Amazon just scored a major coup with Meta thanks, once again, to Amazon’s own homegrown chips. Meta has signed a deal to use millions of AWS Graviton chips to power its growing AI needs, Amazon announced Friday.
Note that the AWS Graviton is an ARM-based CPU, (a central processing unit, the chip that handles general computing tasks) not a GPU (a graphical processing unit).
While GPUs remain the…
AI galaxy hunters are adding to the global GPU crunch
April 24, 2026
NASA announced that it will launch the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope into orbit in September 2026, eight months ahead of schedule. The new space telescope is expected to deliver 20,000 terabytes of data to astronomers over the course of its life.
That will add to 57…
It’s been clear for a while that Beehiiv wants to be more than just a newsletter platform. The L.A.-based company announced a slew of updates on Thursday that make that ambition even more obvious. The new features include webinars, AI analytics for podcasts, metered…
India’s mobile app market is generating record revenue, with in-app purchases crossing $300 million in the first quarter, up 33% year-over-year, according to Sensor Tower – but much of that spending is flowing to global platforms.
Non-gaming apps were the main driver of growth in Q1, generating over $200 million in in-app purchase revenue – rising 44% year-over-year and increasing their…
AI is spitting out more potential drugs than ever. This startup wants to figure out which ones matter.
April 23, 2026
AI’s biggest impact in science is Google DeepMind’s use of a deep learning model to predict the complex structures of proteins – the molecules that drive virtually every process in living cells.But as AI models continue to spit out more candidates for potential…
Exclusive: Google deepens Thinking Machines Lab ties with new multibillion-dollar deal
April 23, 2026
Former OpenAI executive Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, has signed a new multibillion-dollar agreement to expand its use of Google Cloud’s AI infrastructure, including systems powered by Nvidia’s latest GPUs, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
The deal…
Google Cloud Next is taking place this week in Las Vegas, and one clear message has emerged: Google wants AI startups on its cloud. To that end, it made several startup-related announcements.
The most significant is that the tech giant has earmarked a new $750 million budget to help its Cloud partners sell more AI agents to enterprises. This funding is available to partners ranging from startups…
If you’ve ever played a role-playing game (RPG), you know how fun it is to create your character in any way you choose and embark on epic adventures. Now, picture an AI-powered, text-based RPG where every interaction with a non-player character (NPC) is completely…
Bond, a new social media platform, wants to use AI to help you kick your doomscrolling habit
April 22, 2026
Legacy social media sites have been designed to keep us hooked to our devices, eyes glued endlessly to retina-frying feeds of memes and dumb videos in order to create more engaged platforms for advertisements. In recent years, however, a swell of companies have sought to…
TechCrunch Mobility: Uber enters its assetmaxxing era
April 21, 2026
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about how Uber seemed to be everywhere, all at once in the emerging autonomous vehicle technology sector. The Financial Times has now put a number on it. The FT…
