timef 02/16/2026
- Flapping Airplanes on the future of AI: ‘We want to try really radically different things’ techcrunch.com2026-02-16 22:00:00
"We're exploring a different set of tradeoffs."
- After all the hype, some AI experts don’t think OpenClaw is all that exciting techcrunch.com2026-02-16 21:15:00
"From an AI research perspective, this is nothing novel," one expert told TechCrunch.
- Fractal Analytics’ muted IPO debut signals persistent AI fears in India techcrunch.com2026-02-16 19:51:25
As India's first AI company to IPO, Fractal Analytics didn't have a stellar first day on the public markets, as enthusiasm for the technology collided with jittery investors in the wake of a sell-off in Indian software stocks.
- All the important news from the ongoing India AI Impact Summit techcrunch.com2026-02-16 19:20:27
India is hosting a four-day AI Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare, as well as heads of state.
- African defensetech Terra Industries, founded by two Gen Zers, raises additional $22M in a month techcrunch.com2026-02-16 16:01:00
Terra Industries, the African defense company, announced Monday that it had secured an additional $22 million in funding to further expand the business.
- African defensetech Terra Industries, founded by two Gen Zers, raises additional $22M in a month techcrunch.com2026-02-16 16:01:00
Terra Industries, the African defense company, announced Monday that it had secured an additional $22 million in funding to further expand the business.
- As AI data centers hit power limits, Peak XV backs Indian startup C2i to fix the bottleneck techcrunch.com2026-02-16 09:00:00
C2i has raised $15 million as it tests a grid-to-GPU approach to reducing power losses in AI data centers.
- Blackstone backs Neysa in up to $1.2B financing as India pushes to build domestic AI infrastructure techcrunch.com2026-02-16 08:30:00
Neysa is targeting deployments of more than 20,000 GPUs over time as demand for local AI compute accelerates.
- OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI techcrunch.com2026-02-16 06:28:02
OpenAI said OpenClaw will live on as an open source project.
- Longtime NPR host David Greene sues Google over NotebookLM voice techcrunch.com2026-02-16 06:07:51
The longtime host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” is suing Google, alleging that the male podcast voice in the company’s NotebookLM tool is based on him.
- Anthropic and the Pentagon are reportedly arguing over Claude usage techcrunch.com2026-02-16 05:11:28
The Pentagon is pushing AI companies to allow the U.S. military to use their technology for “all lawful purposes,” but Anthropic is pushing back, according to a new report in Axios. The government is reportedly making the same demand to OpenAI, Google, and xAI. An anonymous Trump administration official told Axios that one of those […]
- India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, Sam Altman says techcrunch.com2026-02-16 02:00:00
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says India has the largest number of student users of ChatGPT worldwide.
- The enterprise AI land grab is on. Glean is building the layer beneath the interface. techcrunch.com2026-02-16 01:30:00
In this week's episode of the Equity podcast, Glean CEO Arvind Jain explains the company's shift from enterprise search tool to middleware layer for enterprise AI.
- TechCrunch Mobility: Rivian’s savior techcrunch.com2026-02-16 01:05:00
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
- What the Epstein files reveal about EV startups and Silicon Valley techcrunch.com2026-02-16 00:54:12
Will the Epstein revelations lead to broader fallout in Silicon Valley?
- How to get into a16z’s super-competitive Speedrun startup accelerator program techcrunch.com2026-02-15 23:53:53
TechCrunch spoke to a16z partner Joshua Lu for some tips on standing out for the Speedrun program.
