If you have already fallen for the strange mysteries and supernatural chaos of Widow’s Bay, there is good news. Apple TV has officially renewed the horror-comedy for a second season just ahead of the season one finale, which lands on June 17. However, Apple has not announced a release date yet.

The early renewal signals strong confidence in a show that has quickly become one of the streamer’s biggest new hits. The renewal comes alongside a new multiyear overall deal with creator, showrunner, and executive producer Katie Dippold.

What to expect from Widow’s Bay season 2?

The show follows Mayor Tom Loftis, played by Emmy winner Matthew Rhys, a well-meaning but deeply cowardly man trying to turn a cursed island into a tourist destination. Against all odds, he succeeds. Then the island reminds everyone why the locals were afraid of it in the first place.

Creator Dippold offered a perfectly cryptic tease for what comes next in Widow’s Bay: “Season two is about how everything is great on the island, and there’s nothing to worry about.”

Blending genuine horror with sharp character comedy, the show has earned Certified Fresh status on Rotten Tomatoes and is considered one of the best shows on Apple TV. The renewal arrives before the season one finale, giving fans confidence that the story will continue beyond its current cliffhangers.

What’s next for Apple TV?

We also have plenty of new stuff to look forward to. Ted Lasso season 4 arrives on August 5, and Slow Horses returns for its season 6 on September 16, 2026, as confirmed by Apple today.

Apple TV is also home to Pluribus, currently its most-watched drama, and the global phenomenon Severance. With a lineup this strong, Widow’s Bay is exactly the kind of original that keeps people subscribing.

AI companies have grown into data-hungry entities as their models require ever-larger datasets to train on. To meet that need, many AI startups defy long-standing internet conventions — like respecting robots.txt files, which signal to automated crawlers which parts of a website are off-limits — and scrape data aggressively. This has forced websites to restrict access to their data and, in some cases, strike licensing deals with AI companies. Fitness and social running company Strava is making a move in this direction by restricting its website and introducing fees for developer access.

To stop scraping, the company is increasing security around its website and will now only allow authenticated users to view certain data. Earlier, users were able to see details like public profiles and fitness club listings without logging in. The company is putting all that data behind authentication to protect it from unauthorized AI scraping.

On the API front, developers could previously start building apps on Strava through a free, tiered access program — applying for basic access first, then requesting more as their app grew. Now the company is adding a flat $11.99 per month fee for all developers, though it noted the price may vary by geography.

Strava said its developer community has grown from 185,000 members last year to 241,000 this year, and the company plans to continue supporting them. As part of that, Strava also plans to add support for Model Context Protocol (MCP), an emerging standard that lets AI assistants and apps access external data in a structured way, giving Strava more control over exactly what gets shared and how.

The company is also planning to retire some API endpoints — discrete access points that let outside apps pull specific data, like club details — to protect user data. Strava had already tightened API rules in 2024, banning its use for AI training and limiting third-party apps from displaying other users’ data. Those changes drew backlash from developers who said their apps would be severely affected.

While some developers may accept paying a subscription fee, sunsetting certain API endpoints could still impact dependent apps. Strava is giving developers a 90-day grace period before making these changes.

In an interview with TechCrunch, Michael Martin, Strava’s CEO, said unchecked AI scraping could be the death knell of the public internet.

“AI companies are ruthlessly scraping public websites, given their endless need for training data, which is degrading site performance across the board,” Martin said. “We’ve had multiple instances in the last several months where performance has been diminished and, in some cases, impaired. Beyond scraping the public sites, they’re also trying to use our API to get access to our data, ignoring API terms.”

He noted that Strava has refused overtures from leading AI labs seeking data licensing deals. He specifically singled out Perplexity, saying the AI search startup routed its scraping through aggregator services to obscure its origin despite being turned away. This is consistent with Perplexity having been accused of similar behavior elsewhere in the past.

Martin also flagged server overload caused by poorly built vibe-coded apps, whose API calls are often inefficiently structured and generate a disproportionate load on Strava’s systems. It’s a pattern: When Meta banned third-party chatbots from WhatsApp last year, it made a similar argument about system overhead.

The timing probably isn’t coincidental. Strava confidentially filed for an IPO earlier this year, and its move to protect its data may be intended to signal data discipline to prospective investors. The comparison to Reddit’s 2024 crackdown on API access is one Martin was quick to address. Unlike Reddit, which priced API access by the number of calls (making it unaffordable for many app developers), Strava is betting a flat fee keeps the developer ecosystem intact.

“We want the users to feel that they own their data and feel comfortable with how we are controlling and securing it. But we want the developers to continue to flourish and grow,” Martin said.

British fintech Revolut has quietly begun rolling out its services in India as part of a controlled beta program ahead of a broader launch, marking a significant milestone in its years-long effort to enter the country’s fast-growing digital payments market.

Revolut started taking signups for its India app earlier this year, and some users who joined the waitlist have been gaining access to its services over the past few weeks, TechCrunch has learned. The company confirmed the rollout and said a few thousand customers in India are already using the platform.

The rollout marks a significant milestone in Revolut’s years-long effort to enter India, a major digital payments market where the federal government-backed Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has transformed how consumers and businesses move money. UPI accounts for nearly half of global real-time payments transaction volume and processed a record 23.2 billion transactions worth ₹29.9 trillion (around $313.8 billion) in May, per Indian government data.

A Revolut spokesperson told TechCrunch that the company is currently “in the controlled onboarding of waitlisters” and that a beta version of its app, localized for Indian users, is available through the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store.

“This is being done in order to gather feedback on core product functioning and enhance the overall customer experience and the value proposition before opening up the platform for a larger audience,” the spokesperson said.

The rollout is currently limited to a small subset of the company’s approximately 450,000 waitlisted users.

Users in the beta program can access UPI payments, e-money wallets, domestic prepaid cards, multi-currency cards, virtual cards, and disposable cards, the company said. Revolut plans to add its Lifestyle and RevPoints offerings before expanding the rollout. Family, or joint, accounts — available in some of Revolut’s overseas markets — will not be offered in India because such products require a banking license, the company said.

Revolut has been building its India business since 2021 and hired fintech executive Paroma Chatterjee to lead its local operations. In 2022, the London-headquartered company acquired Arvog Forex to strengthen its regulatory presence in the country and offer remittance and multi-currency account services. It later secured a prepaid payment instrument (PPI) license from the Reserve Bank of India, allowing it to issue prepaid cards, support digital wallets, and integrate with the UPI network.

The company told TechCrunch that it plans to open the app to direct onboarding of all users in the “near future” but declined to provide a specific launch timeline. Chatterjee had previously said in a LinkedIn post that Revolut was targeting a full product launch in India in Q2.

Revolut is targeting India’s growing base of digitally savvy consumers as it seeks to challenge incumbent banks and fintech firms in one of the world’s most competitive financial services markets. The company has previously said it aims to serve more than 150 million “globally aspiring, digitally native” Indians aged between 25 and 45, with a goal of onboarding about 20 million users by 2030 and processing at least $7 billion in transactions.

Consumer interest in Revolut has been building ahead of its broader India launch. According to Sensor Tower estimates shared with TechCrunch, Revolut’s app has been downloaded nearly 820,000 times in India since it became available in app stores. More than a third of those downloads occurred in 2025 and the first months of 2026.

While Revolut’s largest markets by app downloads remain in Europe, led by France, the U.K., Spain, Italy, and Germany, the company has increasingly looked to emerging markets for growth. Sensor Tower estimates downloads in Thailand and Vietnam grew 40% and 52%, respectively, in 2025, while downloads in Brazil surged 487% year over year to 1.8 million, highlighting the importance of markets such as India to its long-term expansion strategy.

TL;DR

Salesforce’s stake in Anthropic is now worth approximately $5 billion after investing since early 2023, representing roughly two-thirds of its entire strategic portfolio. The return comes as Anthropic files confidentially for an IPO at a $965 billion valuation.

Salesforce has a stake in Anthropic worth approximately $5 billion after investing repeatedly in the Claude developer since early 2023, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The software company first participated in Anthropic’s fundraising with roughly $50 million and has continued investing in every subsequent round. With Anthropic’s confidential IPO filing also landing on Monday, Salesforce is positioned to realise one of the largest venture-style returns in enterprise software history.

The scale of the return becomes clearer in portfolio context. Salesforce’s total strategic investments across hundreds of companies were valued at $7.8 billion at the end of April, according to SEC filings. That figure predates Anthropic’s latest $65 billion funding round, which valued the company at $965 billion and more than doubled its previous valuation. After the revaluation, the Anthropic stake alone represents roughly two-thirds of Salesforce’s entire strategic investment portfolio.

The early bet

Salesforce Ventures acknowledged in a February blog post that the initial investment was not a consensus trade. “In 2023, betting on a research-heavy startup at a meaningful valuation was not obvious, given there was no market precedent of AI research turning into commercial success,” the firm wrote. Anthropic’s models now power AI features across Salesforce’s product suite, including Slack, and CEO Marc Benioff has said Salesforce will spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens in 2026.

The investment structure gives Salesforce a double exposure. It is both an investor capturing Anthropic’s valuation gains and a customer embedding Anthropic’s models into its own products, including the Agentforce AI agent platform that reached $1.2 billion in annual recurring revenue last quarter. As enterprise AI spending shifts toward agentic platforms, Salesforce benefits regardless of whether its own AI products or Anthropic’s underlying models capture more of the value.

Not the only windfall

Salesforce is not the only company reaping outsized returns from early Anthropic bets. Zoom invested approximately $51 million in Anthropic’s Series C in May 2023 through its Zoom Ventures arm. That stake is now worth approximately $1.3 billion, a roughly 25x return in three years. Accel, which invested in Anthropic’s Series G, has seen its stake more than quadruple in months as the company’s valuation surged past OpenAI’s.

The returns reflect a dynamic that has become defining in the current AI cycle: a small number of model providers, primarily Anthropic and OpenAI, are capturing an extraordinary share of both venture capital and unrealised gains. For Salesforce, the $5 billion Anthropic stake has appreciated more than the combined market capitalisation gains of many of its software acquisitions.

The risks ahead

The $5 billion valuation is on paper until Anthropic’s IPO provides a public market price. Anthropic’s ongoing legal dispute with the Pentagon, which designated the company a supply-chain risk after it refused to grant the military unrestricted model access, represents a material overhang. Anthropic has said the designation could jeopardise billions in revenue.

For Salesforce specifically, the concentration of its strategic portfolio in a single company creates exposure that investors will scrutinise. If Anthropic’s IPO prices below the $965 billion private valuation, or if the stock declines post-listing, the mark-to-market impact on Salesforce’s balance sheet would be significant. Salesforce itself announced the acquisition of Contentful on the same day, continuing a heavy spending pace that has kept its own stock under pressure for months.

But the strategic logic of the original bet has been validated. Salesforce invested in Anthropic before the market had consensus that AI research labs could become commercial businesses. Three years later, Anthropic is filing for a public listing at a valuation approaching $1 trillion, and the $50 million that started the relationship has grown roughly 100-fold.