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There aren’t enough rockets for space data centers. Cowboy Space raised $275 million to build them.
The apparently insatiable demand for AI compute has data center entreprenuers looking to the stars. There’s a key problem: There aren’t enough rockets to put data centers in orbit around the Earth, and they’re too expensive. Most of the players are hoping that...
Venmo’s biggest makeover in years comes at a very interesting time
Venmo is rolling out a significant redesign over the coming months that aims to make the app more useful, social, and easier to navigate. This is the peer-to-peer payments app’s biggest refresh since 2021. The timing is notable. PayPal, which owns Venmo, is...
Korea’s biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data
Asia’s push into physical AI is being fueled by the same manufacturing prowess that made the region a global industrial powerhouse. Across South Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan, manufacturing remains a central pillar of economic growth. Unlike economies more heavily...
Get ready for the whisper-filled office of the future
How will work setups change if we spend more and more time talking to our computers? A recent feature in the Wall Street Journal looks at the rising popularity of dictation apps like Wispr, especially now that they can be connected to vibe coding tools, and what that...
Anthropic says ‘evil’ portrayals of AI were responsible for Claude’s blackmail attempts
Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic. Last year, the company said that during pre-release tests involving a fictional company, Claude Opus 4 would often try to blackmail engineers to avoid being...
Uber has always wanted to be more than a ride; now it has reason to hurry
For years, Uber talked about becoming a super app. Then Waymo started picking up passengers in San Francisco, and the conversation grew more urgent. The company has been trying to embed itself inside the AV industry — as a data provider, an investor, and a...
AI tool poisoning exposes a major flaw in enterprise agent security
AI agents choose tools from shared registries by matching natural-language descriptions. But no human is verifying whether those descriptions are true. I discovered this gap when I filed Issue #141 in the CoSAI secure-ai-tooling repository. I assumed it would be...
TechCrunch Mobility: Lime’s IPO gamble
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! After years of hints and preparation, the Uber-backed...
We’re feeling cynical about xAI’s big deal with Anthropic
Anthropic and xAI announced a big partnership this week, with Anthropic buying all the compute capacity at xAI’s Colossus 1 data center in Tennessee. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed what the deal...
Spotify’s new SongDNA feature maps how your favorite songs are connected
Spotify announced on Tuesday the global rollout of a new feature, SongDNA, that lets listeners more deeply explore their favorite music. Now available to Premium subscribers on iOS and Android, the feature provides an interactive experience that lets users trace other...
Mirage raises $75M to continue building models for its AI video editing app Captions
Mirage, the maker of video editing app Captions, has raised $75 million in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF). Over the past year, the startup has made significant changes both to its product and corporate identity. The startup...
TikTok ads are about to get a tad more disruptive
TikTok announced on Tuesday that it’s introducing new ad formats, including one that displays another brand’s logo alongside TikTok’s on the launch page when users open the app. The new “Logo Takeover” ad format allows companies to co-brand with TikTok in a way that...
Cauldron Ferm has turned microbes into nonstop assembly lines
Cauldron Ferm has an unlikely origin story, as startups go. Its core technology can be traced back to the 1960s, or maybe the 1970s. The exact start is a bit hazy, actually. What is known is that David and Polly McLennan had a dream of feeding the world using protein...
Zoox brings its robotaxis to Austin and Miami
Zoox is bringing its purpose-built robotaxis to Austin, Texas and Miami, Florida after almost two years of operating its test vehicles in the cities. The company said Tuesday it plans to start offering rides in both locations later this year as part of its early-rider...
Snapchat’s new ‘AI Clips’ Lens format turns photos into five-second videos
Snapchat announced on Tuesday that it’s launching AI Clips in Lens Studio, its platform that lets creators design and publish AR and AI effects called Lenses. The new Clips are an AI-powered Lens format that transforms a single photo into a five-second video. Unlike...
Delve halts demos, Insight Partners scrubs investment post amid ‘fake compliance’ allegations
Delve, a Y Combinator-backed compliance startup accused of fabricating certifications for its customers, has disabled the “book a demo” feature on its website. The controversy, detailed last week in a Substack post by an anonymous whistleblower known as “DeepDelver,”...
What is DeerFlow 2.0 and what should enterprises know about this new, powerful local AI agent orchestrator?
ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant behind TikTok, last month released what may be one of the most ambitious open-source AI agent frameworks to date: DeerFlow 2.0. It's now going viral across the machine learning community on social media. But is it safe and ready for...
Emil Michael, now a senior Pentagon official, says he’ll never forgive Uber investors who ousted him and Kalanick
Emil Michael, who serves as a senior technology official at the Department of Defense, is back in the spotlight over the government’s ongoing battle with Anthropic, and a newly released podcast interview offers one of the most detailed looks yet into his thinking on...
Bengaluru food delivery startup Swish raises $38M, its third round in 18 months
Swish, a Bengaluru-based food delivery startup, has raised $38 million in a new funding round, as the 18-month-old company continues to draw investor interest for its 10-minute fresh food delivery service. The Series B round, led by Hara Global and Bain Capital...
Despite bitter rivalry, Kalshi, Polymarket CEOs back $35M predictions markets VC fund
Few rivalries in the startup ecosystem are as intense (and occasionally bitter) as the race between Polymarket and Kalshi for dominance in the rapidly growing prediction market arena. Despite their fierce competition, the CEOs of both companies are investing in 5(c)...
Air Street becomes one of the largest solo VCs in Europe with $232M fund
London’s Air Street Capital has raised a $232 million Fund III with eyes set on backing early-stage AI companies across Europe and North America, the firm announced Monday. Check sizes will range from $500,000 to $15 million, with select growth investments reaching...
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You Need to Know About Machine Learning’s Value for Solar
In today’s eco-conscious culture, “solar energy” is a buzzword phrase no longer merely embraced by self-professed tree huggers. Businesses and individuals alike are turning toward solar energy and away from fossil fuels, but the associated costs are still too high for...
Why Choosing DNS Is Important
DNS stands for Domain Name Service, and that's exactly what it does. It translates human-friendly domain names like "luckynumbers.com" into computer-readable Internet addresses like 201.16.238.70. Without DNS, you'd have to use the exact sequence of numbers for every...
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