TECHNOLOGYWhat happens when AI starts building itself?Richard Socher's new $650 million startup wants to build an AI that can research and improve itself indefinitely — and he insists it will actually ship products.TechCrunch·May 14, 2026
TECHNOLOGYClawdmeter turns your Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboardA new open source gadget called Clawdmeter turns Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard for AI coding power users.TechCrunch·May 14, 2026
TECHNOLOGYTrump’s Tech Posse in China, Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman, and Hantavirus Conspiracy TheoriesToday on Uncanny Valley, we discuss how Donald Trump’s visit to China could influence conversations between world leaders at a moment when the economic and foreign policy stakes couldn’t be higher.Wired·May 14, 2026
TECHNOLOGYMicrosoft starts canceling Claude Code licensesMicrosoft first started opening up access to Claude Code in December, inviting thousands of its own developers to use Anthropic's AI coding tool daily. It was part of an effort to get project managers, designers, and other employees to experiment with coding for the first time, and sources tell me tThe Verge·May 14, 2026
TECHNOLOGYLinux devs are fighting the new age-gated internetIn January, Colorado lawmakers introduced a proposal to make operating systems collect users' ages and pass them to app developers. The bill, SB26-051, had clearly been designed for commercial platforms like iOS and Android - one of numerous plans to age-gate the internet through users' devices. It The Verge·May 14, 2026
TECHNOLOGYCerebras raises $5.5B, then stock pops $108%, in the first huge tech IPO of 2026A year ago, it looked like this day would never happen for Cerebras.TechCrunch·May 14, 2026
TECHNOLOGYSpotify to adopt Apple’s new video podcast tech, offering creators easier cross-platform distributionSpotify will let creators distribute and monetize video podcasts on Apple Podcasts using Apple’s HLS streaming technology, without changing their existing workflows.TechCrunch·May 14, 2026
TECHNOLOGYKhosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose first startup, Bench, implodedCrosby is building Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service for other startups.TechCrunch·May 14, 2026
TECHNOLOGYCisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to spend more on AI, reports ‘record quarterly revenue’This is Cisco's latest layoff in recent years, while the company's chief executive touts record revenue and growth.TechCrunch·May 14, 2026
TECHNOLOGYTwo weeks left: Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27Your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100K equity-free funding is running out. Deadline to apply is May 27. Apply now.TechCrunch·May 14, 2026
TECHNOLOGYWirestock raises $23M to supply creative multimodal data to AI labsThe company pivoted to being a data provider in 2023 and now supplies datasets of images, videos, design assets, and gaming and 3D content to AI labs.TechCrunch·May 14, 2026
TECHNOLOGYUber to open 2 campuses in India to support product development, operationsThe expansion comes as Uber seeks new growth areas beyond ride-hailing and invests more heavily in AI, automation, and autonomous vehicle technologies.TechCrunch·May 14, 2026
