AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?

WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.

Elon Musk repeatedly one-upped his execs on SpaceX’s first earnings call

Musk kept inflating the already-big promises being made by SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen and Gwynne Shotwell on the company's first call.

Lucid’s turnaround plan hinges on $1.4B in cash savings, robotaxis

Lucid's new CEO Silvio Napoli listed four must-win priorities, including the successful launch of its midsize EV, finishing a factory in Saudi Arabia, cutting e...

How to get the best hotel deals for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

We’ve partnered with hotels around Moscone West during Disrupt, taking place October 13 to 15, to secure the best prices available for attendees.

SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year

SpaceX has ramped up its purchases of Tesla Megapacks for its xAI data centers.

SpaceX doubles revenue on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth

SpaceX doubled its revenue compared to last year, according to its first quarterly earnings since going public in June.

Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers

New findings by the Electronic Frontier Foundation aim to warn app developers that some of the third-party code they place in their apps may also collect their ...

Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.

A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful ...

Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta

Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.

Meet Wrinkles, an AI app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you

Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden history and local stories.

Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress

The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.

Waymo opens up robotaxi service in Dallas to everyone

Waymo has dropped the waitlist for its robotaxi service in Dallas, the latest step in the company's bid to scale its self-driving technology across the United S...

Take an extra $100 off your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass: This week only!

Starting today, you can take an additional $100 off your founder, investor, or attendee TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, which is a nice bonus on top of our curren...

TV Time co-founder launches Bingers to revive the beloved TV tracking app

After TV Time’s shutdown left millions of users searching for an alternative, one of the app’s original founders is back with Bingers, a new TV and movie tracke...

Hackers steal over $130 million by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets

A security vulnerability in the cryptocurrency hardware wallet Coldcard is allowing hackers to drain the crypto from victims’ wallets. The total losses amount t...

Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership

Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing its upcoming AI-powered ...

Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has paused new data center development until an audit has been completed.

Walmart completes its acquisition of TV advertising company Vibe.co

The acquisition, which was first announced in June, brings Vibe.co into Walmart Connect, Walmart's connected TV advertising platform.

Elon Musk spends half his time talking robots and AI on Tesla earnings calls

An analysis of the last seven years of Tesla earnings calls shows just little attention Musk pays to Tesla's car business.

Host a Side Event during TechCrunch Founder Summit Week in Boston

Want to tap into the energy of 1,100+ startup founders, investors, and tech leaders descending on Boston for the Founder Summit 2026 on June 9? Host your own Si...

Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff may have retained or accessed co...

Spotify now has over 300M subscribers

Notably, the company saw its subscriber base swell by 9% in the second quarter despite raising prices in several regions this year.

India moves to give its instant payments network a business model

The legislation lays the groundwork for a potential overhaul of India's zero-merchant-discount-rate regime, under which businesses have not paid fees to accept ...

Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out

On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod.

EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers

Endeavour Optical Networks is planning to launch the fastest space laser communications system yet built.

Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B

At its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the secondary markets at a valuation ...

After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’

After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterpri...

Snap CEO sidesteps Specs pre-order questions on Q2 earnings call

When asked about product-market fit, Spiegel said he believes mass-market consumer adoption won't occur until the end of the decade.

AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big

AWS now allows vibe coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It's another step towards decoupling apps from models.

Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated

OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally...