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.
Uber, Wayve and Waymo are headed towards a robotaxi showdown in London | TechCrunch — Uber customers in the UK can now join an interest list to increase their chances of being matched with a Wayve robotaxi.
Quick commerce FirstClub doubles valuation to $255M in nine months | TechCrunch — The Bengaluru startup has crossed 1 million orders and reached a $50 million annualized GMV run rate within a year of launch.
Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Plus supports text, video and imagery inputs at low cost of $0.4/$1.6 per 1M token — but it's proprietary — <p>Alibaba <a href="https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2061506641120641494?s=20">this week released Qwen3.7-Plus</a>, the latest AI large language model (L
How did the government decide OpenAI's frontier model was safe to release? | TechCrunch — "Exactly what that dialog looked like between the government and Anthropic and OpenAI is unclear."
Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute | TechCrunch — In a statement, a Google representative described the deal as a result of unexpected demand for its recently launched AI products.
Cheaper, faster, and culturally aware, Avataar's video AI is built for India's scale | TechCrunch — Avataar AI's distilled video model is priced at $0.005 for every second of generation
Using git's rerere feature to escape recurring conflict hell — Using git's rerere feature to escape recurring conflict hell - rerere.md
Celebrating the DPReview community: A mid-2026 update — From DPReview's Community Manager, we take a quick look at the state of the community in mid-2026, and where we're headed next.
Agent memory on Elasticsearch: hybrid retrieval and DLS - Elasticsearch Labs — Persistent agent memory on Elasticsearch: three-index architecture, hybrid retrieval, supersession and DLS isolation. R@10 0.89, zero cross-tenant leaks.
Meta quietly launches vibe-coded gaming app Pocket | TechCrunch — Meta has quietly launched Pocket, an experimental AI app that lets users generate and share interactive mini games using text prompts.
Why the rise of open source AI isn't hurting Anthropic ... yet | TechCrunch — Open-source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life-cycle.
Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their business | TechCrunch — The funding round was led by Norwest, with participation S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor.
When deep research isn't enough for your business: Sakana AI launches 'ultra deep research' agent for 100+ page reports in 8 hours — <p>Tokyo-based AI startup Sakana AI has officially launched its first commercial product, <a href="https://sakana.ai/marlin/">Sakana Marlin</a>. </
I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit — Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised at how expensive their LLM bills are becoming from usage by …
GitHub - newren/git-filter-repo: Quickly rewrite git repository history (filter-branch replacement) — Quickly rewrite git repository history (filter-branch replacement) - newren/git-filter-repo
Can Zimbabwe’s mineral ambitions benefit smaller producers? — Zimbabwe wants to process more minerals at home, but smaller miners fear being left behind.
Watch Steve Lacy’s Head Float in the Dark in New “The Feeling” Video — The latest preview of Lacy’s long awaited third album, Oh Yeah?
Comparing an LZ4 Decompressor on Four Legacy CPUs — A few years ago, I needed to save some cartridge space in a SNES project, and I did so by compressing that data with the LZ4 compression algorithm from 2012. I found that working within the constra…
Using self-hosted Umami for iOS app analytics — How my native apps share the self-hosted Umami backend my websites already use, through a small open source Swift package called umami-swift.
England fans face resale prices of at least £2,600 for Mexico tickets — England fans hoping to attend the World Cup last-16 showdown with Mexico face paying a minimum of £2,600 for one ticket on Fifa's resale site.
The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source — An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like a sign of how AI will disrupt existing moats and business models. Analysis
Musk’s xAI is being sued over its data center generators. Now, it’s buying $2.8B more. | TechCrunch — Elon Muks's xAI said it will buy $2.8 billion worth of natural gas turbines over the next three years, according to SpaceX's IPO filing.
Using OR-Tools CP-SAT for Scheduling Problems — I’ve been working on improving how we schedule maintenance in Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, especially disruptive maintenance on hypervisor hosts serving hundreds of thousands of guest VMs. The problem is fairly complex, with compe
Microsoft launches Scout, an OpenClaw-inspired personal assistant | TechCrunch — Launched at Build, Microsoft Scout is a new AI assistant meant to bring the power and flexibility of OpenClaw into the Microsoft 365 system.
Disrupt 2026 Early Bird ticket savings end in 3 days | TechCrunch — Only 3 days left to save up to $410 on your ticket to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Early Bird pricing ends May 29 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register before rates hike.
Google will now disclose which ads are made with AI | TechCrunch — A new feature will indicate when advertisers have used generative AI tools to create or edit their ads, Google says.
These are the 7 best Home Assistant custom integrations—according to the community — Thousands of users can't be wrong.
Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out | TechCrunch — Neil Rimer, the venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures, predicts the historic wealth AI is generating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed, voluntarily or involuntarily.
Elon Musk's Starbase wants to expand in south Texas — Landowners and activists worry about impact to the environment around SpaceX's complex.
5 days left: Save up to $410 on Disrupt 2026 passes | TechCrunch — Early Bird savings for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco end May 29 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register now to save up to $410 before prices increase.
Password manager maker LastPass says hackers stole customer support case data during Klue breach | TechCrunch — This is the second data breach to affect LastPass customers in recent years, after one of the password manager's tech partners was recently breached.
How to end a TV show — The creative minds behind From talk about learning from Lost, fan expectations, and wrapping up a story loaded with mysteries.
Planning in the dark – Increment: Planning — When planning product development before you have product-market fit, continual iteration and getting comfortable with discomfort can help light the way.
Everyone is navigating AI security in real time -- even Google | TechCrunch — We're in the transition period -- all of us.
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.
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.
Six things we now know about the UK economy in charts — The UK economy is showing resilience – it’s worth diving into the data in more detail to understand why.
‘No one's making a phone like this’: Light's co-founders on building for the anti-smartphone generation | TechCrunch — Watch as Light co-founders join Equity to talk about why they think the anti-smartphone backlash is just getting started and what it takes to break an…
7-Eleven data breach affects over 185,000 people's personal data | TechCrunch — The data breach included names, dates-of-birth, postal addresses, and Social Security numbers, according to a state government listing.
This startup is betting India's gig economy can train the world's robots | TechCrunch — Human Archive, a startup founded by UC Berkeley and Stanford researchers, is paying gig workers in India to wear camera-equipped caps and sensor devices to collect the real-world physical trai
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
AI's most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use | TechCrunch — The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is one of the basic building blocks of AI interoperability, giving AI models a secure way to access external data sources
Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raises $12B to build an 'artificial general engineer' for the physical world | TechCrunch — The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion.
GitHub - jumpserver/jumpserver: JumpServer is an open-source Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform that provides DevOps and IT teams with on-demand and secure access to SSH, RDP, Kubernetes, Database and RemoteApp endpoints through a web browser.
Oracle warns of security bug that hackers abused to breach 100+ companies | TechCrunch — The tech giant warned of a security flaw that a cybercrime gang said it's exploiting as part of a mass-hacking campaign. Google said it notified more than 100 organizations that had potential
Tuchel praises respectful Mexico fans amid increased security — Thomas Tuchel dismisses concerns over England's treatment in Mexico, saying it has been "nicer than I expected" and that home fans are "friendly and respectful".
Cash App launches a wand for tap-and-pay | TechCrunch — Cash App plans to launch more tap-to-pay tags
Should AI help you get away with killing your spouse? | TechCrunch — What does a world of total user-aligned AI actually look like?
Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again | TechCrunch — They're rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI's defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even more money -- potentially a…
Newcastle change shirts during first half of friendly — Newcastle United change shirts in the first half of their pre-season friendly against Bayer Leverkusen.
New Microsoft tool lets devs spin up AI behavior tests using text descriptions | TechCrunch — Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing, an open source framework for spinning up AI evaluations.
GitHub - tejaswigowda/ffmpeg-webCLI: A browser-based video editor powered by ffmpeg.wasm. No uploads, no servers -- all processing happens locally in your browser using WebAssembly. — A browser-based video editor powered by ffmpeg.wasm. No uploads, no servers -- all processing ha
The Art of Being Human | Shalini Robert | TEDxChennai Institute of Technology Women — A deep personal journey of love, loss, resilience, and purpose. After losing her father in a tragic accident, she chose compassion over despair, dedicating her life to uplifting children,…
Why and how we extended Polars with Rust expression plugins for fenic | fenic blog — The text operations an AI pipeline needs — chunking, prompt templating, jq, fuzzy matching, markdown and transcript parsing — aren't in Polars, and Python UDFs are slow and break composition.…
Next chapter: Restructuring GitHub's bug bounty program — GitHub is making some significant changes to its bug bounty program, shifting its focus to give researchers a better experience.
The Dune keypad device can be your meeting controller and more | TechCrunch — The $149 Dune keyboard can be a meeting controller at least and a script-executing keypad at best.
Hyundai takes full control of Boston Dynamics as SoftBank exits for $325 million - Startup Fortune — Hyundai Motor Group is acquiring SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million, completing its full ownership of the robotics
MathCode — A Frontier Mathematical Coding Agent — A terminal AI coding agent that formalizes math problems into Lean 4 theorems and proves them.
GitHub - kerlenton/mcpsnoop: Wireshark for MCP. A transparent proxy that shows every real tool call between your AI client and your MCP servers, live in your terminal. — Wireshark for MCP. A transparent proxy that shows every real tool call between your AI client and your MCP…