In this edition of Week in Review, we cover Tinder's pricey new subscription, Amazon's investment in Anthropic and the features of Apple's next-gen AirPods.

As tech companies begin to monetize generative AI, the creators on whose work it is trained are asking for their fair share. But so far no one can agree on whether or how much artists should be paid.

Anduril is symbolic of a trend in which defense tech and venture capital dollars are no longer antithetic.

Humane, a stealthy software and hardware company, is clearly milking the media hype cycle for all it’s worth. The company’s origin dates all the way back to 2017, when it was founded by former

Streamers are leaving Kick en masse in protest of the platform’s lack of safety guidelines, after a prominent creator streamed an encounter with a sex worker without informing her that there were ot

Volkswagen’s $2.1 billion plan to launch a dedicated electric-vehicle factory in Wolfsburg, Germany is kaput.  The automaker instead reportedly plans to modify its existing plants in Zwickau an

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. You know what isn’t a great idea for my energy levels? Enjoying a week of TechCrunch Disrupt and then getting straight

The company's toy-focused expansion is its bet that NFTs should have a broader presence, one that’s not limited to the digital world.

Erin Harkless Moore talks about Pivotal Ventures’ investment strategy, and its future.

Two large equity funds came out of the gate this week. So, what gives? Earlier this year we covered how Liquidity Group, a growth-stage debt financier, raised $40 million and launched a $250 million d

Meeting investors is easy. The hard part is crafting a story that’s so convincing, they’ll wire you some money.

According to a survey from Battery Ventures, the percentage of respondents that let their engineers self-select tools fell from 74% in Q3 2023 to 44% last quarter.

Just under a year ago, the buzzy new social app BeReal looked to be on the rise, with reportedly 20 million users launching the app every day to snap their candid photos. However, in the months since,

If you’d like to know what investors are looking for, how they want to be approached and what they’re most likely to ask, keep reading.

It’s been a wild few weeks for consumer hardware news, but it seems the season is finally winding down. We’ve already seen big events from Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, and now it’s time for Goog

How Blue Apron got to where it is today an interesting story, and one that we should trace from the company's IPO through to today. 

The full power of emerging technology cannot be realized without a diverse set of imaginations to fuel it.

The company formerly known as Twitter has paid out nearly $20 million to creators, according to a post from X CEO Linda Yaccarino. The platform, now called X, began paying creators in July for a shar

The former head of trust and safety at Twitter has warned the platform now known as X is charting a collision course with the European Union’s rebooted digital rulebook, the Digital Services Act

The liquidators behind Three Arrows Capital (3AC), the now-defunct crypto hedge fund, shared that the firm’s co-founder Su Zhu was arrested in Singapore at the Changi Airport while trying to leave t