timef 05/04/2026
- As X shuts down Communities, Acorn debuts an alternative that puts creators in control techcrunch.com2026-05-04 23:33:01
Acorn lets organizations build and run their own online communities using decentralized tech, with custom feeds, moderation, and analytics tools.
- US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants techcrunch.com2026-05-04 22:30:23
Virginia and Washington D.C. paused the data collection and sharing, after Bloomberg's investigation found their health insurance marketplaces were sharing users' information with advertisers.
- Amazon opens up its global logistics network to all businesses techcrunch.com2026-05-04 22:13:53
The new service, called Amazon Supply Chain Services, pits the e-commerce giant directly against UPS and FedEx.
- 5 days only: Bring a partner or colleague and get 50% off a second TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass techcrunch.com2026-05-04 22:00:00
The BOGO offer is live. For a limited time, buy one pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and get 50% off a second of the same ticket type. Offer ends this Friday, May 8. Save here.
- Barocal can cool your food and drink by squeezing a hunk of plastic crystals techcrunch.com2026-05-04 21:00:00
Barocal might have discovered a cheap, nonpolluting material that could dethrone today's refrigeration technology.
- Doordash adds AI tools to speed up merchant onboarding, edit photos of dishes techcrunch.com2026-05-04 21:00:00
DoorDash on Monday added new AI-powered tools that let merchants speed up onboarding, edit photos to make dishes look better, and create new websites from existing content.
- Ouster’s new color lidar is coming to replace cameras techcrunch.com2026-05-04 18:00:00
A sensor that can simultaneously capture depth and image data has long been a "holy grail," Ouster CEO Angus Pacala told TechCrunch.
- Nicolas Sauvage is betting on the boring parts of AI techcrunch.com2026-05-04 15:10:18
The portfolio he has assembled since 2019 is dotted with technologies that have become more widely interesting to VCs over the last year:
- We’ll take it: a TikToker rallies pledges to buy Spirit Airlines after its abrupt weekend collapse techcrunch.com2026-05-04 10:02:25
Within hours he'd thrown up a website — a janky, one-hour job, by his own admission — and by Sunday, 36,000 "founding patrons" had pledged nearly $23 million, crashing his servers in the process.
- ‘This is fine’ creator says AI startup stole his art techcrunch.com2026-05-04 04:16:51
The ad comes from Artisan, the AI startup behind billboards urging businesses to "stop hiring humans."
- In Harvard study, AI offered more accurate diagnoses than emergency room doctors techcrunch.com2026-05-04 02:00:09
A new study examines how large language models perform in a variety of medical contexts, including real emergency room cases — where at least one model seemed to be more accurate than human doctors.
- TechCrunch Mobility: How do you issue a ticket to a robotaxi? techcrunch.com2026-05-04 00:05:00
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
