Elon Musk’s Boring Company reportedly raising funding at a $20 billion valuation

Elon Musk’s tunneling startup is reportedly in talks for a major new funding round.

Kalshi demands Netflix take down trailer for ‘Prediction Games’ documentary

Kalshi claims the trailer is “defamatory” and contains “both fabricated documents and false and misleading statements.”

Warner Bros. lawsuit accuses Amazon of illegally poaching executives

The lawsuit will likely renew debates about whether term employment agreements are enforceable under California. law

The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught

An awe-inspiring hacktivist who hacked two controversial government spyware makers may be the most prolific hacker to have never gotten caught. What do we know about Phineas Fisher?

Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech

At libraries around the country, “Avoiding AI” workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI’s biggest use case.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Smart Money Stage explores fintech, payments, AI, and everything between 

Money has evolved into far more than the cash in your wallet or your bank account. And at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, we’re devoting an entire stage to that progression.

I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else

OpenAI’s fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.

SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites but suffers another booster failure

The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue relighting the booster’s rocket engines.

One fallen power line exposed a growing AI data center problem. Here’s how to fix it.

A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here’s how to fix the problem.