Blue Origin rocket grounded after satellite mishap

There are just a few hours remaining in Amazon’s October Prime Day sale, yet it remains a good opportunity to save some money on accessories for your Nintendo Switch 2, if you act fast enough. While the console itself isn’t discounted, a number of recommended add-ons are still on sale for their best price to…

A decision to ban Telegram on home soil may have backfired on the Kremlin. Last week, Russia went on a , banning a number of Western apps in an effort to push domestic users towards Max, an unencrypted state-owned app. One of the restricted apps was WhatsApp (which was also blocked) rival Telegram, a move…

VCs who have backed OpenEvidence are apparently not worried about new health information products from OpenAI and Anthropic. On Wednesday, the startup announced that it raised an additional $250 million in Series D funding at a $12 billion valuation, co-led by Thrive Capital and DST. That’s double the valuation from its last raise in October:…

At Etsy, Zoë Weil helped to drive a billion-dollar increase in gross merchandise volume within a single year by improving the online marketplace’s AI ranking systems. With her new startup, Sequen, she aims to bring her and her co-founders’ years of AI research and product development to other businesses in the consumer space. The company,…

With AI igniting an investor frenzy, every month, more startups obtain unicorn status. Using data from Crunchbase andPitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the VC-backed startups that became unicorns so far this year. While most are AI-related, a surprising number are focusedinother industries like satellite space companies Loft Orbital and blockchain-based trading site Kalshi. This list will…