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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/ryan-breslow-bolt.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Ryan Breslow, the controversial entrepreneur who returned as CEO of Bolt last year after years of legal battles and clashes with investors, refuses to give up on the checkout processing startup he co-founded in 2014. The company, which hit an $11 billion valuation in early 2022 before plummeting 97% to $300 million,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Apple-John-Ternus-Tim-Cook_Full-Bleed-Image.jpg.xlarge_2x.jpg?resize=1200,675″] On his last day as Apple CEO, Tim Cook offered a rousing endorsement of his successor: John Ternus, the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering. In a memo to employees, Cook reminded staff that he’s “not leaving Apple,” just stepping away from the role of CEO, while declaring that “few people…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/54890325451_a8c86b7388_k.jpg?resize=1200,801″] TechCrunch Disrupt returns to San Francisco’s Moscone West October 13–15, and the sponsor roster is filling up quickly! Google for Startups is helping founders at our popular AI Stage, featuring speakers from OpenAI, Databricks, Luma AI, and more. The New York Stock Exchange is fostering even more detailed tips and tricks for…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/GettyImages-590060556.jpg?resize=1200,800″] In our world of expensive streaming platforms, the very free and offline VLC media player, developed by the non-profit VideoLAN, has crossed 7 billion downloads across all platforms. Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the president and lead developer of VLC, sent this update in an email. This milestone comes almost 18 months after the app…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/ai-agents-GettyImages-2229880232.jpg?resize=1200,675″] Generative AI is making it easier to produce more content and harder to keep track of it. As videos, recordings, and documents accumulate, Adobe, Apple, Google, and a growing number of startups are using AI to make those files searchable. It is not yet clear whether that will support a new category…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/brianstack-mspy-email-leak-2024.jpg?resize=1200,675″] Earlier in August, cryptography professor Matthew Green wrote a controversial thread on X and a longer blog post that went viral within the cybersecurity community. Green, who has long been a close observer of the debate around the use of hacking tools by governments to fight crime and the need for strong…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/GettyImages-2205761844.jpg?resize=1200,846″] Nvidia is investing $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek. As part of the deal, MediaTek will adopt Nvidia’s technology that will help it design custom chips for AI companies and hyperscalers that can be plugged directly into Nvidia-based data centers. The deal comes as a growing number of AI companies and major…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Circleback-Home.jpeg?resize=1200,737″] The meeting note-taker market is a crowded space. Just in the last few weeks, dictation app Wispr launched its own note-taker and scheduling app, and Calendly added a similar tool to its stack. Dedicated meeting note-takers like Granola, Read AI, and Fireflies have raised millions of dollars in funding. Likely in reaction…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/gettyimages-507054668.jpg?resize=1200,801″] In July and August, Washington tightened restrictions on foreign-made advanced robotic systems and imposed steep tariffs on imported drones and their components, with both moves citing national-security concerns. The drone tariffs take effect in September, with additional component tariffs following in 2027. These moves are part of a broader U.S. effort to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/George-Arison.jpg?resize=800,1200″] When George Arison took over Grindr in 2022, he inherited a company that had been bounced from Chinese ownership to a forced divestiture to a private-equity rescue — a business that was printing money but also had no real product or business strategy. Four years, a SPAC listing, and a controversial return-to-office…