How to avoid bad hires in early-stage startups Image Credits:TechCrunch 5:02 AM PST · February 26, 2026 This week on TechCrunch’s founder-focused podcast, Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen is joined by Sarah Lucena, the CEO and co-founder of Mappa, a behavioral intelligence platform that uses voice AI to decode...

Delve accused of misleading customers with ‘fake compliance’ An anonymous Substack post published this week accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers they were compliant” with privacy and security regulations, potentially exposing those customers to “criminal liability under HIPAA and hefty fines under GDPR.” Delve is a Y Combinator-backed startup that...

Google completes $32B acquisition of Wiz Image Credits:Gabby Jones/Bloomberg / Getty Images 5:56 AM PDT · March 11, 2026 Google said on Wednesday that it has acquired Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion in cash, a full year after the companies announced the deal. This marks Google’s biggest acquisition in its history. Wiz, which provides a security...

The dictionary sues OpenAI Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging in its complaint that the AI giant has committed “massive copyright infringement.” Britannica, which owns Merriam-Webster, retains the copyright to nearly 100,000 online articles, which have been scraped and used to train OpenAI’s LLMs without permission, the publisher alleges...

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