timef 01/31/2026
- a16z partner Kofi Ampadu to leave firm after TxO program pause techcrunch.com2026-01-31 09:23:12
Kofi Ampadu, the partner at a16z who led the firm's Talent x Opportunity (TxO) fund and program, has left the firm.
- Physical Intelligence, Stripe veteran Lachy Groom’s latest bet, is building Silicon Valley’s buzziest robot brains techcrunch.com2026-01-31 08:09:54
If co-founder Lachy Groom has any doubts, he doesn’t show it. He’s working with people who've been working on this problem for decades and who believe the timing is finally right, which is all he needs to know.
- OnlyFans considering selling majority stake to Architect Capital techcrunch.com2026-01-31 07:54:09
This isn't the first time in recent memory that OnlyFans has been in talks to sell off its business.
- OpenClaw’s AI assistants are now building their own social network techcrunch.com2026-01-31 07:36:34
The viral personal AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot has a new shell — again. After briefly rebranding as Moltbot, it has now picked OpenClaw as its new name.
- Informant told FBI that Jeffrey Epstein had a ‘personal hacker’ techcrunch.com2026-01-31 06:04:00
A document published by the Justice Department quotes an FBI informant in 2017 that alleged Jeffrey Epstein had a “personal hacker.”
- Instagram might soon let you remove yourself from someone’s Close Friends list techcrunch.com2026-01-31 05:14:58
Since the feature's launch in 2018, users haven't been able to remove themselves from someone else's Close Friends list.
- Blue Origin pauses space tourism flights to focus on the moon techcrunch.com2026-01-31 05:11:52
The company is trying to take advantage of President Donald Trump's desire to return astronauts to the lunar surface by the end of his term.
- SpaceX’s IPO could open the floodgates — and secondaries are booming in the meantime techcrunch.com2026-01-31 03:41:25
To unpack what SpaceX’s IPO chatter means, how private liquidity works before a debut, and what investors are looking for in today’s pre-IPO giants, we spoke with Greg Martin, managing director at Rainmaker Securities, a broker-dealer specializing in secondary share transactions for late-stage private companies.
- Uber is literally in the driver’s seat when it comes to AV bets techcrunch.com2026-01-31 02:56:17
Self-driving truck startup Waabi’s billion-dollar fundraise isn’t just about trucks. The deal, for $750 million up front plus another $250 million from Uber tied to deployment milestones, marks a major expansion into robotaxis for the company founded by former Uber AI chief Raquel Urtasun. It also feels like another chip from Uber on the autonomous vehicle roulette table. With more […]
- Anthropic brings agentic plugins to Cowork techcrunch.com2026-01-31 02:00:00
Anthropic has extended its plugin system to operate within Cowork, the newly launched agentic platform.
- Bluesky issues its first transparency report, noting rise in user reports and legal demands techcrunch.com2026-01-31 01:25:00
Bluesky's first transparency reports tackles moderation, regulatory compliance, account takedowns and more. The number of government legal requests went up by fivefold.
- Reid Hoffman urges Silicon Valley leaders to stop bending the knee to President Trump techcrunch.com2026-01-31 00:51:39
Some Valley CEOs have condemned recent border patrol events, but Hoffman urges them to wield their influence more powerfully.
- Russian hackers breached Polish power grid thanks to bad security, report says techcrunch.com2026-01-31 00:50:24
The Polish government accused a Russian government hacking group of hacking into energy facilities taking advantage of default usernames and passwords.
