Thrive Capital led VCs into pro sports ownership; Collaborative Fund just upped that play

The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.

"It's actually allegedly being built out now," said Rabois, who has clearly dealt with a missed construction timeline or two.

Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.

Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.

Only one week left to secure your exhibit table. Tables are limited and can sell out before the September 18 deadline.

The absolute last chance to apply to host an official Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is tonight, September 11, at 11:59 p.m. PT.

While K3's usage figures have declined slightly in recent months, OpenRouter data currently shows as many as 300 billion tokens being generated each day by K3 models on the system.

At its annual Roblox Developer Conference (RDC), the company announced several new features, including new game-creation tools, expanded NPC capabilities, and the ability to make games available...

Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ took the top three spots at the regional final of Road to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 2026 and will represent Central Eurasia in the Startup Battlefield 200 at...

The No. 2 exec at OpenAI also led Instacart through its IPO in 2023.

In a Slack message seen by TechCrunch, Matt Mullenweg told Automattic employees he’s back in control of the company, days after its board put him on leave. Automattic has not yet confirmed the...

This is the second data breach affecting a company that hardware crypto wallet maker Trezor relies on.

Nvidia has its finger in every pie, and sees another year of plenty in its future, Jensen Huang says. But, he insists, its deals are not circular.

Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness, and building businesses.

The company said Pro subscriptions put the most strain on its systems, so it's pausing sign-ups while adding more capacity.

A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.

The three 28-year-old founders behind energy startup Furo moved from Silicon Valley and back to Germany, and yet secured $4 million in funding from mostly U.S. backers. 

Meta's newest app Muse is off to a slower start than the company's other apps, like Meta AI or Threads.

Proxima Fusion said Wednesday it plans to build a €140 million ($162.6 million) factory to produce fusion-grade high-temperature superconducting (HTS) tape, which will provide the startup with key...

Amazon is expanding shopping integrations across Prime Video, letting viewers discover products tied to thousands of shows, movies, and live sports through X-Ray, its shopping app, and a new...