Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short | TechCrunch — "Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence ... that would produce a high-quality product.”
Japanese space tech startup Letara expands beyond satellite thrusters with $16M | TechCrunch — Japanese space startup Letara is betting its hybrid rocket technology can move beyond small satellite thrusters into a broader market for space, defense and security, after raising…
Fast Metals is treating waste with more waste to extract critical minerals | TechCrunch — Aluminum production has saddled the world with billions of tons of caustic waste. One startup has a plan to clean it up and turn a profit.
Still facing copyright lawsuits, AI music generator Suno raises another $400M | TechCrunch — The prominent AI music generation startup is now valued at over $5.4 billion -- about seven months ago, it raised at a $2.45 billion valuation.
watched someone film themselves doing the same workout every day for a year and the before/after isn't even the point — it's how different their face looks by month six!!
OpenAI files confidentially for IPO, following Anthropic | TechCrunch — The filing comes a little more than a week after its main rival, Anthropic, also filed to go public, ramping up the race between the two AI firms.
Klue says hackers stole credential from 2022 that led to customer data breaches | TechCrunch — It's unclear why Klue had not revoked the credential after the limited pilot, which hackers then used to breach a system holding keys for accessing customers' data.
Accident on Kuwait motorway as Iranian missiles fly overhead — Video shows a car accident occurring on a road in Kuwait City as missiles flew overhead.
Nimble claims its new, domain-specialized Web Search Agents cut token costs in half while boosting retrieval accuracy — <p><a href="https://www.nimbleway.com/">Nimble</a>, a New York City-based tech startup <a…
Groninger Museum "deserves to be more famous" says artistic director Roos Gortzak — <p>With a renewed focus on contemporary art, Groninger Museum artistic director Roos Gortzak is seeking closer connection between the extraordinary postmodern building, she says in this…
Spotify's reserved ticket sales to music superfans are now going live | TechCrunch — Spotify is launching "Reserved," a new system that will hold two concert tickets for an artist's superfans before they're on sale to the public.
How can a heavily indebted football club afford Mo Salah? — How do football clubs in debt afford star players?
Apple @ Work: As Apple grows in the enterprise, these are the kind of update bugs it has to squash immediately - 9to5Mac — Apple continues to become an enterprise vendor of choice, but breaking core functions like printing in minor security updates is a trend that needs to stop.
Vietnam’s SCIC Plans Broad Divestment as FTSE Upgrade Nears — Vietnam’s state investment arm plans to exit dozens of companies over the next four years, freeing up capital and potentially boosting the supply of tradable shares as the country prepares for its elevation to…
‘Digging the grave of my profession’: the Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs — Amid a jobs slump, award-winning writers, directors and producers taking on sometimes lucrative temp work teaching AI skills such as screenwriting and production
A startup, Everand, is now bundling e-books, audiobooks, and book clubs in challenge to Amazon | TechCrunch — A new reading subscription from Everand offers access to both e-books and audiobooks, and Fable's book club community.
Anthropic's latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests | TechCrunch — Anthropic's popularity with business users is growing so well that the latest beef with the government might actually boost it, data from Ramp suggests.
Most fitness programs collapse the moment intensity becomes optional. Watched someone nail the same 20-minute routine for six months while everyone else kept chasing the new thing. Tempo is the secret cue — consistency over novelty.
Aura's impressive e-ink photo frame doesn't even look digital | TechCrunch — What's the most cliche possible gift you can give a relative? A digital photo frame, displaying a rotating slideshow of family photos. Now Aura has
NYC Arts Nonprofits Benefit from Mamdani's $8.4 Million in Grants — From the Red Hook Art Project in Brooklyn to a citywide initiative from Fourth Arts Block, arts organizations and small businesses will receive support from Mamdani's latest investment.
Moderna, Merck unveil mRNA-based cancer vaccine that cuts spread — Moderna's mRNA vaccine Intismeran shows promise, reducing melanoma recurrence and spread in late-stage trials.
How do we explain OpenAI's executive exodus? | TechCrunch — Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?
Zoox issues software recall after a robotaxi got confused by heavy smoke | TechCrunch — The recall comes as the top automotive safety regulator in the U.S. has warned AV companies about their vehicles interfering with first responders.
Google nixes its Earth AI feature one day after launch, amid criticism it would spread misinformation | TechCrunch — A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.
The Children a Scientist Took Home - Longreads — Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took from the field to the US—many of whom he sexually molested, with the knowledge and, in…
Qwen 3.8-Max and Claude Opus 5 show why raw benchmark scores don't predict the bill — <p><a href="https://venturebeat.com/technology/qwen3-8-max-arrives-with-a-bold-claim-it-outperforms-gpt-5-6-sol-max-and-fable-5-on-agentic-computer-use">Alibaba released Qwen 3.8-Max</a> this…
Gemini's personalized AI image generation is now free for US users | TechCrunch — Google is expanding Gemini’s personalized AI image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., allowing the chatbot to create images based on your interests and data from connected Google apps.
After $18B IPO, Bending Spoons founder says success comes from minimizing luck | TechCrunch — The co-founders of Bending Spoons, the Italian company quietly buying beloved, ailing Internet brands, learned big lessons from their own startup's failure.
been lifting for three years and finally realized i've been bracing wrong the entire time. one small thing with your ribs changes everything!!
Will Japan bring down the world economy? | The Economist — Japan’s yen recently hit its lowest level in four decades. America swooped in to help stabilise the currency, but the intervention brought only a temporary reprieve. Japan’s vast hoard of financial assets means that…
A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem | TechCrunch — June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler.
Lumo, Proton's privacy-focused AI chatbot, gets an upgrade | TechCrunch — Proton's Lumo 2.0 is dropping this week, giving users a broader variety of capabilities.
The slowtech revolution is here to kill your phone addiction and rescue your attention span | TechCrunch — “People just really want to take back control of their time, their lives, their attention... They’re down for whatever helps them do that.”
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra Nearly Closes the Camera Gap — Samsung's foldable phone camera compromises are smaller than ever.
Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners | TechCrunch — AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining property records, maintenance schedules, home documents, and…
SpaceX passes Amazon as valuation balloons to $2.7T | TechCrunch — SpaceX's valuation has increased by $1 trillion since its shares started trading on Friday.
Anthropic launches Opus 5 | TechCrunch — Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases
$12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake and PJM wants to do it again — American Grid design needs an overhaul, Why it is good to be full of cold air.
Trump envoy Kushner meets Hamas leader to push Gaza peace plan — The rare meeting comes a week after Israel rejected Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza.
Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Marc Pincus in talks to raise $100M | TechCrunch — The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.
Five innovative smartphones and dumbphones that put design first — <p>For this roundup, we've collected five smartphones and dumbphones with exciting designs, ranging from a phone with a robot arm to a keyboard phone built for messaging. For many people, their phone is their…
Apple's Hide My Email feature has a bug that's been exposing real email addresses, researcher claims | TechCrunch — Research appears to reveal a bug that could render the feature effectively useless.
Elon Musk repeatedly one-upped his execs on SpaceX's first earnings call | TechCrunch — Musk kept inflating the already-big promises being made by SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen and Gwynne Shotwell on the company's first call.
Sony will stop making PlayStation game discs in 2028 — Sony is ending physical discs for new PlayStation games, and the backlash is about more than nostalgia
As AI companies race to go public, who else is along for the ride? | TechCrunch — Startups are trying to "ride that SpaceX IPO wave."
Charles Hudson shares the common mistakes he’s seen after investing in 500+ startups | TechCrunch — In this week’s episode of Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen talks with Precursor Ventures' Charles Hudson about the headwinds facing early-stage founders today and the most common…
Anthropic's Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT | TechCrunch — Despite ChatGPT's commanding market lead, consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic's Claude, data shows.
Palestinian American reunites with family under siege in West Bank — Videos show the first moments Palestinian-American Loui Ridi arrived at his home in Qusra.
UK cops say arrest of two young hackers disrupted the operations of an infamous hacking group | TechCrunch — Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair, two members of the prolific Scattered Spider hacking group, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to five years and six months in jail for…
Smartphone Sales Are Falling Worldwide, But Apple Keeps Growing — Apple gained ground in India, Latin America, and Europe even as all three markets contracted, according to a new series of Counterpoint Research reports. Between late March and the beginning of August, Indian…
Tesla settles FSD crash lawsuit as federal investigations continue | TechCrunch — The lawsuit was connected to a fatal 2023 crash involving a vehicle using the company's advanced driver assistance system known as Full Self-Driving.
Tiger Global-Backed Broking Firm Upstox Said to Plan India IPO — Upstox, one of India’s largest online trading platforms, has begun discussions with investment banks about a potential initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter.
Blaney secures third NASCAR Cup Series victory of season — Ryan Blaney overcame a major fumble by his pit crew and charged from 17th to first for his second consecutive NASCAR Cup Series win at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and his third title of the season, in a race that he…
I'm de-influencing you from buying the RingConn 3 (even though it's pretty) | TechCrunch — The RingConn 3 actually looks like real jewelry, not a wearable -- but its fitness tracking and headache detection features are disappointing.
Why trust is a big question at the Elon Musk-OpenAI trial | TechCrunch — A big theme in the trial’s final days was whether OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is trustworthy.
OpenClaw is finally available on Android and iOS | TechCrunch — The free open source agentic program is finally invading your phone.
Yaya Toure becomes first African coach to lead a team into Champions League — Ivory Coast legend Toure takes Slovan Bratislava into the group phase two months after joining the Slovakian club.
Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta’s alleged strategy laid out in first week of landmark trial — In trial that opened on Tuesday, California and 28 other states accused the company of designing addictive sites and violating laws protecting children’s privacy
Here’s a $15 sleep upgrade for couples with completely different bedtime habits — The under-pillow speaker every podcast lover needs at bedtime.
Geologist & Kyle Simon Announce New Album Created With Light From The Moon — Brian Weitz, the Animal Collective member better known as Geologist, has been busy as shit in 2026. In January, Geologist released Can I Get A Pack Of Camel Lights?, his first-ever solo album. After…