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Founders Fund hires former OpenAI exec Ryan Beiermeister (and not because of her Mafia skills) - TechCrunch
Founders Fund hires former OpenAI exec Ryan Beiermeister (and not because of her Mafia skills) TechCrunch…
Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's $1.5B AI implementation company, announced in May, launches with the name Ode with Anthropic and 100 engineers (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch : Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's $1.5B AI implementation company, announced in May, launches with the name Ode with Anthropic and 100 e…
Israel-based Oak, which is building an AI-native identity access management system, comes out of stealth with a $60M seed (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
Anna Heim / TechCrunch : Israel-based Oak, which is building an AI-native identity access management system, comes out of stealth with a $60M seed — Physical badges used to be all …
Sources: Nous Research, the startup behind Hermes, an open-source agent and OpenClaw rival, is raising $75M+ at a $1.5B valuation led by Robot Ventures (TechCrunch)
TechCrunch : Sources: Nous Research, the startup behind Hermes, an open-source agent and OpenClaw rival, is raising $75M+ at a $1.5B valuation led by Robot Ventures — Nous Research…
What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor - TechCrunch
What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor TechCrunch…
Forget sit-ups and crunches: I did the gymnast plank for a week, and my core still hasn’t forgiven me
Here’s how to try it…
Knicks staring down crunch in free agency after assembling strong baseline for quest to repeat
The Knicks locked up Landry Shamet, which, barring James Dolan changing his mind on the second apron, reiterated what we knew was happening.…
TechCrunch Mobility: All eyes on Tesla FSD
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.…
Sakana AI's Fugu and 360's cybersecurity model Tulongfeng claim to rival Anthropic's banned Mythos and Fable 5 models amid the US export ban (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
Kate Park / TechCrunch : Sakana AI's Fugu and 360's cybersecurity model Tulongfeng claim to rival Anthropic's banned Mythos and Fable 5 models amid the US export ban — On Wednesday…
Forget crunches — this 10-minute core workout fired up my abs more than 100 sit-ups using a surprising piece of equipment
You need one piece of easy yet surprising kit to do five moves…
South Africa: Joburg to Hire 1,700 Despite Budget Crunch - South African News Briefs - June 26, 2026
Mitchell Robinson unlikely to return to Knicks as team faces second apron crunch
The longest-tenured Knick probably won’t get a chance at an NBA title repeat.…
Nothing changes for Cape Verde in crunch clash with Saudi Arabia
HOUSTON, June 25 : Cape Verde will give Saudi Arabia the same respect they showed to Spain and Uruguay in their crunch World Cup Group H clash in Houston on Friday, but believe a p…
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Apple’s MacBooks and iPads are getting more expensive as the memory crunch deepens
Apple increased prices on select MacBooks and iPads Thursday morning on the heels of a blowout Micron earnings report.…
Facebook brings back Facebook Creator Studio as a stand-alone app with built-in AI chatbot to help creators grow their audiences through personalized guidance (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch : Facebook brings back Facebook Creator Studio as a stand-alone app with built-in AI chatbot to help creators grow their audiences through personalized gui…
Hang Ten Systems, led by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, launches with a $32M seed led by Mayfield to help enterprises use AI to run software at a lower cost (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : Hang Ten Systems, led by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, launches with a $32M seed led by Mayfield to help enterprises use AI to run software at a low…
TechCrunch Mobility: A new robotaxi scorecard shows China’s dominance
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.…
US and Iran hold crunch talks in Switzerland
Negotiations aimed at reaching permanent end to war will initially focus on Israeli-Hizbollah conflict in Lebanon…
Apple’s Tim Cook says price hikes are on the way, citing memory chip crunch
Apple plans to hike its prices, citing the rising costs of storage chips and memory, CEO Tim Cook says.…
Meta says Threads now has 500M MAUs, adds a "Your Algo" tool that lets users control what they see in their feed, and brings Communities out of beta (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch : Meta says Threads now has 500M MAUs, adds a “Your Algo” tool that lets users control what they see in their feed, and brings Communities out of beta — Ne…
NewCore, which helps companies manage both human and AI agent identities in a single system, emerges from stealth with a $66M seed led by Cyberstarts (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : NewCore, which helps companies manage both human and AI agent identities in a single system, emerges from stealth with a $66M seed led by Cyberstarts —…
Sandstone, which builds AI-powered workflow automation tools for legal teams at small and mid-sized businesses, raised a $30M Series A led by Lightspeed (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
Russell Brandom / TechCrunch : Sandstone, which builds AI-powered workflow automation tools for legal teams at small and mid-sized businesses, raised a $30M Series A led by Lightsp…
TechCrunch Mobility: SpaceX rockets past Tesla
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.…
US export controls on Anthropic reignite debate in India over the country's AI ambitions, which are increasingly tied to tech developed and governed in the US (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : US export controls on Anthropic reignite debate in India over the country's AI ambitions, which are increasingly tied to tech developed and governed in…
Why Andrew Yang is building instead of waiting for Washington
Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign was based on a warning that automation and AI would hollow out the labor market and concentrate wealth in the hands of a few. At the time, …
Cybersecurity researchers complain that Claude Fable's guardrails are too strict, rejecting "innocuous tasks" like reading blog posts or performing code reviews (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
Fusion energy startup Helion raised a $465M Series G led by Thrive Capital at a $15.5B valuation, nearly tripling the valuation from its January 2025 round (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
Tim De Chant / TechCrunch : Fusion energy startup Helion raised a $465M Series G led by Thrive Capital at a $15.5B valuation, nearly tripling the valuation from its January 2025 ro…
Startup Battlefield is returning to Australia — here’s what happened the last time we came to Sydney
On August 19, Startup Battlefield is returning to Sydney in partnership with Stripe, one of the world's most iconic technology companies. We're taking over Stripe Tour Sydney for a…
Bengaluru-based grocery delivery startup FirstClub raised a $55M Series B co-led by Peak XV and Sofina at a $255M valuation, up from $120M in September 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Armed with AI, study identifies prey from predator crunching sounds
Meta is alerting Instagram users whose accounts were taken over using Meta AI chatbot; some hackers claim to still be able to exploit Meta AI chatbot (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch : Meta is alerting Instagram users whose accounts were taken over using Meta AI chatbot; some hackers claim to still be able to exploit M…
Amazon announces new visual search features, including displaying AI-generated images of products within its app based on users' search queries (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Amazon announces new visual search features, including displaying AI-generated images of products within its app based on users' search queries — In what…
Instagram is alerting users who were targeted by hackers during AI chatbot attacks
Hackers appeared to take over victims’ accounts even after Meta said it fixed its AI-powered support chatbot, which granted hackers access to victims’ accounts.…
Fund crunch paralyses cultural academies in Kerala
Cultural academies in Kerala face a funding crisis, disrupting operations and salaries amid governance issues and financial mismanagement allegations.…
Meta launches Meta Business Agent globally on WhatsApp and Instagram DMs, after a two-year pilot of the customer support AI bot in India, Mexico, and others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Boston-based software monitoring startup Coralogix raised a $200M Series F at a $1.6B post-money valuation, up from $1B+ after a $115M Series E in June 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Layup Parts, which aims to digitize the composite manufacturing supply chain for aerospace, defense, and motorsports, raised a $42M Series A led by Marlinspike (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch : Layup Parts, which aims to digitize the composite manufacturing supply chain for aerospace, defense, and motorsports, raised a $42M Series A led by Marli…
Global smartphone market faces record annual decline as chip crunch worsens
Meta is testing a Series feature, letting select creators make episodic Reels that are placed in a dedicated hub on their profile, using both old and new Reels (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch : Meta is testing a Series feature, letting select creators make episodic Reels that are placed in a dedicated hub on their profile, using both old and new…
SK Hynix to Double Wafer Capacity to Ease Memory Chip Crunch - Bloomberg.com
SK Hynix to Double Wafer Capacity to Ease Memory Chip Crunch Bloomberg.com…
How to make the Startup Battlefield Top 20 — and what every company gets regardless
Every founder who applies to Startup Battlefield wants the same thing: the Disrupt Main Stage. Here’s how to get there and why the opportunity starts well before the main stage.…
Strava blames zero-code AI apps and scrapers as it tightens API access
The popular fitness-tracking platform, Strava, is restricting access to its API as part of efforts to clamp down on AI scraping, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Developers who w…
Strava declares war on scrapers ahead of IPO
Strava will charge a flat monthly fee from developers to access its API…
Memory crunch sends PC prices into double-digit climb
Notebooks up 11%, desktops 10% as chipmakers ditch consumer kit for AI server bling…
TechCrunch Mobility: It doesn’t matter that people hate the Ferrari Luce
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.…
Making sense of the debate over AI psychosis
On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether tech CEOs are "uniquely prone to AI psychosis."…
With Microsoft's GitHub Copilot shifting to token-usage billing on June 1, many developers bemoan massive cost increases and the end of flat-rate subscriptions (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch : With Microsoft's GitHub Copilot shifting to token-usage billing on June 1, many developers bemoan massive cost increases and the end of flat-rate subscri…
Google's keyword ad practices face renewed criticism after the Delhi High Court ruled against Google in a trademark dispute involving Indian company Hindware (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : Google's keyword ad practices face renewed criticism after the Delhi High Court ruled against Google in a trademark dispute involving Indian company Hi…
Microsoft faces backlash after a blog post implied criminal referral and legal action against security researcher Nightmare Eclipse over public bug disclosures (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
From crunchy to creamy, texture is the new star on the plate
Social media usage of the word “velvety” to describe food is up 40% quarter over quarter, and nearly half of American restaurant-goers now say texture is just as important as taste…
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Row over Kerala Kalamandalam Chancellor post amid cash crunch
Controversy arises at Kerala Kalamandalam over Chancellor Mallika Sarabhai amid financial strain and calls for her removal.…
Tigers Roster Crunch Builds as Carpenter, Torres Near Return
Detroit Tigers face a roster crunch as Kerry Carpenter and Gleyber Torres near rehab returns. See what moves could be next.…
Xcena, whose MX1 chip performs data orchestration and KV cache management directly within memory modules, raised a $135M Series B at a $570M valuation (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
What smart people are saying about AI ROI crunch: 'Where's the revenue?'
Uber COO Andrew Macdonald gave voice to the growing concerns that, despite spending big on AI, companies aren't seeing meaningful returns.…
What smart people are saying about AI ROI crunch: 'Where's the revenue?' - Business Insider
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Asana acquires StackAI, a no-code platform for building AI agents, for $75M as part of Asana's broader AI pivot; PitchBook: StackAI raised ~$20M (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
Russell Brandom / TechCrunch : Asana acquires StackAI, a no-code platform for building AI agents, for $75M as part of Asana's broader AI pivot; PitchBook: StackAI raised ~$20M — As…