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Today’s Tech Crunch Roundup
Anthropic’s Claude popularity with paying consumers is skyrocketing
28 Mar 2026, 2:15 pm by Julie Bort
Estimates for total Claude consumer users are all over the map (we’ve seen figures ranging from 18 million to 30 million). Anthropic hasn’t disclosed this data, but a spokesperson did tell TechCrunch that Claude paid subscriptions have more than doubled this year.
What will power the grid in 2035? The race is wide open
28 Mar 2026, 1:05 pm by Tim De Chant
Fusion, fission, and even natural gas are appeared tied in the race to deliver new power to the grid in the early 2030s.
Let’s take a look at the retro tech making a comeback
28 Mar 2026, 1:00 pm by Lauren Forristal
Boomboxes, instant cameras, and even landlines are making a comeback. Here are the coolest retro-inspired devices available.
From Moon hotels to cattle herding: 8 startups investors chased at YC Demo Day
28 Mar 2026, 12:00 pm by Marina Temkin
We polled nearly a dozen VCs to find out which W26 startups are the sought after in the batch.
Whoop has LeBron – now it wants your mom
28 Mar 2026, 2:31 am by Connie Loizos
Whoop founder Will Ahmed has spent 14 years building a health wearable beloved by elite athletes, and is now racing Oura — and the FDA, and the limits of consumer medicine — to turn it into something that could one day save your life.
End of today’s Tech Crunch roundup.
