When British neocloud Nscale goes public, it will test public investors’ appetite for a stock whose revenue is tied primarily to two customers. Since it was spun out of Australian cryptocurrency mining company Arkon Energy two years ago, Nscale has amassed over $103 billion worth of contracts, according to its…

To those paying attention, Disney looks to have been dismantling Hulu and its status as a standalone app since around Spring 2024, and we may now be close to the endgame. A leaked internal document (as reported by Business Insider in May) described a phased migration dubbed ‘Project Gemini’, which…

Plastics recycling startup MacroCycle announced a new deal with Meta on Tuesday that will help speed the development of its first commercial plant. Three-year-old MacroCycle, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has developed a novel way to process plastic waste that strips it of contaminants, making the resulting recycled material more attractive…

We buy new TVs to enjoy the latest tech and visuals and don’t appreciate invasive spyware features that gather our data without our knowledge. Unfortunately, TV brands see things in a different light and add features, like Automated Content Recognition (ACR), which are often turned on my default and compromise…

Patti Harrison, like every great comic, knows how to use her face. If you’ve seen her stealing scenes in TV shows like Tim Robinson’s I Think You Should Leave or Hulu’s Shrill, you know that she often starts out a bit demure, or pouty, before walking audiences into the deep…

If the tech industry sought to create a method of seducing users into sending their deepest, most sensitive secrets to a server in a faraway data center, it would be hard-pressed to create a better honeypot than an AI chatbot. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and their countless smaller…

It’s been a while since Jackson Wagner left his job as a product lead at Scale AI in July 2022. Now, he’s building in a new space altogether: The new effort is an AI health benefits brokerage called Corridor that focuses on small businesses, which it says traditional brokerages often overlook…

The Netherlands’ ASML is possibly the biggest name in lithography, using its machines to etch patterns onto silicon wafers inside a computer chip factory, known as a “fab.” Fellow Dutch company Morphotonics is smaller and works in a different corner of the same field: nanoimprint lithography, or NIL, a process…

For founders, Startup Battlefield 200 is one of the biggest moments of their careers. For everyone else in the TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 audience, it’s one of the best ways to learn how great companies are actually evaluated by VCs. This startup pitch competition is as intense as you’d expect. From October…

Getting people to try your first product is one challenge. Changing a product that billions of people already rely on is another. The ambition is still to move fast, test ideas, and build something better. But when every update carries consequences at a global scale, the instincts that helped you…