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Acti puts AI agents directly into your smartphone keyboard

Waymo and Uber quietly part ways in Phoenix

Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business

Omen AI’s plan to optimize data centers is all wet

California law targeting loud streaming ads takes effect on July 1

Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short

Govee’s smart nugget ice maker makes every iced drink feel like a luxury

Indian payments chief thinks AI will be heavily involved in next era of digital payment growth

SoftBank’s CEO isn’t the only one with questions about Elon Musk’s orbital data center hype

Novak Djokovic has a new job — advisor to private equity firm General Atlantic

Why everyone from OpenAI to SpaceX is building their own chips (and turning up the heat on Nvidia)

Xbox follows Apple with price increases

Notion Mail shuts down amid agent takeover

Anthropic’s Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT

New website names and shames companies that still don’t offer passkeys to users

Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks

Here’s why Slate changed the battery in its cheap EV truck

Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero

Klue says hackers stole credential from 2022 that led to customer data breaches

Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to launch its own prediction market

Google DeepMind bets $75M on AI’s future in Hollywood with A24 deal

Anthropic says Claude may want to see your ID

Klue hack results in data breach at several cybersecurity firms

Ethan Thornton is trying to do everything all at once

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash

Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’

In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search

Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish

He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots.

Encryption, spyware, and now Mythos: History shows why cyber export control doesn’t work

Go eyes robotaxis and acquisitions after Japan’s biggest IPO of 2026. Here’s why it matters

Aura’s impressive e-ink photo frame doesn’t even look digital

AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid

World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names

Android 17 launches with new multitasking tools as Google expands Gemini features

Rivian cuts hundreds of workers after R2 deliveries start

Malaysia’s AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitions

Sundar Pichai faces boos, walkout at Stanford graduation ceremony over Google’s Israel, ICE ties

The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak

Meta’s new ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms

Orbio raises $21 million to automate hiring and onboarding for frontline workers

Startup CEO Charlie Javice is reportedly angling for a Trump pardon

UK may ban social media for children under 16

As Anthropic suspends access to new models, India debates its AI future

Meta reportedly moves to unwind $2B Manus deal after Beijing’s demand

KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations

Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic model concerns before government crackdown

Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living

Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI

Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it

SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell just gave another hint at a Tesla merger

Bluesky launches group chats, as company shifts focus to community features

Cybercriminals claim breach of Oracle PeopleSoft servers at 100-plus organizations

Wing drone delivery might not be a novelty anymore

Anthropic’s Fable 5 can make weirdly fun video games with the click of a button

Can tech companies learn to love cheaper AI models?

CISA gives US federal agencies three days to fix a VPN bug under attack by a ransomware gang

Apple’s Health app can now tell you if you’re in perimenopause

Apple introduces systemwide dictation

Apple says it’s fixed the awful search function for emails, photos

Massachusetts votes to pass new privacy rights bill that bans sale of precise location data

Uber, Wayve and Waymo are headed towards a robotaxi showdown in London

Is this the dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?

Notion restores access to Anthropic after service disruption

TechCrunch Mobility: Inside GM’s $900M EV battery gamble

Hacked, leaked, and held for ransom: the worst breaches of 2026 so far

OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks

Sriram Krishnan is leaving his role as White House AI advisor

Startup Battlefield 200 applications officially close in 3 days

Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute

GM’s electric future depends on a new battery — and this building

Startup Battlefield is returning to Australia — here’s what happened the last time we came to Sydney

Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, raises $465M to build a power plant for Microsoft

Alphabet’s record-breaking $85B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal

Google’s Dreambeans, its weirdest-named AI tool to date, will turn your life into a cartoon

Amazon faces class action lawsuit over Ring facial-recognition feature

Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, in first-of-its-kind lawsuit over violent incidents

A new app, The Mall, is building a universal feed for online shopping

Strava declares war on scrapers ahead of IPO

Unastella, a South Korean rocket startup that launched from home, raises $24M