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The most interesting startups showcased at Google Cloud Next 2026

Google wants AI startups on its cloud and has showcased a long list of them at its annual conference.

Duolingo is now giving free users access to advanced learning content

Duolingo is opening up its advanced language learning content offering to free users, allowing them to acquire skills that were previously reserved to paid subscribers.

Google Maps is about to get a big dose of AI

Generative AI is being infused into Google's popular feature within Maps.

Exclusive: Google deepens Thinking Machines Lab ties with new multi-billion-dollar deal

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has signed a multi-billion-dollar deal with Google Cloud for AI infrastructure powered by Nvidia's latest GB300 chips, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.

Redwood Materials lays off 10% in restructuring to chase energy storage business

The company is restructuring some teams to accommodate a booming energy storage business, according to emails viewed by TechCrunch.

Meta will record employees’ keystrokes and use it to train its AI models

Meta says that it has a new internal tool that is converting mouse movements and button clicks into data that can train its AI models.

Behind the unraveling of Dan Crenshaw

In 2019, a 36-year-old Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), newly elected to Congress, was photographed for the inaugural Time 100 Next List, wearing a dashing eye patch and looking upwards with hope. A Harvard-educated Navy SEA…

First vacuums — then the world

Many startups spend years trying to become a household name. Others just spend $10 million on a Super Bowl ad. That's Dreame's bet. The little-known Chinese robot vacuum company has grand ambitions to become a global …

Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products

Anker has announced its own custom silicon that the company says will bring local AI to audio devices, mobile accessories, and IoT devices. The Thus processor is the world's first neural-net compute-in-memory AI audio…

Anthropic’s most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands

Anthropic's Mythos AI model, a powerful cybersecurity tool that the company said could be dangerous in the wrong hands, has been accessed by a "small group of unauthorized users," Bloomberg reports. An unnamed member …

SpaceX cuts a deal to maybe buy Cursor for $60 billion

With an IPO looming for Elon Musk's SpaceX / xAI / X combo platter of companies, SpaceX has announced an odd arrangement to either acquire the automated programming platform Cursor for $60 billion or pay a fee of $10 …

We translated the Palantir manifesto for actual human beings

Palantir CEO Alex Karp is a man in charge of one of the most important and frightening companies in the world. Karp's new book, cowritten with Nicholas Zamiska, is called The Technological Republic. After claiming "be…

Our favorite gear at Sea Otter Classic wasn't the bikes—it was the accessories

A Bluetooth suction-cup rack and a palm-sized tow rope were among our most practical finds.

Investors lost billions on Trump’s memecoin. Another gala won’t fix that.

If Dems take Congress, Trump may face reckoning for “pay-to-play” memecoin galas.

Pentagon wants $54B for drones, more than most nations’ military budgets

The proposed Pentagon drone investment rivals Ukraine’s entire military budget.

Mozilla: Anthropic's Mythos found 271 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 150

CTO says new AI model is "every bit as capable" as world's best security researchers.

Supreme Court arguments make it clear that FCC fines are "nonbinding"

FCC tells Supreme Court its fines are nonbinding unless a jury upholds penalty.

Silo S3 teaser hints at the wasteland's origins

"Before we can know how it will all end, we need to understand how it all began."