timef 05/02/2026
- Beyond Lovable and Mistral: 21 European startups to watch techcrunch.com2026-05-02 22:00:00
It is not that European startups never get attention — Lovable and Mistral AI are proof of that. But there are many more that insiders are tracking.
- Uber wants to turn its millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies techcrunch.com2026-05-02 14:36:28
Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber's chief technology officer, revealed the plan in an interview at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, describing it as a natural extension of a nascent program the company announced in late January called AV Labs.
- Replit’s Amjad Masad on the Cursor deal, fighting Apple, and why he’d rather not sell techcrunch.com2026-05-02 07:06:50
At TechCrunch's sold-out StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, we covered a lot of ground in a short time, beginning with the question everyone in the industry is asking right now: in a world where rival Cursor is reportedly in talks to be acquired by SpaceX for $60 billion, is Replit also bound to sell?
- Musely secures $360M from General Catalyst without giving up equity techcrunch.com2026-05-02 06:39:05
The DTC skin, hair, and and menopause care brand will use the non-dilutive capital to super-charge customer acquisition.
- Meta buys robotic startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions techcrunch.com2026-05-02 06:13:27
Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.
- Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions techcrunch.com2026-05-02 06:13:27
Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.
- Coatue has a plan to buy up land for data centers, possibly for Anthropic techcrunch.com2026-05-02 02:23:04
Coatue, one of the biggest names in venture capital, has a new venture that is reportedly buying land near large power sources.
- Pentagon inks deals with Nvidia, Microsoft and AWS to deploy AI on classified networks techcrunch.com2026-05-02 00:02:36
The deals come as the DoD has doubled down on diversifying its exposure to AI vendors in the wake of its controversial dispute with Anthropic over usage terms of its AI models.
- Musk v. Altman is just getting started techcrunch.com2026-05-01 22:00:00
Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it’s already getting messy. Emails, texts, and his own tweets are surfacing in court, and there are plenty more witnesses to come. Musk’s argument against OpenAI? By converting the company to a for-profit model, Sam Altman betrayed the “nonprofit for the […]
