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The British fintech has built a waitlist of about 450,000 users in India as it prepares for a broader launch. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story

As artificial intelligence agents begin to proliferate across information technology infrastructure, IT leaders are moving away from asking, “How do we monitor every alert?” to “How do we design infrastructure that can solve its own problems?” Operations teams can now deploy agents to triage alerts, correlate operational data and automate certain remediation steps without constant…

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding deal…

Anthropic today released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its flagship model that ships at the same price as its predecessor, alongside a dramatically cheaper “fast mode” tier and a new feature that lets the model spawn hundreds of parallel subagents for codebase-scale work. The model is available immediately across Anthropic’s surfaces — claude.ai, Claude…

Google I/O made it official: AI-generated answers are now front and center in search, and most brands have almost no visibility into how AI is describing them to their customers. For anyone who has spent years building a strategy around 10 blue links, the rules just changed in a pretty significant way.  On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca…

WeRoad trips are primarily designed for younger travelers and grouped around shared interests and travel styles. Customers can book trips through the platform based on themes such as beach vacations or skiing.  Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story

Of all the companies I track, Zoom Communications Inc. might be the most interesting, as it’s evolving in ways that run counter to its traditional peers. When speaking with industry colleagues, including investors, channel partners, customers and fellow industry analysts, Zoom is often grouped into the unified communications-as-a-service or the contact center-as-a-service bucket. Zoom was…

On May 19, 633 malicious npm package versions passed Sigstore provenance verification. They were cleared by the system because the attacker had generated valid signing certificates from a compromised maintainer account. Sigstore worked exactly as designed: it verified the package was built in a CI environment, confirmed a valid certificate was issued, and recorded everything…

The SpaceX S-1 is finally here, and the story it tells goes way further than rockets. The filing runs to 36 pages of risk factors alone, and the numbers inside match the ambition: a $28 trillion total addressable market, a pay package tied to establishing a Mars colony, and a valuation target that would make it the largest IPO in American…

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding deal…