<p>AI web crawling bots are the cockroaches of the internet, many developers believe. FOSS devs are fighting back in ingenuous, humorous ways.</p>

<p>Nvidia is looking to get into the server rental market. The semiconductor giant is reportedly nearing a deal to acquire Lepton AI, a company that rents out servers that are powered by Nvidia&#8217;s AI chips, according to The Information. Citing unnamed sources, the outlet says the deal deal is worth several hundred million dollars. Nvidia [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The clock is ticking — less than a week left until TechCrunch All Stage ticket prices go up! Save over $300 on founder and investor passes before March 31 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Founders, accelerate your path. Investors, empower their rise. On July 15, join 1,200 founders and VCs at SoWa Power Station in Boston, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Microsoft is introducing a &#8220;deep research&#8221; AI-powered tool in Microsoft 365 Copilot, its AI chatbot app. There&#8217;s been a raft of deep research agents launched recently across chatbots, including OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT, Google&#8217;s Gemini, and xAI&#8217;s Grok. Powering them are reasoning AI models, which possess the ability to think through problems and fact-check themselves &#8212; skills [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Block just laid off 931 employees. Read the email from its co-founder Jack Dorsey for more details on why.</p>

<p>Medina&#8217;s new startup, called Paid, helps agentic startups profitably charge for their bots.</p>

<p>When Sam Weaver was vice president of product management at Unqork, he realized that the company needed a better way to manage its sprawling network of Kubernetes clusters &#8212; which are groups of computing nodes. When Unqork couldn&#8217;t find anything off the shelf, it assembled a 15-person team to build a Kubernetes management product. Despite [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The premiere founder conference brought to you by TechCrunch is heading back to Boston on July 15. TC All Stage 2025 (formerly known as Early Stage) is our tentpole East Coast event that promises an agenda full of founder knowledge — for all stages — that will be passed along to you. What’s more, if [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>In 2010, a programmer who was mining bitcoin famously made the comically expensive mistake of spending 10,000 bitcoin on two pizzas. As of this writing, those coins would be worth $850 million. While there are few comparisons to that kind of miscalculation, the prospect of adding interest payments to fast-food orders is raising concerns nonetheless. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Jonah Peretti’s career to date has been defined by constant reinvention. As the founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, Peretti has been at the forefront of digital media for almost two decades, navigating changes as the once small startup transformed into, at one point, a multimedia powerhouse. But as the company grows older, one question lingers: [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Charlie Javice’s high-profile fraud trial has become a showcase of embarrassing missteps on both sides, with eyebrow-raising details about how JPMorgan Chase was allegedly deceived into buying her startup, Frank, for $175 million when it had just 300,000 customers instead of 4 million. Per a new WSJ article, one pivotal moment came when former Frank [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A new report showcases the 20 top-trending open source startups around the world, more than half of which are closely aligned with AI. The report is the handiwork of European venture capital firm Runa Capital, which has operated the Runa Open Source Startup (ROSS) Index since 2020. The Index serves quarterly updates on the fastest-growing [&hellip;]</p>

<p>If you haven’t heard the news, TechCrunch has a shiny new home. After years under the ownership of Yahoo &#8212; which, in turn, is backed by Apollo Group &#8212; the brand is now in fresh hands. Its new parent company: Regent, a dynamic private equity firm with a diverse portfolio spanning media, retail, and manufacturing. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>TechCrunch Sessions: AI kicks off on June 5 at Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley — and you have the power to decide who you want to see lead an impactful breakout session. We have narrowed down the impressive number of speaker applications to six incredible finalists. Now, it’s up to you to choose who you [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Over the last few years, developers have increasingly complained about paying fees to Apple or Google for App Store or Play Store distributions. App makers have often said that both companies make it difficult for them to earn money outside of their systems. New York-based app revenue management platform Adapty wants to change that with [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Telegram founder Pavel Durov said today that the service now has more than 1 billion active users. This number is up from last year&#8217;s reported 950 million monthly active users. Durov also noted that the company registered $547 million in profits last year. He had announced the company&#8217;s profitability in December but hadn&#8217;t provided any [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Former NSA deputy director George Barnes has made his first investment as a venture capitalist for his new job at the VC incubation studio Red Cell Partners. It’s a $3 million pre-seed deal in an open source cybersecurity startup called Hunted Labs, he told TechCrunch exclusively. Barnes spent his entire 35-year career at the spy agency, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>TechCrunch Sessions: AI is nearly upon us, and you have the power to decide who you want to see lead a dynamic breakout session. We have whittled speaker applications down to six incredible finalists to take the stage on June 5 in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley. Who do you want to see share their [&hellip;]</p>

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