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- 5 days left to lock in the lowest TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket rates techcrunch.com2026-02-23 23:00:00
5 days to save up to $680 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket. These lowest rates of the year disappear on February 27 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register here.
- How AI agents could destroy the economy techcrunch.com2026-02-23 22:44:03
Citrini Research imagines a report from two years in the future, in which unemployment has doubled and the total value of the stock market has fallen by more than a third.
- Defense Secretary summons Anthropic’s Amodei over military use of Claude techcrunch.com2026-02-23 22:19:10
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon for a tense discussion over the military's use of Claude. Hegseth has threatened to designate Anthropic a "supply chain risk."
- Wispr Flow launches an Android app for AI-powered dictation techcrunch.com2026-02-23 16:01:00
AI-powered dictation startup Wispr Flow has launched its Android app today. The company released its app for Mac and Windows first, then launched on iOS in June 2025. On iOS, users could use Wispr Flow through a dedicated keyboard. On Android, the interface is a bit different, as you can access the dictionary through a […]
- Apple might take a new approach to announcing its next products techcrunch.com2026-02-23 07:08:08
Apple has invited the tech press to a “special Apple experience” on March 4, but it might unfold a bit differently than the company's standard press event.
- Can the creator economy stay afloat in a flood of AI slop? techcrunch.com2026-02-23 06:15:58
On the latest episode of Equity, we debated what’s next for the creator economy, and whether there will be any room for the next generation of creators to stand out.
- Bill Gurley says that right now, the worst thing you can do for your career is play it safe techcrunch.com2026-02-23 05:08:50
"The number one thing is to get out of your head this ideal that gets passed around in the self-help world: 'go get a mentor,' and everyone runs out and cold calls someone that's ridiculously too high and unachievable, and it doesn't work."
- Quantonation’s double-sized second fund shows quantum still has believers techcrunch.com2026-02-23 02:00:00
Quantonation Ventures, a venture firm investing in quantum and physics-based startups, has closed its oversubscribed second fund at €220 million, or approximately $260 million. That’s more than twice the size of its inaugural fund, and comes in addition to other signals that the quantum winter isn’t coming yet.
- Trump says Netflix will face ‘consequences’ if it doesn’t fire board member Susan Rice techcrunch.com2026-02-23 01:39:55
Netflix board member Susan Rice had predicted that corporations that “take a knee” to Trump will be “held accountable” when Democrats return to power.
- TechCrunch Mobility: Waymo makes its defense techcrunch.com2026-02-23 01:05:00
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
- All the important news from the ongoing India AI Impact Summit techcrunch.com2026-02-23 01:00:00
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.
- China’s brain-computer interface industry is racing ahead techcrunch.com2026-02-23 00:00:00
China’s brain-computer interface industry is rapidly scaling from research to commercialization, driven by strong policy support, expanding clinical trials, and growing investor interest.
