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Xbox is running a big sale on games, with select titles eligible for a Buy 1, Get 2 Free deal. Xbox gamers who are looking for some new video games to play may want to check it out and see if their wishlist titles are on sale. It’s a good time to be an Xbox fan, with the first Xbox Developer Direct of the year having been held on January 22. The show focused on four games all set to launch in 2026, including Fable, Forza Horizon 6, Beast of Reincarnation, and Kiln. As 2026 marks the 25th anniversary of…
Capital One’s acquisition of Brex comes just months after the payment company launched support for stablecoins.Major US bank Capital One has struck a $5.15 billion deal to buy the fintech Brex and is set to acquire the company’s stablecoin payments solution. Capital One said on Thursday that the deal is a combination of stock and cash transaction and is expected to close in mid-2026.“Since our founding, we set out to build a payments company at the frontier of the technology revolution,” said Capital One’s founder and CEO, Richard Fairbank. “Acquiring Brex accelerates this journey, especially in the business payments marketplace.”The…
Kais Khimji has spent most of his professional career as a venture investor, including six years as a partner at the prominent VC firm Sequoia Capital. But just like several other former Sequoia partners — including David Vélez, who founded the Brazilian digital bank Nubank — Khimji (pictured left) has always wanted to be a startup founder. On Thursday, he announced that he has revived an idea he began working on as a student at Harvard about 10 years ago, turning it into the AI calendar-scheduling company Blockit. In a major vote of confidence, Khimji’s former employer, Sequoia, led the…
A former Washington, D.C. police officer seriously wounded in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol nearly came to blows with a right-wing election-denier during prosecutor Jack Smith’s congressional hearing on Thursday. The dust-up came during a break in the proceedings, when activist and Army veteran Ivan Raiklin approached former cop Michael Fanone to shake his hand. “F–k yourself,” Fanone repeatedly told Raiklin as officers who served with him on Jan. 6 and current Capitol Hill police restrained the 43-year-old law enforcement vet. Raiklin calmly taunted Fanone for needing to be restrained. “Look at me, totally in control over…
OpenAI has reorganized some of its leadership and picked a familiar face to lead its push into selling AI to business customers as the company looks to catch up to its rivals in 2026. The company appointed Barret Zoph to lead its efforts to sell its AI to enterprises, according to reporting from The Information, citing an internal OpenAI memo. TechCrunch reached out to OpenAI for confirmation and more information. Zoph returned to OpenAI last week after leaving Thinking Machine Labs, former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s AI startup where Zoph had served as a co-founder and CTO since October 2024.…
A Bronx mother was arrested for starving her twin teenage sons, who she kept “virtually housebound” inside her Riverdale apartment for 9 years, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark announced Tuesday. Lissette Soto Domenech, 64, was charged with assault, reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child for the abuse she inflicted on her two boys, Clark said. “This defendant is accused of a shocking, horrifying form of child abuse, allegedly depriving her sons of proper food, social interaction, education, medical attention,” Clark said. “We will do everything we can to help these boys attain a normal life.” A specialist…
World of Warcraft recently announced that every character is soon going to get one free Transmog rebate that can be applied to a full outfit. This freebie will be automatically applied to each existing World of Warcraft character starting in Patch 12.0.1 before the Midnight expansion, so fans might want to hold off on fixing their Transmogs until then. The Midnight Pre-Patch for World of Warcraft just went live on January 20, bringing with it the lion’s share of system changes for the upcoming expansion. One of the most important fundamental improvements came to the Transmog system, which now works…
The creators of the open source project vLLM have announced that they transitioned the popular tool into a VC-backed startup, Inferact, raising $150 million in seed funding at an $800 million valuation. The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners, confirming TechCrunch’s earlier reporting that vLLM has raised capital from a16z. Inferact’s debut mirrors the recent commercialization of the SGLang project as RadixArk, which sources told us secured capital at a $400 million valuation led by Accel, as we reported on Wednesday. As the focus in AI shifts from training models to deploying them in applications, a…
US exchange Nasdaq has filed a rule change with the Securities and Exchange Commission to remove limits on options tied to spot Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded funds, in a move to align crypto ETF options with rules applied to other commodity-based funds.The proposal, filed on Jan. 7 and made effective on Wednesday, lifts the existing 25,000-contract limits on options linked to a range of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) ETFs listed on Nasdaq, including products from BlackRock, Fidelity, Bitwise, Grayscale, ARK/21Shares and VanEck, according to the filing.The SEC waived its standard 30-day waiting period, allowing the rule change to take…
Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading. Intel — Shares of the chipmaker slid more than 6% in extended trading. Intel gave soft revenue and earnings per share guidance for the current quarter. Intel said it expects first-quarter revenue between $11.7 billion and $12.7 billion, and breakeven adjusted earnings per share. Analysts polled by LSEG had called for earnings of 5 cents per share on $12.51 billion in sales. Intuitive Surgical — Shares of the surgical systems maker added 3% on the back of strong quarterly financial results. For the fourth quarter, Intuitive Surgical posted adjusted earnings of…