Airwallex is about to take on Stripe and the rest of the payments industry — in the physical world |

Airwallex, the Australian fintech that has spent a decade quietly building global payments infrastructure, is moving into in-person payments. The move deepens its rivalry with…

This Khosla-backed autonomous pod startup just raised $170M — now it's aiming for more |

In Brief Posted: 10:46 AM PDT · April 15, 2026 Glydways, a San Francisco-based startup developing personal autonomous pods designed to operate on dedicated 2-meter-wide…

is heading to Tokyo — and bringing the Startup Battlefield with it |

TechCrunch is partnering with SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026, Asia’s largest global innovation conference, taking place April 27–29 at Tokyo Big Sight. And we’re not just…

is heading to Tokyo — and bringing the Startup Battlefield with it |

TechCrunch is partnering with SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026, Asia’s largest global innovation conference, taking place April 27–29 at Tokyo Big Sight. And we’re not just…

How to make the Startup Battlefield Top 20 — and what every company gets regardless |

Every founder who applies to Startup Battlefield wants the same thing: the Disrupt Main Stage. Six minutes to pitch and demo live, in front of…

VC Eclipse has a new $1.3B fund to back — and build — ‘physical AI’ startups |

It takes just a skim of Eclipse’s recent investments to see where this venture firm’s interests lie — and where it is headed. The Palo…

Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident |

In Brief Posted: 3:12 PM PDT · April 1, 2026 Anthropic accidentally caused thousands of code repositories on GitHub to be taken down while trying…

Data centers get ready — the Senate wants to see your power bills |

Two U.S. senators on Thursday fired the latest salvo in an increasingly active front against data centers and their energy use. Senators Josh Hawley and…

New court filing reveals Pentagon told Anthropic the two sides were nearly aligned — a week after Trump declared the relationship kaput |

Anthropic submitted two sworn declarations to a California federal court late Friday afternoon, pushing back on the Pentagon’s assertion that the AI company poses an…

Antonio Gracias says he's longing for 'proentropic' startups — those that are built to survive chaos |

There is a new key term to know as part of this artificial intelligence revolution, at least according to Antonio Gracias, the founder of Valor…