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April 2026
Can orbital data centers help justify a massive valuation for SpaceX?
On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we debated Elon Musk’s vision for data centers in space.
In Japan, the robot isn’t coming for your job; it’s filling the one nobody wants
Driven by labor shortages, Japan is pushing physical AI from pilot projects into real-world deployment.
With One Million Displaced, Lebanon Turns to Digital Wallets for Aid
Amid mass displacement and collapsing trust in institutions, digital wallets are becoming critical conduits for aid, connecting diaspora donors directly with communities on the ground.
Meet ‘AutoAgent’: The Open-Source Library That Lets an AI Engineer and Optimize Its Own Agent Harness Overnight
There’s a particular kind of tedium that every AI engineer knows intimately: the prompt-tuning loop. You write a system prompt, run your agent against a benchmark, read the failure traces,…
Inside the Creative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stack: Where Human Vision and Artificial Intelligence Meet to Design Future Fashion
Fashion has always been about anticipation, determining what one would prefer to wear before they know it themselves. It’s meant in terms of intuition, presentation, experience, and the “good eye”.…
Unpacking Peter Thiel’s big bet on solar-powered cow collars
Why did Founders Fund invest $220 million in cattle management startup Halter?
Embattled startup Delve has ‘parted ways’ with Y Combinator
The controversy around Delve appears to have cost the compliance startup its relationship with accelerator Y Combinator.
Anthropic says Claude Code subscribers will need to pay extra for OpenClaw usage
It’s about to become more expensive for Claude Code subscribers to use Anthropic’s coding assistant with OpenClaw and other third-party tools.
After fighting malware for decades, this cybersecurity veteran is now hacking drones
Mikko Hyppönen is one of the most recognizable faces of the cybersecurity industry. After fighting computer viruses, worms, and malware, for more than 35 years, he tells TechCrunch why he…