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…
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Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition |
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, The Information reported Wednesday night, citing a source familiar with the matter. Business Insider, which…
Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive |
Michael Polansky is remarkably unassuming for someone operating in a corner of the world known for outsize egos. Seated at a leafy patio outside a…
Ethan Thornton is trying to do everything all at once |
Ethan Thornton dropped out of MIT at 19 to build weapons. The first one, a hydrogen-powered system he prototyped with parts from Home Depot and…
Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish |
Earlier this week, at TechCrunch’s newest StrictlyVC event in El Segundo, Shinkei Systems founder Saif Khawaja and Founders Fund partner Delian Asparouhov sat down for…
Board, the new game startup from Mirror founder Brynn Putnam, raises $20M, has already sold thousands |
Board, the three-year-old, New York-based startup building what it calls “together tech” — tech designed to bring people physically into the same room — has…
The fax machine is the bottleneck in US healthcare, and VCs are starting to notice |
A lot of the conversation around AI in healthcare focuses on diagnostics and drug discovery or on doctor-patient visits. But a less visible part of…
San Francisco's housing market has lost its mind |
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…
Intel's comeback story is even wilder than it seems |
In Brief Posted: 1:02 PM PDT · May 8, 2026 Bloomberg has a deep dive this week into how Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is trying…
ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet on his company's monopoly: no one is coming for us |
Every time you use AI, you are, in some small way, depending on a 42-year-old, 44,000-person Dutch company that spends €4.5 billion each year to…