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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-2158243766.jpg?resize=1200,675″] Two days before the Elon Musk vs. OpenAI trial began last week, Musk texted the model maker’s president and co-founder Greg Brockman. Musk suggested to Brockman that OpenAI settle the suit. After Brockman replied by suggesting both sides drop their suits, the exchange went off the rails, with Musk responding: “By the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Screenshot-2026-04-14-at-7.00.44-PM.png?resize=1200,783″] On Monday, Anthropic announced a joint venture focusing on deploying enterprise AI services. Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs will be founding partners in the new venture, which is backed by a group of VCs, hedge funds, and private equity firms, including Apollo Global Management, General Atlantic, GIC, Leonard Green, and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/pixel-mouse-2217637165.jpg?resize=1200,870″] Almost all of the 20 U.S. state government-run health insurance marketplaces shared residents’ application information with advertising and tech giants, including Google, LinkedIn, Meta, and Snap, according to a new investigation by Bloomberg. The report drives home the privacy problems created by pixel-sized trackers, which allow website owners to collect information about…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/GettyImages-2217247219.jpg?w=1024″] Amazon is opening its global logistics network to all businesses, the company announced on Monday. The new service, called Amazon Supply Chain Services, pits the e-commerce giant directly against UPS and FedEx. The service opens Amazon’s freight, distribution, fulfillment, and parcel shipping capabilities to businesses of all types and sizes. The company…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/LinkedIn-Ad-with-Text-GA-BOGO-V1-Rectangle.png?w=1200″] This is it. The BOGO offer is live. For a limited time, buy one pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and get 50% off a second of the same ticket type. This is a short window to bring someone with you — and get more out of being there. Bring a colleague. A co-founder. A…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/GettyImages-1232015093.jpg?resize=1200,800″] DoorDash on Monday added new AI-powered tools that let merchants speed up onboarding, edit photos to make dishes look better, and create websites based on their app listings. The onboarding tool works similarly to the one Amazon launched in 2024. Merchants can point the tool to their website, from which it will…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/GettyImages-1371981344.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Refrigerators today run on the same basic technology as they did more than 100 years ago. You’d think we could have come up with something better by now. And we have, but nothing has been able to dethrone cheap, reliable vapor compression — the process that’s keeping your milk cold today. One…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Rev8_family-s.jpg?resize=1200,675″] The tech industry has spent the last decade asking whether self-driving cars need lidar sensors, cameras, or all of the above. Lidar company Ouster says it has a new answer: put them both in the same sensor. On Monday, the San Francisco-based company announced a new lineup of lidar sensors it calls…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/55243049199_e26ef1eb07_k.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Nicolas Sauvage believes it takes four years for the best bets to look obvious — thinking that he shared on stage last week at StrictlyVC’s San Francisco event, which TDK Ventures co-hosted. It’s a theory he’s been working to prove since 2019, when he founded the corporate venture arm of the Japanese…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2273585200.jpg?resize=1200,800″] When Spirit Airlines shut down overnight Saturday — canceling all flights, letting go of 17,000 employees, and telling ticketholders to just not come to the airport — people were flabbergasted but also bereft. For all its indignities, Spirit was cheap. Then one of them had an idea. Hunter Peterson, a voice actor…