timef 02/05/2026
- Trump’s critical mineral reserve is an admission that the future is electric techcrunch.com2026-02-05 23:48:44
The administration's $12 billion stockpile of critical minerals is aimed at blunting China's influence. But it also revels the direction of the global economy.
- Data breach at govtech giant Conduent balloons, affecting millions more Americans techcrunch.com2026-02-05 23:25:38
The ransomware attack at Conduent allowed hackers to steal a "significant number of individuals’ personal information" from the govtech giant's systems. Conduent handles personal and health data of more than 100 million people across America.
- Fundamental raises $255 million Series A with a new take on big data analysis techcrunch.com2026-02-05 23:00:02
Fundamental has built a new foundation model to solve an old problem: how to draw insights from the huge quantities of structured data produced by enterprises.
- Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers techcrunch.com2026-02-05 22:55:02
Substack said that customer data was accessed in October 2025, but wasn't discovered until early February.
- ElevenLabs CEO: Voice is the next interface for AI techcrunch.com2026-02-05 22:41:12
ElevenLabs CEO argued at Web Summit Qatar that voice is the next interface for AI, as OpenAI, Google, and Apple push conversational systems into wearables, new hardware, and everyday interactions.
- Google’s subscriptions rise in Q4 as YouTube pulls $60B in yearly revenue techcrunch.com2026-02-05 20:31:10
The company said it now has 325 million paying users across Google One and YouTube Premium, up from 300 million users three months earlier.
- Spotify ventures into physical book sales, adds new audiobook features techcrunch.com2026-02-05 20:00:00
Spotify users in the U.S. and the UK will soon be able to buy physical books in the app. There's also a new tool that syncs physical books to audiobooks.
- Sam Altman got exceptionally testy over Claude Super Bowl ads techcrunch.com2026-02-05 08:45:11
He posted a novella-sized rant that devolved into to calling his rival "dishonest" and "authoritarian."
- As it preps Specs for the masses, Snap’s Q4 shows revenue growth but fewer daily users techcrunch.com2026-02-05 08:07:59
The company is engaged in a strategy to diversify its revenue sources as it heads into the new year.
- Mundi Ventures closes on €750M for Kembara, its largest deep tech and climate fund techcrunch.com2026-02-05 08:01:00
Spain-based deeptech and climate megafund Kembara has just completed a €750 million first close toward its €1 billion target.
- Stripe alumni raise €30M Series A for Duna, backed by Stripe and Adyen execs techcrunch.com2026-02-05 07:49:18
Having raised a €30 million Series A round led by CapitalG, business identity verification startup Duna is now among the most well-capitalized European startups founded by Stripe alumni.
- Alphabet won’t talk about the Google-Apple AI deal, even to investors techcrunch.com2026-02-05 07:28:31
Alphabet CEO skipped an analyst's question about Apple on the company's earnings call.
- Google’s Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users techcrunch.com2026-02-05 06:53:46
Google revealed a significant milestone for it's Gemini app, announcing over 750 million monthly active users as it competes with ChatGPT and Meta AI.
- The Wayback Machine debuts a new plugin designed to fix the internet’s broken links problem techcrunch.com2026-02-05 06:27:12
WordPress is helping the non-profit fight the scourge of "link rot."
- Elon Musk’s SpaceX company town is getting a police department techcrunch.com2026-02-05 05:47:41
The new department will have up to eight police officers and could be up and running in a few months.
- Meet Gizmo: a TikTok for interactive, vibe-coded mini apps techcrunch.com2026-02-05 05:45:32
Gizmo's app is like a TikTok for vibe-coded mini apps...and it's a lot of fun.
- AI SRE Resolve AI confirms $125M raise, unicorn valuation techcrunch.com2026-02-05 05:39:26
The two-year-old startup confirms that it closed a Series A led by Lightspeed at $1 billion valuation.
- Amazon to begin testing AI tools for film and TV production next month techcrunch.com2026-02-05 05:26:43
Amazon MGM Studios will reportedly begin a closed beta program in March to test its AI tools to help with film and TV production.
- A16z just raised $1.7B for AI infrastructure. Here’s where it’s going. techcrunch.com2026-02-05 04:24:12
Andreessen Horowitz just raised a whopping new $15 billion in funding. And a $1.7 billion chunk of that is going to its infrastructure team, the one responsible for some of its biggest, most prominent AI investments including Black Forrest Labs, Cursor, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Ideogram, Fal and dozens of others. A16z general partner with the infra team Jennifer Li (who oversees such investments as ElevenLabs – just valued at $11 billion); Ideagram and Fal, has a clear thesis on where the team is looking […]
- Tinder looks to AI to help fight ‘swipe fatigue’ and dating app burnout techcrunch.com2026-02-05 02:08:00
Tinder is testing AI recommendations and insight from your Camera Roll for better matches.
- Lunar Energy raises $232M to deploy home batteries that prop up the grid techcrunch.com2026-02-05 01:56:40
The startup has raised more than $500 million, to date, from investors to build a massive, distributed power plant supported by residential batteries.
- Hackers publish personal information stolen during Harvard, UPenn data breaches techcrunch.com2026-02-05 01:56:37
The prolific cybercrime group ShinyHunters took responsibility for hacking Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, and published the stolen data on its extortion website.
- Roblox’s 4D creation feature is now available in open beta techcrunch.com2026-02-05 01:00:00
Roblox's highly anticipated 4D creation feature has officially arrived in open beta.
