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Founders Fund launches game show starring Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, and other tech elites Lucas Ropek 5:06 PM PDT · June 4, 2026 Have you ever had the desire to see Sam Altman and Palmer Luckey square off over a moderately suspenseful card game? If so, you are in luck. Silicon Valley’s leaders...

Ahead of its IPO, Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei shrugs off doubts about AI’s returns Marina Temkin 3:43 PM PDT · June 4, 2026 Private investors have been falling over themselves to get a piece of Anthropic, given the AI model maker is growing at a dizzying pace. Multiple investors told TechCrunch...

Mira Murati steps back into the spotlight, carefully Connie Loizos 10:06 PM PDT · June 4, 2026 Mira Murati isn’t a natural creature of the conference stage. As the CTO of OpenAI, she was present but rarely the public face of the company. As CEO of her own company, Thinking Machines Lab, she has...

Filtr is a new privacy tool that blocks ads in almost every iPhone and Mac app Zack Whittaker 2:44 PM PDT · June 4, 2026 Using an ad blocker is good for your security , privacy , and even the FBI recommends them to defend from online harms. But as much as ad blockers are great for cleaning up...

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky has had enough of merely being an artificial intelligence kingmaker. He now plans to back a new AI lab of his own. The news, broken by Bloomberg and confirmed to TechCrunch by a person familiar with the situation, marks Chesky as one of many Silicon Valley machers who are...

Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, raises $465M to build a power plant for Microsoft Tim De Chant 11:54 AM PDT · June 4, 2026 Helion , the fusion startup backed by Sam Altman, announced on Thursday that it had raised $465 million in a new funding round that values the company at $15.5...

Apple approves Poke as the first AI agent on its Messages for Business platform Sarah Perez 12:20 PM PDT · June 4, 2026 Poke , a startup that turns using AI agents into something as simple as sending a text message, has become the first AI agent approved to run on Apple’s Messages for Business...

Ramp raises $750M at $44B valuation as investors hunger for fintechs with an AI story Ram Iyer 8:08 AM PDT · June 4, 2026 Corporate expense management platform Ramp on Thursday said it has raised $750 million at a valuation of $44 billion, nearly tripling its valuation within just a year as...

Meta mercifully spun out VR fitness game Supernatural instead of just killing it Amanda Silberling 12:22 PM PDT · June 3, 2026 Meta’s attempt to pioneer a metaverse and make VR cool totally flopped , except for one shining diamond in the rough: Supernatural , a VR fitness game that made working...

Quick commerce FirstClub doubles valuation to $255M in nine months Jagmeet Singh 5:30 PM PDT · June 3, 2026 In a quick-commerce market obsessed with speed, Indian startup FirstClub has convinced investors that quality may be a fresh opportunity, helping to double its valuation just nine months...

Lovable signs multiyear deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says Julie Bort 3:56 PM PDT · June 3, 2026 Lovable and Google announced an expanded multiyear collaboration on Wednesday. Lovable, the fast-growing Stockholm vibe-coding startup, has long been a Google Cloud user. Under the...

Alphabet’s record-breaking $85B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal Julie Bort 12:38 PM PDT · June 3, 2026 If Alphabet’s record-breaking $85 billion stock sale signals investor appetite for AI-related offerings — and it does — we can safely say that investors are voracious...

Uber to put 500 data-collection vehicles on the road this year Sean O'Kane Kirsten Korosec 1:08 PM PDT · June 3, 2026 Uber revealed on Wednesday a prototype car that it plans to use to scoop up real-world driving data for its growing roster of autonomous vehicle partners, including Avride...

Carvana ties up with Bezos-backed Slate Auto as it plans new car sales Sean O'Kane 10:25 AM PDT · June 3, 2026 Carvana has been granted the option to invest in Slate Auto, the electric vehicle startup backed by Jeff Bezos, according to documents obtained by TechCrunch. Paperwork filed with...

Ultrahuman says hackers accessed customers’ wellness data via internal tool Jagmeet Singh 10:30 AM PDT · June 3, 2026 Wearable health tech startup Ultrahuman said hackers gained unauthorized access to customers’ wellness data after stealing an employee’s credentials through malware. On...

These two founders left Goldman and Meta to build voice AI for markets everyone else overlooked Ivan Mehta 8:00 AM PDT · June 3, 2026 Customer support and service are among the hottest sectors in voice AI right now. But building a product that sounds human and responds without noticeable delay...

Still facing copyright lawsuits, AI music generator Suno raises another $400M Amanda Silberling 8:31 AM PDT · June 3, 2026 Suno, the AI music-generation company, announced on Wednesday that it has raised a $400 million Series D round , valuing the company at $5.4 billion. It was only about seven...

GitLab cuts 14% of staff as it scales its platform to serve AI workloads Ram Iyer 7:59 AM PDT · June 3, 2026 Developer platform GitLab has laid off about 14% of its workforce, about 350 employees, as part of a broader restructuring effort it detailed last month. The company said in May that it...

Squishmallows, dentures, and an ‘I Heart Hot Dads’ bag: Uber has found thousands of items left in robotaxis Kirsten Korosec 4:25 PM PDT · June 2, 2026 For the past 10 years, Uber’s annual Lost & Found Index has provided a rather quirky anthropological snapshot of its riders — and even a few...

Cyera eyes $12B valuation at 80x ARR multiple despite operating losses Marina Temkin 3:50 PM PDT · June 2, 2026 Data storage security company Cyera is finalizing a round led by Evolution Equity Partners of at least $300 million at a $12 billion valuation, according to four people with knowledge...