timef 02/13/2026
- Amazon’s Ring cancels partnership with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police techcrunch.com2026-02-13 23:40:15
This news comes less than a week after Ring's Super Bowl commercial stoked controversy over the company's capacity for mass surveillance.
- Cohere’s $240M year sets stage for IPO techcrunch.com2026-02-13 23:03:10
Cohere surpassed $240 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, highlighting strong enterprise AI demand as the Canadian startup positions itself for a potential IPO amid intensifying competition from OpenAI and Anthropic.
- Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, report claims techcrunch.com2026-02-13 22:58:39
The feature, internally known as “Name Tag,” would allow smart glasses wearers to identify people and get information about them via Meta's AI assistant.
- Score, the dating app for people with good credit, is back techcrunch.com2026-02-13 22:00:00
Two years ago, a controversial dating app was launched and quickly shuttered: for people with good-to-excellent credit. Now, the founder is relaunching it, open to anyone.
- Fusion startup Helion hits blistering temps as it races toward 2028 deadline techcrunch.com2026-02-13 18:00:00
Helion's Polaris device hit 150 million degrees C recently, a milestone that nudges the company toward its commercial power plant that will sell electricity to Microsoft.
- Waymo is asking DoorDash drivers to shut the doors of its self-driving cars techcrunch.com2026-02-13 12:41:41
If a passenger accidentally leaves a Waymo door open, the vehicle can get stuck in place.
- For $1 million, you can pay Bryan Johnson (or BryanAI?) to teach you how to live longer techcrunch.com2026-02-13 07:43:47
The longevity-obsessed investor Bryan Johnson is charging $1 million to sign up for his "Immortals" program.
- Amid disappointing earnings, Pinterest claims it sees more searches than ChatGPT techcrunch.com2026-02-13 07:26:56
Pinterest's stock tumbles after an earnings miss, with higher-than-expected usage its only bright spot.
- IBM will hire your entry-level talent in the age of AI techcrunch.com2026-02-13 07:23:17
IBM plans to triple its entry-level hiring in the U.S. in 2026 but these jobs will have different tasks than in previous years.
- Rivian was saved by software in 2025 techcrunch.com2026-02-13 07:17:32
The company's annual revenue was boosted by its technology joint venture with Volkswagen Group.
- Musk needed a new vision for SpaceX and xAI. He landed on Moonbase Alpha. techcrunch.com2026-02-13 06:10:55
"I really want to see a mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space."
- Didero lands $30M to put manufacturing procurement on “agentic” autopilot techcrunch.com2026-02-13 04:31:47
The Series A was co-led by Chemistry and Headline.
- Anthropic raises another $30 billion in series G, with a new value of $380 billion techcrunch.com2026-02-13 04:18:37
The chatbot maker has, once again, ramped up its valuation significantly.
- YouTube finally launches a dedicated app for Apple Vision Pro techcrunch.com2026-02-13 04:14:15
When Apple Vision Pro first launched two years ago, YouTube hesitated to launch a dedicated app. Today is the day they officially launch one.
- Hacker linked to Epstein removed from Black Hat cyber conference website techcrunch.com2026-02-13 03:15:04
Emails published by the Justice Department revealed cybersecurity veteran Vincenzo Iozzo emailed, and arranged to meet, Jeffrey Epstein multiple times between 2014 and 2018.
- Trump administration undermines EPA enforcement of Clean Air Act techcrunch.com2026-02-13 03:13:31
The EPA's new rule seeks to undo a 2009 finding that allowed the federal government to regulate six greenhouse gases.
- Automattic planned to target 10 competitors with royalty fees, WP Engine claims in new filing techcrunch.com2026-02-13 03:02:07
WP Engine claims Automattic was going to target more hosting companies with royalty fees.
- Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI techcrunch.com2026-02-13 02:30:12
Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.
- A new version of OpenAI’s Codex is powered by a new dedicated chip techcrunch.com2026-02-13 02:00:00
OpenAI calls the new coding tool the "first milestone" in its relationship with the chipmaker.
- Aurora’s driverless trucks can now travel farther distances faster than human drivers techcrunch.com2026-02-13 01:58:30
CEO Chris Urmson called it a “superhuman” moment, adding that Aurora’s trucks can now carry freight 1,000 miles in 15 hours — faster than what a human driver can legally accomplish.
- More U.S. investors sue South Korean government over handling of Coupang data breach techcrunch.com2026-02-13 00:56:32
Coupang’s massive data breach has sparked U.S. investor lawsuits against the South Korean government over alleged discrimination
