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Hackers are targeting Signal users in an attempt to steal their chat backups as part of a new hacking campaign, TechCrunch has learned. On Wednesday, Washington...
Funding Round Anthropic has secured $65 billion in fundinghttps://www.anthropic.com/news/series-h at a $965 billion post‑money valuation in its Series H round....
Funding Round Anthropic has snagged $65 billion in fundinghttps://www.anthropic.com/news/series-h at a $965 billion post‑money valuation in its latest Series H...
AI Token Futures Development China’s Shanghai Futures Exchange is designing a derivatives market for AI tokens, according to Reuters. The news arrives as major...
Market context It’s no secret that pre‑AI era startups are generally getting little love from investors now. Ariel Katz, co‑founder and CEO of the nine‑year‑ol...
Overview Prison calling service Pay Tel secured a publicly exposed cloud server that stored hundreds of thousands of driver’s licenses and other sensitive info...
For decades, the geography of the tech industry has felt largely fixed, with Silicon Valley dominating the global startup economy. While cities like London, Bei...
Join us for StrictlyVC Los Angeles 2026https://techcrunch.com/events/strictlyvc-los-angeles-2026/?utm_source=tc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=svcla2026&utm_conte...
Join us for StrictlyVC Los Angeles 2026https://techcrunch.com/events/strictlyvc-los-angeles-2026/?utm_source=tc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=svcla2026&utm_conte...
Funding round details Insurance‑tech startup Corgi announced a $106 million Series B1 raise, valuing the company at $2.6 billion. This comes just three weeks a...
Release Overview On Thursday, Anthropic released Opus 4.8https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8, the newest version of its most advanced publicly avail...
Waymo has started giving select riders in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco access to its newest robotaxi: an all‑electric, minivan‑like vehicle designed...
In Brief Posted: 9:21 AM PDT · May 28, 2026 !Multiple destinations. GPS tracking map. Track navigation pins on street maps, navigate mapping technology and loc...
Background Earlier this month, xAI signed a major compute deal with Anthropichttps://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/anthropic-will-pay-xai-1-25-billion-per-month-fo...
On Thursday, the AI startup Sesamehttps://www.sesame.com/, co‑founded by the original Oculus founders and other veterans from the VR company that was acquired b...
Order Window Opens June 24 Slate Auto, the electric‑vehicle startup backed by Jeff Bezos and LA Dodgers owner Mark Walter, announced that it will officially st...
Just ahead of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference WWDC in June, Bloomberghttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-05-28/apple-ios-27-photos-screenshots-...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigatinghttps://www.nhtsa.gov/?nhtsaId=PE26004 how electric‑car maker Rivian services its vehicles’ r...
New Podcast Features for Premium Users YouTube announced that it’s introducing new podcast features for Premium users, including an AI‑powered recommendation t...
Founders, the battlefield is still open, but not for much longer. After overwhelming demand from founders around the world, TechCrunch has extended the Startup...
Visa has announced an undisclosed investment in AI coding platform Replit. The two companies are also exploring how to integrate Visa’s payment products into Re...
The raging demand for computers to run AI models has only accelerated, but there are two major obstacles that anyone in the business needs to overcome: getting...
Vertu Unveils the Alphafold – A Luxury Foldable Phone Powered by an Enterprise‑Focused AI Agent Luxury smartphone brand Vertu on Thursday unveiled a foldable ph...
Charges The U.S. Justice Department charged Google software engineer Michele Spagnuolo with insider trading, alleging he made $1.2 million trading on Polymarke...
How many Ps are in Google? According to Google, there are two. There’s also “exactly 1 ‘r’ in the word ‘poop’,” Google’s AI Overview says, as well as two ‘d’s i...
Delivery Date Rivian has finally revealedhttps://stories.rivian.com/r2-launch-june-9-2026?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=r2&utm_campaign_i...
Funding round Triomicshttps://triomics.com/, a startup building an AI‑powered platform to help oncologists and administrative staff automate data‑heavy tasks l...
Snowflake has signed a new $6 billion five‑year agreement with Amazon Web Services, announced on Wednesday. Deal Overview - Snowflake has always run on AWS, tho...
Remote’s AI‑Powered Growth Story Remotehttps://remote.com/, a seven‑year‑old, Amsterdam‑based payroll service provider, recently announced that it has surpasse...
UK Visa Portal Data Exposure A website called UK Visa Portal publicly exposed thousands of passports and selfie photos of applicants who paid the site to obtai...
Meta Expands Its Subscription Suite Across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp Meta announced on Wednesday that its consumer‑focused subscription plans are now li...
Thea Energy has raised an oversubscribed $100 million Series B led by the U.S. Innovative Technology Fund, the fusion startup told TechCrunch. The sum places th...
Overview CrowdStrike, working with Google and the nonprofit Shadowserver, took down a botnet that cybercriminals used to push malware and steal passwords from...
CrowdStrike, working with Google and the nonprofit Shadowserver, took down a botnet that cybercriminals used to push malware and steal passwords from open‑sourc...
!Scott Wu, CEO of Cognitionhttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot-2025-08-05-at-11.02.07AM.png?w=1024 Image Credit: Cognition !Julie Borth...
FAA Order to Investigate Starship V3 Booster Failure The Federal Aviation Administration FAA has ordered SpaceX to investigate why its Starship booster failed...
Overview Voice AI company ElevenLabshttps://elevenlabs.io/ has launched a new version of its music‑generation model, called Music v2, which can switch genres m...
Overview Voice AI company ElevenLabshttps://elevenlabs.io/ has launched Music v2, a new version of its music‑generation model that can switch genres mid‑track....
It’s about to get easier to share your favorite moments from a podcast, with the introductionhttps://newsroom.spotify.com/2026-05-27/podcast-clips-save-share-mo...
SOND’s Dreambuds: Closed‑Loop Earbuds That Actively Improve Sleep Traditionally, sleep earbuds have been designed to mask outside noise and promote sleep with...
Image: !General atmosphere at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2017 at Arena Berlinhttps://techcrrawl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/27055664959_5fbe947d9b_o.jpg?w=102...
Travel Restrictions on Top AI Researchers For China’s leading AI researchers, the borders are quickly closing. Researchers, startup founders, and executives at...
Revenue Growth Database provider ClickHouse has crossed $250 million in annualized revenue run rate, tripling its business from last year, Yury Izrailevsky, co...
YouTube will now automatically label AI‑generated videos As AI video models become more powerful, YouTube is no longer solely relying on creators to label their...
Robinhood is expanding into AI‑agent‑driven investing, announcing support for AI‑agentic trading and a new agentic virtual credit card. Overview The company now...
The Wildness of Today’s Tech Industry There is a certain wildness in the tech industry these days that both mimics previous eras of large changes—like cloud co...
WeRoad, the Milan‑based group travel startup, has raised a $58 million Series C round led by Airbnb as it prepares for its first major expansion outside Europe....
!a close-up shot of a UK visa in someone's passport.https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/uk-visa-2186517355.jpg?w=1024 Image Credits: Victor Golmer...
