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AI founders are increasingly using their "dropout" status as a credential during YC pitches.

Here is the full list of the government and legal Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on what made us select them for the competition.

From Sam Altman's olive oil "scandal" to Soham Parekh's viral moment, a lot of silly stuff has gone down in tech this year.

"We're not going to be using iPhones in 10 years," Callaghan says flatly. "I kind of don't think we'll be using them in five years."

Investors on what they really want to hear in a founder's pitch.

“I think that 2025 was the year where the algorithm completely took over, so followings stopped mattering entirely,” LTK CEO Amber Venz Box said.

Plaud Note Pro is a $179 notetaker, which is an excellent recording device first

Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.

Good news for anyone tired of or embarrassed by their current Gmail address.

The gap between Apple's standard and budget smart watches has never felt smaller. 

Startup funding rounds in India fell sharply in 2025 as investors concentrated capital into fewer companies.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of State from arresting or deporting Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate.

Investors share what founders should remember if looking to raise a Series A.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill requiring social media platforms to show warning labels to younger users before they’re exposed to features such as autoplay and infinite scrolling.

Here is the full list of the space and defense tech Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on what made us select them for the competition.

French insect farming company Ÿnsect was recently placed into judicial liquidation for insolvency, despite raising over $600 million.

We've compiled a list of friendship apps, from friend discovery platforms like BFF to event-focused ones like Timeleft.

A classic hardware startup, Naware's founders set out with a problem -- kill weeds without chemicals -- and relentlessly tinkered until they found a solution.

Whether you’re looking to get a pair yourself or just want to explore what’s available on the market today, we’ve compiled a list of the most compelling pairs available.

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Spanish entrepreneur Bernardo Quintero, whose company is at the root of Google's Málaga cybersecurity hub, identified the author of the computer virus that influenced his career.

Whether you need to limit social media scrolling or block off time to be productive, there are different tools that can help you stay on task

With Groq on its side, Nvidia is poised to become even more dominant in chip manufacturing.

Data centers are no longer the boring tech issue they once were.

The deal is expected to yield significant returns for Armis investors, including Sequoia, CapitalG, and Insight Partners.

This was another banner year for crypto hacks and heists — 2025 was the third year in a row that a new crypto theft record was set.

It's the latest attempt by one major Hollywood superpower to acquire another.

Tory Bruno's abrupt departure comes after 12 years in the role. The company, a Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture, has had to fight to keep pace with Elon Musk's SpaceX.

A timeline of ChatGPT product updates and releases, starting with the latest, which we’ve been updating throughout the year.

TikTok Shop has rolled out a new feature that allows users to purchase digital gift cards, making it easier to help friends and family buy from the millions of products on the app.

iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power Bikes were very different companies, but they faced some similar challenges.

The iRobot founder opens up about the 18-month regulatory process that he says doomed the Roomba maker -- and what it means for American innovation.

ChatGPT users can now tweak the chatbot’s warmth, enthusiasm, and emoji use.

The bill will require large AI developers to publish information about their safety protocols and report safety incidents to the state within 72 hours.

Given NGL's track record of dubious growth hacking, this partnership with Mode Mobile seems like a good match.

The hardware world had a brutal week, with iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power Bikes all filing for bankruptcy.  Each company faces its own mix of tariff pressures, supply chain issues, and shifting markets, but together they tell a larger story about the challenges of building physical products in an era of global trade tensions and cheap overseas competition. From […]

ChatGPT has reached $3B in lifetime mobile consumer spending in just 31 months, faster than TikTok and major streaming apps.

YC-backed Givefront is building a fintech designed specifically for nonprofits, including food banks, churches, and homeowner associations.

The company said that it would revisit opportunities for third-party partnerships in the future.

Cisco said it discovered a Chinese hacking campaign targeting its customers by exploiting a zero-day in some of the company's most popular products.

It took Slate Auto about seven months to grow its customer list by 50%, but new reservations appear to be outpacing any cancelations.

OpenAI rolls out GPT Image 1.5 for ChatGPT, promising 4x faster generation, better instruction-following, and precise edits. The launch escalates its rivalry with Google Gemini.

Google has revealed that its “dark web report” feature will be discontinued starting February 16, 2026. Launched initially about a year and a half ago, this tool aimed to help users monitor their personal information on the dark web For some users, the dark web report seemed like a valuable tool, scanning various data breach […]

The filing marks the end of a tumultuous year full of layoffs, executive departures, and piling debts.

iRobot survived three decades of competition, but couldn't survive European regulators killing its Amazon buyout. Now it's being taken over by its own supplier in bankruptcy court.

Meta has three months to comply with Indian government directions that could affect how WhatsApp operates in the country.

Grok, the chatbot built by Elon Musk’s xAI and popularized on his social media platform X, appears to have repeatedly spread misinformation about today’s mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia.

Fintech startup Mesa has shut down its Homeowners Card, which awarded points to cardholders for paying their mortgages.

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

Spinny is set to be valued at about $1.8 billion post-money in its latest funding round.

A woman is facing felony charges in Evansville, Indiana over a DoorDash delivery in which she allegedly sprayed the food with a substance that made the customers vomit.

Improvements to roads, bridges, and other infrastructure could take a hit as data center construction accelerates.

Apple released patches for all of its flagship devices to fix security flaws under attack. Google also updated Chrome to remediate one vulnerability exploited in the attacks.

Women ran an experiment to see if LinkedIn's new algo was being sexist and thought they proved it. But there's more complexity involved, experts say.

A baby was born in a Waymo this week, and it wasn’t even the first one.  What started as a novelty story quickly became a reminder of how autonomous vehicles have quietly become part of everyday life, complete with all the messiness that entails. The real coming-of-age story this week, however, wasn’t happening in San Francisco’s robotaxis. It was playing out in […]

Despite launching as a humanoid robot designed to help consumers around the house, 1X's NEO robots are heading to industrial use cases.

The game is back on the Google Play Store, but another court decision is rolling back some of the developer-friendly changes on iOS.

Disney is accusing the tech giant of unauthorized distribution of its copyrighted characters without permission via Gemini AI.

Verified users will actually be notable figures, not just people who paid for the checkmark.

Crusoe will pay Boom $1.25 billion for more than a gigawatt of generating capacity with deliveries of the turbines starting in 2027.

Truecaller's Family Protection will be rolled out widely in the first quarter of 2026. The new feature lets up to five people join a family group overseen by one member who acts as the administrator and manages scam-blocking settings for the others.

Eric Bach, who was fired in November, claims a top HR executive at the automaker called him a "German Nazi."

Anthropic launches Claude Code in Slack, letting developers delegate coding tasks from chat threads. It's part of a shift toward AI-embedded collaboration that could reshape software workflows.

Hinge launched “Convo Starters,” a feature powered by AI that provides personalized tips for initiating meaningful conversations. 

ChatGPT Enterprise usage grew 8x year-over-year as workers report saving an hour daily, but OpenAI faces competitive pressure from Anthropic and questions about cost sustainability.

Will Netflix’s $82.7 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. get approval from federal regulators? While Paramount was assumed to be the frontrunner to acquire the storied movie studio thanks to CEO David Ellison’s connections to the Trump administration, new reporting in Bloomberg and The Hollywood Reporter suggests that Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos met with President […]

X has seemingly penalized the European Commission's account after the commission fined the company over blue checkmarks and ad transparency.

The company is aiming to produce its first silicon wafers by 2028 and have its first commercial system online by 2029.

aMeta lready sells VR headsets and Ray-Ban smart glasses, but these new glasses sound a bit different. Their format factor would reportedly be similar to the Apple Vision Pro, with a puck-like power source.

It’s only been a day since Netflix announced an $82.7 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros., and the acquisition has already been described as sending Hollywood into “full-blown panic mode,” “possibly a death blow to theatrical filmmaking,” and maybe even “the end of Hollywood” itself.

Limitless said it shares Meta's vision of bringing personal superintelligence to everyone.

ChatGPT's global monthly active users only grew by around 5% from August to November, while Gemini's users grew by about 30%.

Anthropic's CEO shared his thoughts on the economics of AI and the risk-taking of competitors, saying some were "YOLO-ing" with regard to spending.

Texting while driving is banned in nearly every state, even with the use of advanced driver assistance systems like Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software.

Harvey confirms a third enormous round of funding in 2025 that has skyrocketed its valuation. Again.

Vulcan Elements, a rare earths startup has secured a $620 million contract from the U.S .defense department.

Anthropic is reportedly prepping for an IPO that could come as early as 2026.

Amazon Web Services announced four new AI models within its Nova model family and a frontier model service.

This year, the whimsical holiday app comes to iPhone and adds a snow effect for Mac users.