‘Embarrassing’ visa debacle delays South Africa’s World Cup 2026 departure — World Cup delegation held up as players await visas for Mexico, whom South Africa face in the opening game in 11 days.
Your soundbar placement matters way more than you think, and here's why — How to 'feng shui' your room to experience better auio from your soundbar
Who trusts Sam Altman? | TechCrunch — "I believe I am an honest and trustworthy business person," Altman testified in federal court.
Walmart-backed Flipkart expands quick-commerce push as Amazon ramps up in India | TechCrunch — Walmart-backed Flipkart has crossed 1,000 micro-fulfillment centers as Amazon accelerates its own quick-commerce push in India.
BlackRock Jostles Rivals Like Apollo in Bid for Mexican Projects — From its perch in one of Mexico City’s priciest office towers, overlooking the capital’s sprawling Chapultepec Park, BlackRock Inc. has its sights set on the country’s buildout.
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Rivian owners file lawsuit alleging false promises on self-driving features | TechCrunch — Plaintiffs in the class action complaint allege Rivian falsely promised for years it would bring hands-free driving to its first-generation R1 vehicles.
California law targeting loud streaming ads takes effect on July 1 | TechCrunch — Streaming ads might be getting a lot quieter.
The fittest founder in the room got cancer. Here's how he used AI to fight back. | TechCrunch — When confronted with cancer, Connor Christou fed everything tied tied to his regime — blood results, scan data, wearable output, journal entries — into Claude.
Why this CEO thinks video games make better training data than the internet | TechCrunch — Watch as General Intuition CEO Pim de Witt joins TechCrunch's Equity podcast to explain how the startup's $320M round and gaming data are powering the next wave of physical AI and robotics.
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If you’re giving a commencement speech in 2026, maybe don’t mention AI | TechCrunch — It's tough to get graduating students excited about a future shaped by artificial intelligence.
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Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare | TechCrunch — Stainless, a New York-based startup, will wind down all hosted products as part of the acquisition.
Water access is now a risk factor in SpaceX's IPO | TechCrunch — The company says it needs "significant" water resources to cool its data centers, and that access to abundant, affordable water is a challenge.
TikTok's road to becoming a super app | TechCrunch — TikTok may be working to become the app that people use for most of their digital activities.
General Catalyst just led a $63M bet on India's travel payments market | TechCrunch — Scapia, an Indian startup that combines travel booking with co-branded credit cards and mobile payments, said the deal doubles its valuation.
Scoop: Former Tesla exec and Heron Power CEO Drew Baglino has founded a heat pump startup — Sadi Thermal Machines is Drew Baglino's second startup since leaving Tesla in 2024.
Anduril raises $5B, doubles valuation to $61B | TechCrunch — After achieving $2.2 billion in revenue in 2025, the defense tech startup has raised another massive round, led by Thrive and a16z, it says.
The SpaceX IPO filing has arrived | TechCrunch — SpaceX has finally made the contents of its IPO filing public, weeks ahead of what is expected to be the largest IPO ever.
Four of five enterprises that secured AI agent identities still can't contain one that goes rogue — <p>Visa's president of technology, Rajat Taneja, walked the <a href="https://venturebeat.com/vbtransform2026">VB Transform 2026</a> audience through <a…
MiniMax teases upcoming M3 model with new sparse attention mechanism and 15.6X long-context response speed boost — <p>Among the many Chinese AI companies and laboratories vying for market share and attention (no pun intended) on the global marketplace, <a href="https://www.minima
PayPal Ventures shutters as company restructuring continues | TechCrunch — The corporate venture arm ends after 10 years and 80 investments.
AI is turning connected cars into pothole-finding machines | TechCrunch — Fleet management company Samsara has developed an AI model to detect different kinds of potholes and gauge how fast they're deteriorating.
Royal Family watch Red Arrows flypast on Buckingham Palace balcony — The annual event marks the King's official birthday and features more than 1,400 members of the armed forces.
Apple says it's fixed the awful search function for emails, photos | TechCrunch — Apple says a completely rebuilt Search function will competently find the emails, photos and other content you are searching for.
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This humanoid robotics company is going public, but its CEO isn't promising a robot in your home anytime soon | TechCrunch — While other humanoid startups chase sky-high valuations, Agility Robotics is betting its future on execution — and a SPAC.
Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars | TechCrunch — Google just made it significantly cheaper to enjoy its budget AI subscription tier.
Meeting notetaker Circleback adds a free tier to attract more customers | TechCrunch — Circleback is also introducing new pricing plans starting from $14 per month
Why Apple's slow-and-steady AI bet is starting to look pretty smart | TechCrunch — Can Apple's new AI glow up put to bed accusations that it's losing an all-important industry race?
Poppy debuts a proactive AI assistant to help organize your digital life | TechCrunch — Poppy is an AI-powered app that connects your calendar, email, messages, and other services to surface reminders, suggestions, and tasks based on what’s happening in your life.
Researchers automated LLM reasoning strategy design and cut token usage by 69.5% — <p>Test-time scaling (TTS) has emerged as a proven method to improve the performance of large language models in real-world applications by giving them extra compute cycles at inference time. Howev
A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech’s $100M gunfight | TechCrunch — Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom.
“Scientists have found that people are being exposed to more toxins than previously known, and beyond damaging — “Scientists have found that people are being exposed to more toxins than previously known, and beyond damaging lungs, wildfire smoke may affect hearts, brains a
Best water bottle deal: Save $550 on the Stanley Quencher H2.0 — The prices are tumbling.
The seven AI tools I actually use and when — Nobody builds with one model anymore. Here is the stack I reach for, tool by tool, with the one trick that makes each earn its place.
Apple Card keeps getting better, here's everything new - 9to5Mac — Apple Card launched seven years ago this month, and it keeps getting better. There are new features, perks, rewards, and...