Robinhood’s startup fund stumbles in NYSE debut
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Retail investors are famously locked out of the startup world. Robinhood is trying to change that by allowing the public to invest in a portfolio of what it calls “some…
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Anthropic to challenge DOD’s supply chain brand in court
Dario Amodei said Thursday that Anthropic plans to challenge the Defense Department’s decision to label the AI firm a supply chain risk in court, a designation he called “legally indefensible.”…
Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic, but his explanation raises more questions than it answers
At the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom conference in downtown San Francisco on Wednesday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said his company’s latest investments in OpenAI and Anthropic will likely…
Why AI startups are selling the same equity at two different prices
As competition between AI startups heats up, founders and VCs are turning to new valuation mechanisms to create a perception of market dominance. Until recently, the most sought-after companies raised…
India’s Pronto formalizes domestic help as its valuation jumps 8-fold in less than a year
Bengaluru-based Pronto is helping to bring India’s largely informal domestic help market online. As daily bookings increase and the city’s footprint expands, investors are opening their wallets. The startup said…
Let’s explore the best alternatives to Discord
Social community platform Discord is preparing to require users to verify their age by the second half of 2026, and users are concerned about the privacy of uploading a government…
The trap that Anthropic built for himself
On Friday afternoon, just as this interview was underway, a news alert flashed across my computer screen: The Trump administration cut ties with Anthropic, the San Francisco AI company founded…
India disrupts access to popular developer platform Supabase with blocking order
Supabase, a popular developer database platform, is facing disruption in India — one of its key markets — has been blocked in India, TechCrunch has learned. New Delhi ordered ISPs…
Netflix pulls out of bid for Warner Bros. Discovery and gives studios, HBO and CNN to Ellison-owned Paramount
In a flurry of multibillion-dollar deals, the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery over. David Ellison-owned Paramount to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. On Thursday, Warner Bros. announced Discovery that Paramount…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: This is not our first SaaSpocalypse
Salesforce pulled out all the stops to convince investors that the AI revolution won’t be the death of it when it announced fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday. Salesforce reported a solid…