April 02, 2026

Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident: Anthropic executives said it was an accident and retracted the bulk of the takedown notices. Read More

Tesla’s cheaper vehicles aren’t helping its declining sales: The company's deliveries in the first quarter were just 6% higher than last year, and Tesla now faces a third straight year of falling sales. Read More

The reputation of troubled YC startup Delve has gotten even worse: Delve faces new allegations that it violated the open source license of its customer, Sim.ai, by taking the customers's tool and passing it off as its own. Read More

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A new connections app, Sonder, has a deliberately tedious sign-up process (and it’s working): Sonder profiles are completely unstructured, encouraging users to build something that looks like a mood board or a digital collage. Think MySpace rather than LinkedIn. Read More

Apple releases security fix for older iPhones and iPads to protect against DarkSword attacks: The security update protects a raft of older iPhones and iPads from attacks linked to leaked hacking tools called DarkSword. Read More

Exclusive: Beehiiv expands into podcasting, taking aim at Patreon: One way Beehiiv is convincing creators to switch from rivals like Substack and Patreon is by not taking a cut of revenue. Read More

Commonwealth Fusion Systems leans on magnets for near-term revenue: Realta Fusion is buying magnets from Commonwealth Fusion Systems, providing a revenue stop gap. Read More

Startup funding shatters all records in Q1: The record quarterly fundraise largely fueled four mega-deals into OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo. But it also indicates a generally hot market. Read More

Join Stripe at Sessions 2026—the internet economy conference—happening April 29–30 in San Francisco. Join fellow business leaders, founders, and developers to explore the latest in financial technology, global commerce, and strategies for growth. Register with code s26techcrunch100 for a complimentary pass.

De-fi platform Drift suspends deposits and withdrawals after millions in crypto stolen in hack: Blockchain trackers put the cryptocurrency heist in the hundreds of millions of dollars and is already on track to be the largest crypto theft in 2026 so far. Read More

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