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Snowflake’s transition from storing data to shipping with it
Snowflake is betting that the future of AI (https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/what-snowflakes-deal-with-openai-tells-us-about-the-enterprise-ai-race/) isn’t just analyzing data, it’s acting on it. That means a shift away from chatbots and t
Space: the final frontier of AI infrastructure
Tech companies are racing to build data centers in space, pitching orbital compute as the next frontier for AI infrastructure, even as the technical and economic realities remain far from clear. Add in OpenAI’s massive $122 billion round (h
Why private wealth is cutting out the VC middleman
The VC middleman is getting cut out faster than anyone expected. Family offices and private wealth firms are going direct: writing checks, taking board seats, even incubating companies from scratch. And more founders are starting to notice.
VCs are betting billions on AI's next wave, so why is OpenAI killing Sora?
When an 82-year-old Kentucky woman was offered $26 million (https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/kentucky-woman-rejects-26-million-offer-to-turn-her-farm-into-a-data-center/) from an AI company that wanted to build a data center on her land, s
ReelShort made $1.2 billion on werewolf romances. Watch Club wants to do it better.
Over the past few years, a new category of mobile apps has quietly exploded into a multi-billion dollar business (https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/tiktok-like-microdramas-are-going-to-make-billions-this-year-even-though-they-kind-of-suck/)
Nvidia has an OpenClaw strategy. Do you?
Jensen Huang took the stage at Nvidia's GTC conference (https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/16/jensen-just-put-nvidias-blackwell-and-vera-rubin-sales-projections-into-the-1-trillion-stratosphere/) this week in his signature leather jacket to del
The PhD students who became the judges of the AI industry
Artificial intelligence models are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff. With so many players crowding the space, which one will be the best — and who decides that? Arena, formerly LM Arena, has emerged as the de facto public leaderbo
Wiz's first investor breaks down Google's $32B acquisition
According to Index Ventures Partner Shardul Shah (https://www.indexventures.com/team/shardul-shah/), cybersecurity startup Wiz sits “at the center of three tailwinds: AI, cloud, and security spend.” Those tailwinds powered what just became
How Poppi went from a Shark Tank pitch to a $1.95B exit
For years, venture capitalists have been skeptical of beverage startups (https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/22/poppin-bottles-vcs-continue-to-pour-millions-into-independent-beverage-startups/), citing thin margins and brutal distribution as rea
Anthropic vs. the Pentagon, the SaaSpocalypse, and why competition is good, actually
The Pentagon has officially designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk (https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/its-official-the-pentagon-has-labeled-anthropic-a-supply-chain-risk/) after the two failed to agree on how much control the military sho
How PopSockets broke the VC-backed consumer hardware mold
Does a consumer hardware company need to get on the VC treadmill to succeed? Eleven years and 290 million products sold across 115 countries later, PopSockets has proven that the bootstrapped, low-dilution path more viable than the industry
Who's really running AI? Inside the billion-dollar battle over regulation, with Alex Bores
The Pentagon is playing chicken with Anthropic (https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/anthropic-wont-budge-as-pentagon-escalates-ai-dispute/) over who gets to control how the military uses AI while communities across the country are blocking da
Is crypto growing up? Tether risk, Stripe’s stablecoin play, and the GENIUS Act explained
Crypto is creeping back into the startup conversation, but at ETH Denver (https://ethdenver.com/) last week, the buzz was as much about Washington as it was about tokens. Policy shifts are rippling through the market as Tether (https://tech
Build Mode: Compensation, culture, and cap tables with Yuri Sagalov, GeneralCatalyst
TechCrunch's founder-focused podcast, Build Mode, is back. This season we’re breaking down what it really takes to build a world-class founding team starting with your cap table, equity structures, and startup compensation strategy. We kick
Why creators are ditching ad revenue for chocolate bars and fintech acquisitions
The creator economy is evolving fast, and ad revenue alone isn't cutting it anymore. YouTubers are launching product lines (https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/youtubers-arent-relying-on-ad-revenue-anymore-heres-how-some-are-diversifying/), a
Google Cloud's VP for startups on reading your "check engine light" before it's too late
Startup founders are being pushed to move faster than ever, using AI while facing tighter funding, rising infrastructure costs, and more pressure to show real traction early. Cloud credits, access to GPUs, and foundation models have made it
AI burnout, billion-dollar bets, and Silicon Valley's Epstein problem
AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its missio
Glean’s fight to own the AI layer inside every company
Enterprise AI is shifting fast from chatbots that answer questions to systems that actually do the work across an organization. But who will own the AI layer that powers all of it? Glean (https://www.glean.com/), which started as an enterpr
This Sequoia-backed lab thinks the brain is 'the floor, not the ceiling' for AI
AI lab Flapping Airplanes (https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/flapping-airplanes-and-the-promise-of-research-driven-ai/) just landed $180 million in seed funding from the likes of Google Ventures, Sequoia, and Index to do something most labs
How far will Elon Musk take the ‘everything’ business as SpaceX and xAI merge?
Elon Musk has merged SpaceX and xAI (https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/elon-musk-spacex-acquires-xai-data-centers-space-merger/), creating what might be the blueprint for a new Silicon Valley power structure. With his $800 billion net worth
What a16z is actually funding (and what it's ignoring) when it comes to AI infra
Andreessen Horowitz just raised a whopping new $15 billion in funding (https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/09/the-venture-firm-that-ate-silicon-valley/). And a $1.7 billion chunk of that is going to its infrastructure team (https://a16z.com/infr
Uber puts another chip on the self-driving roulette table
Self-driving truck startup Waabi's billion-dollar fundraise (https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/waabi-raises-1b-and-expands-into-robotaxis-with-uber/) isn't just about trucks. The deal, for $750 million up front plus another $250 million fro
The SpaceX IPO could finally happen (and it's a big deal)
SpaceX is reportedly lining up four major Wall Street banks for a 2026 IPO (https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/elon-musk-reportedly-wants-a-june-spacex-ipo-to-align-with-his-birthday-the-planets/) that could provide the reset the market need
AI CEOs transformed Davos into a tech conference
The World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos felt different this year (https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/anthropics-ceo-stuns-davos-with-nvidia-criticism/), and not just because Meta and Salesforce took over storefronts on the main pr
Build Mode: Capital is a commodity (but your investor relationships aren’t)
Today on Equity, we're teaming up with our newest podcast, Build Mode (https://techcrunch.com/podcasts/build-mode/). In this interview, Build Mode host Isabelle Johannessen sits down with Ross Fubini of XYZ Ventures and Leslie Feinzaig of G
OpenAI and Anthropic are making their play for healthcare, and we're not surprised
AI companies are clustering around healthcare and fast. In just the past week, OpenAI bought health startup Torch (https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/12/openai-buys-tiny-health-records-startup-torch-for-reportedly-100m/), Anthropic launched Cla
The multibillion-dollar AI security problem enterprises can't ignore
AI agents are supposed to make work easier. Instead, they're creating a whole new category of security nightmares. As companies deploy AI-powered chatbots, agents, and copilots across their operations, they're facing a new risk: how do you
CES 2026 was all about “physical AI” and robots, robots, robots
After years of chatbots and image generators, AI is finally leaving the screen. At CES 2026, that shift became impossible to ignore. The annual tech showcase in Las Vegas was dominated by "physical AI" (https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/06/the
Investing in the consumer AI products OpenAI ‘won’t want to kill’
Vanessa Larco (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessalarco/), partner at Premise (https://premise.com/) and former partner at NEA, thinks 2026 will finally be the year of consumer AI. Larco, who's been investing in consumer and prosumer for ye
How AI is reshaping work and who gets to do it, according to Mercor's CEO
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