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Left-leaning influencers embrace Bluesky without abandoning X, Pew says

NAACP calls on Memphis officials to halt operations at xAI’s ‘dirty data center’

Meta plans to automate many of its product risk assessments

TechCrunch Mobility: A ride-sharing pioneer comes for Uber, Tesla loses more ground, and dog-like delivery robots land in Texas

Trump administration to claw back $3.7B in clean energy and manufacturing awards

Delaware attorney general reportedly hires a bank to evaluate OpenAI’s restructuring plan

Tesla alum’s Heron Power closes $38M Series A to transform key grid technology

In a victory for Palmer Luckey, Meta and Anduril work on mixed reality headsets for the military

Karat Financial is bringing business banking to creators

Google Photos debuts redesigned editor with new AI tools

Rivr’s dog-like robots join Veho vans to solve ‘last-100-yards’ parcel delivery in Austin

Meta reportedly splits its AI team to build products faster

WordPress has formed an AI team

Samsung may invest in $100M round for medical imaging startup Exo

One of Europe’s top AI researchers raised a $13M seed to crack the ‘holy grail’ of models

Why landing your first tech job is way harder than you expected

Vote for the sessions you want to see at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Tesla opened Cybertruck trade-ins, and the numbers aren’t pretty

From LLMs to hallucinations, here’s a simple guide to common AI terms

Last 24 hours: TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 Early Bird Deals will fly away after today

Why a new anti-revenge porn law has free speech experts alarmed 

Kesha is now a startup founder

OpenAI upgrades the AI model powering its Operator agent

Open social web browser Surf makes it easier for anyone to build custom feeds

LM Arena, the organization behind popular AI leaderboards, lands $100M

Wyden: AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon weren’t notifying senators of surveillance requests

Jony Ive to lead OpenAI’s design work following $6.5B acquisition of his company

Google brings a music-generating AI model to its API with Lyria RealTime

Headline Asia closes $145M fund to fuel investments in Asia-Pacific

Google inks another massive solar power deal to electrify its data centers

Uber eyes B2B logistics push in India through state-backed open commerce network

VUZ gets $12M for its immersive video experiences across emerging markets and the U.S.

Crypto elite increasingly worried about their personal safety

Grok says it’s ‘skeptical’ about Holocaust death toll, then blames ‘programming error’

U.S. lawmakers have concerns about Apple-Alibaba deal

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella is choosing chatbots over podcasts

Laser-powered fusion experiment more than doubles its power output

AI startup Cohere acquires Ottogrid, a platform for conducting market research

Arc’s new 24-foot electric boat is its cheapest yet

TechCrunch Mobility: Google’s Gemini is coming to your car, chaos comes for Luminar, and the Amazonification of Uber 2.0

Lucid’s record quarter got a lift from rental sales and company leases

Startups Weekly: A brighter outlook, but don’t get carried away

OpenAI brings its GPT-4.1 models to ChatGPT

The future of digital finance is customer-centric

AWS enters into ‘strategic partnership’ with Saudi Arabia-backed Humain

TikTok launches TikTok AI Alive, a new image-to-video tool

Apple brings emergency satellite features to iPhone 13 with iOS 18.5

Mercury’s CEO formalizes bets on early-stage founders with a $26M fund

Apple reportedly plans to hike prices of upcoming iPhones

Tech stocks look set to jump as U.S. and China pause reciprocal tariffs

23andMe customers notified of bankruptcy and potential claims — deadline to file is July 14

Trump fires Copyright Office director after report raises questions about AI training

The Greek revival you’re not watching (but probably should be)

Egypt’s Nawy, the largest proptech in Africa, lands a $52M Series A to take on MENA

Elizabeth Holmes’ partner reportedly fundraising for new blood-testing startup

FTC delays enforcement of click-to-cancel rule

DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app

Meta taps former Google DeepMind director to lead its AI research lab

Instagram Threads is getting video ads

PowerSchool paid a hacker’s ransom, but now schools say they are being extorted

New court filing shows that Meta execs agreed that Facebook was losing to TikTok

OpenAI wants to team up with governments to grow AI infrastructure

Amazon-owned Zoox issues recall following robotaxi crash

TechCrunch Sessions: AI welcomes Tanka CEO Kisson Lin to talk AI-native startups

FutureHouse previews an AI tool for ‘data-driven’ biology discovery

11x CEO Hasan Sukkar steps down

Over 250 CEOs sign open letter supporting K-12 AI and computer science education

MoneyFellows raises $13M to take its group savings model outside Egypt

Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis?

Trump says he’s willing to delay TikTok ban again

Revelo’s LatAm talent network sees strong demand from US companies, thanks to AI

Backstage access: Spotify’s dev tools side-hustle is growing legs

Temu stops shipping products from China to the U.S.

Warren Buffett will step down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO

Apple and Anthropic reportedly partner to build an AI coding platform

Dating app Raw exposed users’ location data and personal information

FutureHouse releases AI tools it claims can accelerate science

Fintech Bench conducts layoff while others still work month-to-month

Nvidia takes aim at Anthropic’s support of chip export controls