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Today’s Tech Crunch Roundup
Amazon CEO takes aim at Nvidia, Intel, Starlink, more in annual shareholder letter
9 Apr 2026, 2:27 pm by Julie Bort
Andy Jassy’s annual shareholder letter reads something like a diss track to a wide range of competitors as he defends spending $200 billion in capex.
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Spotify now lets everyone turn off videos in its app
9 Apr 2026, 1:49 pm by Aisha Malik
The controls can be used to choose an audio-first experience on the app or a video-enhanced one, Spotify says.
Instagram expands its movie inspired content restrictions for teens internationally
9 Apr 2026, 1:26 pm by Ivan Mehta
Instagram first debuted its movie rating inspired content settings in limited countries in 2025.
Waymo robotaxis are tracking potholes and sharing that data with Waze users
9 Apr 2026, 1:00 pm by Kirsten Korosec
Two Alphabet-owned businesses are teaming up to find potholes and share that information with cities.
Radify’s sci-fi plasma reactors could break China’s dominance of rare earth elements
9 Apr 2026, 1:00 pm by Tim De Chant
Radify Metals is developing a new way to process a variety of metals that promises to be pollution free.
Collide Capital raises $95M fund to back fintech, future-of-work startups
9 Apr 2026, 1:00 pm by Dominic-Madori Davis
Collide Capital, founded by Brian Hollins and Aaron Samuels, announced Thursday the close of a $95 million Fund II.
This founder helped build SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now he’s building a ‘fighter jet for orbit’
9 Apr 2026, 1:00 pm by Tim Fernholz
The company’s novel rocket engine could be a game changer for the U.S. military.
Ex-Tesla engineer’s startup taps Pronto to help automate a copper mine
9 Apr 2026, 12:00 pm by Sean O’Kane
Pronto’s autonomous haulage trucks are about to start operating at Mariana Minerals’s Utah copper mine — the first such deal since Pronto got acquired by Travis Kalanick’s Atoms Inc.
End of today’s Tech Crunch roundup.
