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FAA orders SpaceX to investigate Starship V3 booster failure

Starship is grounded until SpaceX finds out why the first V3 booster failed during its first test flight.

Sean O'Kane 2 months ago

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Startup Battlefield 200 applications close today: Nominate a founder or submit your startup

Today is the final day to apply or nominate a startup for Startup Battlefield 200. Once the clock strikes 11:59 p.m. PT, the window closes on your chance to compete for $100,000 in equity-free funding, gain global visibility, connect directly with investors, and launch on the TechCrunch Disrupt stag...

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ElevenLabs’s new music generation model can switch genres mid-track

ElevenLabs' new model will let users regenerate a section of a song without affecting rest of the track

Ivan Mehta 2 months ago

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Spotify now lets you ‘clip’ moments from your favorite podcast

With the new scissors icon, you can clip favorite moments from podcasts and share them with your audience.

Sarah Perez 2 months ago

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SOND, a sleep tech startup from Bose’s former head of sleep, exits stealth with $7M

SOND, a startup led by Bose’s former head of sleep products, emerged from stealth with $7M in funding for its AI-powered sleep earbuds.

Sarah Perez 2 months ago

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Early Bird ticket savings end in 3 days

There are only 3 days left to save up to $410 on your ticket to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Early Bird pricing ends May 29 at 11:59 p.m. PT, and once the deadline passes, ticket prices increase. If you plan to attend one of the most influential gatherings in tech this year, now is the time to lock in y...

TechCrunch Events 2 months ago

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Google just broke SEO. Here’s what replaces it.

Google I/O made it official: AI-generated answers are now front and center in search, and most brands have almost no visibility into how AI is describing them to their customers. For anyone who has spent years building a strategy around 10 blue links, the rules just changed in a prett...

Theresa Loconsolo 2 months ago

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China is increasingly keeping its best AI talent to itself

China's AI boom is producing world-class talent, and Beijing is increasingly reluctant to let them go elsewhere.

Kate Park 2 months ago

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ClickHouse triples anualized revenue to $250M, charting a path toward an IPO

The database provider is eyeing a public debut within the next few years.

Marina Temkin 2 months ago

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YouTube will now automatically label AI videos

YouTube will now automatically label videos that use significant photorealistic AI, instead of relying solely on creators to disclose AI-generated content themselves. It's also making AI labels more prominent.

Sarah Perez 2 months ago

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Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis

"CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis," Box CEO Aaron Levie opines. Maybe that explains the almost religious belief in AI productivity gains.

Julie Bort 2 months ago

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Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks

Robinhood will let users create a separate account with pre-loaded balance that an agent use to trade

Ivan Mehta 2 months ago

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Airbnb-backed WeRoad raises $58M to take its group travel platform to the US

WeRoad, the Milan-based group travel startup, has raised a $58 million Series C round led by Airbnb as it prepares for its first major expansion outside Europe. The funding brings the company’s total capital raised to roughly $100 million and will finance WeRoad’s push into the U.S., beginning with...

Lauren Forristal 2 months ago

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UK Visa Portal spilled thousands of applicants’ passports and selfies online — and hasn’t fixed the leak

The third-party website exposed applicants' sensitive documents as part of the U.K. visa application process. Instead of fixing the issue, the company sent attorneys.

Zack Whittaker 2 months ago

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What we’re looking for in Startup Battlefield 2026, and how to apply in time for the May 27 deadline

Startup Battlefield applications are due tomorrow, so now's the time to put the finishing touches on your submission!

Isabelle Johannessen 2 months ago

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Trump Admin permits Volvo to keep selling connected cars in the U.S.

Volvo, which is majority owned by China's Geely Holdings, said it can now move forward with its expansion plans for its U.S. factory.

Kirsten Korosec 2 months ago

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Trump admin wants nuclear startups to use plutonium for their reactors

The U.S. government is sitting on dozens of tons of weapons-grade plutonium. It's hoping startups can find a use for it.

Tim De Chant 2 months ago

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DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search

Google overhauled Search at I/O 2026, replacing blue links with AI agents. The backlash has been swift. DuckDuckGo app installs spiked 30% as users seek a way out.

Rebecca Bellan 2 months ago

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Starship’s path to reusability looks murky after SpaceX’s S-1

SpaceX's recent IPO and Starship rocket test flight delivered two big data points that offer a realistic vision for the coming years — and one that may disappoint both the company's boosters and its critics.

Tim Fernholz 2 months ago

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SpaceX’s Starlink nabs American Airlines contract, another win for its IPO

American Airlines said Tuesday it plans to install Starlink on more than 500 Airbus aircraft, the latest carrier win for IPO-bound SpaceX.

Kirsten Korosec 2 months ago

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OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year

OpenRouter has raised a $113 million Series B led by CapitalG. Its 5x growth in usage over six months indicates the multi-AI-model future is here.

Julie Bort 2 months ago

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This startup is betting India’s gig economy can train the world’s robots

Human Archive, a startup founded by Berkeley and Stanford researchers, is paying gig workers in India to wear camera-equipped caps and sensor devices to collect the real-world physical training data that AI and robotics labs are racing to acquire.

Ivan Mehta 2 months ago

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Dutch government blocks US company from acquisition, citing ‘risk to public interest’

The move to block the acquisition of the cloud company that hosts the Dutch digital ID service comes as Europe continues to reduce its reliance on U.S. technology.

Zack Whittaker 2 months ago

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Ghost hackers: the cybersecurity mystery that nobody has solved

A shadowy group that stole and dumped the NSA’s most powerful hacking tools still has implications for how companies think about digital risk today.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2 months ago

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