Meridian Ventures launched $35M fund to back MBA-deferred founders | TechCrunch — Meridian Ventures, the venture firm founded by Devon Gethers and Karlton Haney, announced on Friday the raise of a $35 million second fund to back pre-seed and seed-stage companies founded by those
Autonomous drone delivery startup Manna plots major U.S. expansion | TechCrunch — Manna is launching a U.S. operations and manufacturing facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma that will eventually employ 1,000 people.
Beyond Instagram: Introducing the next generation of social apps | TechCrunch — These newer social apps offer alternatives to Big Tech’s feeds, focusing on interests, creativity, and community.
What AI benchmarks miss about real-world performance — <p><i>Presented by F5</i></p><hr/><p>Enterprise AI teams have spent years solving for compute, securing GPU allocations, negotiating cloud capacity, and benchmarking training throughput. The assumption embedded in that work i
WhatsApp usernames launch 'later this year' – here's how to get yours now — WhatsApp has just announced that usernames are officially coming, but you might not be able to get yours just yet....
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Global EV market goes K-shaped as the U.S. gets left behind | TechCrunch — EV sales have surged worldwide in every region but the U.S., posing risks for legacy and startup automakers.
This AI startup will clean your home for free to train future robots — The dirtier the better, apparently.
Alabama launches investigation into OpenAI's hack of Hugging Face | TechCrunch — Weeks after OpenAI disclosed that one of its cybersecurity models had gone rogue and hacked AI dataset company Hugging Face, Alabama’s Attorney General announced an investigation into the incident.
Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links | TechCrunch — The loophole allows spammers and scammers to send emails from a legitimate Microsoft email address typically used for sending genuine account alerts.
Imperagen raises £5 million to use quantum physics, AI on enzyme engineering | TechCrunch — Biotech company Imperagen announced on Thursday a £5 million ($6.7 million) seed round led by PXN Ventures, with participation from IQ Capital and Northern Gritstone.
Enhanced geothermal notches another win as Google buys 400 MW from Fervo | TechCrunch — Fervo's deal with Google could expand to 1 gigawatt of geothermal power, enough to supply a very large AI data center in Utah.
A comic artist spent two years drawing the same character in different moods. The subtle changes in how his shoulders sit completely reframe everything.
World Labs' Fei-Fei Li on Creating Large World Models — Fei-Fei Li, Co-Founder & CEO at World Labs discusses spatial intelligence, large world models and real-world AI applications with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang at Bloomberg Tech 2026 in San Francisco. (Source: Bloomberg)
Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos | TechCrunch — Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from prompts and…
Trump drops restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models | TechCrunch — Anthropic said it would begin restoring access to the Fable on July 1.
There's a database of every panel where Spider-Man's web actually breaks, organized by year and tensile strength, it's weirdly thorough
WhatsApp says it caught new spyware attacks linked to NSO Group in violation of court order | TechCrunch — The messaging giant announced that it disrupted a phishing campaign targeting its users with NSO’s spyware.
DeepSWE blows up the AI coding leaderboard, crowns GPT-5.5, and finds Claude Opus exploiting a benchmark loophole — <p>For months, the leading AI coding benchmarks have told enterprise buyers a comforting but misleading story: the top models are all roughly the same. OpenAI'
Comic book artists used to trace photos and nobody cared. Then one guy got caught doing it in the 1990s and the internet decided it was cheating forever.
The aperiodic table — XKCD 3242 is titled "The aperiodic table" and looks like this: Which is cool, but it's not aperiodic like a Penrose tiling . So, with a li...
Michelin-starred restaurant owner in South Korea faces jail over ant dessert — Prosecutors seek a one-year sentence and heavy fine after chef garnished dish with insects not approved for consumption
Structured AI data pipelines score 10.9 points below free-form code — DataFlow-Harness closes the gap — <p>If you ask an AI coding agent to write a standalone Python script to parse a single JSON file, it will likely give you a perfect answer in seconds. But the same agent…
This archive lets you read every page of Sandman in order — Neil Gaiman's full run, legally, and the art detail you catch on a real screen is SO good.
this graphic novel is literally just sequential stills from a security camera watching a guy decide whether to text his ex for three hours
Threads tests a Meta AI integration that works similarly to Grok | TechCrunch — The feature is designed to help people get real-time context about trends and breaking stories, as well as receive recommendations, all within conversations.