For years, our social media experiences have been dominated by Big Tech players like Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp), Google (YouTube), Snapchat, TikTok, and X. But…
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How Turkey Hacked the Hair Transplant Industry
The astounding growth of the hair-transplant industry in Turkey is not just a medical tourism success story; it’s also a tale of “hacked” medical equipment…
Clarinda Regional Health Center Provides Notice of Data Incident
/PRNewswire/ — Clarinda Regional Health Center (“Clarinda”) experienced a data security incident that may affect the privacy of certain individuals’ data. Clarinda provided notice of…
Black founders raise highest amount of quarterly funding since 2022, but there’s a catch |
8:00 AM PDT · May 31, 2026 According to Crunchbase’s latest data around black founders, $643 million has poured into US Black-founded startups since the…
Making sense of the debate over AI psychosis |
Box founder Aaron Levie got us talking this week with a social media post suggesting that tech CEOs are “uniquely prone to AI psychosis.” On…
Scoop: Former Tesla exec and Heron Power CEO Drew Baglino has founded a heat pump startup
Former Tesla executive Drew Baglino has quietly founded a heat pump startup, TechCrunch has learned. This is the second company founded by Baglino in the…
Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies |
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman finally took the stand this morning to defend himself against his former co-founder Elon Musk’s lawsuit challenging OpenAI’s corporate structure. Altman…
Kevin Hartz’s A* just closed its third fund with $450 million |
In Brief Posted: 11:45 AM PDT · May 12, 2026 Early-stage venture firm A* on Tuesday announced a $450 million Fund III. The firm takes…
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…