… In March, Carvana revealed in a regulatory filing that it had been granted a warrant to purchase shares of a “private consumer products company” in June 2025. …
… In exchange, startups get access to YC’s powerful Silicon Valley network of VCs, potential customers, and other founders. …
… In India, fintech funding remained largely flat in Q1 2026, while the number of deals fell by more than half from a year earlier as investors concentrated capital into fewer, larger deals, per a recent report by Tracxn. …
… This has forced websites to restrict access to their data and, in some cases, strike licensing deals with AI companies. Fitness and social running company Strava is making a move in this direction by restricting its website and introducing fees for developer access. …
… He previously worked at The Verge, where he also covered consumer technology, hosted many short- and long-form videos, performed product and editorial photography, and once nearly passed out in a Red Bull Air Race plane. …
… Ivan Mehta Ivan covers global consumer tech developments at TechCrunch. …
… In 2023, Amazon settled with the Federal Trade Commission FTC and paid a $5.8 million fine over allegations that the company’s staff and contractors had improperly accessed private videos from women customers; the FTC’s complaint said that every employee had full access to every customer video, eve… …
… Still, the money from this stock sale is earmarked for AI. “Part of our multi-year investment strategy to meet the AI opportunity ahead and support the demand we’re seeing from enterprises and consumers,” as Pichai described it. …
… The new subscription is available to the two apps’ 5 million combined readers and provides access to the over 1.5 million-title library of audiobooks and e-books, plus Fable’s nearly 200,000 online book clubs. …
… There’s been a lot of reporting about how Anthropic’s been looking for more compute … and it seems like an escape valve for them to be able to strike this deal and get access to all this compute. …