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Snap CEO sidesteps Specs pre-order questions on Q2 earnings call | TechCrunch — When asked about product-market fit, Spiegel said he believes mass-market consumer adoption won't occur until the end of the decade.
How Europe and middle powers should create a resillience club | Hugo Dixon | TEDxPlaka — The world’s biggest carbon polluters - China and America - stand in the way of effective action on climate change. They are also the world’s superpowers. It might seem that the rest of the…
WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access — From DrvFs in WSL 1 to Plan 9 to virtiofs, cross-OS file access in WSL 2 has improved with each generation. A new change gives each virtio device its own dedicated DMA pool, removing the last major contention point on the virti
Write code like a human will maintain it — One of the best things about LLMs is that they'll write code for you, all day long. Who cares about DRY? You don't have to be the one updating the same long con...
Neocloud Together AI raises $800M, leaps to $8.3B valuation | TechCrunch — The AI neocloud provider, which specializes in hosting open source models, last raised at a $3.3 billion valuation in early 2025.
Foldable iPhone Ultra will have an average cost of $2,550, report says — A new report projects that the iPhone Ultra will immediately become a major player in the global foldable market.
Tata Sons May Resist RBI's IPO Push, Says IiAS's Dalal — Hetal Dalal, COO and President of IiAS, a corporate governance and proxy advisory firm, says Tata Sons is expected to "put up a fight" against the RBI's efforts to require a listing. She argues that an IPO could constrain…
Sources: Ravens held Cam Jurgens physical before trade with Eagles — As the Ravens and Eagles were preparing to agree to a trade that would send Cam Jurgens to Baltimore, the two sides made immediate plans for the center to undergo a physical in Philadelphia before any deal was…
Clicks shows off its BlackBerry-inspired phone in a new hands-on video | TechCrunch — A new video shows the final production version of the upcoming Clicks Communicator, a BlackBerry-like smartphone that runs modern apps.
Meta's Muse hits Mac, letting the AI take actions on your computer | TechCrunch — Muse is now available on the Mac, where it can work with your files and apps to take action on your behalf.
New tile series by AA Danto — <p>Dezeen Showroom: Japanese brand AA Danto will release new lines of porcelain tiles during 3 Days of Design, including collections by designer Ingegerd Råman and Swedish firm Claesson Koivisto Rune Architects. AA Danto collaborated with Swedish fir
I wrote a 70x faster SQL parser while barely looking at the code - PostHog — After the success of using agents to improve query performance through autoresearch , I wanted to try something more ambitious. I rewrote PostHog's…
Uber rival inDrive scales beyond ride-hailing to capture more consumer spending | TechCrunch — inDrive's ad business, first piloted in July 2025, has served more than 2 billion impressions and attracted over 2,000 paying advertisers a month.
Founders Guide: Success may not matter if you aren't doing what you love — Founder market fit is a necessary but insufficient condition for finding success in the startup world
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.
Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose last startup, Bench, imploded | TechCrunch — Crosby is building Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service for other startups.
Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes — I challenged myself to make a tiny subset of Python in C.
Reliability fail: No automated zone failover for Coinbase’s global trading service — Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders.…
Chad accuses Sudan of deadly air strike near shared border — An air strike on a fuel market near Chad's border with Sudan killed 12 and injured seven, according to officials.
A new app, The Mall, is building a universal feed for online shopping | TechCrunch — The Mall lets shoppers build a personalized feed of brands, track sales and drops, and discover products across thousands of retailers.
Pinterest cut AI costs 90% by gutting a frontier model's vision layer — <p>At 620 million monthly users, calling a frontier model for every image recommendation isn't a strategy — it's a bill. Pinterest CTO Matt Madrigal solved it by gutting Qwen3-VL's vision layer
Pluto 1.0 release! — After six years, it’s time to release Pluto version 1.0! With this release, I want to celebrate all the progress over the past years, and to symbolise that Pluto is ready. I am proud of what we have achieved, and I hope you enjoy it! This is a long post, so
Microsoft’s carbon removal plans aren’t dead after all | TechCrunch — Microsoft is responsible for over 90% of the carbon removal market, and reports suggested the company was pausing purchases entirely. This new deal should help assuage the fears of CDR startups.
Perplexity AI unveils hybrid local-cloud inference system at Computex 2026 — <p><a href="http://perplexity.ai">Perplexity AI</a>, the fast-growing search startup now <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/perplexity-reportedly-raised-200m-at-20b-valuation/">valued at $20 bill
TikTok lays off 250 employees, shutters its Nashville office | TechCrunch — The social media giant is shuttering an office that housed some members of TikTok’s content moderation team.
Music streamer Deezer says more than 50% of daily uploads are AI-generated | TechCrunch — Deezer said more than 90,000 AI-generated tracks were uploaded daily on the platform in June
The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go. “Why be financially independent, [editor in — The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go. “Why be financially independent, [editor in chief Sophia Dasser] wondered, if not to publish
Exclusive: Autonomy pivots to gas vehicles to keep the dream of car subscriptions alive | TechCrunch — Scott Painter, founder of TrueCar, is still trying to build a business around vehicle subscriptions, where you can cancel at any time.
Google faces another AI training lawsuit from major publishers | TechCrunch — Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and other publishers allege that Google trained its AI on copyrighted works without the necessary permissions.
How ast-grep Rewrote Tree-sitter in Rust and Made It 30% Faster — The complete adventure of using AI to rewrite Tree-sitter's C core in Rust, simplify it, optimize it, and discover that a faster parser could still make ast-grep slower.
TikTok rolls out an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout | TechCrunch — TikTok describes its new Shopping Assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users discover and purchase products.
FanDuel sent a video from star athlete Bryce Harper to a customer with a gambling problem | TechCrunch — The video calls highlights the murky relationship between professional athletes and gambling apps.
Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project | TechCrunch — Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.
How Shopify built an AI stack that doesn't care which models survive — <p>Shopify built an LLM proxy that gives every engineer access to multiple AI providers — with automatic failover when any one of them goes down, changes, or disappears. <a…
Hugging Face confirms breach affected internal datasets and credentials, urges users to take action | TechCrunch — Hugging Face is urging users to rotate any access tokens stored on the platform and review account activity.
Adoption and Impact of Command-Line AI Coding Agents: A Study of Microsoft's Early 2026 Rollout of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI — Organizations rolling out agentic command line tools like Anthropic's Claude Code and GitHub's Copilot CLI need to know who will try them, who…
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, boasting lower cost and fewer mistakes | TechCrunch — OpenAI is launching two new models, which it says are cut from the same cloth as Astra.
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
US says hackers are targeting vulnerable water systems with the help of AI | TechCrunch — Hackers are targeting internet-connected Siemens controllers used in water facilities around the United States.
DeepSeek cut prices 75%. The 100x problem remains — <p>DeepSeek's recent decision to <a href="https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/how-deepseeks-radical-architecture-is-shattering-silicon-valleys-token-moat">drastically cut pricing</a> on its V4-Pro model by 75% should…
Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models | TechCrunch — Anthropic will extend support for watermarking AI generations for older models as well.
UK’s Rarest Bird Nests Kept Secret to Keep Wildlife Photographers Away — 'They simply could not handle the influx of visitors.'
Fixing a kubelet Memory Leak in Kubernetes 1.36 | Blog | HeyOnCall — How I tracked down a tiny Go lifecycle bug in Kubernetes kubelet which leaked a context on every startPodSync.
It's now very easy to switch password managers on Android! — Google's new method makes switching Android assword managers a breeze!
AI hallucination nearly triggers US military operation | TechCrunch — “It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns.
The Aerogarden I Recommend to Everyone Is Just $83 Right Now, a 63 Percent Discount — This flash deal is a rare chance to buy one of our favorite hydroponic gardens for less than $100.
YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’ | TechCrunch — Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."
The Soothing Unsubtlety of UNBROKEN: The Untold Story of Shen Yun — “What a relief, a breath of fresh air, to be reminded what the barest, sloppiest propaganda can look like.”
Three Observations — Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity. Systems that start to point to AGI* are coming into view, and so we think it’s important to...
Bluesky now lets you upload 10-minute long videos | TechCrunch — Bluesky's new 10-minute video support includes faster upload speeds, too.
Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded | TechCrunch — Runway no longer wants to be just another AI model company. It wants to become the infrastructure layer for generative media. On Thursday, the startup
Better Auth is joining Vercel — Better Auth is joining Vercel. We're joining to accelerate our work on open-source auth and securing agent workflows.
Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips | TechCrunch — ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make running AI less costly.
Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria joins Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch — Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria on winning the modern financial consumer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register now to save up to $200 before Sept 25.
Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now — In Rewriting Bun in Rust Jarred Sumner made the following claim: Claude Code v2.1.181 (released June 17th) and later use the Rust port of Bun. Startup got 10% faster on …
Hackers publish thousands of drivers' data after breaching Florida motor vehicle database | TechCrunch — The ShinyHunters gang leaked the files online after saying the Florida state agency did not pay their ransom demand.
CareCloud begins to notify hundreds of thousands after hackers stole medical records | TechCrunch — The health tech data giant, which handles vast amounts of patients' medical data, said hackers struck one of its protected health data stores.
Catherine sees how her charity climb funds are helping hospital — The Princess of Wales completed the climb in aid of the hospital where she was treated for cancer.
OpenAI files confidentially for IPO, following Anthropic | TechCrunch — The filing comes a little more than a week after its main rival, Anthropic, also filed to go public, ramping up the race between the two AI firms.