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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/mick-haupt-7Kv1Elbagcc-unsplash.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Investors are getting nervous about AI infrastructure spending just as the Big Tech companies double down.  Over the past two weeks, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft have outlined plans to spend more than $740 billion on capital expenditures this year, which Wall Street is reading as AI infrastructure spending, including data centers…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Crosby-cofounders.jpg?resize=1200,900″] Like a real-life episode of “Suits,” the demise of famed white-shoe Wall Street law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has been the talk of the legal industry this week. And now Silicon Valley has entered the picture. Two-year-old AI-first law firm Crosby has put in a bid to buy some of the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/zest.jpg?resize=1200,764″] Zest, the restaurant discovery app that launched earlier this year, is already thinking about a future where mobile apps are no longer the primary interface. On Thursday, the startup introduced a new feature: a personal AI-powered “restaurant concierge” that lives in your text messages, similar to other popular AI agents like Instinct…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/DSC_0298.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Google Suncatcher’s prototype space data center is online and communicating with the ground after launching earlier this month alongside more than 100 other spacecraft on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The satellite, which carries four Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and generates up to 1 kW of electricity, is intended to pave…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GettyImages-1465332173.jpg?resize=1200,800″] “You Can See Everything,” the documentary capturing disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ final weeks before prison, is sparking national conversation as it becomes one of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time. The film, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, intentionally refuses to characterize Holmes as a master manipulator or victim, instead…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/binance-2206279918.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Hackers working for the North Korean regime have been blamed for a record cryptocurrency heist following a cyberattack at crypto exchange Binance. The hackers stole at least $6.3 billion in crypto from the company’s wallets, though about half of that amount was frozen as the stolen crypto traveled across various blockchains, according…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Early-Stage-2024-networking-1.jpg?resize=1200,800″] The best connection you make at an event is not always the person standing next to you in line for coffee. Sometimes it is the founder who has already solved the problem keeping you up at night. The investor who can challenge the way you are thinking about your next round. Or…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/GettyImages-1232015093.jpg?resize=1200,800″] There’s a big uproar about AI agents taking over commerce and orders, but that might not be the case just yet. Delivery company DoorDash revealed during its third-quarter earnings call that it has only seen “several hundred” orders from third-party agents like Muse, Instinct, Fo, and others. For comparison, the company said…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Runware-Factory-.jpg?w=1200″] AI infrastructure company Runware is making news again, just months after unveiling the Sonic Inference Pod, a modular data center built in a factory and shipped to customers ready to install. Now the company has bigger plans. It told TechCrunch it wants to build a factory that assembles these pods on a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Early-Stage-2024-Breakout-Session.jpg?resize=1200,800″] A great founder event shouldn’t just leave you with ideas. It should give you connections, insights, and actionable advice to turn those ideas into growth. Just five days away, TechCrunch Founder Summit, presented by Fidelity Private Shares, is bringing founders together for hands-on learning and meaningful connections. Explore two breakout stages packed…