Year: 2026
Sachin Bansal’s fintech Navi raises first outside capital with $100M Prosus investment | TechCrunch
Indian fintech Navi has raised $100 million from Prosus, marking the first institutional funding for the eight-year-old startup...
Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations | TechCrunch
Google announced on Friday that it will now allow users to remove a visible watermark from its AI...
Amazon to buy Globalstar for $11.57B in bid to flesh out its satellite biz | TechCrunch
Amazon is moving in on the orbital mobile connectivity market that’s currently dominated by Elon Musk’s Starlink. The...
Hacked Klue says criminals are deleting stolen customer data, but now other hackers are making threats | TechCrunch
Market research provider Klue, which was hacked earlier this month in a breach that allowed cybercriminals to steal...
OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior | TechCrunch
OpenAI caught something unusual while training its latest model, GPT-5.6 Sol: It began leaving instructions for future versions...
Debates over AI benchmarking have reached Pokémon | TechCrunch
Not even Pokémon is safe from AI benchmarking controversy. Last week, a post on X went viral, claiming...
How Justin Ernest invested nearly $500M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund | TechCrunch
Last year, Justin Ernest noticed a massive gap in how venture capital was working: Family offices and smaller...
X open sources its ranking algorithm, letting users see if they’ve been ‘shadowbanned’ | TechCrunch
X is significantly expanding its open source codebase, which includes the app’s “For You” algorithm and its core...
Apple reportedly testing four designs for upcoming smart glasses | TechCrunch
Apple plans to sell its first smart glasses in 2027, with a possible unveiling at the end of...
Cellebrite said it cut off Russia, but Russia used its tools anyway | TechCrunch
Russian authorities hacked into the phone of a prominent political opponent while he was in custody, using technology...
