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Opinion: The Smartphone Subscription Model Signals the End of Consumer Tech Ownership

21h ago

Opinion: The 'Fail Fast' Mythology Is Being Sold as Wisdom. It Deserves Real Scrutiny.

21h ago

Opinion: The Founder Wellness Industry Is Creating the Burnout It Claims to Solve

21h ago

Opinion: The Real Problem Isn't When Companies Spend More—It's When They Stop Admitting It

21h ago

Opinion: The Funding Frenzy Is Making Founders Stupid

21h ago

Inside the London hacker house taking a stand against founder burnout

21h ago

Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on ‘nudify’ apps

21h ago

YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’

21h ago

Should you still buy your next smartphone — or subscribe to it instead?

21h ago

Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via ChatGPT

21h ago

Opinion: Venture Capital's Obsession With 'Disruption' Is Destroying Founders Who Actually Build Things

Yesterday

Opinion: The M&A Playbook That Wins in 2025 Isn't About Buying the Coolest Thing

Yesterday

Opinion: The 'Strategic Acquisition' Has Become Corporate Gaslighting

Yesterday

Opinion: The Billion-Dollar Funding Rounds Are Masking a Reckoning We're Not Ready For

Yesterday

Opinion: The $20B Valuation Trap Is Hiding a Dangerous Shift in How We Fund Innovation

Yesterday

OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok

Yesterday

Rivian spinoff Also to start delivering e-bikes after months of delays

Yesterday

Silicon Valley loves young founders. Until it doesn’t.

Yesterday

India is starting to pay for apps, not just download them

Yesterday

Google nixes its Earth AI feature one day after launch, amid criticism it would spread misinformation

Yesterday

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Safe Superintelligence And Commonwealth Fusion Lead With Billion-Dollar Deals

Yesterday

These Are Sectors Where Seed Rounds Of $5M To $10M Are Clustering This Year

Yesterday

Opinion: The IPO Drought Isn't About Market Timing—It's About What Companies Fear Going Public Will Expose

2 days ago

Opinion: The Series A Crunch Isn't a Bottleneck—It's a Feature

2 days ago

Opinion: The Startup World's Obsession With Speed Is Becoming Its Greatest Liability

2 days ago

Opinion: The Acquisition Playbook Nobody Talks About Anymore Is About to Make a Comeback

2 days ago

Opinion: The Funding Circus Has Too Many Ringmasters

2 days ago

Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests

2 days ago

Apple stockpiles inventory as it braces for ‘significant supply constraints’

2 days ago

AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares

2 days ago

Reddit reports a solid quarter but shows signs of AI’s impact

2 days ago

Investors love AI, as long as you’re a cloud host

2 days ago

Opinion: Why AI Companies' Next Failures Will Look Nothing Like Their First Ones

3 days ago

Opinion: The Big Acquisition Play Now Is Buying the Regulatory Uncertainty Away

3 days ago

Opinion: We're Celebrating AI Failures That Only Rich Companies Can Afford

3 days ago

Opinion: VCs Are Betting on AI Hype, Not Discipline—and the Winners Are Already Picked

3 days ago

Opinion: The Startup World's Obsession With "Failing Fast" Is Actually Rewarding Recklessness

3 days ago

Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever

3 days ago

Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years

3 days ago

Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag

3 days ago

Zuckerberg says Meta’s enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents

3 days ago

Discover what’s next for AI, from the SaaS reckoning to the agent security gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

3 days ago

Opinion: Everyone's Adding AI Critique Features. That's Actually a Sign Products Are Dying.

4 days ago

Opinion: The VC Circus Is Overcrowded. Winners Will Be the Operators Who Simplify the Mess, Not the Ones Who Add Another Layer of Hype.

4 days ago

Opinion: The Real Lesson From Startup Failure Isn't About Speed—It's About Who Gets to Fail

4 days ago

Opinion: The Founder's Paradox: Why Staying Small Might Be Your Best Exit Strategy

4 days ago

Opinion: The Startup World's Failure Theater Is Rewarding the Wrong Players

4 days ago

Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents

4 days ago

Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight

4 days ago

MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea

4 days ago

Sam Altman is ready to decelerate

4 days ago

Ozlo’s Sleepbuds 2 build on Bose’s sleep earbud legacy

4 days ago

Opinion: Everyone's Racing to Bundle Their Way Out of a Real Problem

5 days ago

Opinion: The 'IPO Renaissance' Narrative Ignores a Harder Truth About Public Markets

5 days ago

Opinion: The Founder's Acquisition Obsession Signals a Deeper Crisis in Risk Appetite

5 days ago

Opinion: The Complexity Trap Is Eating Growth Teams Alive

5 days ago

Opinion: Why the startup world celebrates failure while punishing the companies that learn from it

5 days ago

Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing

5 days ago

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei responds: doesn’t oppose open-weight models, but fears Chinese AI

5 days ago

Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive

5 days ago

Thea Energy lands $20M federal grant to build its magnets for fusion reactors

5 days ago

As rivals chase acquisitions, Peacock bets on bundles through a new deal with YouTube

5 days ago

Opinion: The IPO Window Isn't Closing. The IPO Itself Is Becoming Obsolete.

6 days ago

Opinion: The 'Founder House' Trend Is Just Gentrified Dorm Life—And VCs Are Missing What It Actually Breaks

6 days ago

Opinion: The Real Cost Disease Isn't Inflation. It's Execution Debt.

6 days ago

Opinion: The Founder's Cult of Speed Is Destroying Better Ideas

6 days ago

Opinion: The 'Series A Gap' Narrative Is Overselling a Funding Problem as a Diversity Solution

6 days ago

Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI?

6 days ago

Can Apple make smart glasses that aren’t a constant privacy threat?

6 days ago

Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI

6 days ago

Inside one London founder house rewriting the founder-house rules

6 days ago

Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack

6 days ago

Opinion: The AI Layoff Excuse Is a Symptom, Not a Story

Jul 26, 2026

Opinion: The Funding Document That Actually Matters Is the One Nobody's Reading

Jul 26, 2026

Opinion: The 'Talent War' Narrative Is Obscuring What's Really Broken About Tech Recruitment

Jul 26, 2026

Opinion: The Acquisition Playbook That Actually Works Doesn't Need a TED Talk

Jul 26, 2026

Opinion: The Startup Ecosystem's Speed Obsession Is Creating Its Own Reckoning

Jul 26, 2026

Monday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for layoffs — here are 20 others

Jul 26, 2026

Warner Bros. lawsuit accuses Amazon of illegally poaching executives

Jul 26, 2026

The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught

Jul 26, 2026

Elon Musk’s Boring Company reportedly raising funding at a $20 billion valuation

Jul 26, 2026

Kalshi demands Netflix take down trailer for ‘Prediction Games’ documentary

Jul 26, 2026

Opinion: VCs are funding the next big thing—just not the thing we need

Jul 25, 2026

Opinion: We're Misreading What Startup Failure Really Means Now

Jul 25, 2026

Opinion: Everyone's Racing to 'AI-Critique' Your Photos. What They're Really Building Is Dependency.

Jul 25, 2026

Opinion: The 'Growth at All Costs' Era Is Being Sold as Inevitable. We Should Stop Believing It.

Jul 25, 2026

Opinion: The AI Critique Tool Is Just the Warm-Up Act for Product Ubiquity

Jul 25, 2026

I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else

Jul 25, 2026

SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites but suffers another booster failure

Jul 25, 2026

Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M

Jul 25, 2026

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Smart Money Stage explores fintech, payments, AI, and everything between

Jul 25, 2026

Vietnam is looking to restrict social media for kids; here are the growing number of other countries doing the same

Jul 25, 2026

Build in public, fail in public: what it’s like to be a founder under 20 right now

Jul 24, 2026

Anthropic launches Opus 5

Jul 24, 2026

India’s move against Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat sparks legal debate

Jul 24, 2026

OpenAI’s own model went rogue before Kimi had Wall Street sweating

Jul 24, 2026

Sam Altman’s biometric startup World raises $52.5M via crypto sale

Jul 24, 2026

General Catalyst Takes The Lead Over Y Combinator In Backing $5M+ Fintech Deals

Jul 24, 2026

How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers

Jul 24, 2026

Meet the judges who will crown Australia’s next breakout startup

Jul 24, 2026

Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua to step aside as company pushes into robotaxis, robotics

Jul 24, 2026

AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system

Jul 24, 2026

Patreon lays off 20% of its workforce

Jul 24, 2026

OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all U.S. users

Jul 23, 2026

Tesla’s robotaxis are moving in reverse

Jul 23, 2026

Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction

Jul 23, 2026

Google will now let you sign in to your account with a selfie video

Jul 23, 2026

AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors

Jul 23, 2026

After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe

Jul 23, 2026

Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business

Jul 23, 2026

Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable

Jul 23, 2026

Tesla spending skyrockets as Cybercab, Semi, Megapack production timeline slips

Jul 23, 2026

Social media addiction lawsuit against Meta is dropped

Jul 23, 2026

Led By DeepSeek, 10 Frontier Labs Rush Onto The Crunchbase Unicorn Board In June

Jul 23, 2026

Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous

Jul 22, 2026

Substack’s new tool tells you who’s been writing their newsletters with AI

Jul 22, 2026

OpenAI’s AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B

Jul 22, 2026

If you pay a hacker’s ransom, chances are that they’ll come back for more

Jul 22, 2026

Cascade raises $3.5M to help construction firms find and win projects

Jul 22, 2026

The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter

Jul 22, 2026

Dimension Capital’s $800M third fund shows the intersection of science and compute is booming

Jul 22, 2026

Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination

Jul 22, 2026

These are the countries moving to ban social media for children

Jul 22, 2026

OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its pre-release models

Jul 22, 2026

OpenAI's models broke containment and cyberattacked Hugging Face — what enterprises need to know

Jul 22, 2026

Instagram now lets you swap out the music in your old posts

Jul 21, 2026

Threads rolls out parental supervision tools

Jul 21, 2026

US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft

Jul 21, 2026

Light made a flip phone — it’s colorful and it’s cheap

Jul 21, 2026

After TikTok, Snap settles social media addiction case

Jul 21, 2026

Closing The Series A Gap Is The Next Great Opportunity For Black Founders In The AI Era

Jul 21, 2026

Dell Technologies Capital: How To Build A Deep-Tech Startup For A Market That Isn’t Ready Yet And Why AI Won’t Kill SaaS

Jul 21, 2026

Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved

Jul 21, 2026

Colossal Biosciences reportedly in talks to raise new capital at $20B–$30B valuation

Jul 21, 2026

Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned

Jul 21, 2026

Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient

Jul 21, 2026

AI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use

Jul 21, 2026

Writer's AI harness cuts token spend nearly 40% — without sacrificing accuracy

Jul 21, 2026

Adobe camera app’s new feature will critique your photos using AI

Jul 20, 2026

Hackers are exploiting recently patched WordPress bugs, putting millions of websites at risk

Jul 20, 2026

YouTube clarifies policies around AI slop and upsetting videos

Jul 20, 2026

Inference startup Infinity raises $15M from Touring Capital, OpenAI and Anthropic researchers

Jul 20, 2026

Hackers stole ‘significant’ amount of data from tech firm relied on by thousands of US hospitals and pharmacies

Jul 20, 2026

Mexico Extends Its Venture Lead Over Brazil As More Global VCs Enter Latin America

Jul 20, 2026

Netflix paid $587M for Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup

Jul 20, 2026

What to watch for after Jensen Huang’s Japan visit

Jul 20, 2026

Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans?

Jul 20, 2026

The Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker

Jul 20, 2026

Fintech Funding Surges 23% In H1 2026 As Investors Concentrate Their Bets On AI And Financial Infrastructure

Jul 20, 2026

Corporate Venture Capital Is Splitting In Two

Jul 20, 2026

TechCrunch Mobility: The battle over robotaxi rules

Jul 19, 2026

‘Odyssey’ director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’

Jul 19, 2026

Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all

Jul 19, 2026

How Apple’s big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI’s IPO plans

Jul 19, 2026

China And AI Lead Asia’s Startup Funding To Multiyear Peak In Q2

Jul 19, 2026

Waymo says San Francisco service has resumed after one-hour pause

Jul 19, 2026

Kimi: Threat or menace?

Jul 19, 2026

Apple and Google ordered to purge ‘nudify’ apps from App Stores

Jul 19, 2026

Nuclear startup Valar Atomics in talks to raise new funding at $6B valuation

Jul 19, 2026

I replaced my space heater and ceiling fan with one Dyson appliance

Jul 19, 2026

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: No Summer Doldrums As Dollars Still Flow To AI

Jul 19, 2026

Where Argentina And Spain Are Scoring Startup Goals

Jul 19, 2026

The Billion-Dollar Seed Isn’t The Deal You Think It Is

Jul 19, 2026

All the EVs that were discontinued or killed off in the U.S. this year

Jul 18, 2026

Federal employees can download TikTok on their work phones again

Jul 18, 2026

A 600-mile road trip (and data) proves EV charging doesn’t suck anymore

Jul 18, 2026

Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard

Jul 18, 2026

AI-driven memory crunch jolts India’s smartphone market

Jul 18, 2026

Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out

Jul 18, 2026

Applications close in 48 hours — here’s everything Australian founders need to know about Stripe x Startup Battlefield

Jul 18, 2026

Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent — here’s how it actually performs

Jul 18, 2026

Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act

Jul 18, 2026

The Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’

Jul 18, 2026

FBI arrests man accused of using Steam games to drain victims’ crypto wallets

Jul 17, 2026

Parents want safer phones for kids. These companies are answering the call.

Jul 17, 2026

Amazon fixing bug that billed some AWS customers billions of dollars

Jul 17, 2026

Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them

Jul 17, 2026

reMarkable’s new Paper Pure is good. That’s why I wrote this review on it.

Jul 17, 2026

San Francisco mayor pushes for tougher rules after the Waymo traffic fiasco

Jul 17, 2026

SpaceX suddenly aborts second Starship V3 launch after ignition

Jul 17, 2026

Coca-Cola suspended production at its Fairlife dairy after a ransomware attack

Jul 17, 2026

Founders Fund hires former OpenAI exec Ryan Beiermeister (and not because of her ‘Mafia’ skills)

Jul 17, 2026

Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos

Jul 17, 2026

Newsletter platform Beehiiv’s now lets subscribers chat with each other, adds AI

Jul 16, 2026

X cracks down on creators who steal content

Jul 16, 2026

AI-powered travel agency Fora hits unicorn status, raises $60M

Jul 16, 2026

Google’s AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps

Jul 16, 2026

Google continues its renaming streak by turning NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook

Jul 16, 2026

Lululemon backs nylon recycling startup Syntetica in $30M Series A

Jul 16, 2026

Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant

Jul 16, 2026

Why Greylock capped its new fund at $1.5B when it says it could have raised more

Jul 16, 2026

Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic

Jul 16, 2026

Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms

Jul 16, 2026

Stripe’s Acquisition Pace Has Accelerated In The Past Five Years, But Nothing Comes Close To Its Reported $53B PayPal Bet

Jul 16, 2026

Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data

Jul 15, 2026

Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations

Jul 15, 2026

Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI

Jul 15, 2026

Stripe and Advent reportedly offered to buy PayPal for around $53.4B

Jul 15, 2026

Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI

Jul 15, 2026

OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B

Jul 15, 2026