AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team
Aug 17, 2026, 5:27 pm By Lucas Ropek
Relay, which offered businesses workflow automation, will stop operating next month. Its CEO and…‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators
Aug 17, 2026, 4:18 pm By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Cybersecurity experts who investigate spyware attacks say the number of people who received a recent…Save up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until August 21
Aug 17, 2026, 3:33 pm By TechCrunch Events
If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start…Spotify’s new Playlist Notes let users and editors explain their song picks
Aug 17, 2026, 3:24 pm By Lauren Forristal
Spotify launches a new feature that gives users a chance to explain the stories and reasoning behind…Higgsfield raises $400M Series B, quadrupling its valuation in 8 months to $5.4B
Aug 17, 2026, 3:04 pm By Dominic-Madori Davis
Higgsfield, founded by former Snap exec Alex Mashrabov, lets users create AI images and videos.Reddit begins testing a new audio and video experience, similar to popular TikTok videos
Aug 17, 2026, 2:42 pm By Sarah Perez
Reddit is beginning to test video and audio versions of popular posts, allowing users to watch or…Sound-powered fire protection startup gets $15M to snuff out fires before they turn catastrophic
Aug 17, 2026, 2:32 pm By Tim De Chant
Sonic Fire Protection raised its new funding to help get its sound-powered fire protection system…YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing
Aug 17, 2026, 2:09 pm By Aisha Malik
The change comes a year after YouTube applied the same approach to counting views on Shorts videos.Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, not its AI pivot
Aug 17, 2026, 1:10 pm By Sarah Perez
Feedly says a bug is behind the performance issues that have made its web app nearly "unusable" for…Amazon, once an online bookseller, is destroying rare books to train AI models
Aug 17, 2026, 12:38 pm By Amanda Silberling
Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on…Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud
Aug 17, 2026, 12:15 pm By Rebecca Bellan
Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud…Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project
Aug 17, 2026, 11:16 am By Tim De Chant
Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI…Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South
Aug 17, 2026, 11:06 am By Dominic-Madori Davis
African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding,…WordPress.com targets the next generation of web creators with a free student plan
Aug 17, 2026, 10:56 am By Sarah Perez
WordPress.com Education lets teachers offer their students free domains, plugin support and…Uber adds Zipline drones to its Eats delivery network
Aug 17, 2026, 9:18 am By Sean O'Kane
Uber is also making investing in Zipline as part of the tie-up.Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation
Aug 17, 2026, 9:10 am By Ivan Mehta
Wispr’s total funding is now over $361 million.Crypto hardware wallet owners face fresh security risks after recent spate of personal data thefts
Aug 17, 2026, 9:00 am By Zack Whittaker
The hacks at shipping companies used to mail out hardware wallets puts crypto owners at greater risk…Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+
Aug 16, 2026, 4:57 pm By Anthony Ha
OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future
Aug 16, 2026, 4:32 pm By Anthony Ha
On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’
Aug 16, 2026, 12:53 pm By Anthony Ha
Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he's been painting an overly pessimistic picture…
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