OpenAI proposed donating 5% of its equity to a US sovereign wealth fund | TechCrunch — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, reviving discussions about letting the public share in the financial gains…
Apple opens its new Siri AI to everyone with the iOS 27 public beta | TechCrunch — If you’ve been waiting to try Apple’s revamped Siri without installing a developer beta, you now can. The company on Tuesday released the iOS 27 public beta, giving iPhone owners early access to…
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A Musical Journey Through Turkana | Turkana Sessions | TED — The genre-defying band Turkana Sessions takes us on a musical tour through the soundscape of northwest Kenya, with Elizabeth Korkel singing and Eddie Grey shredding on guitar. (Recorded at TED Countdown Summit 2025 on…
Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua to step aside as company pushes into robotaxis, robotics | TechCrunch — Shashua has been invited to take the chairman of the board seat.
I Made Aquarium Clothes — 10,000 fish were harmed during the making of this short
What to know about the Canadian and US wildfires and their impact — Wildfires in Ontario have blanketed US and Canadian cities with dangerous smoke.
Netflix expands revamped mobile app across Asia and doubles down on kids' gaming | TechCrunch — The media giant is pushing to expand its mobile and gaming business.
Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human | TechCrunch — The startup is building voice models designed to make AI phone calls pass the Turing test.
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Rivian sues the US government for 'full refund' of Trump tariffs | TechCrunch — The carmaker has said it's owed a refund in the "tens of millions of dollars."
Autonomous vehicle hype is back, and Humble Robotics is bringing it to freights | TechCrunch — It feels like 2016 all over again. Watch as Humble Robotics founder and CEO joins Equity to talk about AV déjà vu and what he's learned from 15 years of building startups across…
Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living | TechCrunch — Andrew Yang made a list of everything Americans overpay for — housing, food, wireless — and thinks the next startup gold rush is giving that money back.
SpaceX launches Starship V3 for the first time, but loses booster on return | TechCrunch — The company had a mostly successful first launch of its upgraded Starship V3, which it needs to power its many ambitious goals in the years to come.
Uber will bring its premium robotaxi service to Houston in 2027 | TechCrunch — This will be the second market to have an Uber robotaxi service outfitted with Lucid EVs equipped with a self-driving system from Nuro.
What's the best handheld mini fan? | TechCrunch — From premium Shark and Dyson offerings to random Amazon devices, these mini fans will make your sweaty summer a little more managable.
A SpaceX vet raised $65M to pull wire harnesses out of the Cold War era | TechCrunch — Someone has to bundle all the wires that go into rockets, missiles, and satellites.
Four AI agents coordinating in real time outperformed Claude Opus 4.8 on enterprise coding tasks — <p>As enterprise codebases grow, AI agents tasked with analyzing them are buckling under the weight of long-horizon tasks that require multiple interactions and tool calls.…
Companies are finally seeing AI ROI — and now they know how much more value it can deliver — <p><i>Presented by SAP</i></p><hr/><p>Enterprise AI has moved from experiment to execution, and that shift is beginning to show real returns. The SAP Value of AI Report 2026, produced…
Apple puts parents back in control of kids' iPhone use | TechCrunch — Apple is putting control back into the hands of parents with more granular screen time features.
Zuckerberg ‘Admits’ Meta’s Layoffs Were Ineffective — Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive: In retrospect, he said, the “trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected,” and that the company’s…
OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns | TechCrunch — OpenAI said it has suspended work on some aspects of its upcoming model Astra over concerns about its cybersecurity prowess.
The CEO of Allbirds' new AI biz has a plan, but no employees | TechCrunch — Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what's next is less clear.
Capital F closes $17M debut fund with goal to back the future of the 'female economy' | TechCrunch — Capital F, one of the few all-female-led VC firms, announced Wednesday the $17 million close of its debut fund. The firm backs companies building in the
AI agents are quietly generating chaos engineering failures enterprises don’t track yet — <p>There is a category of production incident that engineering teams are not tracking yet — because it doesn't fit any existing postmortem template. </p><p>The agent initiated an action
Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees across Xbox, commercial sales | TechCrunch — Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday — the latest in a series of layoffs that’s stoking fears of AI replacing jobs. The layoffs will hit Xbox and…
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Donaldson denies meeting sex abuse accuser to 'nip in the bud' allegations — Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader, is on trial for 18 sex abuse charges, including one count of rape, all of which he denies.
Microsoft launches new in-house AI models it says cut costs up to 89% versus OpenAI — <p><a href="https://microsoft.ai/">Microsoft AI</a> released two new in-house models into public preview on Wednesday — <a…
Almost 90 new unicorns have been minted so far this year — here they are | TechCrunch — With AI igniting an investor frenzy, more startups are achieving unicorn status every month.
D&B's database of 642 million businesses was built for humans, not AI agents. So they rebuilt it. — <p>Dun & Bradstreet has spent over 180 years building a comprehensive commercial database. Its Commercial Graph, covering 642 million businesses and their relationships, corpor
TikTok now wants to be the place you book the trip you just saw on TikTok | TechCrunch — TikTok is systematically converting its discovery engine into a transaction layer, which both deepens user retention and opens entirely new revenue streams for its new owners.
Facebook rolls out an AI companion app for creators | TechCrunch — The new app, which is currently being tested with select creators, will have Facebook's recently-launched AI creator assistant built into it.
Indigo brings the open social web to one app | TechCrunch — Indigo's new social app lets you cross-post to the open social web, including Mastodon and Bluesky, and browse a unified timeline.
Kimi K2.7-Code cuts thinking tokens 30% — but practitioners say the benchmarks don't check out — <p>Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7-Code this week, an open-source update to its <a href="https://venturebeat.com/ai/moonshots-kimi-k2-thinking-emerges-as-leading-open-source-ai-outperf
Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them cheating at their jobs, classes | TechCrunch — Is Anthropic's new watermarking system a travesty? Some have taken to social media to complain that it is.
How America's 250th birthday became a test of AI-powered collective intelligence — <p>Imagine if you could bring 250 people together in a massive room and have them discuss and debate an important issue, arguing the points and counterpoints, and converging on answers that…
Elon Musk said Sam Altman "stole" a non-profit — but the trial showed he had similar aims | TechCrunch — “By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America.”
2,977 drones used to recreate Twin Towers for 9/11 anniversary — <p>Design studio Drift and architect Shigeru Ban have worked to recreate the Twin Towers with lighted drones for the 25th anniversary of 9/11, with each light representing a life lost in the World Trade Center…
The token bill comes due: Inside the industry scramble to manage AI’s runaway costs | TechCrunch — "The whole conversation shifted from tokenmaxxing and 'go fast' to 'we need guardrails, how do we control this?'"
Bluecore Energy raises $10M to build portable nuclear reactors on barges | TechCrunch — Maritime nuclear energy startup Bluecore Energy has raised $10 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Slauson & Co.
Anthropic courts a new kind of customer: small business owners | TechCrunch — Anthropic is looking to broaden its customer base from larger enterprise customers to smaller and mid-sized businesses.
Why Wall Street thinks US memory maker Micron is the next Nvidia | TechCrunch — Eager to find more public AI-related companies that may do as well as Nvidia, Wall Street investors think they've found a winner with Micron.
Piston Slap: Are Headlight Switches Wear Items? — Mark writes: I have a 1995 Buick Century sedan my parents purchased when it was just a few months old. (I know its service history.) A few weeks ago, I turned on the headlights. While the amber running lights went on, the…
London amateur goalkeeper could be next in line for Ugandan throne — A goalkeeper from an amateur team in South East London could become king of a Ugandan region after the death of his cousin.
Google bets on Gemini to reinvent the smart home speaker | TechCrunch — Google is betting generative AI can breathe new life into the smart speaker. The company's new $99.99 Google Home Speaker replaces the rigid commands of the Google Assistant era with more conversational…
Apple's new desktop computers are designed specifically for local AI development — Folks have been daisy-chaining Macs for AI—this refresh keeps that in mind.
Arcturus could halve the grid’s electrical losses using its nano-infused copper | TechCrunch — Stealthy startup Arcturus uses lasers to infuse carbon nanomaterials into copper, dramatically improving its ability to conduct electricity.
Is triple Chelsea attack worth it? FPL gameweek four dilemmas — BBC Sport FPL expert Holly Shand looks at some of the biggest dilemmas facing FPL managers heading into gameweek four, including whether to captain Erling Haaland or a Chelsea player.
Horizons Middle East & Africa 9/9/2026 — Horizons Middle East & Africa is your daily spotlight on one of the world's fastest-growing regions. Live from Dubai, we bring you the latest global markets and analysis, plus news-making interviews, with a special focus on MEA. All that…
Richemont Promotes Founder’s Son to Kick Off Succession Plan — Richemont Chairman Johann Rupert, the South African billionaire who tightly controls the Swiss luxury group, signaled long-awaited succession planning is underway.
A Guide to Wall Street’s Hot Debates, From Carry Trades to Treasury Twists — Investors haven’t been able to enjoy a summer lull as Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have kept them busy with a series of eye-catching policy decisions.
TechCrunch Mobility: Zoox prepares for launch and Uber’s AV empire | TechCrunch — Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
As AI agents become employees, NewCore emerges with $66M to give them identities | TechCrunch — NewCore argues the next challenge in enterprise security will be managing AI agents, not people.
India's Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content | TechCrunch — Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.
CloudNC raises $20M to automate manufacturing's most pressing bottlenecks | TechCrunch — UK-based manufacturing software startup CloudNC announced Wednesday a $20 million B extension round, bringing its lifetime total raised amount to $128 million.
I finally found a Windows firewall app that doesn’t get in my way — Minimal fuss, visible control and country-level connection maps reveal surprising network activity at a glance.
Reflections — The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning. New years get people in a reflective...
Waymo restarts San Antonio service five months after flooding troubles | TechCrunch — The company suspended service in the city in April after one of its robotaxis got swept away.
Judge says Trump admin still lacks evidence for Anthropic ‘supply chain risk’ label | TechCrunch — A federal judge said the Trump administration has not presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk, casting doubt on the government's ban on its AI…