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In Brief

What’s behind ballooning video game budgets? | TechCrunch

Why does it cost some companies hundreds of millions of dollars to develop a popular video game?A couple...

TechCrunch Disrupt Astro Teller Disrupt Stage
Startups

Disrupt 2026 Early Bird ticket rates end May 29 | TechCrunch

Four days. That’s all that’s left to decide, not just whether you’ll be at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, but also how you’ll show up from October...

Kevin A. Damoa, Founder & CEO, Glīd, Claire Kroft and Ankit Malhotra, winners of the Startup Battlefield 2025, pose onstage during day three of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 at Moscone Center on October 29, 2025 in San Francisco, California.
Startups

Meet the eight startups pitching at Startup Battlefield Australia | TechCrunch

The applications are in. The TechCrunch Startup Battlefield team made their decisions. Eight Australian startups have earned their...

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Apps

WhatsApp is testing a new folder for messages from large businesses | TechCrunch

During Meta’s Q2 2026 earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said that other revenue in the family of apps segment...

Social

Finally, texts between Android and iPhone users can be end-to-end encrypted | TechCrunch

At long last, Android and iPhone users will be able to send each other end-to-end encrypted text messages....

A Flock surveillance camera in Houston, Texas, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. Flock counts more than 6,000 customers that are using its license plate readers, camera-equipped drones, gunshot detection devices and software, with customers in every state except Alaska. Photographer: Antranik Tavitian/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Privacy

LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire, citing ‘serious concerns’ over civil liberties and privacy | TechCrunch

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is reportedly ending its deal with Flock Safety, a surveillance company that...

Philadelphia Data Center Moratorium Rally, Sept 14 2026
AI

The AI data center boom is colliding with cities scarred by big industry  | TechCrunch

Across the country, Americans are debating how their lives might change if new AI data centers are built...

Hardware

The new Atari handheld knows its market | TechCrunch

CES isn’t much of a gaming show. Every year, however, a few notable products slip through the news...

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Startups

The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI are now making money for quant hedge funds | TechCrunch

Three former DeepMind researchers who created an AI that beat humans at poker have now applied the same...

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AI

Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks | TechCrunch

Hark, a startup that raised $700 million in Series A funding in May, today launched its agent Hark...