Grindr wants to be the everything app for gay men; investors are still deciding whether it can pull it off | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Connie Loizos·31 Aug 2026
When George Arison took over Grindr in 2022, he inherited a company that had been bounced from Chinese ownership to a forced divestiture to a private-equity rescue — a business that was printing...
Liux's Big microcar bets on sustainability to take on Chinese rivals | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Anna Heim·30 Aug 2026
Cars in European cities are smaller than ever. But as Europe’s appetite for microcars has grown, the cute Italian ‘yoghurt pots’ have largely given way to small Chinese EVs.
Musk's faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Connie Loizos·30 Aug 2026
Elon Musk says he’s found a way to solve one of AI’s biggest bottlenecks by making a hard-to-manufacture turbine part himself.
TechCrunch Mobility: The hidden human cost of robotaxis | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Kirsten Korosec·30 Aug 2026
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Kate Park·30 Aug 2026
Nearly every company that’s trying to deploy artificial intelligence runs into the same problem: it’s hard to integrate the tech into everyday operations.
At TechBBQ, Europe's AI conversations kept coming back to: Who's actually in control? | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Dominic-Madori Davis·29 Aug 2026
At TechBBQ in Copenhagen, the conversation among investors, founders, and operators from across Europe wasn’t just about what to build with AI, but who should control it.
"We're not doing 30 bets a year": Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Connie Loizos·29 Aug 2026
It used to be that Vijay Pande was better known in academic circles than investor circles. That changed pretty abruptly a dozen years ago, when Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz — who’d spent their...
Hollywood celebs are getting into microdrama apps | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Lauren Forristal·29 Aug 2026
Hollywood’s finest — the people accustomed to massive eight-figure checks and exotic movie sets — are now betting on something much smaller: microdramas.
The Theragun Sense makes everyday recovery surprisingly easy | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Aisha Malik·29 Aug 2026
As my 20s are set to come to an end later this year, I’ve officially reached the age where sleeping in the wrong position or stretching just a little too far can cause aches and pains.
Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Russell Brandom·29 Aug 2026
Before this week, the dominant story about Nvidia went something like this: For the first few years of the AI boom, Nvidia was the only source for state-of-the-art GPUs, which became immensely...
Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Kirsten Korosec·28 Aug 2026
The hype around humanoid robots isn’t particularly new. Thank Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his Optimus robot, as well as the myriad videos of Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot, for that.
Is the best way to watch a movie on a pair of sunglasses? | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Lucas Ropek·28 Aug 2026
I am nothing if not a huge movie buff. I watch way too many of them, and I’m always on the hunt for a new format in which to experience them.
An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Russell Brandom·28 Aug 2026
Training AI models with other AI models has become a very popular goal for neolabs — and now, a researcher in Anthropic’s fellows program has given us an early look at what it might look like in...
Brave's browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·28 Aug 2026
Chrome alternative Brave just added a good reason to make the switch to its browser: email aliases.
Open-weight AI companies are the Valley's hottest acquisition targets | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Tim Fernholz·28 Aug 2026
Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia to confirm this week’s most interesting tech deal: A reported $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, a platform for sharing open weight AI models and benchmarks.
How Sweden built one of Europe’s hottest startup ecosystems | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Dominic-Madori Davis·28 Aug 2026
Sweden is perhaps one of the world’s hottest tech hubs right now. It has long been home to Spotify and Klarna, but this latest wave of companies — from legal AI startup Legora to vibe-coding tool...
Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply chain risk label | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Rebecca Bellan·28 Aug 2026
A federal judge in California ruled on Thursday evening that the Trump administration’s designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk was illegal. U.S.
Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Jagmeet Singh·28 Aug 2026
Meta’s India and Southeast Asia vice president, Sandhya Devanathan, is leaving the social media giant to join OpenAI, the ChatGPT maker told TechCrunch.
As electric two-wheelers gain a foothold, Belgian startup Any bets on cargo space | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Anna Heim·28 Aug 2026
A trip to Europe often means adjusting to a lot of walking, but don’t let it fool you: cars are still the default for urban mobility.
AI, athletes, and Keith Rabois: StrictlyVC is back in New York on September 10 | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events·28 Aug 2026
Mark your calendars: on Thursday night, September 10, StrictlyVC — TechCrunch’s boutique evening series — is heading to New York’s West Village (the real one — brownstones, cobblestones, and all —...
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