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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/F1-miami-paddock-Getty.jpg?resize=1200,801″] Over cold drinks in the Florida heat, this TechCrunch reporter watched from the paddock as founders and investors — the rich and the richer — mingled in search of deals. Conversations barely paused, except for the occasional glance at the track where drivers, sealed inside multi-million-dollar machines, chased the chequered flag. F1…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/wispr-flow-india-image.jpg?resize=1200,800″] India’s internet users already rely heavily on voice notes, voice search, and multilingual messaging. Turning those habits into a scalable AI business, however, remains difficult because of the country’s linguistic complexity, mixed-language usage, and uneven monetization patterns. Wispr Flow is betting the opportunity is worth the challenge. The Bay Area-headquartered startup, which…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/GettyImages-ai-generated-eb728837-4a65-4ce4-b814-abd0c140d20c.jpg?w=1024″] Artificial intelligence is changing the world, and simultaneously inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Spend five minutes reading about AI and you’ll run into LLMs, RAG, RLHF, and a dozen other terms that can make even very smart people in the tech world feel insecure. This glossary…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/tech-crunch-photo.png?resize=1200,674″] Parker, a well-funded startup offering corporate credit cards and banking services for e-commerce businesses, has filed for bankruptcy and is widely reported to have shut down. The startup was part of Y Combinator’s winter 2019 cohort, and its Series A was led by Valar Ventures.  Parker came out of stealth in 2023,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/gm-onstari.jpg?resize=1200,800″] General Motors has reached a privacy-related settlement with a group of law enforcement agencies led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta. Back in 2024, The New York Times reported that automakers including GM were sharing information about their customers’ driving behavior with insurance companies, and that some customers were concerned that their…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2266475966.jpg?w=1024″] Nvidia continues to be a major investor in the AI ecosystem, committing more than $40 billion to equity investments in AI companies — and that’s just in these early months of 2026, according to CNBC. Much of that total comes from a single bet, a $30 billion investment in OpenAI. But CNBC…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/GettyImages-528022874.jpg?w=1024″] As was widely reported, Oracle axed an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 people via email on March 31. One of the employees cut that day told TechCrunch about the experience: “I had, like, this weird feeling in my stomach. I went to go sign into the VPN, and the VPN was like, ‘this…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-08-at-2.27.29-PM.png?resize=1200,467″] San Francisco real estate has never been very accessible. But the record sales happening right now in the city’s high-end market are testing the upper limits of what even this famously unaffordable city thought was possible. Consider a six-bedroom, 5,700-square-foot home in Cow Hollow, one of San Francisco’s most coveted neighborhoods. It…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/prime-video.webp?resize=1200,675″] Amazon is adding a short-form video feed to the Prime Video app called “Clips,” the company announced on Friday. Rolling out first in the U.S., Clips will include… well, clips of shows on Prime Video that are designed to hook a viewer and get them to give the full show a try.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/HFTb6BbbcAANe5y-e1775584097859.jpeg?w=597″] Bloomberg has a deep dive this week into how Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is trying to rescue one of Silicon Valley’s most storied, and stumbling, chipmakers. It’s worth a read, but it actually undersells the most jaw-dropping part of the story: Intel’s stock has risen a stunning 490% over the past year,…