Startups

Apple will hide your email address from apps and websites, but not cops

Demands for Apple customer records by federal agents in recent months underscore the privacy limitations of email.

Uber is buying Berlin startup Blacklane to bolster its Elite offering

It's a notable exit for Blacklane, which has raised more than $100 million from backers like Mercedes-Benz and Sixt.

ScaleOps raises $130M to improve computing efficiency amid AI demand

ScaleOps just raised $130M to tackle GPU shortages and soaring AI cloud costs by automating infrastructure in real time.

AI chip startup Rebellions raises $400 million at $2.3B valuation in pre-IPO round

The startup, which is planning to go public later this year, designs chips specifically for AI inference, another challenger to Nvidia's dominance.

Mistral AI raises $830M in debt to set up a data center near Paris

Mistral aims to start operating the data center by the second quarter of 2026.

Qodo raises $70M for code verification as AI coding scales

As AI floods software development with code, Qodo is betting the real challenge is making sure it actually works.

Why OpenAI really shut down Sora

OpenAI's decision last week to shut down Sora, its AI video-generation tool, just six months after releasing it to the public raised immediate suspicions. The app had invited users to upload their own faces so was this some kind of elaborate data grab?

The Pixel 10a doesnt have a camera bump, and its great

The Google Pixel 10a can lay flat on a table, but otherwise the company hasn't brought a ton of upgrades to its newest budget smartphone.

YouTube CEO says the best YouTubers will never leave their home

CEO Neal Mohan insisted that he isnt worried about Netflix luring away YouTube's most popular creators.

Project Hail Mary becomes Amazon MGMs biggest box office hit

Amazons bet on Project Hail Mary has paid off handsomely.

TechCrunch Mobility: When a robotaxi has to call 911

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

SXSW rebounds as a top networking, ideas festival for founders and VCs

SXSW made some changes this year, but some founders loved it all the same.

Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds

Blueskys new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.

Mark Zuckerberg texted Elon Musk to offer help with DOGE

While the relationship was once thorny enough that Musk challenged Zuckerberg to a cagefight, things seem to have warmed up by the early days of the second Trump administration.

Elon Musks last co-founder reportedly leaves xAI

All but two of Musk's 11 xAI co-founders departed before this week.

These iPad apps will make you wish you had more free time

Weve compiled a list of some of the best iPad apps for creativity that are available on the App Store.

Anthropics Claude popularity with paying consumers is skyrocketing

Estimates for total Claude consumer users are all over the map (we've seen figures ranging from 18 million to 30 million). Anthropic hasn't disclosed this data, but a spokesperson did tell TechCrunch that Claude paid subscriptions have more than doubled this year.

What will power the grid in 2035? The race is wide open

Fusion, fission, and even natural gas are appeared tied in the race to deliver new power to the grid in the early 2030s.

Lets take a look at the retro tech making a comeback

Boomboxes, instant cameras, and even landlines are making a comeback. Here are the coolest retro-inspired devices available.

From Moon hotels to cattle herding: 8 startups investors chased at YC Demo Day

We polled nearly a dozen VCs to find out which W26 startups are the sought after in the batch.

Whoop has LeBron now it wants your mom

Whoop founder Will Ahmed has spent 14 years building a health wearable beloved by elite athletes, and is now racing Oura and the FDA, and the limits of consumer medicine to turn it into something that could one day save your life.

Physical Intelligence is reportedly in talks to raise $1 billion, again

The deal would effectively double the company's $5.6 billion valuation in just four months.

Waymos skyrocketing ridership in one chart

Waymo's weekly paid robotaxi trips have increased tenfold in less than two years.

European Commission confirms cyberattack after hackers claim data breach

The European Union's top executive body has confirmed a cyberattack after hackers reportedly stole reams of data from the European Commission's cloud storage.

Aetherflux reportedly raising Series B at $2 billion valuation

Index Ventures is said to be leading a $250 million to $350 million round.

Rivian gets another $1B from Volkswagen

The two companies have been collaborating on a joint venture that would see Rivian tech go in VW's EVs.

Iranian hackers claim breach of FBI director Kash Patels personal email account

Handala, a pro-Iranian hacking group allegedly working for Irans government, published emails it said were taken from the Gmail account of FBI director Kash Patel.

Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware

The tech giant's claim that it has not seen any successful spyware attacks targeting Apple devices with Lockdown Mode enabled comes amid a leak of hacking tools targeting users running devices with older software.