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Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to ‘expand human potential’
Reach Capital announced Tuesday an oversubscribed $265M Fund V.
View the articleEinride strikes deal to add 500 Tesla Semis to its fleet
Einride will buy the Tesla Semis, which will be made to Amazon and other customers.
View the articleDetroit startup Grounded raises $5M to customize electric and gas-powered vans
The company has shifted from making van-life builds to custom outfitting vehicles for small businesses, all while the EV landscape in the US changed dramatically.
View the articleThe Powerful Chinese AI Model Experts Warned About Is Here
Z.ai’s latest AI model release could help companies secure their systems—or find its way into the hands of hackers.
View the articleAnthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B
The model maker added $18 billion in annualized revenue in two months.
View the articleAI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team
"We have some really ambitious plans to help you work with AI in Chrome to get things done, and I’ll have more to share soon," Jacob Bank, Relay founder and CEO, said.
View the article‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators
Cybersecurity experts who investigate spyware attacks say the number of people who received a recent threat notification from Apple is unusually high.
View the articleQ&A: Rethinking how innovation happens
In his latest book, Professor Eugene Fitzgerald examines the forces that turn breakthroughs into value — and why innovation resists simple formulas.
View the articleSave up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until August 21
If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the startup community gathering in San Francisco from October 13-1...
View the articleSpotify’s new Playlist Notes let users and editors explain their song picks
Spotify launches a new feature that gives users a chance to explain the stories and reasoning behind their favorite music. Editors will be using the feature, too, on top playlists like RapCaviar and ...
View the articleHiggsfield raises $400M Series B, quadrupling its valuation in 8 months to $5.4B
Higgsfield, founded by former Snap exec Alex Mashrabov, lets users create AI images and videos.
View the articleReddit begins testing a new audio and video experience, similar to popular TikTok videos
Reddit is beginning to test video and audio versions of popular posts, allowing users to watch or listen to Reddit stories instead of just reading them.
View the articleSound-powered fire protection startup gets $15M to snuff out fires before they turn catastrophic
Sonic Fire Tech raised its new funding to help get its sound-powered fire protection system into everything from commercial kitchens to apartment buildings.
View the articleYouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing
The change comes a year after YouTube applied the same approach to counting views on Shorts videos.
View the articleFeedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, not its AI pivot
Feedly says a bug is behind the performance issues that have made its web app nearly "unusable" for some users, while complaints about its mobile apps and customer support are adding to frustrations.
View the articleAmazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI
Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.
View the articleGroq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud
Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.
View the articleCopilot Autofix Opened a Shell Injection in Snowflake’s CI/CD Pipeline
A security fix written by GitHub's Copilot Autofix and merged into a Snowflake repository on June 18, 2026 stripped out a sanitized input pattern and left the company's CI/CD pipeline open to command ...
View the articleA Constitution for the New Enterprise: 15 Rules for AI Governance
These essays were supposed to be about architecture. Read them back and notice what they actually did: they kept issuing rules. Approvals are not data; verifications are. Govern by consequence. Do not...
View the articleNvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project
Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.
View the articleTerra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South
African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52 million.
View the articleWordPress.com targets the next generation of web creators with a free student plan
WordPress.com Education lets teachers offer their students free domains, plug-in support, and professional website-building tools.
View the articleThe Hidden Cost of AI: How “Black Box” Models Are Eroding Trust, Budgets, and the Environment
The AI industry has a model design problem. Enterprises are starting to feel it in cost, performance, and reliability. AI can talk – but can it listen? Listening is far more than simply processing w...
View the articleAxiom Math’s AI Verifies the 246 Prime-Gaps Theorem in Lean
Axiom Math says its AxiomProver system has produced a machine-checked Lean 4 proof of the strongest known result on gaps between prime numbers: the theorem that infinitely many pairs of primes differ ...
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