New leaders, new fund: Sequoia has raised $7B to expand its AI bets
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In Brief More than three years after the emergence of generative AI, AI‑assisted coding remains by far the most popular and lucrative use case for the technolo...
Luma launches AI‑powered production studio with faith‑focused Wonder Project AI video generation startup Luma has announced Innovative Dreams, a production com...
Reed Hastings to Leave Netflix Board Reed Hastings, the co‑founder and chairman of Netflix, will leave the company’s board when his term expires this summer. H...
Funding Round AI infrastructure company Upscale AIhttps://upscaleai.com/ is reportedly in talks for its third funding round, according to Bloomberghttps://www....
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In Brief Posted: 12:20 PM PDT · April 16, 2026 !Slash Financial imagehttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-1476391614.jpg?w=1024 Slash...
OpenAI’s Codex Revamp Targets Anthropic’s Claude Code There is currently a low‑grade war between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can release the most convenient...
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In Brief Posted: 11:28 AM PDT · April 16, 2026 !Mike Krieger, co‑founder, Artifact speaks onstage during Vox Media's 2023 Code Conferencehttps://techcrunch.com...
In Brief Posted: 10:11 AM PDT · April 16, 2026 !The image shows the icon of Bluesky, the new decentralized social network created by Twitter co‑founder Jack Do...
Google announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out a new way to explore the web with AI Modehttps://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/googles-ai-mode-can-now-tap-into-y...
Two U.S. citizens were sentenced to 7½ years and 9 years in prison for their roles in a scheme that helped the North Korean government place remote IT workers i...
The Evolving Role of Observability The role of observability tools has evolved once again. While the market for solutions to ensure tech systems’ reliability h...
AI traffic to U.S. retailers’ websites surged dramatically in early 2026, driving higher engagement and revenue. Traffic Growth - March 2026: AI traffic was up...
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Roblox introduces new agentic tools for game development Roblox is revamping Roblox Assistant, its plain‑language AI tool, to help creators plan, build, and te...
Google said Thursday it blocked a record 8.3 billion ads globally in 2025—up from 5.1 billion the year before TechCrunchhttps://techcrunch.com/2025/04/16/google...
You’ve doubtless heard of hybrid cars, but what about a hybrid cement or glass plant? Nearly all of them today run on fossil fuels, but that might change soon —...
Cristóbal Valenzuela, co‑founder and CEO of AI video‑generation startup Runway now valued at north of $5 billionhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/ai-video-start...
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The core promise of new AI platforms is that you can describe your task to the AI assistant, let it plan the task, use the relevant tools for you, and keep your...
Overview Fashion giant Express patched a security flaw that allowed anyone to view other customers’ order details and personal information. The issue exposed o...
DeepL, a translation company best known for its text tools, released a voice‑to‑voice translation suite that supports meetings, mobile and web conversations, an...
Nuclear startup X‑energy began its investor roadshow on Wednesday as it works toward an IPO, targeting a share price between $16 and $19 per share, according to...
Doug Field, the high‑profile executive who shaped Ford’s electric‑vehicle EV and technology strategies over the past five years, is leaving the automaker. His d...
The web of litigation around Live Nation, Ticketmaster, and the companies’ alleged monopoly is getting more complicated — but it could be good news for concertg...
Monarch Tractor’s assets have been acquired by construction giant Caterpillar, after the company struggled to pivot to a software‑services business, according t...
Monarch Tractor’s assets acquired by Caterpillar Monarch Tractor’s assets have been acquired by construction giant Caterpillar, after the company struggled to...
Agentic AI is the tech industry’s newest success story, and companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to give enterprises the tools they need to create the...
Historically, marketers relied on designers and other creative professionals to develop images and videos for personalized online ad campaigns. In late 2024, se...
LinkedIn’s Blake Lawithttps://news.linkedin.com/about-us/blake-lawit-bio, the chief global affairs and legal officer of the Microsoft‑owned professional network...
New EIA Requirement for Data Centers The Energy Information Agency EIA told two U.S. Senators that it plans to require data centers to disclose details about t...
Growth and User Base Since its launch in 2021, Gizmohttps://gizmo.ai/, an AI‑powered learning platformhttps://techcrunch.com/2023/09/21/ai-startup-gizmo-fundin...
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In Brief Posted: 10:46 AM PDT · April 15, 2026 !Glydways autonomous podhttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Glydways-autonomous.jpeg?w=1024 Image...
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Overview Emergenthttps://app.emergent.sh/landing/, an Indian startup known for its vibe‑coding platform, has launched Wingman – a messaging‑first autonomous AI...
In Brief VCs love to chase after the hottest startups, but startups aren’t always interested in selling more shares. So it is with Anthropic, sources tell Bloo...
Motorola has filed a lawsuit in India against social media platforms and content creators over posts it alleges are defamatory, raising concerns it could dampen...
Airwallex, the Australian fintech that has spent a decade quietly building global payments infrastructure, is moving into in‑person payments. The move deepens i...
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Layoffs Overview Snap is laying off roughly 16% of its global workforce, impacting around 1,000 full‑time employees, according to a memohttps://d18rn0p25nwr6d....
Background Days after Meta shut down its internal “tokenmaxxing” dashboard following news of the AI leaderboard leaking to the press, LinkedIn co‑founder and v...
Introduction Last October, Adobe previewed a new assistant under the Project Moonlight moniker, which could perform tasks by tapping different Adobe apps such...
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Problem Overview With the advent of “vibe coding,” AI agents have unleashed a deluge of codehttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/technology/ai-code-overload.html...