timef 03/30/2026
- Apple will hide your email address from apps and websites, but not cops techcrunch.com2026-03-30 23:34:41
Demands for Apple customer records by federal agents in recent months underscore the privacy limitations of email.
- Uber is buying Berlin startup Blacklane to bolster its ‘Elite’ offering techcrunch.com2026-03-30 22:46:41
It's a notable exit for Blacklane, which has raised more than $100 million from backers like Mercedes-Benz and Sixt.
- Mantis Biotech is making ‘digital twins’ of humans to help solve medicine’s data availability problem techcrunch.com2026-03-30 22:30:00
Mantis takes disparate sources of data to make synthetic datasets that can be used to build so-called "digital twins" of the human body, representing anatomy, physiology and behavior.
- ScaleOps raises $130M to improve computing efficiency amid AI demand techcrunch.com2026-03-30 21:52:02
ScaleOps just raised $130M to tackle GPU shortages and soaring AI cloud costs by automating infrastructure in real time.
- AI chip startup Rebellions raises $400 million at $2.3B valuation in pre-IPO round techcrunch.com2026-03-30 21:00:00
The startup, which is planning to go public later this year, designs chips specifically for AI inference, another challenger to Nvidia's dominance.
- Mistral AI raises $830M in debt to set up a data center near Paris techcrunch.com2026-03-30 20:49:51
Mistral aims to start operating the data center by the second quarter of 2026.
- Qodo raises $70M for code verification as AI coding scales techcrunch.com2026-03-30 20:30:00
As AI floods software development with code, Qodo is betting the real challenge is making sure it actually works.
- Starcloud raises $170 million Series Ato build data centers in space techcrunch.com2026-03-30 19:00:00
Starcloud becomes the fastest Y Combinator startup to reach unicorn status, just 17 months after demo day.
- Why OpenAI really shut down Sora techcrunch.com2026-03-30 11:09:38
OpenAI's decision last week to shut down Sora, its AI video-generation tool, just six months after releasing it to the public raised immediate suspicions. The app had invited users to upload their own faces — so was this some kind of elaborate data grab?
- The Pixel 10a doesn’t have a camera bump, and it’s great techcrunch.com2026-03-30 05:30:00
The Google Pixel 10a can lay flat on a table, but otherwise the company hasn't brought a ton of upgrades to its newest budget smartphone.
- YouTube CEO says the best YouTubers will ‘never leave their home’ techcrunch.com2026-03-30 05:17:52
CEO Neal Mohan insisted that he isn’t worried about Netflix luring away YouTube's most popular creators.
- ‘Project Hail Mary’ becomes Amazon MGM’s biggest box office hit techcrunch.com2026-03-30 03:50:57
Amazon’s bet on “Project Hail Mary” has paid off handsomely.
- Sora’s shutdown could be a reality check moment for AI video techcrunch.com2026-03-30 00:30:00
Is this just normal corporate strategy, or are we about to see a broader pullback on AI-generated video?
- TechCrunch Mobility: When a robotaxi has to call 911 techcrunch.com2026-03-30 00:05:00
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