​SXSW made some changes this year, but some founders loved it all the same.  

​Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.  

​While the relationship was once thorny enough that Musk challenged Zuckerberg to a cagefight, things seem to have warmed up by the early days of the second Trump administration.  

​While there’s been plenty of debate about AI sycophancy, a new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how harmful that tendency might be.  

​All but two of Musk’s 11 xAI co-founders departed before this week.  

​Estimates for total Claude consumer users are all over the map (we’ve seen figures ranging from 18 million to 30 million). Anthropic hasn’t disclosed this data, but a spokesperson did tell TechCrunch that Claude paid subscriptions have more than doubled this year.  

​Fusion, fission, and even natural gas are appeared tied in the race to deliver new power to the grid in the early 2030s.  

​Boomboxes, instant cameras, and even landlines are making a comeback. Here are the coolest retro-inspired devices available.  

​We polled nearly a dozen VCs to find out which W26 startups are the sought after in the batch.  

​Whoop founder Will Ahmed has spent 14 years building a health wearable beloved by elite athletes, and is now racing Oura — and the FDA, and the limits of consumer medicine — to turn it into something that could one day save your life.