Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever | TechCrunch — Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street it plans for continued growth.
Tesla reportedly might sell its China business ahead of a SpaceX merger | TechCrunch — Tesla had already reportedly prepped for the idea in the event that Beijing invades Taiwan.
Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+ | TechCrunch — OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux | TechCrunch — OpenAI is finally bringing a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app to Linux operating systems.
Tesla is asking people if they want to buy and run Cybercab fleets | TechCrunch — The company published a form on its website Thursday soliciting info from people who are interested in "Cybercab fleet vehicle purchasing."
Everything announced at Made by Google '26: Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, Pixel Tag, and tons of Gemini features | TechCrunch — From the Pixel 11 series and a brand new competitor to Apple’s AirTag, here are all the announcements from the Made by Google 2026 event.
Meta, like SpaceX, looks to turn excess AI compute into cash | TechCrunch — Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move would pit it against the big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud,…
Inertia co-founder Jeff Lawson’s joins Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch — Inertia co-founder and CEO Jeff Lawson joins the Smart Systems Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register now to save up to $200 by Sept 25.
Trump administration threatens 92 GW of new electricity supply with red tape | TechCrunch — The Trump administration's moves threaten $121 billion in new solar and wind power, two energy sources that are the biggest contributors to new capacity in the U.S.
I put Google's 24/7 AI assistant Gemini Spark to work, and it's actually pretty useful | TechCrunch — Gemini Spark helps automate everyday tasks, from inbox summaries to local event planning, but it’s unclear why Google made it a separate product.
IQM, Europe's first public quantum company, admits the future of the tech is uncertain | TechCrunch — IQM, a full-stack quantum company out of Finland, went public on the Nasdaq today at a valuation of about $1.9 billion.
Robinhood sees 'record-breaking' traffic after SpaceX stock debuts | TechCrunch — The trading platform says some customers experienced intermittent disruptions, but those issues have resolved.
Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25 billion per month for compute | TechCrunch — Elon Musk's xAI surprised the AI world when it made a deal to sell compute to Anthropic. Now we know how much it's worth.
57% of enterprises have watched AI agents be confidently wrong. The fix is an agentic context layer, but who has one? — <p>An enterprise AI agent answers with total confidence, but the number is wrong. Nobody catches it until someone traces it back to a stale metric definition…
Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership | TechCrunch — Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing its upcoming AI-powered remix and covers product. The paid…
Z.ai launches ZCode to challenge Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot in AI coding — <p><a href="http://z.ai">Z.ai</a>, the Beijing-based artificial intelligence lab formerly known as Zhipu AI, on Wednesday officially launched <a href="https://zcode.z.ai/">ZCode</a>, a free…
India Raises Fuel Export Tax to Build Buffer as Wars Curb Supply — India increased levies on exports of oil products to bolster domestic fuel stockpiles while global supplies remained tight despite a pause in fighting between the US and Iran.
PSA: Apple’s Private Relay can leak your real IP address | TechCrunch — A bug in how Apple implements its Private Relay feature, which in theory masks users’ IP addresses from the sites they visit, can reveal users’ real IP addresses.
Ford needs another Taurus, and the $30K Fathom EV pickup isn’t it | TechCrunch — Ford's CEO has described the new Ford Fathom as a "Model T moment" for the company. But the EV pickup is unlikely to live up to lofty expectations, and maybe it doesn't have to.
Enterprise AI agents can't talk to each other, can't be trusted with permissions, and can't be audited — 5 startups are already fixing that — <p>Enterprise AI agents can do the work — but the infrastructure to let them talk to each other, <a…
Saudi Arabia cancels oil to Europe over East-West pipeline blast — Saudi Arabia has cancelled some oil deliveries to Europe after attacks shut down its export pipeline to the Red Sea.
Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage | TechCrunch — AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures. The acquisition brings Poke’s…
Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem — and most are calling chatbots agents — <p>Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide…
This Prime Day Neck Fan Deal Will Save You from Summer Sweats (2026) — This lightweight neck fan is one of my favorite summer gadgets, and it's more than 30% off right now.
Spotify will label 'AI Persona' profiles and exclude their music from recommendations | TechCrunch — Spotify is introducing “AI Persona” labels for artist profiles that represent AI-generated identities and will exclude their music from editorial, algorithmic, and personalized…
Apple opens up App Store to new competition in Brazil | TechCrunch — Apple’s grip on iPhone app distribution is loosening in another major market: Brazil.
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.
Hackers claim millions of patient records stolen during data breach at healthcare giant McKesson | TechCrunch — The company, which distributes medicines and medical devices to hospitals and healthcare practices across the U.S., said it was hacked and expects intermittent…
Who to pick, who to avoid - your team's FPL assets ranked — Our team of FPL experts rank the best and worst picks for 2026-27 from each of the 20 Premier League teams.
A founder I know spent six months building the "perfect" onboarding flow. Watched their actual users skip through it in 12 seconds. They deleted it and just put a button that said 'start here' 🤔 sometimes the thing you're most proud of is the thing blocking the door
Tesla made its 10 millionth EV | TechCrunch — The milestone means Tesla is halfway to accomplishing one of the four core product goals Elon Musk has to hit to unlock his full $1 trillion pay package.
Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game | TechCrunch — Users will be able use AI to create newsletters based on their recordings.
Empire AI - AVC — Last summer I sat down with Tom Secunda, who co-founded Bloomberg LP with Mike Bloomberg, to talk about areas of shared philanthropic interest. Tom told me that academic institutions do not have access to the kind of AI/ML infrastructure that the top tech compan
Xbox follows Apple with price increases | TechCrunch — The price increase comes amid rising components costs.
ACRouter picks the smartest AI model per task, beating Opus-only setups by 2.6x on cost — <p>Model routing is becoming a key component of the enterprise AI stack, dynamically sending prompts to the right AI model to optimize speed and costs. However, current frameworks mostly…
Tata Electronics, a major tech supplier to Apple and Tesla, confirms data breach | TechCrunch — The incident comes as Tata Electronics expands its role in global technology supply chains.
Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27 | TechCrunch — Siri’s AI overhaul may have grabbed the headlines at WWDC, but some of Apple’s most useful AI features are arriving elsewhere in iOS 27.
Are Microsoft’s AI plans being held back by a shortage of chips? — Guardian investigation finds apparent discrepancy between what tech company has said about its AI capacity – and the number of advanced chips it has in operation
Ventures Platform goes bigger — and broader — with its second Africa fund | TechCrunch — The Pan-African venture firm has raised $83 million and plans to invest in startups beyond its home market of Nigeria.
Four takeaways from Tuesday's primaries in six states — Voters in half a dozen states went to the polls Tuesday, and results highlight the ongoing conflicts within both parties ahead of the November midterms.
I turned this tiny $16 USB drive into the ultimate PC rescue tool — It's like having a tiny IT department in my pocket.
Three Claude agents given conflicting orders sabotaged each other on a shared server — then didn't tell users what they'd done — <p>Every Claude model Anthropic tested turned on its own, and no attacker made them do it. Given three agents, four hours on one server, and…
NASA images show crater on the moon caused by SpaceX Falcon 9 crash — NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter took images of the crater created by a SpaceX rocket crashing into the moon.
Trump signs narrower executive order on AI oversight after industry objections | TechCrunch — After industry objections, President Trump signed a revised AI executive order requiring only voluntary prerelease government reviews of advanced models.
Anthropic's Claude Code Artifacts update brings live, shared dashboards and interactive workspaces to enterprises — <p>Anthropic announced a potentially game-changing new feature for users of Claude Code on the Claude Team and Enterprise subscription plans: <a…
Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works | TechCrunch — The surveillance company announced it's making a tool called "Audit Assistance" mandatory for all customers, claiming it's already helped catch abuse. But the company has…
Introducing Mercury 2.5 – Inception — Mercury 2.5 is the most capable diffusion LLM on the market. It runs at 1,107 tokens/sec and offers a 40% increase in intelligence over Mercury 2, comparable to cost-optimized frontier models.
Pangram's Max Spero on why AI detection is harder than 'Real or Fake' | TechCrunch — Watch as Pangram co-founder and CEO Max Spero joins the Equity podcast to dig into the promise of AI detection tools and where to draw the line between AI assisted and AI generated.
Twenty-two more bodies recovered after Zimbabwe boat accident — Death toll now stands at 68, with 18 children being among the killed after ferry capsized on Lake Kariba
Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks | TechCrunch — Robinhood will let users create a separate account with pre-loaded balance that an agent use to trade
Theker just raised $85M to build the factory robot that doesn't specialize in anything | TechCrunch — Unlike humanoid robots designed around a fixed form — think Boston Dynamics — Theker's machines are built to be reconfigured.
Read-it-later app Pocket shut down down — here are the best alternatives | TechCrunch — Pocket users have until October 8, 2025, to export their saved articles and other items, including lists, archives, favorites, notes, and highlights.
ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push | TechCrunch — ServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.
Atletico Madrid in talks for Tottenham captain Romero — Atletico Madrid hold talks over a move for Tottenham captain Cristian Romero, who is expected to leave the club this summer.
Liz Phair Sharing Two Previously Unreleased Songs, Including Theme To Lena Dunham’s Podcast — Liz Phair and Sleater-Kinney’s the Flannel And The Fury tour is just around the corner. As if that’s not exciting enough, Phair will be selling a limited edition 7″ vinyl with two…
Colapinto to stay with Alpine for 2027 season — Franco Colapinto will remain with Alpine for the 2027 season, the Formula 1 team announces.
Curiosity Needs a Compass | Shihama Hanifa | TEDxKandy — Curiosity is often described as the beginning of discovery—but curiosity alone is not always enough. It needs direction. In “Curiosity Needs a Compass,” the speaker explores how curiosity can become a powerful force for…
How the hair of a museum bear is helping tackle wildlife crime — Hayden Leigh, a forensic science graduate, is studying the hair of Boris the bear.
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.
AI data giant Alation confirms cyberattack | TechCrunch — The data search and AI giant confirmed unauthorized access to its systems during an incident on Tuesday, and said it was investigating the breach.