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‘Keys to the kingdom’: hackers who gained access to heart of London transport network jailed
Two teenage hackers were sentenced to five and a half years each for infiltrating London’s Transport for London network in 2024, stealing data from millions of commuters and causing £39 million in damages.
‘Keys to the kingdom’: hackers who gained access to heart of London transport network jailed
Uber to buy Germany’s Delivery Hero in $14.8bn global deal
OnePlus officially gives up on the US and Europe
UK investigation to determine if TikTok fails to protect children from harmful content
Phone maker OnePlus reportedly plans to wind down US and Europe operations
Amid rising consumer electronics prices and slow demand for new purchases, Android phone maker OnePlus plans to wind down its U.S. and Europe operations this week, according to a report from Bloomberg. The report cited a source saying that OnePlus’ shuttering of its...
Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant
Applied Computing, a London-based startup that’s building a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry, has raised a $20 million Series A led by engineering giant KBR, with Databricks Ventures participating. Founded in 2023, the startup targets...
Lululemon backs nylon recycling startup Syntetica in $30M Series A
Activewear company Lululemon has invested in the $30 million Series A round raised by Syntetica, a French startup that developed a novel approach to recycling nylon, whose properties make it both too good to give up but hard to reuse. Syntetica promises to recycle two...
OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
On Wednesday, OpenAI unveiled its first custom-built inference processor, designed and manufactured in collaboration with Broadcom. Named Jalapeño, the new processor was designed specifically for the unique needs of OpenAI’s inference systems. OpenAI’s own AI models...
If you want to cut your screen time, just get a Brick
I’ve had screen time limits on my iPhone for years, allowing me 30 minutes on social media each day. How many times have I dismissed the limit notification and continued watching mindless Reels? I’d be horrified to find out. It turns out that all along, what I needed...
If you want to cut your screen time, just get a Brick
I’ve had screen time limits on my iPhone for years, allowing me 30 minutes on social media each day. How many times have I dismissed the limit notification and continued watching mindless Reels? I’d be horrified to find out. It turns out that all along, what I needed...
3 days left to save up to $190 on your TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 pass
You have just 3 days left to save up to $190 on your pass to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 before Early Bird rates end on June 26 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Founders don’t scale alone. The fastest-growing startups learn from peers facing similar challenges, gain insights from...
3 days left to save up to $190 on your TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 pass
You have just 3 days left to save up to $190 on your pass to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 before Early Bird rates end on June 26 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Founders don’t scale alone. The fastest-growing startups learn from peers facing similar challenges, gain insights from...
Valor Equity Partners looks to raise a $2.5B Fund VII, per Bloomberg
New details have emerged about Valor Equity Partners’ Fund VII, which last year filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to begin raising capital. Bloomberg reported Wednesday that the fund is targeting at least $2.5 billion in capital, a...
Valor Equity Partners looks to raise a $2.5B Fund VII, per Bloomberg
New details have emerged about Valor Equity Partners’ Fund VII, which last year filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to begin raising capital. Bloomberg reported Wednesday that the fund is targeting at least $2.5 billion in capital, a...
Slate Auto’s radically simple electric truck starts at $24,950
Slate Auto, the EV startup backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos, has finally revealed the starting price of its electric truck: $24,950. That’s excluding taxes, title, license, registration, governmental fees, destination charges, documentation fees, and any optional...
How to invest when everything is moving too fast
TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC evening in Los Angeles late last week brought together two of the more straight-talking investors working in AI right now. Carter Reum is co-founder of M13, an early-stage firm with $2.5 billion in assets under management that has been a seed...
Walmart-backed Flipkart expands quick-commerce push as Amazon ramps up in India
As quick commerce becomes India’s next e-commerce battleground, Walmart-backed Flipkart said Wednesday that its Minutes service has built a network of 1,000 micro-fulfillment centers — small, strategically located warehouses designed to enable deliveries in minutes —...
India’s MoEngage bets that the future of marketing is millions of AI agents
Indian customer engagement software firm MoEngage, which serves brands across global markets, has acquired San Francisco-based startup Aampe in an all-cash deal, betting that AI agents that make decisions for individual customers will become the future of marketing....
Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero
GPTZero, the three-year-old AI detection startup that Princeton grad Edward Tian first built as a senior thesis project, has been acquired by Superhuman, the companies announced on Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, though Tian told Business Insider that...
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