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A profile of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who sources say helped keep OpenAI’s Microsoft deal on track and privately suggested waiting until 2027 for an IPO (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 2, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI Missed User Growth, Musk vs. Altman, Prediction Market Ban The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Lovable launches its AI coding app on iOS and Android, allowing users to code via AI voice or text prompts, and allowing them to switch between PC and mobile (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 28, 2026

Sarah Pérez / TechCrunch: Lovable launches its AI coding app on iOS and Android, allowing users to code via AI…

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Bluesky CEO talks about his new app, Attie, an agentic social app built on Bluesky’s AT protocol, which uses Claude and allows users to create personalized feeds (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 29, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: From Skeptic to True Believer: How OpenClaw Changed My Life | Claire Vo Interviews with world-class…

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Google rejected 1.75 million policy-violating Android apps and blocked more than 80,000 developer accounts on Google Play in 2025, compared to 2.36 million apps and 158,000 accounts in 2024 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 20, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Upstart Podcast: Céline Halioua de Loyal: from defying skeptics to pioneering dog longevity Veteran technology journalist Alex…

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Bluesky integrates Germ DM, an E2E encrypted messaging app based on the AT protocol, making it the first private messaging available natively within the Bluesky app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 19, 2026

Sarah Pérez / TechCrunch: Bluesky integrates Germ DM, an E2E encrypted messaging application based on the AT protocol, making it…

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X unveils a Bluesky-like "Starter Packs" to help users find accounts that match their interests, curated by X and rolling out in the coming weeks (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 22, 2026

Sarah Pérez / TechCrunch: X is unveiling Bluesky-like “Starterpacks” to help users find accounts that match their interests, curated by…

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Sarah Friar, OpenAI’s CFO, says the company’s computing has grown from 0.2 GW in 2023 to around 1.9 GW in 2025 and annualized revenue has grown from $2 billion in 2023 to more than $20 billion in 2025 (Sarah Friar/OpenAI)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 19, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The PM’s Non-Technical Guide to Building with Cursor | Zevi Arnovitz (Meta) Interviews with world-class product…

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Similarweb: Threads had 141.5 million DAU on iOS and Android as of January 7, thanks to Instagram promotions, while X had 125 million DAU; X continues to dominate the web (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 18, 2026

Sarah Pérez / TechCrunch: Similarweb: Threads had 141.5 million DAU on iOS and Android as of January 7, thanks to…

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Appfigures: Global consumer spending on mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play increased 21.6% year-over-year to $155.8 billion in 2025, but app downloads fell 2.7% to $106.9 billion (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 15, 2026

Sarah Pérez / TechCrunch: AppNumbers: Global consumer spending on mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play increased 21.6%…

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A profile of Eric Migicovsky’s Core Devices, a five-person company he says is "not a startup" and aims to be "sustainable"as it builds new Pebble devices (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 13, 2026

Sarah Pérez / TechCrunch: A profile of Eric Migicovsky’s Core Devices, a five-person company that he says is “not a…

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London-based Gigaton, which develops AI to automate industrial control systems for cement, steel, glass and chemical plants, has raised a $26 million Series A round (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)

Researchers at the University of Toronto say they have developed an open-source AI-powered ‘worm’ that exploits known vulnerabilities and tailors attacks to each computer (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to fall below $67,000 on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy’s first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% (Bloomberg)

a CoreWeave-linked data center raised $900 million via five-year junk bonds, priced at par for a 7.5% yield, as the industry increasingly shifts to high-yield bonds (Gowri Gurumurthy/Bloomberg)

Microsoft launches MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning model, trained “from scratch on clean data, without distillation of third-party models” (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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A profile of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who sources say helped keep OpenAI’s Microsoft deal on track and privately suggested waiting until 2027 for an IPO (Wall Street Journal)

Lovable launches its AI coding app on iOS and Android, allowing users to code via AI voice or text prompts, and allowing them to switch between PC and mobile (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Bluesky CEO talks about his new app, Attie, an agentic social app built on Bluesky’s AT protocol, which uses Claude and allows users to create personalized feeds (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Google rejected 1.75 million policy-violating Android apps and blocked more than 80,000 developer accounts on Google Play in 2025, compared to 2.36 million apps and 158,000 accounts in 2024 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Bluesky integrates Germ DM, an E2E encrypted messaging app based on the AT protocol, making it the first private messaging available natively within the Bluesky app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

X unveils a Bluesky-like "Starter Packs" to help users find accounts that match their interests, curated by X and rolling out in the coming weeks (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Friar, OpenAI’s CFO, says the company’s computing has grown from 0.2 GW in 2023 to around 1.9 GW in 2025 and annualized revenue has grown from $2 billion in 2023 to more than $20 billion in 2025 (Sarah Friar/OpenAI)

Similarweb: Threads had 141.5 million DAU on iOS and Android as of January 7, thanks to Instagram promotions, while X had 125 million DAU; X continues to dominate the web (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Appfigures: Global consumer spending on mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play increased 21.6% year-over-year to $155.8 billion in 2025, but app downloads fell 2.7% to $106.9 billion (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

A profile of Eric Migicovsky’s Core Devices, a five-person company he says is "not a startup" and aims to be "sustainable"as it builds new Pebble devices (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)