Sean O'Kane    The Federal Aviation Administration has told TechCrunch that it had to briefly slow and divert a number of aircraft near the area where debris was seen falling after SpaceX’s Starship exploded during a test flight Thursday. Multiple flights could be seen entering holding patterns or completely...

Sean O'Kane    SpaceX caught the Starship rocket’s Super Heavy booster for a second time, after it launched the upper stage into space on Thursday during a seventh test flight of the system. Soon after the successful catch, SpaceX representatives reported the ship was lost after the company lost contact about...

Marina Temkin    After two years of relatively muted investment activity, it seems that VCs are starting to pour capital into startups at pandemic era levels once again. But a closer look shows that they aren’t really. In the fourth quarter of last year, investors funneled . billion into U.S. startups, a...

Julie Bort    Insight Partners closed another giant flagship fund after big returns in . TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Charles Rollet    Canadian Fintech Bench had over million in debt but less than million in cash, documents reveal. TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Aisha Malik    Apple is pausing AI notification summaries for news and entertainment apps after facing backlash for generating inaccurate news alerts. In addition, the company is introducing changes to notification summaries as a whole to allow for greater transparency. With the latest round of developer previews...

Aisha Malik    Meta’s Threads is internally prototyping the ability to add music to posts, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The option to add music to posts is already available on Meta’s other social apps, Instagram and Facebook. It looks like the company is now thinking about bringing the feature to Threads...

Tim De Chant    A string of nominees all previously said that they support the practice A string of nominees all previously said that they support the controversial practice. TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Tim De Chant    Climate tech may have had a down year in , but new data also shows a maturing sector with larger deal sizes. Venture investment in the climate tech sector was down to . billion, billion shy of ’s tally, according to data in a new PitchBook report. The report found that round size ...

Rebecca Szkutak    Nvidia is releasing three new NIM microservices, or small independent services that are part of larger applications, to help enterprises bring additional control and safety measures to their AI agents. One of these new NIM services targets content safety and works to prevent an AI agent from...

Sarah Perez    Entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol, he shared in a TikTok video posted on Wednesday. In anticipation of the coming U.S. TikTok ban, which will go through on Sunday unless paused by the Supreme Court, users have been fleeing to...

Kirsten Korosec    Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free just click TechCrunch Mobility Before we move into the news of this week, we have one more roundup of transportation tech at CES . As I noted last week,...

Mary Ann Azevedo    Trading platform eToro has reportedly filed confidentially for a US IPO that could value the company at over billion. TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Sarah Perez    Will Instagram Threads truly integrate with the fediverse, also known as the open social web, to allow its users to interact with people on other services like Mastodon and to move their account elsewhere if they decide that Meta’s policies are no longer to their liking Today that answer remains...

Aisha Malik    The U.S. ban on TikTok is poised to be delayed as the deadline falls on the MLK Day holiday weekend and President elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration intends to find a way to extend the deadline, Bloomberg reports. Biden officials see the issue as one for Trump’s incoming administration,...

Dominic-Madori Davis    Goldman Sachs is one of the biggest investment banker book runners for IPOs where banks are paid many millions of dollars for each listing they underwrite. Yet CEO David Solomon told attendees of the Cisco AI Summit in Palo Alto that startups should reconsider the idea of going public, reports...

Connie Loizos    You can’t start a company without a healthy dose of daring, and that’s certainly the case with NeuroBionics. The MIT spinout thinks it could one day improve the lives of millions of people who live with neurological conditions like depression, epilepsy, and Parkinson’s disease. Famed investor...

Brian Heater    Walmart and Symbotic announced a deal Tuesday that would find the Massachusetts robotics firm taking control of the mega retailer’s automation business. Symbotic is paying million in cash for the program, plus up to million in additional contingent consideration, depending on how the...

Margaux MacColl    Today, Anduril announced it is building their massive weapons factory, Arsenal, in Columbus, Ohio, confirming TechCrunch’s earlier reporting. TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Sean O'Kane    Volvo spinoff Polestar had a rough , and looks like it could be just as difficult. The EV maker announced Thursday that it expects to generate less revenue in fiscal year than it did in , after previously estimating sales would stay the same. That’s thanks to fewer than expected...