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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/LinkedIn-Ad-with-Text-GA-BOGO-V1-Rectangle.png?w=1200″] Two days. That’s all that’s left to lock in your place — with your partner, co-founder, or colleague — at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Right now, you can buy one pass and get 50% off a second of the same ticket type, but that offer ends May 8 at 11:59 p.m. PT. After that, prices go up, and the opportunity to show up…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/GettyImages-2254580342.jpg?w=1024″] Chinese AI companies may not be swimming in as much cash as their Western rivals, but their open source models are still facing no shortage of interest from those who don’t mind a performance hit in exchange for cheap inference. And investors are taking notice. Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based AI lab developing…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/spotify-logo-phone-GettyImages-2236404299.jpg?w=1024″] For the last few years, apps like Google’s NotebookLM, Hero, and lately Adobe Acrobat have given users the ability to create podcasts based on existing material like documents, daily schedules, and articles. Now, Spotify is letting you access these podcasts within its app, but you’ll need some programming tools to do so.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Spotify-AI-DJ-Header.jpg?w=978″] Spotify said on Thursday that its interactive AI DJ feature now supports four additional languages: French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese. Until now, the feature, which you can interact with to request songs and get AI-powered spoken commentary, was only available in English and Spanish. The company said the AI DJs have…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/55252231372_4afd845df5_o.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with this editor about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole architecture that undergirds the tech is…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/anjali-sardana-pronto.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Lachy Groom, one of Silicon Valley’s most closely watched solo investors, decided to back Indian startup Pronto just 20 minutes into his first meeting with its 24-year-old founder. The meeting, which took place in February through a mutual connection, led to Groom investing $20 million in Pronto as an extension of its…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/barry-diller.jpg?resize=1200,679″] Billionaire media mogul Barry Diller doesn’t think OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is untrustworthy, despite recent reporting to the contrary. Onstage at The Wall Street Journal’s “Future of Everything” conference this week, Diller vouched for the AI exec, who has been accused by some former colleagues and board members of being manipulative and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/GettyImages-647104884.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Snap no longer has a deal with Perplexity, the company revealed on Wednesday as part of its quarterly earnings report. The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity’s AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat. Perplexity was set to pay Snap $400 million in cash and equity over one year as…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/GettyImages-2256968212.jpg?w=1024″] On Wednesday, xAI and Anthropic announced a surprise partnership that has the Claude-maker buying out “all of the compute capacity at [xAI’s] Colossus 1 data center,” roughly 300MW that allowed Anthropic to immediately raise its usage limits. It’s a huge deal for xAI, likely worth billions of dollars. More importantly, it immediately…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/GettyImages-1502217391.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Business insurance startup Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup at $1.3 billion, the startup’s co-founder Nico Laqua said on LinkedIn. This comes just four months after the company announced a $108 million Series A. The company has now raised $268 million in funding…