timef 01/30/2026
- Last 24 hours to grab your +1 pass at 50% off to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 techcrunch.com2026-01-30 23:00:00
Today is the last day to lock in a +1 pass at 50% off to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, happening on October 13-15 in San Francisco. Register here.
- How Sequoia-backed Ethos reached the public market while rivals fell short techcrunch.com2026-01-30 09:33:13
The profitable life-insurance platform was one of the first major tech companies to test the 2026 public markets.
- The iPhone just had its best quarter ever techcrunch.com2026-01-30 07:57:21
Growth in regions like China and India are credited with pushing Apple's phone sales higher than ever.
- Guys, I don’t think Tim Cook knows how to monetize AI techcrunch.com2026-01-30 07:51:17
One intrepid Morgan Stanley analyst dared to ask how Apple will make money on its AI investments. The answer will not shock you.
- Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI in talks to merge, according to reports techcrunch.com2026-01-30 06:47:42
This merger would bring the Grok chatbot, Starlink satellites, and SpaceX rockets together under one corporation.
- Amazon is reportedly in talks to invest $50 billion in OpenAI techcrunch.com2026-01-30 06:11:09
If a deal materializes, it would mean Amazon is backing competing startups in the race for AI supremacy.
- Medium gives employees Friday off to participate in national strike protesting ICE techcrunch.com2026-01-30 05:49:15
Medium gives its employees the option to take the day off to protest on Friday.
- Microsoft won’t stop buying AI chips from Nvidia, AMD, even after launching its own, Nadella says techcrunch.com2026-01-30 05:21:46
Microsoft says its own chip leapfrogs those made by other cloud providers like Amazon and Google. But it needs more.
- Fintech firm Marquis blames hack at firewall provider SonicWall for its data breach techcrunch.com2026-01-30 04:31:43
The fintech giant said it plans to "seek recoupment of any expenses" from its firewall provider SonicWall after a 2025 data breach exposed customer firewall configurations.
- Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot techcrunch.com2026-01-30 04:06:56
With Microsoft spending many billions on data centers, and rumors that no one is using its AI, CEO Satya Nadella shared some usage numbers.
- Elon Musk’s SpaceX and xAI in talks to merge, report says techcrunch.com2026-01-30 03:30:59
This merger would bring the Grok chatbot, Starlink satellites, and SpaceX rockets together under one corporation.
- Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai as the AI race heats up techcrunch.com2026-01-30 02:58:07
Q.ai is an Israeli startup specializing in imaging and machine learning, particularly technologies that enable devices to interpret whispered speech and enhance audio in noisy environments.
- Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides to and from San Francisco International Airport techcrunch.com2026-01-30 01:55:43
Waymo has worked for years to gain access to SFO.
- I built marshmallow castles in Google’s new AI world generator techcrunch.com2026-01-30 01:29:11
Starting Thursday, Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can play around with Project Genie, which is powered by a combination of Google’s latest world model Genie 3, its image generation model Nano Banana Pro, and Gemini.
- OpenAI’s Sora app is struggling after its stellar launch techcrunch.com2026-01-30 00:48:44
Sora's mobile app downloads fell 45% in January, and consumer spending dropped.
- Music publishers sue Anthropic for $3B over ‘flagrant piracy’ of 20,000 works techcrunch.com2026-01-30 00:30:29
Originally, these music publishers had filed a lawsuit against Anthropic over its use of about 500 copyrighted works.
