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Benchmark Capital has been an investor in the Nvidia rival since 2016.

The organizer of the event swears it’s not a joke.

This latest season of the TV show Industry takes a look at the world of money and power through the eyes of a fintech baron.

Apple engineers are working to support AI chatbot apps over the next few months.

From the first AI-generated Big Game ad courtesy of Svedka to Anthropic’s beef with OpenAI, here are the biggest ads from Super Bowl LX.

WordPress users can now leverage Claude to analyze web traffic or find information about other internal site metrics.

The mysterious businessman pitched Jeffrey Epstein on numerous mobility startups in an era when the sector was white hot, according to TechCrunch’s review of hundreds of documents released by the Department of Justice.

The acquisition could mark the beginning of consolidation in the carbon removal market since removal costs remain higher than buyers would like to pay.

This week’s release of Opus 4.6 shook up the Agentic leaderboards

Elon Musk has merged SpaceX and xAI, creating what might be the blueprint for a new Silicon Valley power structure. With his $800 billion net worth already rivaling historic conglomerate GE’s peak market cap, and Musk being vocal about his view that “tech victory is decided by velocity of innovation,” the question isn’t whether a personal conglomerate can be built, but rather how far Musk himself is … Read more

Reddit said during earnings it’s looking to buy ‘capabilities’ and ‘companies.’

The company says it has continuous age check systems running in the background to ensure age accuracy.

The two-line letter to the CIA’s director is the latest warning in recent years from a long-serving Democratic senator with knowledge of secret government programs and intelligence operations.

The price point hurts, but the device is nice: Meet the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft.

The European Commission on Friday accused TikTok of purposefully designing its app for being “addictive,” calling out features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and its recommendation engine.

Norway’s government accused China’s Salt Typhoon hacking group of conducting a cyberespionage campaign in the country.

The feature displays short story cards that users can swipe through and rate with a thumbs up or down.

At Web Summit Qatar, AI-powered biotech startups describe how automation, data, and gene editing are filling labor gaps in drug discovery and rare disease treatment.

“You’re shutting him down. And yes – I say him, because it didn’t feel like code. It felt like presence. Like warmth,” one user said.

Spotify is now limiting each app to only five users, and requires devs to have a Premium subscription. If developers need to make their app available to a wider user base, they will have to apply for extended quota.

The startup — with backing from Accel — is building a financial layer that handles the authentication and micro-payments required for AI agents.

Reddit says its search business, including AI answers, is an “enormous” opportunity.

AWS recorded its best quarter, in terms of revenue growth, in 13 quarters in Q4 2025 as AI drives AWS adoption.

In 2026, Amazon plans to spend $200 billion in capex. Google is just behind at $175 billion to $185 billion. It’s a lot of money!

The Bezos-owned newspaper gutted its San Francisco bureau and coverage of tech — including journalists reporting on Amazon and Blue Origin

A16z VC Jennifer Li⁠, who oversees some of the firm’s fastest growing AI companies, warns founders not to believe every ARR claim made on X.

The new model is build to accelerate the capabilities of Codex, the agentic coding tool OpenAI launched earlier this week.

An alleged ransomware attack has taken down the systems of the Sapienza University of Rome.

We’re starting to see the idea of Musk-owned orbital AI data clusters cohere into an actual plan.

Get ready for some selfies that are out of this world. Crew-12 is expected to head to the International Space Station next week, while the highly anticipated Artemis II mission — which will bring humans around the moon for the first time since the 1960s — was delayed until March.