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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/sms-blaster.jpg?resize=1200,939″] Police have arrested and brought 44 charges against three men for allegedly operating an SMS blaster in downtown Toronto. The scheme, which began in November 2025, is the “first known instance” of an SMS blaster operating in Canada, according to the police report. In a statement, the Toronto Police Service said it…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Google-Exhibit-Disrupt-2025.jpg?resize=1200,800″] You can spend months trying to get in front of the right people. Or you can show up where they’re already looking. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, more than 10,000 founders, investors, and operators will gather at Moscone West from October 13–15. And at the center of it all — where deals start, conversations accelerate, and new companies…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/skyroot.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Skyroot Aerospace has become India’s first space tech unicorn after raising $60 million in a new investment ahead of the maiden orbital launch of its Vikram-1 rocket in the coming weeks. The funding round valued the Hyderabad-based startup at $1.1 billion on a pre-money basis and included about $50 million in primary…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/aurora-chris-urmson.jpeg?resize=1200,800″] Listen onApple PodcastsListen onSpotify Self-driving has been “almost here” for over a decade. But somewhere between DARPA challenges and a handful of driverless trucks hauling freight between Dallas and Houston, Aurora co-founder and CEO Chris Urmson’s story changed. The self-driving truck company started commercial driverless operations last April and is now scaling from a handful of trucks to hundreds this year. …

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/LinkedIn-Ad-with-Text-GA-BOGO-V1-Rectangle.png?w=1200″] Two days. That’s all that’s left to lock in your place — with your partner, co-founder, or colleague — at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Right now, you can buy one pass and get 50% off a second of the same ticket type, but that offer ends May 8 at 11:59 p.m. PT. After that, prices go up, and the opportunity to show up…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/GettyImages-2254580342.jpg?w=1024″] Chinese AI companies may not be swimming in as much cash as their Western rivals, but their open source models are still facing no shortage of interest from those who don’t mind a performance hit in exchange for cheap inference. And investors are taking notice. Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based AI lab developing…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/spotify-logo-phone-GettyImages-2236404299.jpg?w=1024″] For the last few years, apps like Google’s NotebookLM, Hero, and lately Adobe Acrobat have given users the ability to create podcasts based on existing material like documents, daily schedules, and articles. Now, Spotify is letting you access these podcasts within its app, but you’ll need some programming tools to do so.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Spotify-AI-DJ-Header.jpg?w=978″] Spotify said on Thursday that its interactive AI DJ feature now supports four additional languages: French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese. Until now, the feature, which you can interact with to request songs and get AI-powered spoken commentary, was only available in English and Spanish. The company said the AI DJs have…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/55252231372_4afd845df5_o.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with this editor about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole architecture that undergirds the tech is…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/anjali-sardana-pronto.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Lachy Groom, one of Silicon Valley’s most closely watched solo investors, decided to back Indian startup Pronto just 20 minutes into his first meeting with its 24-year-old founder. The meeting, which took place in February through a mutual connection, led to Groom investing $20 million in Pronto as an extension of its…