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The SpaceX IPO has finally arrived
The biggest IPO in history dropped this morning on the Nasdaq — a debut so big, our team thought it deserved its own bonus Equity podcast episode.
It’s hot IPO summer, and the MANGOS are ripe
The IPO market is back, and it's not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or...
Andrew Yang on Noble Mobile, UBI, and why he's done waiting for policy to catch up
Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign was based on a warning that automation and AI would hollow out the labor market and concentrate wealth in the...
The 'together tech' wave might be the most intriguing startup bet of 2026
While the AI fundraising machine keeps breaking its own records, some founders are building in the other direction.
Mirror founder Brynn...
Every defense startup wants to be the next Anduril. Here's what one of its earliest backers is looking for now.
Defense tech is red hot right now, with a proposed 40% increase to the federal defense budget, Anduril doubling its valuation to $61 billion, and a wa...
Does your CEO have AI psychosis? Aaron Levie thinks most of them do.
The people deciding that AI can replace your job are also the ones least likely to understand what your job truly involves, according to Box founder A...
Your SEO strategy is optimized for a search engine that no longer exists.
Google I/O made it official: AI-generated answers are now front and center in search, and most brands have almost no visibility into how AI is describ...
Elon Musk can't hear you over the sound of his $1.75 trillion IPO
The SpaceX S-1 is finally here, and the story it tells goes way further than rockets. The filing runs to 36 pages of risk factors alone, and the numbe...
How Lucra raised $20M as an eSports play when every VC only wants AI
Slapping "AI" on your startup’s pitch deck is basically table stakes right now. When a founder raised $20 million from Cathie Wood's ARK Invest for an...
Well, do you trust Sam Altman?
The Musk v. Altman trial came to a close this week, and the final arguments kept circling back to one question: can we trust the people in charge of A...
Amazon's Steve Schmidt on why your AI agents are your biggest security risk (Live at HumanX)
AI may be changing how companies build, but it's also changing how they get attacked, often by their own tools. Amazon Chief Security Officer Steve Sc...
The 'people’s airline,' SpaceXAI, and the Enterprise AI Race
Everyone wants a piece of the enterprise AI pie, and this week, we saw a string of companies making their moves. From Anthropic and OpenAI announcing...
Aurora's Chris Urmson on why self-driving trucks are finally ready (Live at HumanX)
Self-driving has been "almost here" for over a decade. But somewhere between DARPA challenges and a handful of driverless trucks hauling freight betwe...
Did you know you can't steal a charity? Don't worry. Elon Musk will remind you.
Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it's already getting messy. Emails, te...
Is AI video just a prequel? Runway's CEO thinks world models are next
AI-generated video has gone from novelty to creative tool in AI-generated video has gone from novelty to creative tool almost overnight, and Runway ha...
Apple's new CEO, and why Elon Musk wants to buy Cursor for $60B
A new era is on the way for Apple as Tim Cook plans to step down from his CEO role in September, handing the reins to hardware chief John Ternus.
Fusion doesn't have a normal startup timeline, and investors are fine with that
Fusion energy has been "20 years away" for decades, but has the science finally caught up? Private investment in fusion companies surged from $10 bill...
Tokenmaxxing, OpenAI's shopping spree, and the AI Anxiety Gap
The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it. While OpenAI...
The musician-turned-biotech-founder waiting to fundraise
When Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc got COVID despite being vaccinated and boosted, he tried to fund research for a better solution. Wh...
Luma AI's Amit Jain on why most world model companies are getting it completely wrong
LLMs may have kicked off this AI boom, but the ceiling is closer than the hype suggests. As models run out of text data to train on, the companies and...
Snowflake’s transition from storing data to shipping with it
Snowflake is betting that the future of AI isn’t just analyzing data, it’s acting on it. That means a shift away from chatbots and toward autonomous a...
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 a...
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 boar...
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 from an AI company that wanted to build a data center on her land, she said no. Sure, that...
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. They're called “micro dramas” — shor...
Nvidia has an OpenClaw strategy. Do you?
Jensen Huang took the stage at Nvidia's GTC conference this week in his signature leather jacket to deliver a two-and-a-half-hour keynote, projecting ...
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 — a...
Wiz's first investor breaks down Google's $32B acquisition
According to Index Ventures Partner Shardul Shah, cybersecurity startup Wiz sits “at the center of three tailwinds: AI, cloud, and security spend.” Th...
How Poppi went from a Shark Tank pitch to a $1.95B exit
For years, venture capitalists have been skeptical of beverage startups, citing thin margins and brutal distribution as reasons most brands never brea...
Anthropic vs. the Pentagon, the SaaSpocalypse, and why competitions is good, actually
The Pentagon has officially designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk after the two failed to agree on how much control the military should have over i...
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, Po...
Who's really running AI? Inside the billion-dollar battle over regulation, with Alex Bores
The Pentagon is playing chicken with Anthropic over who gets to control how the military uses AI while communities across the country are blocking dat...
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 last week, the buzz was as much about Washington as it was about tokens. Poli...
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 s...
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, acquiring startups, and bu...
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 s...
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 “r...
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 A...
This Sequoia-backed lab thinks the brain is 'the floor, not the ceiling' for AI
AI lab Flapping Airplanes just landed $180 million in seed funding from the likes of Google Ventures, Sequoia, and Index to do something most labs hav...
How far will Elon Musk take the ‘everything’ business as SpaceX and xAI merge?
Elon Musk has merged SpaceX and xAI, creating what might be the blueprint for a new Silicon Valley power structure. With his $800 billion net worth al...