Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the “inference gold rush" marches on.

TechCrunch spoke to investors to find the hottest startups in the Spring 2026 YC batch. Some of them commanded valuations of over $175 million, VCs said.

New report shows surge in World Cup-related domain registrations. Opportunists are registering domain names related to the FIFA World Cup in droves. A new report by WhoisXMLAPI counts over 17,000 domains containing the words worldcup, fifa, wc2026, or world-cup registered in recent months, with a surge of over 10,000 so far this month. And no, [...]

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Karamo Brown, famous for his pep talks on Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” has jumped into the wellness and AI space with his new app, Kē. After spending a year and a half focusing on his own journey—from fitness and nutrition to meditation, sobriety, relationships, and personal growth—Brown wants to help others do the same.  Kē offers [...]

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Company hopes to get over £20 million from antitrust claim. Team Internet Group (AIM: TIG, OTCQX: TIGXF) announced this week that it is pursuing a “substantial damages claim against a major technology company” over anti-competitive behavior. It said a successful outcome could result in a recovery that is material in the context of the company’s [...]

Irish domain registrar and hosting company joins Your.Online. Web infrastructure rollup Your.Online has acquired Irish domain name registrar and hosting company Blacknight. Your.Online’s stable of companies includes Gandi.net, Pair Networks, Hear Internet, Realtime Register, UK2 Group, and many others. It was created when Total Web Solutions merged with Gandi. For those concerned that you’ll never [...]