Wiz investor unpacks Google’s $32B acquisition
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Google closed its $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz this week —…
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Digg lays off staff and shuts down app as company retools
Digg — Kevin Rose’s reboot of his once-popular link-sharing site — is laying off a sizable portion of its staff,…
Gumloop lands $50M from Benchmark to turn every employee into an AI agent builder
When Max Brodeur-Urbas co-founded Gumloop in mid-2023, his vision was to help non-technical employees automate repetitive tasks using AI. At…
Temporal: A nine-year journey to fix time in JavaScript
Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript Published on 11 March 2026 Welcome to our blog! I’m Jason…
TerraPower gets OK to start construction of its first nuclear plant
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X begins testing standalone X Chat app on iOS
Social network X is bringing its private messaging service, dubbed X Chat, to a standalone app. The company on Monday…
Users are ditching ChatGPT for Claude. Here’s how to make the switch
Many users are switching to Claude following a string of controversies surrounding ChatGPT and its parent company, OpenAI. The tipping…
A married founder duo’s company, 14.ai, is replacing customer support teams at startups
The customer service industry is in a bit of flux, thanks to AI. Investors and corporate leaders have rung alarm…
Honor says its ‘Robot phone’ with moving camera can dance to music
Honor first teased its “Robot phone” with a movable camera arm earlier this year. Ahead of the Mobile World Congress…
The trap Anthropic built for itself
Friday afternoon, just as this interview was getting underway, a news alert flashed across my computer screen: the Trump administration…
OpenAI’s Sam Altman announces Pentagon deal with ‘technical safeguards’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced late on Friday that his company has reached an agreement allowing the Department of Defense…
Plaid valued at $8B in employee share sale
In Brief Posted: 11:19 PM PST · February 26, 2026 Image Credits:Ross Marlowe/TPG for TechCrunch Marina Temkin Plaid valued at…
Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic joins Google
Google is moving further into physical AI by bringing a familiar robotics software platform under its wing. Alphabet-owned Intrinsic, which…
Use Protocols, Not Services
Use Protocols, Not Services Published on 15 February 2026 The Internet is almost anonymous and privacy-preserving by design. I mean,…
Samsung to hold its Galaxy S26 event on February 25
Samsung sent out invites Tuesday to its next Galaxy Unpacked event, scheduled for February 25 in San Francisco, where the…
Waymo raises $16B to scale robotaxi fleet internationally
Waymo, the Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle company, has raised $16 billion as it plans to grow its fleet of driverless taxicabs…
Waymo reportedly raising a $16B funding round
In Brief Posted: 1:56 PM PST · January 31, 2026 Image Credits:Waymo Anthony Ha Waymo reportedly raising a $16B funding…
Astro Joining Cloudflare
The Astro Technology Company — the company behind the Astro web framework — is joining Cloudflare! Adoption of the Astro…
AI video startup, Higgsfield, founded by ex-Snap exec, lands $1.3B valuation
Through an extension to its previous $50 million Series A round that closed in September, AI video generation startup Higgsfield…
Luminar lines up $22 million bidder for its lidar business
Luminar has reached a deal to sell its lidar business to a company called Quantum Computing Inc. for just $22…