The deal, reported by Bloomberg, involves an initial $10 billi...
Overpriced Mac mini M4 models are flooding eBay amid shortages of the sold‑out machines, which have become a favored tool for running on‑device AI models like O...
IPO Details - Amount raised: $1 billion in the initial public offering. - Shares sold: 44.3 million at $23 each, a premium above the $16–$19 per‑share range th...
Tim Cook plans to step down from his CEO role in September, handing the reins to hardware chief John Ternushttps://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/who-is-john-ternus-...
Surprise! StrictlyVC San Franciscohttps://techcrunch.com/events/strictlyvc-san-francisco-2026/?utm_source=tc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=svcsf2026&utm_content=...
In Brief Posted: 6:41 AM PDT · April 24, 2026 !Nothing Phone 3https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_2376-rotated.jpeg?w=1024 Image Credits: Iva...
Overview Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has launched two preview versions of its newest large language model, DeepSeek V4https://huggingface.co/collections/deepseek-a...
Meta has signed a deal to use millions of AWS Gravitonhttps://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-graviton-5-cpu-amazon-ec2 chips for its growing AI workloads, Ama...
Porsche will start selling an all‑electric Cayenne Coupe in late summer, signaling the German automaker’s confidence in continued market demand for EVs. The Cay...
In Brief Posted: 5:11 PM PDT · April 23, 2026 !Marina Temkinhttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_0758.jpg?w=668 Bob Iger is returning to Thriv...
A special forces soldier involved in the operation that captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has been indicted by the U.S. Justice Department. The alleg...
A special forces soldier involved in the operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been indicted by the U.S. Justice Department. The alleg...
Redwood Materials chief operating officer Chris Lister is retiring, TechCrunch has learned. Lister, a former vice president who led operations at Tesla’s Nevada...
Sierra, the customer‑service‑agent startup founded by Bret Taylorhttps://techcrunch.com/tag/bret-taylor/, announced on Thursday that it has acquired the YC‑back...
Instagram is testing a new image‑sharing app called Instantshttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram.moonshot, the company confirmed to TechC...
Noscroll: Outsourcing Your Doom‑Scrolling What if you could outsource your doom‑scrolling? That’s the premise behind the new startup Noscrollhttps://noscroll.c...
!UNITED STATES - JULY 24: Sean Plankey, nominee to be director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, testifies during his Senate Homeland Sec...
Artisan may be known for their bold “Stop Hiring Humanshttps://www.reddit.com/r/graphic_design/comments/1ggtaij/humandesigned_billboard_wants_people_to_stop/” c...
OpenAI on Thursday released GPT‑5.5https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/, its newest AI model, which the company calls its “smartest and most intuitive...
Release Overview OpenAI on Thursday released GPT‑5.5https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/, its newest AI model, which the company calls its “smartest a...
!Mark Zuckerberghttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2233066222.jpg?w=1024 Image Credits: Will Oliver/EPA/Bloomberg / Getty Images Meta...
In Brief Posted: 9:41 AM PDT · April 23, 2026 !The image shows the icon of Bluesky, the new decentralized social network created by Twitter co‑founder Jack Dor...
Update Details Bluesky announced a new version of its app v1.121 that boosts image quality in posts, both in upload size and resolution. The previous limit of...
Overview Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement buyouts for the first time in its 51‑year history, according to reports from CNBChttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/...
Background Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement buyouts for the first time in its 51‑year history, according to reports from CNBChttps://www.cnbc.com/202...
Meta announced on Thursday an improved Meta Account system designed to make it easier for users to sign in and manage their Meta accounts and devices. The annou...
Showcase Event Earlier in April, the startup Erahttps://era.world/ held a gathering of artists who had received its developer kit in New York. The artists demo...
Launched in 2021https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/08/twitter-communities/, when the company was still known as Twitter, Communities were meant to provide the socia...
The Philippines has millions of unbankedhttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240530564138/en/Philippines-Embedded-Finance-Business-Report-2024-2029-Rising-M...
App and website hosting giant Vercel said on Thursday that hackers had accessed some of its customers’ data before the company discovered its recent data breach...
Event Overview StrictlyVC’shttps://techcrunch.com/events/strictlyvc-san-francisco-2026/?utm_source=tc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=svcsf2026&utm_content=ticket...
The compliance startup Delve has been at the center of a series of controversies and security incidents involving its customers. Background - In March, an anony...
Union Demands and Company Stance Tens of thousands of Samsung Electronics workers held a rally at the company’s Pyeongtaek campus in South Korea, signaling the...
Tesla has revoked the “interim” pay package worth $29 billion that it gave its CEO Elon Musk last year, after the Delaware Supreme Court recently restoredhttps:...
WhatsApp is adding prepaid phone recharges in India in a move to get more users to transact within the app, even as it struggles to gain meaningful ground in a...
NASA announced that it will launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope into orbit in September 2026, eight months ahead of schedule. The new telescope is expe...
Beehiiv is expanding beyond newsletters with a suite of new creator tools, including webinars, AI‑powered podcast analytics, metered paywalls, and paid trials....
Meta announced on Thursday that parents using its supervision tools can now see the topics their teen has asked Meta AI about in the past week on Facebook, Mess...
India’s mobile app market is generating record revenue, with in‑app purchases crossing $300 million in the first quarter, up 33 % year‑over‑year, according to S...
Overview Creative and marketing teams often find that simple cloud storage solutions fall short when they need to sift through large numbers of files. The chal...
