For 19-year-old Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, there is no middle ground. Either build a company as valuable as Google, he says, or fail and end up on the street. He started coding at age 15 in his native Kazakhstan, completed a couple of summer programs in San Francisco, and DMed every Y Combinator founder he could find
Defense technology company Anduril is said to be raising a new round of capital that may increase its valuation to between $40 billion and about $100 billion, Reuters reported, citing unnamed sources. The company, which raised $5 billion in May at a valuation of $61 billion (roughly double the $30.5 billion valuation it garnered in
The US Department of Justice is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing US border authorities with a password that deleted the contents of his phone, according to an indictment and media reports. This is believed to be the first known case in the United States where federal prosecutors have charged someone for allegedly destroying data
Waymo is reportedly seeking an exit from its deal with Uber, which has made the Alphabet-owned company’s robotaxis available on the ride-hailing giant’s network in Austin and Atlanta, according to the Financial Times. Waymo has already told Uber that it intends to offer robotaxis on its own app in those markets starting in January 2028
Money has evolved to become much more than the cash in your wallet or bank account. And at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, we will dedicate an entire stage to that progression. The new Smart Money Stage will be the place where financial technology, payments and artificial intelligence collide. From October 13-15 at the Moscone Center in
Prentis, a new artificial intelligence research lab focused on computer usage models, co-founded by serial entrepreneur Ritankar Das and tech heavyweights Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, according to two people familiar with the discussions. Launched in April, Prentis is training models to learn
