AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative? |

The new deep learning techniques behind LLMs have also given us weather simulations that can run on laptops instead of supercomputers, changing meteorology. But the…

Saudi Aramco backs India’s Mitti Labs to make Asia’s rice farming more water-resilient |

As rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns put Asia’s water-intensive rice farming under pressure, Mitti Labs, a New York- and Bengaluru-headquartered climate-tech startup, has raised…

Robinhood to list a fund that lets anyone back Y Combinator startups |

Robinhood this week unveiled a financial instrument that lets anyone feel like they, too, can make money by backing Y Combinator startups. Robinhood Venture Fund…

How to get the best hotel deals for Disrupt 2026  |

Congrats,you’reall set forTechCrunch Disrupt 2026!Or,you might still be on the fence and wondering about youraccommodations. Either way, the reality is San Francisco can be an…

Meet Wrinkles, an app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you |

A new app called Wrinkles uses your location to automatically surface stories about the places around you. Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially…

AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big |

Vibe coding startup Superblocks announced a multi-year joint marketing agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables its tool to be embedded within the private…

Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries |

Where most energy storage companies look for big tracts of land near large connections to the grid, Base Power is betting that it can beat…

Outernet turns your saved posts into real-world adventures |

Danielle Egan and Athena Leong know how to have fun. Between the two of them, they’ve organized a citywide scavenger hunt in San Francisco and…

Design Arena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models |

As co-founder Grace Li tells it, her company started a few weeks before graduation in 2025, with a handful of college friends trying to make…

Take an extra $100 off your Disrupt 2026 pass: This week only! |

Let’scut to the chase:Starting today, you can take anadditional$100 off your founder, investor, or attendee TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, which is a nice bonus on…