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Instagram tests a new Instants app for sharing disappearing photos

The app lets users share disappearing photos with their friends that can be viewed only once and remain available for 24 hours.

24 Apr 2026 1:33 am
Meet Noscroll, an AI bot that does your doomscrolling for you

Noscroll wants to cure doomscrolling with an AI bot that reads the internet for you.

24 Apr 2026 1:08 am
Trumps pick to run US cyber agency CISA asks to drop out

Sean Plankey has requested to withdraw his name to run the U.S. cybersecurity agency after a tumultuous year of chaotic temporary leadership.

24 Apr 2026 1:03 am
Dont stop hiring humans stop hiring the wrong humans, Artisans founder says

Artisan may be known for their bold Stop Hiring Humans campaign but the reality is every founder needs to assemble the right team if they want to scale.

24 Apr 2026 12:19 am
Era raises $11M to build a software platform for AI gadgets

Era thinks that we will see many form factors of AI hardware, including glasses, rings, and pendants

23 Apr 2026 9:30 pm
Meta is revamping its cross-app management system

Meta's Accounts Center will transition to the Meta Account, which is supposed to make it easier to manage your experience on various Meta apps and devices.

23 Apr 2026 9:30 pm
X is shutting down Communities because of low usage and lots of spam

X Communities are no more. Only a fraction of X users were using Communities, and much of that use was spam, the company said.

23 Apr 2026 9:02 pm
Salmon raises $100M in equity and debt to bring digital credit to underbanked Filipinos

Salmon is targeting underbanked Filipinos, with little to no credit history, as well as people unhappy with the incumbent lenders' reliability issues.

23 Apr 2026 8:25 pm
Vercel says some of its customers data was stolen prior to its recent hack

The app and website hosting company has found evidence of a second compromise of customer accounts after expanding its initial investigation following a breach in early April.

23 Apr 2026 8:13 pm
Another customer of troubled startup Delve suffered a big security incident

TechCrunch has confirmed that Delve was the compliance company that performed the security certifications for Context AI, the AI agent training startup that last week disclosed a security incident.

23 Apr 2026 7:30 pm
Grab a ticket today: The first StrictlyVC of 2026 kicks off in just a week in San Francisco

StrictlyVC San Francisco is in just a week. Nows the time to grab yourself a ticket. Join VCs and founders at Sentro Filipino Cultural Center on April 30.

23 Apr 2026 7:30 pm
Labor unrest at Samsung may worsen memory chip supply issues

Tens of thousands of Samsung Electronics workers held a rally at the companys Pyeongtaek campus in South Korea on Thursday to signal they are prepared to walk off the job for an 18-day strike next month.

23 Apr 2026 7:29 pm
Tesla drops Musks $29B interim award after Delaware court restored larger pay package

The company is following through on its promise to not let Musk double dip if he won his appeal to restore Tesla's 2018 compensation package, worth $56 billion.

23 Apr 2026 7:10 pm
WhatsApp adds prepaid phone recharges in India as its payments usage still lags

WhatsApp is rolling out prepaid phone recharges to its 500 million users in India via PayU.

23 Apr 2026 6:58 pm
AI galaxy hunters are adding to the global GPU crunch

Astronomers are turning to GPUs to find needles in the galactic haystack.

23 Apr 2026 6:30 pm
Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track peoples phone locations, researchers say

The Citizen Lab found two separate surveillance vendors abusing the backbone of cellular networks to spy on several victims across the world.

23 Apr 2026 5:31 pm
Beehiiv rolls out new creator tools, including webinars and customizable paywalls

Beehiiv is clearly done being just a newsletter platform based on today's launch of a new webinar feature, customizable paywalls, and more.

23 Apr 2026 5:30 pm
Meta will now allow parents to see the topics their child discussed with Meta AI

Topics can range from School, Entertainment, and Lifestyle to Travel, Writing, and Health and Wellbeing, among others, Meta says.

23 Apr 2026 4:30 pm
Indias app market is booming but global platforms are capturing most of the gains

Non-gaming apps, led by streaming and AI, are driving growth, even as India's spending per user lags global peers.

23 Apr 2026 10:08 am
Shade lands $14M to let creative teams search their video libraries in plain English

Shade has its own filesystem that lets you stream files directly to your local drive

23 Apr 2026 9:47 am
Tesla just increased its capex to $25B. Heres where the money is going.

Tesla's planned capex for 2026 is three times higher than what the company has historically spent. Its CFO said, as a result, Tesla will have a negative free cash flow the rest of the year.

23 Apr 2026 5:26 am
Google updates Workspace to make AI your new office intern

Google has introduced a host of new automated functions into Workspace, all of which are driven by Workspace Intelligence, its new AI system.

23 Apr 2026 4:14 am
Elon Musk admits millions of Tesla owners need upgrades for true Full Self-Driving

The admission could open Tesla to legal challenges after it spent years promising customers they were just one software update away from owning fully autonomous cars.

23 Apr 2026 4:09 am
Hands on with Xs new AI-powered custom feeds

X's AI-powered custom timelines are replacing Communities, with Grok-curated feeds...and new ad slots.

23 Apr 2026 3:55 am
LinkedIns CEO is moving on; please hold your tearful video tributes

Ryan Roslansky has stepped down as LinkedIn's CEO after six years running the world's largest professional network. Dan Shapero, the company's COO, takes over immediately.

23 Apr 2026 3:07 am
Tesla Q1 revenue rises, driven by EV sales and FSD subscriptions

Sales rebounded a bit from the first quarter of 2025, as Tesla throws a ton of money at massive bets like robotics, AI, and its own chip fab.

23 Apr 2026 2:27 am
Rivian R2 production has started despite tornado damage to factory

The company's all-important mass-market EV is just about ready to start heading to customers.

22 Apr 2026 9:17 pm
Cosmetics giant Rituals confirms data breach of customer membership records

The cosmetics retailer, which counts 41 million customers in its membership data, declined to provide an accurate total number of customers affected.

22 Apr 2026 9:08 pm
Cathie Woods ARK makes its first lead investment in startup Lucra and it isnt AI

Lucra offers corporate loyalty programs reimagined as interactive eSports. But winning ARK as a lead wasn't easy.

22 Apr 2026 8:30 pm
OpenAI teams up with Infosys to bring AI tools to more businesses

Infosys said the integration will be used to help its clients modernize software development, automate workflows and deploy AI systems, initially focusing software engineering, legacy modernization, and DevOps.

22 Apr 2026 7:52 pm
UK government says 100 countries have spyware that can hack peoples phones

The U.K.'s cybersecurity chief warned that U.K. businesses and critical infrastructure are underestimating the threat from spyware attacks and other cyberthreats, with more governments having access to the powerful surveillance technology than ever.

22 Apr 2026 7:36 pm
X makes it more expensive to post links through its API

Posting links on X through its API is now 1,900% more costly

22 Apr 2026 7:12 pm
Amazon Music partners with Bandsintown for concert listings

Users will be able to see live events of an artist on their Amazon Music profile

22 Apr 2026 6:30 pm
AI is spitting out more potential drugs than ever. This start-up wants to figure out which ones matter.

10x Science has raised a $4.8 million seed round to help pharmaceutical researchers understand complex molecules.

22 Apr 2026 6:30 pm
Snap Maps new Place Loyalty badges will show the spots you visit most often

If youre in the top 25% of users who visit a certain place, youll see your ranking on the Snap Map and can choose to share it with others.

22 Apr 2026 6:30 pm
Exclusive: Google deepens Thinking Machines Lab ties with new multi-billion-dollar deal

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has signed a multi-billion-dollar deal with Google Cloud for AI infrastructure powered by Nvidia's latest GB300 chips, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.

22 Apr 2026 5:30 pm
Google Maps is about to get a big dose of AI

Generative AI is being infused into Google's popular feature within Maps.

22 Apr 2026 5:30 pm
Duolingo is now giving free users access to advanced learning content

Duolingo is opening up its advanced language learning content offering to free users, allowing them to acquire skills that were previously reserved to paid subscribers.

22 Apr 2026 5:30 pm
The most interesting startups showcased at Google Cloud Next2026

Google wants AI startups on its cloud and has showcased a long list of them at its annual conference.

22 Apr 2026 5:30 pm
Redwood Materials lays off 10% in restructuring to chase energy storage business

The company is restructuring some teams to accommodate a booming energy storage business, according to emails viewed by TechCrunch.

22 Apr 2026 6:07 am
Meta will record employees keystrokes and use it to train its AI models

Meta says that it has a new internal tool that is converting mouse movements and button clicks into data that can train its AI models.

22 Apr 2026 5:15 am
Unauthorized group has gained access to Anthropics exclusive cyber tool Mythos, report claims

Anthropic told TechCrunch it is investigating the claims, but maintains that there is no evidence that its systems have been impacted.

22 Apr 2026 4:56 am
22 Apr 2026 4:28 am
A look at Tim Cooks 15-year legacy as CEO of Apple

Cook, who joined Apple in 1998, succeeded Steve Jobs as CEO in 2011 and went on to transform Apple into a $4 trillion powerhouse.

21 Apr 2026 11:10 pm
Clarifai deletes 3 million photos that OkCupid provided to train facial recognition AI, report says

The photo deletion comes after an FTC settlement with Clarifai. The company had asked OkCupid whose executives had invested in Clarifai to share data in 2014, according to court documents.

21 Apr 2026 10:41 pm
Former Pinterest team redesigns email with Extra and its actually good

Extra, from a team of former Pinterest designers and engineers, reimagines email around your life instead of the traditional inbox.

21 Apr 2026 9:30 pm
AI Dungeon maker Latitude unveils Voyage, a platform for creating AI-powered RPGs

Latitude's new AI-native platform, Voyage, aims to help gamers create their very own role-playing game.

21 Apr 2026 9:30 pm
Ransomware negotiator pleads guilty to helping ransomware gang

A former employee of a cybersecurity firm pleaded guilty to aiding ransomware criminals to maximize their profits, with the goal of taking a cut of the ransom.

21 Apr 2026 9:26 pm
Bond, a new social media platform, wants to use AI to help you kick your doomscrolling habit

Bond wants you to get off the couch and get back into the real world, its creator says. The new platform's AI system is designed to motivate users to do things away from the app.

21 Apr 2026 8:54 pm
YouTube expands its AI likeness detection technology to celebrities

YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection tool to celebrities, giving talent and their reps a way to find and remove deepfakes.

21 Apr 2026 8:32 pm