timef 03/21/2026
- How fusion power works and the startups pursuing it techcrunch.com2026-03-21 22:00:00
Fusion power promises to generate large amounts of clean electricity from nearly limitless fuel. This article explains the main approaches and the companies that use them.
- New court filing reveals Pentagon told Anthropic the two sides were nearly aligned — a week after Trump declared the relationship kaput techcrunch.com2026-03-21 09:40:28
Anthropic submitted two sworn declarations to a California federal court late Friday afternoon, pushing back on the Pentagon's assertion that the AI company poses an "unacceptable risk to national security" and arguing that the government's case relies on technical misunderstandings and claims that were never actually raised during the months of negotiations.
- Elon Musk misled Twitter investors while trying to get out of acquisition, jury says techcrunch.com2026-03-21 07:29:17
At the time, Musk had tweeted that Twitter had too many bots, which is why he was trying to renege on his commitment to buy the company.
- Microsoft rolls back some of its Copilot AI bloat on Windows techcrunch.com2026-03-21 04:53:09
The company is reducing Copilot entry points on Windows, starting with Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and other apps.
- What happened at Nvidia GTC: NemoClaw, Robot Olaf, and a $1 trillion bet techcrunch.com2026-03-21 04:02:35
CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at Nvidia’s GTC conference this week in his signature leather jacket to deliver a two-and-a-half-hour keynote, projecting $1 trillion in AI chip sales through 2027, declaring that every company needs an “OpenClaw strategy,” and closing with a rambling Olaf robot that had to get its mic cut. The message was hard to miss: Nvidia […]
- Amidst legal turmoil, Kalshi is temporarily banned in Nevada techcrunch.com2026-03-21 03:15:55
It's the latest escalation in a regulatory battle over the future of prediction markets.
- Pinterest CEO calls on governments to ban social media for users under 16 techcrunch.com2026-03-21 03:01:54
Pinterest’s chief compares social media to tobacco and alcohol, saying children need similar protections.
- Why scientists can’t get a laugh techcrunch.com2026-03-21 01:39:06
Humor is hard to pull off in front of a cold audience, full stop.
- A French Navy officer accidentally leaked the location of an aircraft carrier by logging his run on Strava techcrunch.com2026-03-21 01:21:18
A French naval officer went on a run around the deck of the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, inadvertently leaking the warship's location when he uploaded the workout to Strava.
- WordPress.com now lets AI agents write and publish posts, and more techcrunch.com2026-03-21 00:43:09
New AI agents on WordPress.com could lower barriers to publishing while increasing machine-generated content across the web.
- Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin enters the space data center game techcrunch.com2026-03-21 00:27:43
"Project Sunrise" would include more than 50,000 satellites performing high-energy compute on orbit.
- U.S. accuses Iran’s government of operating hacktivist group that hacked Stryker techcrunch.com2026-03-21 00:18:57
The U.S. Justice Department said an Iranian security ministry operates the fake activist persona known as Handala, which claimed responsibility for the destructive hack targeting medical tech giant Stryker.
- Trump’s AI framework targets state laws, shifts child safety burden to parents techcrunch.com2026-03-21 00:14:04
Trump’s AI framework pushes federal preemption of state laws, emphasizes innovation, and shifts responsibility for child safety toward parents while laying out lighter-touch rules for tech companies.
