Apple’s Cal AI crackdown signals it’s still policing the App Store
Apple tells TechCrunch Cal AI was removed not for web payments alone, but for deceptive billing, manipulative tactics, and App Store rule violations.
Uber wants to turn its millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies
Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber’s chief technology officer, revealed the plan in an interview at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, describing it as a natural extension of a nascent program the company announced in late January called AV Labs.
April 2026
SusHi Tech Tokyo isn’t a conference — it’s a deal room with 60,000 people
When 60,000 attendees descend on Tokyo Big Sight April 27–29, the headline numbers are hard to ignore: 750 startup exhibitors, 151 sessions, city leaders from 49 countries. But the stat that tells you what kind of event this actually is? It’s 10,000 facilitated business meetings — brokered, booked, and tracked before most attendees even land.
ChatGPT’s new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text
ChatGPT Images 2.0, the newest image generation model from OpenAI, shows just how much AI capabilities have evolved over the last few years.
Sam Altman throws shade at Anthropic’s cyber model, Mythos: ‘fear-based marketing’
The AI industry’s mudslinging continues.
Avoid These Sleep Mistakes That Are Sabotaging Your Performance
Sleep is often treated as optional in entrepreneurship — something to sacrifice in pursuit of growth.
How to Build a Business That Can Be Taken Apart and Rebuilt in a Weekend
The “Lego” strategy shows how to design a business as modular, interchangeable parts — so you can unplug, swap or rebuild systems like marketing, operations or sales without breaking the whole company.
6 New Books That Treat Wellness Like the Business Strategy It Is
From recovery protocols and nutrition to purpose and mental resilience, these books deliver actionable frameworks entrepreneurs can use today
Building agent-first governance and security
As AI agents increasingly work alongside humans across organizations, companies could be inadvertently opening a new attack surface. Insecure agents can be manipulated to access sensitive systems and proprietary data, increasing enterprise risk. In some modern enterprises, non-human identities (NHI) are outpacing human identities, and that trend will explode with agentic AI. Solid governance and…
This Startup CEO Conducts Job Interviews on Sundays. Candidates Say It’s a ‘Huge Relief’ — Here’s Why
Legal startup Crosby began offering interviews on Sundays and found that candidates had an unexpected reaction to it.
How to Rebuild Brand Trust After a PR Crisis
Brand trust is everything these days. When you’ve got it, you need to prioritize holding on to it above almost everything else. When you’re at risk of losing it, you must take strategic, honesty-based actions to reinstate it.