The U.S. military just struck more than 1,000 targets inside Iran in the first 24 hours of its campaign — a pace of destruction that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. The secret weapon wasn’t a new missile. It was software. Let that number sink in for a moment. One thousand targets. In a single day. To put it...
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Fewer Players, Fewer Choices: How the Collapse of Broker-Dealers and Public Companies Is Quietly Locking Ordinary Americans Out of the Market
Let’s start with a number that doesn’t get nearly enough attention: 8,090. That was the total number of publicly traded companies listed on U.S. exchanges at the market’s peak in 1996. Today, that number has been cut nearly in half — sitting just under 4,000. Meanwhile, the firms responsible for connecting investors to those companies — broker-dealers — have followed...
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When AI Job Destruction Meets the Baby Bust — Is College a Trap? In Part I of this series, we documented the demographic freight train bearing down on America’s college campuses — a declining birth rate, shuttering institutions, and a generation of students that simply never arrived. But while administrators have been laser-focused on the enrollment cliff ahead, a second...
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- Xprize founder Peter Diamandis launches new contest to manifest a new Star Trek by Julie Bort on March 9, 2026 at 4:00 pm
The famed author and investor […]
- Qualcomm’s partnership with Neura Robotics is just the beginningby Rebecca Szkutak on March 9, 2026 at 3:58 pm
Neura Robotics is going to […]
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The Algorithm Goes to War: How AI Has Changed the Battlefield Forever
The U.S. military just struck more than 1,000 targets inside Iran in the first 24 hours of its campaign —...
Fewer Players, Fewer Choices: How the Collapse of Broker-Dealers and Public Companies Is Quietly Locking Ordinary Americans Out of the Market
Let’s start with a number that doesn’t get nearly enough attention: 8,090. That was the total number of publicly traded...
The Perfect Storm:
When AI Job Destruction Meets the Baby Bust — Is College a Trap? In Part I of this series, we...
The Human Cost of the Machine: AI, Public Companies, and the Soul of Capitalism
Let’s start with a number: 4,000. That’s how many people Jack Dorsey just told to clean out their desks at...
Iran: The New Proxy Battleground — And the War Has Already Started
The chess match for Iran’s future didn’t start Saturday. It started the moment Washington, Moscow, and Beijing each decided —...
Easy Part: What Comes After Khamenei?
Operation Epic Fury They got him. Early Saturday morning, February 28, 2026, in a joint U.S.-Israeli military operation dubbed “Operation...
The Club Nobody Asked to Join: How the Epstein Files Are Unmasking the Institutions That Rule the World
Let’s start with a simple question. Have you ever wondered who decides who gets the Nobel Peace Prize? Five people....
Mexico on Fire: El Mencho’s Death, the Asylum Question, and the Money Nobody Wants to Follow
Let’s be honest about something from the start. The story of Mexico’s cartel crisis and the United States border debate...
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- Xprize founder Peter Diamandis launches new contest to manifest a new Star Trek by Julie Bort on March 9, 2026 at 4:00 pm
The famed author and investor has launched the Future Vision Xprize with sponsors like Google, Marc Benioff, Ben Horowitz, to fund optimistic sci-fi […]
- Qualcomm’s partnership with Neura Robotics is just the beginningby Rebecca Szkutak on March 9, 2026 at 3:58 pm
Neura Robotics is going to build new robots on top of Qualcomm's new IQ10 processors that were released at CES.
- Russian government hackers targeting Signal and WhatsApp users, Dutch spies warnby Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai on March 9, 2026 at 3:56 pm
Dutch intelligence is accusing Russia-backed hackers of running a “large-scale global” hacking campaign against Signal and WhatsApp users.
- Salt Typhoon is hacking the world’s phone and internet giants. Here’s everywhere that’s been hit.by Zack Whittaker on March 9, 2026 at 3:50 pm
Salt Typhoon is by far one of the most prolific hacking groups in recent years, breaching some of the top American phone companies. Here are all the […]
- Anthropic sues Defense Department over supply chain risk designationby Rebecca Bellan on March 9, 2026 at 3:39 pm
Anthropic filed suit against the Department of Defense on Monday after the agency labeled it a supply chain risk. The complaint calls the DOD's […]
- Sandberg, Clegg join Nscale board as this ‘Stargate Norway’ startup hits $14.6B valuationby Anna Heim on March 9, 2026 at 3:09 pm
Nvidia-backed British AI infrastructure startup Nscale has raised another megaround of $2 billion.
- Zoox starts mapping Dallas and Phoenix for its robotaxisby Sean O'Kane on March 9, 2026 at 2:14 pm
It's a precursor to launching robotaxis in those cities, though the Amazon-owned company is still waiting for federal approval to commercially […]
- The 2027 Chevy Bolt is the McRib of the automotive worldby Tim De Chant on March 9, 2026 at 1:00 pm
TechCrunch drove the 2027 Chevy Bolt and found that incremental improvements build on a solid basic recipe to deliver an affordable EV.
- Flipkart moves its headquarters back to India ahead of IPOby Jagmeet Singh on March 9, 2026 at 12:47 pm
Flipkart's headquarters shift comes as the Walmart-backed e-commerce giant reaches about $30 billion in GMV.
- Ring’s Jamie Siminoff is still trying to calm privacy fears, but his answers may not helpby Connie Loizos on March 9, 2026 at 4:35 am
The facial recognition question is where things get more tangled.
- Palmer Luckey’s retro gaming startup ModRetro reportedly seeks funding at $1B valuationby Anthony Ha on March 8, 2026 at 9:26 pm
The company launched its first product, a Game Boy-style handheld device called the Chromatic, in 2024.
- Will the Pentagon’s Anthropic controversy scare startups away from defense work?by Anthony Ha on March 8, 2026 at 8:14 pm
On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we discussed what the controversy means for other startups seeking to work with the federal […]