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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/sb200_trophy.png?w=1080″] Your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100,000 equity-free funding is running out. Startup Battlefield 200 applications officially close in just two weeks. If you’re building a breakout startup — or know a founder who is — now is the time to act. Apply by May 27 for the opportunity to take…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Wirestock-team.jpg?resize=1200,675″] In the past few years, creative marketplaces and platforms have realized they are sitting on a data gold mine, and they can either use that data to develop AI models or turn it into a source of revenue by licensing it to other AI labs. Wirestock, which previously helped photographers distribute and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/GettyImages-2211281388.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Uber is expanding its technology footprint in India with new engineering campuses and a data center partnership aimed at supporting its overall product development and infrastructure operations. On Thursday, Uber detailed plans to open two new campuses that can fit around 9,600 people in Bengaluru and Hyderabad by the end of 2027.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/55242809761_199f3d15fd_k.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Campbell Brown has spent her career chasing accurate information, first as a renowned TV journalist, then as Facebook’s first, and only, dedicated news chief. Now, watching AI reshape how people consume information, she sees history threatening to repeat itself. This time, she’s not waiting for someone else to fix it. Her company,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/gavel-messy-legal.jpg?resize=1200,675″] While AI is now being applied to everything from healthcare to customer support, no single use case has been nearly as popular or lucrative as code writing. Jack Newton, co-founder and CEO of Clio, a Canadian law firm management software company, is convinced that legal tech is poised to be the next…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Notion-Developer-Platform.jpg?w=686″] Productivity software maker Notion is stepping into the agentic era. In a livestreamed product announcement on Wednesday, the company, known best for its collaborative note-taking app, introduced a new developer platform that extends the capabilities of its custom AI agents, connects with external agents, and allows teams to build automated multistep workflows…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/GettyImages-2217198328.jpeg?resize=1200,800″] Elon Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 natural gas turbines at its Mississippi data center, power plants that the state is currently not regulating thanks to a loophole. The power plants are considered “mobile” by the state of Mississippi because they are sitting on flatbed trailers, thus allowing them to dodge air…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Cat-Wu.jpg?resize=1200,800″] With the tech industry singularly focused on AI models, Anthropic is having an exceptionally good year. The company may soon pull ahead of its main competitor, as it looks to raise tens of billions of dollars in a funding round that would put its valuation at some $950 billion (OpenAI was valued…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-1317298675.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Malware research group vx-underground, which says it has the largest collection of malware source code, said in a post on X that its archive of data amounts to about 30 terabytes. A reply by Bernardo Quintero, founder of VirusTotal, an online service that scans files for malware across multiple antivirus engines at…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2275460528.jpeg?resize=1200,800″] Fervo Energy, the geothermal energy startup, saw its market valuation surpass $10 billion in its public market debut, an increase driven by demand for AI data centers — and the energy that can power them. Fervo had raised $1.89 billion in an upsized initial public offering on Wednesday, which initially valued the…