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Founders share VC horror stories, and some are naming names
Asking venture capitalists for investment is a rite of passage for tech founders. This has led to another universal experience: the VC pitching horror story. A massive conversation sharing such stories has taken place all week on X with the comments both funny and...
Former cyber executive turned whistleblower accuses IBM of covering up several data breaches
A former IBM cybersecurity executive accused the company of getting hacked three times in the previous decade by foreign governments and then covering up the breaches. In a lawsuit unsealed this week but filed in 2020, William Barlow, who was IBM’s vice president of...
Startup Battlefield 200 applications officially close in 3 days
Founders, your window to enter Startup Battlefield 200 closes in just three short days. Applications for Startup Battlefield 200 officially close on June 8, 11:59 p.m. PT. Do not wait any longer. Secure your shot at competing on the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt...
Microsoft’s AI Futurist explains how he uses Copilot — and the real-world problems enterprises are solving with agents
Microsoft used its Build 2026 conference this week to push a clear message: agents are rapidly moving into production throughout enterprise systems, and the winning platform will be the one that gives them reliable context, governance, identity, memory — and secure...
Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute
SpaceX has lined up another compute deal ahead of its historic IPO, this time with Google. The company announced the deal in a regulatory filing on Friday. Under the terms of the deal, Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029...
AI agents are learning on the job — just not for your whole team
When someone on a team corrects an AI agent — better prompts, better feedback, better context — that improvement disappears the moment a colleague opens the same tool. The correction doesn't transfer, and the next person starts from zero.The problem compounds in...
GM’s electric future depends on a new battery — and this facility
Hidden among the architectural landmarks of General Motors’ sprawling Warren Tech Center outside Detroit is a new cornerstone of the automaker’s $900 million bet on its electric future. The nondescript 500,000-square-foot pair of off-white boxes, which house GM’s new...
As VC-backed e-bike startups went bankrupt, bootstrapped Lectric grew
Lectric eBikes, a Phoenix, Arizona-based company known for its practical and affordable XP series electric bikes, has launched three new brands so far this year — a Juiced Bikes relaunch, a new Juiced Powersports brand, and now a premium adventure brand called Monarc...
Meta’s AI support agent bound recovery emails for anyone who asked. Your SOC never saw an alert.
Meta's AI support agent bound recovery emails to accounts for whoever asked, and SOCs never saw an alert. An authorized agent writes a log of legitimate transactions, so nothing in the detection stack fired. Attackers asked the bot to make the change, took the...
Founder of Shark Tank-backed startup Scholly sues his acquirer Sallie Mae
When Chris Gray sold his Shark Tank-backed scholarship search startup Scholly to Sallie Mae in 2023, he thought he had it all. Now he’s suing the student loan giant for wrongful termination and alleging that it’s selling the data his app collected, which includes...
Apple introduces a cheaper option for App Store subscriptions
Apple is giving App Store developers a new way to attract subscribers with lower-priced plans tied to a yearlong commitment. The company announced on Monday it will introduce a new subscription option that lets customers pay for their auto-renewing subscriptions on a...
Snapchat brings AI-powered conversational advertising to its app
Snapchat announced on Tuesday that it’s rolling out “AI Sponsored Snaps,” which will allow users to interact directly with brands’ AI agents. Sponsored Snaps are the ads placed directly into the app’s main Chat tab. Until now, users couldn’t interact with these ads,...
YouTube is testing an AI-powered search feature that shows guided answers
Users often search for recipes and travel plans on YouTube to find videos related to their queries. Now, the video platform will offer a new tool to cater to those users’ needs with its introduction of an AI-powered interactive search feature that presents...
BCI startup Neurable looks to license its ‘mind-reading’ tech for consumer wearables
BCI (brain-computer interface) technology — in which neural signals are routed from a person’s head to a computer — was once the stuff of science fiction, but these days the technology represents a competitive corner of the tech industry. One of the companies racing...
Red Hat’s OpenClaw maintainer just made enterprise Claw deployments a lot safer
On Tuesday, Red Hat principal software engineer Sally O’Malley released a new open source tool called Tank OS to make it easier to deploy and manage OpenClaw agents more safely. “This was a fun project that I put together on the weekend that I knew would be a really...
Otter’s new feature lets users search across their enterprise tools
AI meeting notetaker apps have realized that transcribing meetings and providing summaries alone is not enough to justify their business models and valuations. They now want to act as a full workspace where users bring in data from different sources, search across all...
Mistral AI launches Workflows, a Temporal-powered orchestration engine already running millions of daily executions
Mistral AI, the Paris-based artificial intelligence company valued at €11.7 billion ($13.8 billion), today released Workflows in public preview — a production-grade orchestration layer designed to move enterprise AI systems out of proofs of concept and into the...
Drizzle on top: a new high-end dog food brand is coming for the 1%
The pet food aisle has never been more crowded, which is exactly why Hillary Coles says she was skeptical when Atomic Labs came calling. “I had the same reaction you did,” Coles told me on a call Monday afternoon, a day before her new company, Golden Child, opened for...
India’s Snabbit closes $56M round as investor interest in on-demand home services heats up
Snabbit, an Indian on-demand home services startup, has closed a $56 million funding round, confirming TechCrunch’s earlier report. Co-led by Susquehanna Venture Capital, Mirae Asset Venture Investments’ Unicorn Growth Fund, and Bertelsmann India Investments, the...
Microsoft and OpenAI gut their exclusive deal, freeing OpenAI to sell on AWS and Google Cloud
Microsoft and OpenAI on Monday announced a sweeping overhaul of the partnership that has defined the commercial AI era, dismantling key pillars of exclusivity and revenue-sharing that bound the two companies together for years and replacing them with a looser,...
Open source Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 and V2.5-Pro are among the most efficient (and affordable) at agentic ‘claw’ tasks
Xiaomi, the Chinese firm best known for its smartphones and electric vehicles, has lately been shipping some incredibly affordable and high-powered open source AI large language models.The trend continued today with the release of Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 and Xiaomi...
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Five Ways That Technology Has Changed The Gambling Industry
It is no secret that the technological advancement of mobile devices has changed a fair share of industries in the world. Think about the way you do your shopping; chances are you tap away on your mobile screen while you commute and get your groceries delivered...
Is the Future of Online Gambling in Mobile Technology?
Rewind the clock about two decades. If someone were to tell you back then that more people would be watching videos, playing games, and enjoying other entertainment on a small 4-inch or even 9-inch screen, what would have been the general reaction? Absurdity, right?...
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