TechCrunch

For most of its life, Airwallex and Stripe have mostly operated in different geographies, selling to different buyers. That's changing.

World, which has raised eyebrows (but also a lot of interest) with its Orb-centered anonymous verification project, is looking to expand its influence via a bevy of new partnerships.

Nicholas Moore hacked into three U.S. government networks using stolen credentials, and then bragged about it and posted victims' personal data on Instagram under the handle @ihackedthegovernment.

Returning backers a16z and Thrive are expected to lead the round.

There's a lot more code but it's a lot more expensive and requires a lot more rewriting.

The company, which deploys AI-guided robot arms for food production, says it is looking to expand its services to provide for a broader array of customers.

The new returns feature is the company's latest effort to become an everything app.

The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily.

Some lawmakers are calling for widespread reforms following years of surveillance scandals and abuses across successive U.S. administrations. But even if the spy law known as Section 702 expires in April, the government's spy powers will not automatically lapse.

Although you can already track hotel prices at the city level, the new update lets you do so for a specific hotel that you're interested in.

Bluesky has been experiencing ongoing service disruptions since just before 3 a.m. ET. on April 15.

Netflix is going to launch a TikTok-like vertical video feed within its apps this month, and plans to use AI broadly for content creation and recommendations.

The San Francisco startup closed a Series C funding round led by Antonio Gracias' firm Valor, which is a major backer of xAI.

Users are fed up with misinformation and AI slop cluttering their feeds. SaySo is a new short-form video app that delivers news from vetted creators and journalists.

The fundraise is the first major capital raise under Sequoia's new leadership, with Alfred Lin and Pat Grady now serving as co-stewards of the 54-year-old firm.

The three-year-old startup raised $150 million led by Khosla Ventures.

The new model, called 0.7, represents what the company describes as an early but meaningful step toward the long-sought goal of a general-purpose robot brain.

This week on Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen speaks with Capella Kerst, founder and CEO of geCKo Materials.

Five years later the founders, now 24 years old, say their startup has achieved $300 million in annualized revenue.

OpenAI's agentic coding tool has gotten a major makeover, with a variety of new powers and abilities.

Europol coordinated an operation against for-hire distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) services, including the arrest of four people and the takedown of 53 domains.

A herald of the SAASpocalypse?

Bluesky has been experiencing ongoing service disruptions since just before 3 a.m. ET.

If culture is shaped by TikTok's algorithmic feed, then it's time for us to decide where we draw the line between necessary marketing and inauthentic growth hacking.

Now, when you're using AI Mode on Chrome desktop, clicking a link will open the web page side-by-side with AI Mode.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that two Americans were sentenced to years in prison for helping the North Korean government place fake IT workers in U.S. companies.

According to CEO Helen Gu, the biggest problem facing the industry today is not just monitoring and diagnosing where AI models go wrong, it's diagnosing how the entire tech stack operates now that AI is a part of it.

Adobe says AI traffic to U.S. retail sites also jumped 269% in March, with visitors converting better and generating more revenue than non-AI shoppers.

The feature will be initially available to paid users in the U.S.

The new new tools are designed to help creators throughout the entire development process.

Google blocked 8.3 billion ads in 2025 but suspended fewer advertisers.

Why choose fossil fuels or electricity when you can have both? NOC Energy has figured out how to hybridize heavy industry.

Runways CEO says AI could help studios make dozens of films for the cost of one, betting volume will boost hit-making odds.

Starting April 19, the price of the Meta Quest 3S (128GB) and Meta Quest 3S (256GB) will go up by $50 to $349.99 and $449.99, respectively. The price of the Meta Quest 3 is going up by $100 to $599.99.

The latest version of Canva's AI assistant lets users create editable designs with text prompts.

Retail giant Express was publicly spilling customer information to the open web. The bug is now fixed after TechCrunch alerted Express, but the company would not say if it plans to notify customers.

Antioch raised a $8.5 million seed round to create simulation tools for a new generation of robot builders.

DeepL says its tech could be used for real-time translation with meeting tools like Zoom and Microsoft Teams

Nuclear startup X-energy hit the road today to sell prospective investors on its initial public offering.

You can share anything on their screen with Gemini to get help with what they're looking at in the moment, including local files

Glydways is in talks to raise another $250 million as it prepares to launch three pilot programs.

Accel announced on Tuesday that it raised $5 billion in fresh capital to back late-stage companies building AI.

Emergent's Wingman lets users manage and automate tasks through chat on platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram.

VCs are frothing at the mouth to write more checks to Anthropic at a valuation that matches or beats OpenAI's.

Motorola is suing dozens of content creators and social media platforms including Instagram, X, and YouTube over posts it alleges are defamatory.

Airwallex, valued at $8 billion, is launching a point-of-sale product that lets businesses accept in-person payments in multiple countries via a single platform.

Fathom will allow you to choose between video, audio-only, and transcription modes.

Spotify users in the US and UK can officially purchase physical books through the Android app. iOS users will get the feature next week.

One investor who has backed both companies told the FT that justifying OpenAI's recent round required assuming an IPO valuation of $1.2 trillion or more making Anthropic's current $380 billion valuation look like the relative bargain.

Fundraising is reportedly flowing for Fluidstack after it secured a $50 billion deal to build data centers for Anthropic.