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Vegan cheese and the casein challenge Last week, someone at a pizza shop asked if a particular slice was vegetarian or vegan. When they learned it had vegan ch...
Overview Tech companies are constantly on the hunt for new customers, and Cash App— the fintech arm of Block— believes it has found a promising new demographic...
Tech companies are constantly on the hunt for new customers, and Cash App, the fintech company owned by Jack Dorsey’s Block, believes it has found a promising n...
Overview For years, consumer platforms have tried to keep users within their apps by offering more services. After the rise of AI chatbots, the trend has shift...
The Challenge of Grid Expansion As the grid strains under the weight of electrification and AI data centers, tech companies and utilities have been evaluating...
After 15 years, Tim Cook will hand off the Apple CEO rolehttps://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/tim-cook-stepping-down-as-apple-ceo-john-ternus-taking-over/ to John...
Deal Overview Anthropic announced that Amazon has agreed to invest a fresh $5 billion, bringing Amazon’s total investment in the company to $13 billion. In ret...
Posted: 3:00 PM PDT · April 20, 2026 !Chrome Herohttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Chrome_Hero.png?w=1024 Google expands Gemini in Chrome to sev...
!https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Chrome_Hero.png?w=1024 Image Credits: Google Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome in 7 new countries Google anno...
April 20 2026 – 1:42 PM PDT Announcement Apple announcedhttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260420318241/en/Tim-Cook-to-become-Apple-Executive-Chairman-Joh...
Google Photos’ image editor is getting new touch-up tools to allow users to apply subtle edits and fixes, Google announcedhttps://blog.google/products-and-platf...
!https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-1680577745.jpg?w=1024 Image Credits: Moor Studio / Getty Images 12:37 PM PDT · April 20, 2026 Som...
!North Korean leader Kim Jong Un congratulating residents moving into their new homes at the inauguration ceremony of 10,000 flats at fourth stage in Hwasong ar...
In Brief Over the weekend, hackers stolehttps://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/04/19/2026-s-biggest-crypto-exploit-kelp-dao-hit-for-usd292-million-with-wrapped-eth...
Mastodon’s flagship server was hit by a distributed denial‑of‑service DDoS attack on Monday, rendering the instance unusable at times. Much of the site was inac...
!Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveralhttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/blue-origin-new-glenn.jpg?w=1024 Image Credits: Blue Origin F...
In Brief Posted: 9:06 AM PDT · April 20, 2026 !Getty Imageshttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2269811684.jpg?w=1024 Image Credits: G...
Overview WhatsApp is testing a new subscription tier, similar to Instagram Plus and Snapchat+https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/30/meta-starts-testing-a-premium-su...
In Brief !Image Credits: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg / Getty Imageshttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/fermi-Getty.jpg?w=1024 Fermi co‑founder and C...
Deezer announced on Monday that AI‑generated tracks now represent 44 % of all new music uploaded to its platform. The company is receiving almost 75,000 AI‑gene...
Cloud app hosting giant Vercel announced that hackers breached its internal systems and accessed customer data. The attackers claimed to have stolen sensitive c...
Tornado damage at Rivian’s Normal, Illinois factory Rivian’s factory in Normal, Illinois was directly hit by an EF‑1 tornado over the weekend, sustaining damag...
OpenAI in the News OpenAI has been all over the news recently—whether the story is about acquisitionshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/openai-has-bought-ai-per...
In Brief Posted: 12:30 PM PDT · April 19, 2026 !Elad Gilhttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Elad-Gil.jpg?w=1024 Image Credits: Kimberly White for...
Launch overview Blue Origin successfully re‑used a New Glenn rocket for the first time on Sunday, lifting off at 7:35 a.m. local time from Cape Canaveral, Flor...
Overview The winning runner at a Beijing half‑marathon for humanoid robots finished the race today in 50 minutes 26 seconds, significantly faster than the huma...
Surveillance and analytics company Palantir recently posted a “brief” 22‑point summary of CEO Alexander Karp’s book The Technological Republic. The book and its...
Emerging Industry Tensions: Fusion Power It happens in every emerging industry: founders and investors push toward a common goal, until the money starts to roll...
!Blue Origin New Glenn 3https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Screenshot-2026-04-19-at-7.41.48-AM.png?w=1024 Image Credit: Blue Origin Milestone Ach...
Expansion to Dallas and Houston Tesla is expanding its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston, according to a social media posthttps://x.com/robotaxi/status/20...
!https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ron-conway-147a4107.jpg?w=1024 Image Credits: TechCrunch In Brief Longtime venture capitalist Ron Conway said...
In Brief Posted: 12:19 PM PDT · April 18, 2026 !AWS Austin chip lab tour and data centerhttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ASW-Chip_tour-servers...
!Dario Amodeihttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Dario-Amodei-.jpg?w=1024 Image Credits: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg / Getty Images Despite recently...
OpenAI leadership exits amid “side quests” cutbacks OpenAI is losing two of the architects of its most ambitious moonshots. Kevin Weil, who led the company’s s...
Background Nicholas Moore pleaded guilty to hacking the U.S. Supreme Court’s electronic document filing system dozens of times over several months. He also bre...
AI coding startup Cursor is nearing new funding in which the four-year-old company would raise at least $2 billion in fresh capital, according to four sources f...
There’s an old saw in management: What you measure matters. And, typically, you get more of whatever you’re measuring. Software engineers have debated productiv...
The Problem with “Tokenmaxxing” There’s an old saw in management: what you measure matters. Typically, you get more of whatever you’re measuring. Software engi...
Hackers have broken into at least one organization using Windows vulnerabilities published online by a disgruntled security researcher over the last two weeks,...
Meeting platform Zoom has announced a partnership with World, Sam Altman’s human ID verification company, to ensure that the people attending meetings are actua...
People always hold up their phones to record special moments at concerts, but they often never revisit those videos. Gigshttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/gigs-conc...
Chef Robotics CEO Rajat Bhageria likes to tell people — correctly — that his industry is a veritable startup graveyard. Whether you’re talking about Chowbotics,...
Uber's New Returns Feature Uber launched a new feature on Friday that lets customers return purchased items without leaving their home. The returns feature is...
Overview Anthropic announced on Friday that it is launching Claude Design, an experimental product that lets users create visuals such as prototypes, slides, o...
!Signage at the Google Midlothian Data Center in Midlothian, Texas, US, on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025.https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/google-logo.j...
A long-running law that has allowed U.S. intelligence agencies to collect and analyze huge amounts of overseas communications without needing search warrants is...
Bluesky’s website and app are still struggling on Friday after experiencing service interruptions that chief operating officer Rose Wang attributed to an ongoin...
Netflix to launch a vertical video feed Netflix will roll out a TikTok‑like vertical video feed within its apps this month. The feature, which has been in test...
