At the Bitcoin Conference, the Republicans were for sale
"I want to make a big announcement," said Faryar Shirzad, the chief policy officer of Coinbase, to a nearly empty room. His words echoed across the massive hall at the Bitcoin Conference, deep in the caverns of The Venetian Expo in Las Vegas, and it wasn't apparent how many people
Read moreWeek in Review: Why Anthropic cut access to Windsurf
Welcome back to Week in Review! Got lots for you today, including why Windsurf lost access to Claude, ChatGPT’s new features, WWDC 2025, Elon Musk’s fight with Donald Trump, and lots more. Have a great weekend! Duh: During an interview at TC Sessions: AI 2025, Anthropic’s co-founder had a perfectly
Read moreWill Musk vs. Trump affect xAI’s $5 billion debt deal?
While the online feud between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump seemed to drive traffic to Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter), it could also create issues for the platform’s parent company xAI. Musk merged X and xAI earlier this year, with Bloomberg reporting this week that he was
Read moreSuperblocks CEO: How to find a unicorn idea by studying AI system prompts
Brad Menezes, CEO of enterprise vibe coding startup Superblocks, is convinced that the next crop of billion-dollar startup ideas are hiding in almost plain sight: system prompts.
Read moreAfter its data was wiped, KiranaPro’s co-founder cannot rule out an external hack
Exclusive: The company's co-founder and CTO blame a former employee for a breach, but cannot rule out that it wasn't.
Read moreMeet the Finalists: VivaTech’s 5 Most Visionary Startups of 2025
Narrowing down the 30 most visionary startups of the year to just five finalists was no easy feat. VivaTech’s Innovation of the Year attracted an extraordinary pool of applicants—startups tackling massive global challenges with bold, technically sophisticated, and scalable solutions. From redefining human-machine interaction to revolutionizing healthcare, climate, and infrastructure,
Read moreTrump fast-tracks supersonic travel, amid spate of flight-related executive orders
President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Federal Aviation Administration to lift the 52-year ban on supersonic flight over U.S. soil.
Read moreTechCrunch Mobility: How Jony Ive’s LoveFrom helped Rivian and what Uber’s next-generation playbook looks like
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
Read moreOmada Health IPO signals healthier market, avoids ‘down-round’ trend
Omada Health popped in its first day as a public company, validation for founder CEO Sean Duffy.
Read more2025 will be a ‘pivotal year’ for Meta’s augmented and virtual reality, says CTO
Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, Meta's CTO, says 2025 will be a pivotal year for Reality Labs, the company's augmented and virtual reality unit.
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