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Last chance to apply — Startup Battlefield Australia applications close July 6

Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped

Private space pilots are flying orbital missions for the US Space Force

Thiel Capital’s Jack Selby nabs stakes in hot startups like Etched through Arizona connections

IQM, Europe’s first public quantum company, admits the future of the tech is uncertain

Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become

A warning sign about AI’s real cost, courtesy of Google and Amazon

Meta quietly launches vibe-coded gaming app Pocket

Travel app Hopper to pay $35M in FTC settlement over ‘unfairly’ charging hidden fees

Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung

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Boeing-owned Wisk Aero accused of firing manager who raised safety concerns

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Melinda Gates’ venture firm backs Magnify Ventures’ $46.6M Fund II

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OpenAI proposed donating 5% of its equity to a US sovereign wealth fund

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Popular TV-tracking app TV Time is shutting down as company focuses on AI

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Lucid Motors’ CFO is out as its new CEO continues leadership shakeup

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US government says it got hacked — again

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Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company with $2.5 billion commitment

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Tesla saw a massive sales jump in the second quarter

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Rivian raises EV sales forecast as Q2 production ramps up

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Yep, we’re using OpenClaw to date now

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Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office

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Apple is reportedly planning new iPad Pro and MacBook Pro releases early next year

Bending Spoons defies SaaS slump, surges 40% on first day of trading

After $18B IPO, Bending Spoons founder says success comes from minimizing luck

WhatsApp usernames are already raising impersonation red flags

Apple’s Hide My Email feature has a bug that’s been exposing real email addresses, researcher claims

SpaceX has an AI device prototype, and it sure sounds phone-ish

Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller

Neocloud Together AI raises $800M, leaps to $8.3B valuation

Lime begins life as a public company after years of uncertainty

Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content

Even Honda is pivoting to data centers

Autonomous vehicle hype is back, and Humble Robotics is bringing it to freight

Lime raises $167M in IPO after years of teasing a public debut

Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off

Gemini Spark, Google’s agentic assistant, is now available on Mac

Sony to end physical PlayStation game disc production in 2028

Builders Stage agenda revealed: Practical strategies for scaling startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Meta, like SpaceX, looks to turn excess AI compute into cash

The ‘Father of the Internet’ is finally retiring

Trump drops restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable models

Wayve launches $85M employee tender offer at $8.5B valuation

Startup Battlefield Australia application closes in days: Apply before July 6

OpenClaw is finally available on Android and iOS

The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI are now making money for quant hedge funds

Realta Fusion generates electricity directly from a fusion reaction, an apparent first

Google introduces a faster, cheaper image generator with Nano Banana 2 Lite

Clicks shows off its BlackBerry-inspired phone in a new hands-on video

Nvidia competitor Etched hits $5B valuation, $1B in sales for AI chip

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as a cheaper way to run agents