12 Month Window | Tech Crunch
On a recent episode of the excellent podcast “No Priors,” co-hosted by AI investors Sarah Guo and Elad Gil, Gil made a point about exit timing that will no doubt be familiar to founders who have spent time with him, but one that seems especially useful in this moment when the deal is in full […]
Blue Origin’s New Glenn puts customer satellite in wrong orbit during third launch
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin on Sunday successfully repurposed one of its New Glenn rockets for the first time, but the company failed in its primary mission to deliver a communications satellite into orbit for customer AST SpaceMobile. AST SpaceMobile issued a statement Sunday afternoon saying the upper stage of its New Glenn rocket […]
Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ culture
Monitoring and analytics company Palantir recently posted what it calls a 22-part “brief” summary of CEO Alex Karp’s book, The Technological Republic. “Technology Republic,” written by Karp and Palantir Executive Director Nicholas Zamiska, was published last year and the authors described it as “the beginning of clarifying the theory” behind Palantir’s work. (One reviewer said […]
TechCrunch Mobility: Uber enters asset maximization era
Welcome to TechCrunch Mobility. A hub for learning about the future of transportation and how AI is playing a role now more than ever. To receive this in your inbox, sign up for free here. Just click on TechCrunch Mobility. A few weeks ago, I wrote about how Uber seems to be everywhere at once […]
Cracks are starting to appear in the fusion energy financing boom
This happens in every emerging industry. As founders and investors move toward a common goal, money begins to flow in and that shared vision begins to diverge. Cracks are appearing in the world of fusion power, and I saw it firsthand at The Economist’s Fusion Fest in London last week. That didn’t dampen the overall […]
Blue Origin successfully reuses New Glenn rocket for the first time
Blue Origin has successfully reused one of its New Glenn rockets for the first time in history, a major milestone for heavy launch systems as Jeff Bezos’ space company aims to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. However, the overall success of the mission may be questionable. About two hours after liftoff, Blue Origin revealed that […]
Relations between Anthropic and the Trump administration appear to be thawing.
Despite being recently designated as a supply chain risk by the Department of Defense, Anthropic is still in talks with Trump administration officials. There have long been signs of a rift, or a sense that not all parts of the administration want to cut ties with Anthropic, with reports that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and […]
The App Store is booming again, and AI may be the reason
Everyone said AI would kill apps. Instead, new app releases are proliferating. Global app releases in the first quarter of 2026 grew 60% year over year on both Apple’s App Store and Google Play, according to new analysis from market intelligence provider Appfigures. Looking at the iOS App Store alone, the percentage was even higher […]
Stripe and Airwallex came close enough to an acquisition, but now they’re chasing each other
Jack Zhang was 34 years old and had been running a startup for three and a half years when he sat across from one of Silicon Valley’s most powerful investors. Sequoia’s Michael Moritz invited him to his home (which was several stories high and had a direct view of the Golden Gate Bridge, Zhang recalls) […]
Sam Altman’s Project World aims to expand his human verification empire. First stop is Tinder.
At a trendy venue near the San Francisco Pier, Sam Altman’s testing project World celebrated its next evolution and rapid expansion of its ambitions. And it starts with Tinder. Tools for Humanity (TFH), which powers the World project, on Friday announced plans to integrate its verification technology into dating apps, event and concert ticketing systems, […]