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Erin Brockovich takes aim at data center secrecy

‘This is fine’ artist KC Green reaches agreement with AI startup Artisan

Black founders raise highest amount of quarterly funding since 2022, but there’s a catch

SoftBank says it will invest up to €75 billion to build French data centers

This weekend’s two biggest movies were both directed by YouTubers

Coders are refusing to work without AI — and that could come back to bite them

So you’ve heard these AI terms and nodded along; let’s fix that

What happens when companies become too AI-pilled?

Anthropic raises $65 Billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO

A security lapse at prison pay phone service Pay Tel publicly exposed over 300K callers’ driver’s licenses

Payroll startup Remote says it grew revenue 50% per employee without adding headcount

Google just broke SEO. Here’s what replaces it.

Starship’s path to reusability looks murky after SpaceX’s S-1

SpaceX’s Starlink nabs American Airlines contract, another win for its IPO

OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Early Bird ticket rates end May 29

7-Eleven data breach affects over 185,000 people’s personal data

Amazon fulfillment competitor Stord raises $250M at $3B valuation

Startup Battlefield 200 applications close in days: Apply before May 27

5 days left: Save up to $410 on TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 passes before prices increase

Everyone is navigating AI security in real time — even Google

Xreal, Google’s smartglasses partner, thinks it has finally mastered this notoriously tricky industry

TechCrunch Mobility: Robotaxi reality check

I tried Amazon’s Bee wearable and am both intrigued and slightly creeped out

The Dreamie alarm clock got me to stop using my phone in bed

SolarSquare in talks to raise up to $60M as India’s rooftop solar market draws major VC interest

Blue Origin cleared to fly New Glenn mega-rocket after April mishap

How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to crown AI startups

SpaceX files to go public, and the math requires a little faith

Law enforcement shuts down VPN service used by two dozen ransomware gangs

Six search engines worth trying now that Google isn’t really Google anymore

Convective Capital raises an $85 million fund to build disaster resilience

IrisGo, a startup backed by Andrew Ng, looks to become the AI desktop buddy you never knew you needed

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software is creeping into Europe

Airbnb gets into hotels, expands AI for host onboarding and customer support

Google launches Antigravity 2.0 with an updated desktop app and CLI tool

OpenAI is making it easier to check if an image was made by their models

OSHA probing worker death at SpaceX’s Starbase site

SandboxAQ brings its drug discovery models to Claude — no PhD in computing required

Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

Open source tool maker Grafana Labs says hackers stole its code, refuses to pay ransom

South Korea’s LetinAR is building optics behind AI glasses

Why trust is a big question at the Elon Musk-OpenAI trial

For Eclipse, the $2.5B Cerebras win is just the start of realizing its physical-world thesis

The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush

Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work

General Catalyst posted VC rage bait and it worked, especially on a16z

A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver’s licenses open for anyone to see

Silicon Valley’s vacationland needs a new energy provider just as AI is driving prices up

What happens when AI starts building itself?

YouTube viewers watch 2 billion hours of Shorts on TVs each month

Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 gas turbines unchecked at its Mississippi data center

Anthropic’s Cat Wu says that, in the future, AI will anticipate your needs before you know what they are

Geothermal startup Fervo Energy pops 33% in IPO debut fueled by AI data center demand

Kevin Hartz’s A* just closed its third fund with $450 million

Google adds Gemini-powered Dictation to Gboard, which could be bad news for dictation startups

Riding an AI rally, Robinhood preps second retail venture IPO

GM just laid off hundreds of IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills

Finally, texts between Android and iPhone users can be end-to-end encrypted

Daniel Ek-backed defense tech Helsing to raise $1.2B at $18B valuation

Korea’s biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data

Anthropic says ‘evil’ portrayals of AI were responsible for Claude’s blackmail attempts

Uber has always wanted to be more than a ride; now it has reason to hurry

Voice AI in India is hard. Wispr Flow is betting on it anyway.

So you’ve heard these AI terms and nodded along; let’s fix that

Fintech startup Parker files for bankruptcy

GM agrees to pay $12.75M in California driver privacy settlement

Intel’s comeback story is even wilder than it seems

Mother Ventures is looking at moms as the ‘economic engine’

Could Lovable’s automatic 10% pay raise be the cure for toxic cultures?

Hackers hack victims hacked by other hackers

Kalshi doubles valuation in 5 months, hitting $22B

Jeff Bezos rep leaves Slate Auto’s board

Robinhood’s venture fund IPO attracted 150,000+ retail investors, CEO says

How Elon Musk left OpenAI, according to Greg Brockman

AI evaluation startup Braintrust confirms breach, tells every customer to rotate sensitive keys

Volkswagen becomes Rivian’s top shareholder, displacing Amazon

Pennsylvania sues Character.AI after a chatbot allegedly posed as a doctor

OpenAI’s cozy partner Cerebras is on track for a blockbuster IPO

Katie Haun raises $1B for new venture funds

Hackers are still exploiting the cPanel bug to gain control of thousands of websites

Nicolas Sauvage is betting on the boring parts of AI

We’ll take it: a TikToker rallies pledges to buy Spirit Airlines after its abrupt weekend collapse

‘This is fine’ creator says AI startup stole his art

In Harvard study, AI offered more accurate diagnoses than emergency room doctors

TechCrunch Mobility: How do you issue a ticket to a robotaxi?

This tiny, magnetic e-reader could stop you from doomscrolling

AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscars

Farewell, Jeeves: Ask.com shuts down

Musely secures $360M from General Catalyst without giving up equity

Meta buys robotic startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions

Musk v. Altman is just getting started