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Have real-world scaling experience? The TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 stage is calling. On June 23 in Boston, this annual founder-focused event will convene 1,100+ founders and investors to explore the realities of scaling startups across every stage. We’re seeking experienced founders, VCs, and startup operators to lead interactive roundtable discussions rooted in practical, real-world insight. We’re bringing together experienced leaders from across the […]

Just in time to create a new Super Bowl ad, Crypto.com founder Kris Marszalek has made the priciest domain purchase in history, buying AI.com for $70 million,according to the Financial Times. The deal, paid entirely in cryptocurrency to an unknown seller, shatters previous records. (Broker Larry Fischer, who facilitated the sale, is presumably celebrating his

When a startup announced plans last fall to recreate lost footage from Orson Welles’ classic film “The Magnificent Ambersons” using generative AI,I was skeptical. More than that, I was baffled why anyone would spend time and money on something that seemed guaranteed to outrage cinephiles while offering negligible commercial value. This week,an in-depth profile by

New Yorker state lawmakers haveintroduced a billthat would impose a moratorium of at least three years on permits tied to the construction and operation of new data centers. While the bill’s prospects are uncertain,Wired reportsthat New York is at least the sixth state to consider pausing construction of new data centers.  As tech companies plan

This week, AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems announced that it raised $1 billion in fresh capital at a valuation of$23 billion— a nearly threefold increase from the$8.1 billionvaluation the Nvidia rival had reached just six months earlier. While the round was led by Tiger Global, a huge part of the new capital came from one of

Followinglast year’s trend of showcasing AIin multimillion-dollar ad spots, the 2026 Super Bowl s took it a step further by leveraging AI both to create the commercials and to promote the latest AI products. Love it or hate it, the technology has become a star in its own right, alongside the latest movie trailers and

On Thursday, WordPress launched a new Claude connector, enabling site owners to share back-end data with Anthropic’s chatbot system. Users can control what specific data they want to share, and access can also be revoked if and when the user chooses. Notably, Claude is given read-only access, meaning it won’t be able to alter anything

Last month, I wrote aboutMercor’s new benchmarkmeasuring AI agents’ capabilities on professional tasks like law and corporate analysis. At the time, the scores were pretty dismal, with every major lab scoring under 25%, so we concluded lawyers were safe from AI displacement, at least for now. But AI capabilities can change a lot in a

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

If you primarily want a tablet device to markup, highlight, and annotate your e-books and documents, and perhaps sometimes scribble some notes of your own, Amazon’s newKindle Scribe Colorsoftcould be worth the hefty investment. For everyone else, it’s probably going to be hard to justify the cost of the 11-inch, $630+ e-ink tablet with a