You can Venmo your college tuition, for some reason TechCrunch By: Amanda Silberling 19 August 2026 at 14:00 Kids these days don't know how good they have it.
Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI TechCrunch By: Amanda Silberling 17 August 2026 at 18:38 Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.
Who really needs a cocktail robot? TechCrunch By: Amanda Silberling 13 August 2026 at 17:00 Bartesian's cocktail makers would be best described like a Keurig or Nespresso machine, but for alcoholic drinks.
Amazon will train on Twitch streamersβ content by default, unless they opt out TechCrunch By: Amanda Silberling 12 August 2026 at 22:10 "If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in," Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback. "That's honestly the answer."
FlightAware sues Kalshi over flight cancellation prediction markets TechCrunch By: Amanda Silberling 11 August 2026 at 17:23 FlightAware says that Kalshi used its name and data to offer bets on flight cancellations without the flight tracker's permission.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight the billionaire tax TechCrunch By: Amanda Silberling 10 August 2026 at 23:20 California's Prop 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of the state's billionaires.
Social media platforms still facing thousands of user addiction lawsuits after failed appeals TechCrunch By: Amanda Silberling 10 August 2026 at 20:30 Platforms like Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and Google are facing a long road of litigation.
Gen Z dating apps like Ditto ditch swiping in favor of AI matchmaking TechCrunch By: Amanda Silberling 6 August 2026 at 17:53 This generation of twentysomethings is so disillusioned with swipe-based dating apps that they'll try literally anything else β even an AI matchmaker.