The CEO of Allbirdsβ new AI biz has a plan, but no team TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 19 June 2026 at 14:00 Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what's next is less clear.
NASA picks Eric Schmidtβs rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 18 June 2026 at 07:26 Relativity Spaceβa rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbitβmight just beat SpaceX to Mars.
Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it. TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 17 June 2026 at 16:00 If physical AI is going to match the accomplishments of LLMs, there's a data problem that needs to be solved.
A satellite just learned to find things on its own β hereβs what that means TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 15 June 2026 at 13:00 In April, for the first time ever, an Earth observation satellite found what it was looking for, all on its own.
SpaceX officially prices shares at $135 in the largest IPO ever TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz Β· Marina Temkin 11 June 2026 at 21:33 Wits its official share pricing announcement, SpaceX's IPO has begun.
Quantum Spaceβs military SPAC is trying to catch SpaceXβs IPO wave TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 11 June 2026 at 17:59 Quantum Space says SPACs aren't dead as it seeks a $1.2 billion deal to build military spacecraft.
The Indian government got cold feet on Starlink just before SpaceXβs IPO TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 10 June 2026 at 17:43 Problems with Starlink's India expansion could challenge SpaceX's IPO growth story.
The three hard-tech moonshots fueling SpaceXβs unbelievable IPO TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 10 June 2026 at 15:48 Most of the value in SpaceX's IPO is effectively a call option on the company's ambitious space data center plans.