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r/WallStreetBets really hates the SEC’s proposal to weaken quarterly reporting Sean O'Kane 7:42 AM PDT · May 13, 2026 The Securities and Exchange Commission officially proposed last week to weaken the quarterly reporting standards for publicly traded companies. So far, public comments submitted...

Anduril raises $5B, doubles valuation to $61B Julie Bort 7:44 AM PDT · May 13, 2026 Another year, another massive influx of capital for Anduril: The funding round that was rumored to be in process in March has officially closed. Anduril has raised a $5 billion Series H round at a $61 billion...

Adaption aims big with AutoScientist, an AI tool that helps models train themselves Russell Brandom 5:11 AM PDT · May 13, 2026 For years, AI researchers have anticipated the moment when AI systems will be able to improve themselves better than humans could. With investors pouring money into a...

Medicare’s new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea Connie Loizos 5:26 PM PDT · May 12, 2026 Neil Batlivala has spent seven years building a healthcare company that most of the tech industry has never heard of and that serves a patient population most of Silicon...

Former Tesla exec and Heron Power CEO Drew Baglino has founded a heat pump startup Tim De Chant 11:14 AM PDT · May 12, 2026 Former Tesla executive Drew Baglino has quietly founded a heat pump startup, TechCrunch has learned. This is the second company founded by Baglino in the two years since...

Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies Tim Fernholz 11:05 AM PDT · May 12, 2026 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman finally took the stand this morning to defend himself against his former cofounder Elon Musk’s lawsuit challenging OpenAI’s corporate structure. Altman was asked out of...

Google and SpaceX are in talks to launch orbital data centers in space, reports The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter. The potential deal comes as SpaceX gears up for its $1.75 trillion IPO later this year, selling investors on the idea that data centers in space will...

Anthropic warns investors against secondary platforms offering access to its shares Ram Iyer 10:36 AM PDT · May 12, 2026 As investors scramble to get their hands on shares of AI companies of all stripes, Anthropic this week updated its website to warn investors that a slew of private and...

The AI legal services industry is heating up. Anthropic is getting in on the action. Lucas Ropek 10:00 AM PDT · May 12, 2026 Anthropic announced Tuesday that it is launching a host of new chatbot features designed to provide automated assistance to law firms. The new features expand Claude for...

Instructure strikes deal with hackers who breached it twice Zack Whittaker 6:34 AM PDT · May 12, 2026 Instructure, the maker of the popular school information portal Canvas, said on Tuesday it has “reached an agreement” with the hackers who breached its systems twice, stole a huge amount of...

GM just laid off hundreds of IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills Kirsten Korosec 4:04 PM PDT · May 11, 2026 General Motors has laid off more than 10% of its IT department, or about 600 salaried employees — in a deliberate skills swap: clearing out workers whose expertise no longer...

Riding an AI rally, Robinhood preps second retail venture IPO Marina Temkin 5:09 PM PDT · May 11, 2026 Just two months after listing its first venture fund on the stock market, Robinhood is preparing to launch a second. The company has filed a confidential registration for RVII, a standard...

Bravo is creating unscripted microdramas for the Peacock app Amanda Silberling 10:14 AM PDT · May 11, 2026 It’s about time that the microdrama trend has gone mainstream. As microdrama apps like ReelShort and DramaBox quietly rake in billions, Peacock announced on Monday that it’s launching two...

Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator Sarah Perez 10:02 AM PDT · May 11, 2026 Digg is back from the dead. Again. Just months after launching , the reboot of Kevin Rose’s once-popular link-sharing site shut down in March as the company shifted course. Originally redesigned as a...

Finally, texts between Android and iPhone users can be end-to-end encrypted Amanda Silberling 2:59 PM PDT · May 11, 2026 At long last, Android and iPhone users will be able to send each other end-to-end encrypted text messages. On Monday, end-to-end encrypted messaging is starting to roll out in...

‘Too early’ to talk IPO, Redwood Materials’ incoming CFO says Sean O'Kane 9:00 AM PDT · May 11, 2026 Redwood Materials has finally found a new chief financial officer roughly a year and a half after its last one departed . He’s a familiar face to the former Tesla executives running the battery...

Venmo’s biggest makeover in years comes at a very interesting time Lauren Forristal 5:00 AM PDT · May 11, 2026 Venmo is rolling out a significant redesign over the coming months that aims to make the app more useful, social, and easier to navigate. This is the peer-to-peer payments app’s biggest...

There aren’t enough rockets for space data centers — Cowboy Space raised $275M to build them Tim Fernholz 6:00 AM PDT · May 11, 2026 The apparently insatiable demand for AI compute has data center entrepreneurs looking to the stars. There’s a key problem: There aren’t enough rockets to put data...

The New York Times is betting that the Wordle craze isn’t over yet. On Monday, the Times announced that it would be turning the hit mobile word game into a televised game show on NBC. “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie will host the affair, while The Times and “The Tonight Show” host Jimmy...

Discord launches Nitro Rewards, giving subscribers access to the base tier of Xbox Game Pass for no extra cost Amanda Silberling 6:00 AM PDT · May 11, 2026 Discord on Monday unveiled Nitro Rewards, which gives Nitro subscribers access to offers from other gaming and lifestyle brands for no...