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The latest pieces from across the newsroom and archive.
Exclusive: Inertia Enterprises finds a way to make its fusion fuel fast | TechCrunch
Fusion power startup Inertia Enterprises reduced the fuel filling process from a week to just a few hours. It's one of 10 hurdles the company must overcome to make a profitable power plant.
Patreon launches 30 new creator features, including short-form Clips and revamped discovery | TechCrunch
Patreon is overhauling how creators get discovered, adding short-form Clips, topic-based communities, and a revamped recommendation system designed to give smaller creators more visibility.
The 2026 Startup Battlefield 200 is here — see who made the cut | TechCrunch
We’re thrilled to unveil the 2026 Startup Battlefield 200, our annual handpicked list of the 200 most promising early-stage startups from around the world.
Meta brings Pocket, an app that lets you vibe-code and share games, to US users | TechCrunch
Meta is bringing Pocket, its experimental AI-powered app for creating and sharing interactive games, to users across the U.S. after quietly testing it in Brazil.
Senators demand answers from TikTok over experiment that disabled safeguards | TechCrunch
The safeguard was designed to prevent users from being overwhelmed by harmful content, but TikTok wanted to determine whether it made the app less engaging.
Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router | TechCrunch
Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models via an API.