India’s Snabbit valuation doubled to $180M in 5 months on its quick house-help bet
Snabbit has raised its third funding round in nine months.
This is the most misunderstood graph in AI
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Every time OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic drops a new frontier large language model, the AI community holds its breath. It doesn’t exhale until METR, an AI…
Cluely’s Roy Lee on the ragebait strategy for startup marketing
Cluely’s Roy Lee has a message for startup founders: you should be thinking harder about how to go viral.
NBA champion Tristan Thompson and World Mobile launch community-owned network Uplift
With Uplift, every subscription will contribute to neighborhood-level network expansion, while local hosts that are known as “AirNode operators” will earn a portion of network revenue by providing community coverage.
Digg founder Kevin Rose on the need for trusted social communities in the AI era
“The dead internet theory is real,” Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian told Digg founder Kevin Rose, referring to the idea that much of the internet isn’t human — it’s mostly bots. The two entrepreneurs have since teamed up to re-envision how to build a social community in this world where, very soon, it will be hard […]
YouTube announces ‘voluntary exit program’ for US staff
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan told employees about the program via an internal memo on Wednesday.
And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2025 is: Glīd
Glīd, which is trying to streamline cargo container logistics, has beaten out 199 other Startup Battlefield companies to take home $100,000.
Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko is a big fan of agentic coding
Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Yakovenko said he’s become increasingly comfortable taking a backseat in software development tasks.
Why Most Startups Fail and How Serial Entrepreneurs Beat the Odds
Over 90% of startups fail, but the secret habits of serial entrepreneurs help them beat the odds.
Nvidia Becomes the First Company to Reach a $5 Trillion Market Value, Leaving Apple and Microsoft in the Dust
Nvidia’s market capitalization surpasses the combined value of competitors like AMD and Intel.
2024’s Startup Battlefield runner-up geCKo Materials reveals four new products at TechCrunch Disrupt
geCKo Materials returned to the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to debut new products as it pushes deeper into commercializing its tech.