X now offers an MCP server to make its platform easier for AI tools to use | TechCrunch — X has launched a hosted MCP server, making it easier for developers to connect AI applications with the company’s API.
The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught | TechCrunch — An awe-inspiring hacktivist who hacked two controversial government spyware makers may be the most prolific hacker to have never gotten caught. What do we know about Phineas Fisher?
Wildfires bear down on homes in Canada’s Okanagan region — A fast-moving wildfire in Canada’s British Columbia province has forced thousands of people from their homes.
Warp turned the terminal into an IDE pane. It feels obvious in hindsight. https://www.warp.dev
Liquid AI's smallest model yet LFM2.5-230M beats models 4X its size at data extraction, can run 'anywhere' — <p>Liquid AI, founded by former MIT computer scientists, today released its smallest AI language model yet, <a…
Asana's AI agents share memory across your company — but not your secrets — <p>Enterprise teams building AI agents keep hitting the same wall: a chatbot that can answer a prompt but can't remember what the last five people asked it, and can't tell you whether last…
Google DeepMind bets $75M on AI's future in Hollywood with A24 deal | TechCrunch — Google DeepMind and A24 are teaming up to build AI filmmaking tools.
Last chance to apply — Startup Battlefield Australia applications close July 6 | TechCrunch — If you're going to apply for Startup Battlefield Australia, now is the time. Applications close July 6, and once the deadline passes, the opportunity is gone.
Monti Carlo’s Caribbean Cowboy Caviar — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//tk/edit/recipes/2026/2026-07/monti-carlo-caribbean-cowboy-caviar/monti-carlo-caribbean-cowboy-caviar-crop"> A little spicy and a little sweet. <a…
The AI context gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a trust problem, not a retrieval problem — and most are still building the fix — <p>Across 101 enterprises, the infrastructure that feeds AI agents their business context is being built faster than it can be trusted.…
Neon Rides Shines a Light on Wild Vehicles from the Radwood Era — “What will remain of the 1980s?” That’s the question the Italian pop singer and songwriter Raf, best known for the 1983 hit “Self Control” (you may be familiar with Laura Branigan’s version, which ranked fourth…
AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative? | TechCrunch — WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.
Alibaba's AI video model rises to No. 2 in global rankings, as OpenAI's Sora and ByteDance's Seedance fall away — <p><a href="https://www.alibabacloud.com/en?_p_lc=1">Alibaba Cloud</a> on Sunday released <a href="https://www.happyhorse.com/">HappyHorse 1.1</a>, a major upgrade…
AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid | TechCrunch — FERC told grid operators to give data centers a fast lane for interconnections, but it failed to address electricity supply shortages.
AI-driven memory crunch jolts India's smartphone market | TechCrunch — India's smartphone slowdown highlights how the AI boom is reshaping consumer electronics, from pricing and demand to corporate strategy.
Poland now sixth-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium — Poland's economy is gaining in importance in Europe. In 2025 the country ranked sixth in the EU by nominal GDP, accounting for almost 5% of the bloc's total output.
Backed by $60M in funding, Oak steps out of stealth to fix the identity mess that AI agents are making worse | TechCrunch — Cofounded by senior entrepreneur Shai Morag, Israeli identity management startup Oak is emerging out of stealth with $60 million in seed funding.
Instagram's new 'Instants' feature combines elements from Snapchat and BeReal | TechCrunch — The feature lets users share disappearing photos with their Close Friends or mutual followers that can be viewed only once and remain available for 24 hours.
ZCode - Simple, Fast, Vibe‑Ready | Official Harness for GLM-5.2 — ZCode combines the best AI agents with your existing tools so you can plan, code, review, and deploy without friction.
Claude Mythos exposed a hard truth: Your enterprise patching process is way too slow — <p>In 2024,<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08144"> <u>researchers from the University of Illinois</u></a> found that GPT-4, when provided with a common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) d
The US government's Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak | TechCrunch — The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is clear: The AI industry isn't im
All Paths | The Odin Project — The Odin Project empowers aspiring web developers to learn together for free
The Pulse: a new trend, smart model routing — Are there any ‘intelligent’ router solutions out there which select the right model for the right task? I looked into it, and there are a few options.
Supabase + Stripe is the new "startup in a weekend" stack. https://supabase.com
Amazon launches new $1 billion FDE org, following OpenAI and Anthropic | TechCrunch — Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.
Infantino sorry for 'errors' but gets FIFA board's 'full support' — FIFA said Wednesday it had apologized for errors made over Gianni Infantino's failed plan to sell stakes in the World Cup and that senior staff in attendance at a summit held in Morocco "reaffirmed their full…
Netflix lands global streaming deal for ‘The Walking Dead’ | TechCrunch — Netflix just signed a massive new licensing agreement worth $500 million to bring The Walking Dead Universe to international markets.
Adobe adds its AI assistant to Premiere, Illustrator and InDesign | TechCrunch — Adobe is updating its Firefly AI assistant with new chops, and adding it to Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign and Frame.io.
Endurance Energy raises $54M to harness a massive untapped energy source | TechCrunch — SpaceX alumni Andrew Redd is betting the ocean has vast amounts of untapped geothermal energy.
VoidZero is joining Cloudflare — VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone.
How We Made Cloud Browsers 3x Cheaper and Faster — We cut browser sessions from $0.06 to $0.02 per hour while making browsers start and scale faster.
Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight | TechCrunch — Spur Intelligence has raised a $200 million round from Insight Partners for its tech that can identify legit human traffic from bots.
GitHub - aymanhs/nanotdb: A tiny, append‑only time‑series database designed for long‑running sensor data on modest hardware. — A tiny, append‑only time‑series database designed for long‑running sensor data on modest hardware. - aymanhs/nanotdb
The post-American Middle East is beginning to take shape — The pact between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkiye is yet another step towards a new regional security architecture.
Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that's not the same as fixing AI's water problem | TechCrunch — Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center. But it does nothing to address AI's biggest water use — fossil fuel power plants.
Ant, a lightweight JavaScript runtime — Run real npm packages and TypeScript - all from a single 9 MB binary. Ant is a lightweight JavaScript runtime built from scratch on its own engine, with a Node-compatible API, a VM-isolated sandbox, and Wasm support built-in.
Google’s Prompt API | CSS-Tricks — Mat Marquis on Google pulling the web standards equivalent of U2 album marketing:
Even GoPro is pivoting to defense | TechCrunch — The action camera maker, like so many other companies these days, is looking to defense applications as it evaluates a possible sale.
Instagram is testing more ways to customize ‘Your Algorithm’ | TechCrunch — Instagram users could soon see more ways to tune their content.
Solar to dominate energy by 2035, but AI data centers will keep fossil fuels in business | TechCrunch — Costs for solar panels are expected to drop another 30% in the coming decade, helping the tech cement its lead in energy markets.
Best Prime Day cordless tool deals: Save on Craftsman, DeWalt, Hoto, and more — Get those home DIY projects started (and finished?) all before Prime Day ends.
Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation without Heuristics — We present Elevator, the first binary translator that statically translates entire x86-64 executables to AArch64 without debug information, source code, or assumptions about code layout. Unlike existing syst
Anthropic is bringing back Claude Fable 5 globally after US lifts export control order — where can enterprises access it? — <p>Anthropic is <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/redeploying-fable-5">restoring global access </a>to its most powerful generally released AI model…
Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection — If you’ve ever tried using type erasure for something more complicated than std::any or std::function, you’ve either written 100+ lines of easy-to-mess-up code or reached for a boilerplate-heavy library like Boost.TypeErasure or…
Fusion power darling Commonwealth Fusion Systems raises another $1B | TechCrunch — Commonwealth Fusion Systems raised $1 billion as the startup moves toward its first commercial fusion power plant.
Newsletter platform Beehiiv now lets subscribers chat with each other, adds AI | TechCrunch — Beehiiv is launching an AI Copilot to help publishers with user growth and analytics
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.
Have we finally worked out how Venus flytraps snap shut? — It was widely thought that the movement of water through Venus flytrap cells caused the trap to close, but detailed experiments have led scientists to propose an alternative mechanism
The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier | TechCrunch — Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises increasingly want open models, due to cost, accessibility, and ownership. Do frontier models still matter if most production AI ends up running on open models?
Jonathon Cooper arrested again, allegedly violated protection order — Broncos linebacker Jonathon Cooper was arrested Thursday after he allegedly violated a protection order against him, according to jail records.
Refactoring and Design Patterns — Refactoring is a controllable process of improving code without creating new functionality. Design Patterns are typical solutions to the commonly occurring problems in software design.
SoftBank’s CEO isn’t the only one with questions about Elon Musk's orbital data center hype | TechCrunch — Not everyone is buying Elon Musk’s vision for orbital data centers.
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Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic's Fable | TechCrunch — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned the U.S. government could sanction Chinese AI companies after White House officials accused Moonshot of distilling Anthropic's Fable…
Building Systems, Not Just Services | Bhavin Bavaliya | TEDxLakhotaLake — In this video, Bhavin Bavaliya (a Hairstylist & a Creative Director) shares how a small salon in Rajkot grew into a multi-city network by focusing on systems, training, and consistent customer experience.…
Rocket Lab continues buying spree by acquiring satellite company Iridium | TechCrunch — The all-stock deal values Iridium at $8 billion, and gives Rocket Lab even more firepower to compete against Amazon and SpaceX.
TechCrunch Mobility: It doesn't matter that people hate the Ferrari Luce | TechCrunch — Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.
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‘Sour Minnows’ Review: A Hypnotic Horror Movie About Being Human When Nothing Feels Real — Harrison Atkins’ 'Sour Minnows' turns AI anxiety, indie cinema, grief, and apocalypse into a surreal horror film about staying human. Review.
Apple to produce Made in America wireless chips with Broadcom | TechCrunch — Apple has signed a $30 billion+ multiyear deal with Broadcom to design and produce more than 15 billion U.S.-made custom wireless connectivity chips for Apple products.