timef 04/29/2026
- Roku’s $3 streaming service, Howdy, reaches 1M subs, per recent report techcrunch.com2026-04-29 23:33:35
Roku’s $2.99 streaming service Howdy has topped 1M subscribers, showing demand for cheaper, low-commitment alternatives to pricier streamers.
- Uber is in the hotel business now, thanks in part to AI techcrunch.com2026-04-29 23:12:14
Uber announced several new features on Wednesday during its annual event, which push far beyond the company's original ride-hailing purpose and deeper into its users' lives.
- Apple loses bid to pause App Store fee changes as case heads to Supreme Court techcrunch.com2026-04-29 22:06:58
Apple lost its bid to pause court-ordered App Store payment changes, keeping external purchase links in place as its case with Epic heads toward the Supreme Court.
- Earth AI is vertically integrating the search for critical minerals techcrunch.com2026-04-29 22:00:00
When Earth AI started hitting months-long delays in its search for critical minerals, it decided to take matters into its own hands.
- Sri Lanka discloses another missing payment, days after hackers stole $2.5M from its finance ministry techcrunch.com2026-04-29 21:23:57
The government of Sri Lanka has lost more than $3 million in two recent, separate cybersecurity incidents as the country continues to recover from its 2022 debt crisis.
- Firestorm Labs raises $82M to take drone factories into the field techcrunch.com2026-04-29 21:10:57
A defense startup just raised $82 million to put drone factories inside shipping containers and bring manufacturing to the front lines.
- BMW i Ventures has a new $300M fund and AI is riding shotgun techcrunch.com2026-04-29 21:10:00
BMW i Ventures is interested in startups working on agentic AI and physical AI, as well as industrial software, advanced materials, and manufacturing and supply chain technologies.
- Meet Shapes, the app bringing humans and AI into the same group chats techcrunch.com2026-04-29 21:00:00
Think Discord chats, but with AI characters in addition to humans.
- Google Translate now lets you practice pronunciation techcrunch.com2026-04-29 20:34:29
The feature is rolling out in the U.S. and India with support for English, Spanish, and Hindi.
- Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public techcrunch.com2026-04-29 20:00:00
Divine, a Vine reboot backed by Jack Dorsey’s nonprofit, revives six-second looping videos.
- Coby Adcock’s Scout AI raises $100 million to train its models for war. We visited its bootcamp. techcrunch.com2026-04-29 17:45:00
We visited Scout AI's training ground where it's working on AI agents that give individual soldiers control of fleets of autonomous vehicles.
- How one venture firm is investing in an increasingly fragmented world techcrunch.com2026-04-29 11:00:00
Geopolitical turmoil has made venture investing challenging, leading Kompas VC to carve out a niche in startups focused on the physical world.
- At his OpenAI trial, Musk relitigates an old friendship techcrunch.com2026-04-29 08:40:16
It's a story Musk has told before -- in interviews and to author Walter Isaacson for his bestselling biography of Musk -- but Tuesday was the first time he said it under oath.
- Amazon is already offering new OpenAI products on AWS techcrunch.com2026-04-29 03:48:02
A day after OpenAI got Microsoft to agree to end exclusive rights, AWS announced a slate of OpenAI model offerings, including a new agent service.
- Amazon launches an AI-powered audio Q&A experience on product pages techcrunch.com2026-04-29 02:49:54
Amazon's new "Join the chat" feature lets you ask questions about products and receive AI-powered audio responses.
- Match Group invests $100 million in Sniffies, a cruising app for gay men techcrunch.com2026-04-29 02:16:54
The app is Match Group's newest attempt to get mobile users excited about online romance again.
- Google expands Pentagon’s access to its AI after Anthropic’s refusal techcrunch.com2026-04-29 02:15:00
After Anthropic refused to allow the DoD to use its AI for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, Google has signed a new contract with the department.
- Paragon is not collaborating with Italian authorities probing spyware attacks, report says techcrunch.com2026-04-29 01:46:47
Despite promising to help determine what happened with the hacks targeting journalists and activists in Italy, Israeli-American spyware maker Paragon has reportedly not responded to authorities’ requests for information.
- US Supreme Court appears split over controversial use of ‘geofence’ search warrants techcrunch.com2026-04-29 00:18:08
The U.S. top court is expected to rule on whether to allow police to identify criminal suspects by dragnet searching the databases of tech giants.
- Australia forces Big Tech firms to pay for news or face a 2.25% tax techcrunch.com2026-04-29 00:13:15
Australia is giving Big Tech a simple choice. Pay journalists. Or pay the government.
- Lovable launches its vibe coding app on iOS and Android techcrunch.com2026-04-29 00:09:30
The app allows developers to vibe code web apps and websites on the go.
