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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/polymarket-logo-people.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Prediction market giant Polymarket confirmed that hackers stole funds from an unspecified number of users after a third-party breach. In an X post on Thursday, Polymarket said that a compromise at a third-party vendor allowed hackers to inject malicious code into its website “for some users.” The company said it has “contained”…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-2174641784.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Just a few hours after Apple announced price increases across its hardware lineup, Microsoft revealed that Xbox game consoles are also getting more expensive. In addition, the company announced that it’s discontinuing its 2TB model. Starting August 1, Xbox console prices will increase worldwide. The 512GB models will cost $100 more, while…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/WhatsNew_Mail05.png?w=1200″] Productivity company Notion is shutting down its email product, Notion Mail, on September 22. The company said it is discontinuing its email inbox in favor of its AI agent offering. It noted that users were increasingly handing over the reins of their email to the agents, and not opening their inbox at…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/68acb5c1066ca5f4d74bb99b_battery-p-3200.jpeg?resize=1200,901″] Energy storage startup Base Power began selling its massive home battery systems to residents of Illinois yesterday, Canary Media reported. Crucially, it’ll be the startup’s first foray into the grid territory operated by PJM Interconnection, the largest U.S. grid operator by territory, and one that has particularly struggled to cope with an…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Dario-Amodei-Anthropic-viva-tech.jpg?w=1024″] Consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic’s Claude, trend data from credit card transaction analysis company Indagari shows. This is a sign that the AI lab has a wider and healthier set of customers than the niche it is generally considered to command — enterprise and startup developers using…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-12.15.52-PM.jpg?resize=1200,615″] The drive to discover the next big thing in AI has funded some pretty ambitious projects — but one company is taking it as a chance to rebuild computing architecture from the ground up. Led by Naveen Rao, formerly the head of AI at Databricks, Unconventional AI promises to make inference processing…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/date-breach-overview-2024.jpg?resize=1200,675″] Market research provider Klue, which was hacked earlier this month in a breach that allowed cybercriminals to steal reams of data belonging to several of its customers, said that it is communicating with the hackers. The company also said it believes the group is deleting the stolen data, TechCrunch has learned.  “We…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Google-Finance-blog-image.png?resize=1200,677″] Google on Thursday launched a dedicated mobile app for Google Finance that houses users’ watchlists and provides real-time market data, live financial news, and Google’s AI-powered “Key Moments” feature, which explains why stocks are moving. The app is launching on Android first, and Google says it will launch an iOS version in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-1258478709.jpg?w=1024″] Parker Conrad wants you to believe that a huge chunk of data analytics belongs inside human capital management systems — a claim that conveniently positions Rippling, which started out as an HR software company, to compete directly with dedicated business intelligence tools. The pitch is that the modern data stack — the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2263017594.jpg?resize=1200,800″] The AI boom has encouraged everyone and their uncle to launch a data center business. But spinning up a data center isn’t easy. Even if you solve the problem of securing the GPUs, network switches, and storage, you still have to get everything configured, running, and be able to cater to customers’…