TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 is the flagship early-stage startup competition held at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. It spotlights the world’s most promising young companies. Each year, thousands of applicants from around the globe vie for one of 200 slots…
Sequoia Capital is reportedly joining a major funding round for Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude. This move is sure to turn heads in Silicon Valley because venture capital firms have historically avoided backing competing companies in the same sector,…
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for all things future of transportation. It has been a minute, folks. The newsletter took a holiday break, but we are back and well into 2026. A lot has happened since the last…
If you are at all concerned about privacy, the rise of AI personal assistants can feel alarming. It is difficult to use one without sharing personal information, which is retained by the model’s parent company. With OpenAI already testing advertising,…
The weather in Las Vegas was not looking promising. The original plan for the YC-backed startup Bucket Robotics was for each employee to carry parts of their booth in their luggage to the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show. However, CEO and…
A report from market intelligence firm Similarweb suggests that Meta’s Threads is now seeing more daily usage than Elon Musk’s X on mobile devices. While X still dominates Threads on the web, the Threads mobile app for iOS and Android…
If you have been following the billionaire exodus from California with confusion, here is what is actually driving the nervousness. The concern is not simply about a proposed one-time 5% tax on fortunes over $1 billion. Instead, the core issue…
In October, at a tech conference in Italy, Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos predicted that millions of people will be living in space “in the next couple of decades” and “mostly,” he’d said, “because they want to,” because…
The Trump administration faced significant legal setbacks this week as judges allowed work to restart on several offshore wind farms under construction along the East Coast. The Department of the Interior had ordered a halt to five projects totaling 6…
Anahita Laverack was set on becoming an aerospace engineer, but her career took a different turn after a realization at an autonomous robotics challenge. That moment inspired her to launch Oshen, a company that builds fleets of robots to collect…
