July 27, 2026

Enigma raises $70M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume: The massive seed round was led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo's Conviction Partners. Read More

Kalshi demands Netflix take down trailer for ‘Prediction Games’ documentary: Kalshi claims the trailer is “defamatory” and contains “both fabricated documents and false and misleading statements.” Read More

The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught: An awe-inspiring hacktivist who hacked two controversial government spyware makers may be the most prolific hacker to have never gotten caught. What do we know about Phineas Fisher? Read More

General Compute raised $15m to build the world's first ASIC cloud. By removing the GPU bottleneck, it runs frontier LLMs up to 16x faster than standard GPU clouds. ASIC silicon is also far more energy efficient, so it deploys in air-cooled data centers, making growth and expansion dramatically easier.

Europe got its own TBPN-style live show, and everyone’s angling for a guest spot: On Monday, the network announced a $1.6 million seed round from top players in the media ecosystem, including Powerhouse Capital, Axel Springer SE (which owns Business Insider and Politico), the popular media publication LadBible, and angel investors from OpenAI and DeepMind. With this fresh capital, the network is announcing its largest expansion yet. Read More

Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack: "The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!" Read More

TechCrunch Mobility: Uber bets on its former CEO: Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. Read More

Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI: On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI's Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street. Read More

Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI?: Forget YouTube videos—frontier physical AI models need multiple camera angles, dense annotation, and soon, brain wave readings. Read More

Snapchat now lets you share what you're listening to in real time: Starting with Spotify, Snapchat users will be able to link their accounts, choose who can see their listening activity, and see what their friends are listening to in real time. Read More

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July 26, 2026

US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search: A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border. Read More

SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites but suffers another booster failure: The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue relighting the booster's rocket engines. Read More

Kalshi demands Netflix take down trailer for ‘Prediction Games’ documentary: Kalshi claims the trailer is “defamatory” and contains “both fabricated documents and false and misleading statements.” Read More

Thinking about stretching your PC fleet to wait out the price spike? The research says that's backward. Organizations that handle AI PC transitions best refresh consistently — not with a one-time buy. Join us for a free online webinar on July 29th at 10am PT/1pm ET to learn how to spec smarter for what's coming.

The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught: An awe-inspiring hacktivist who hacked two controversial government spyware makers may be the most prolific hacker to have never gotten caught. What do we know about Phineas Fisher? Read More

Volkswagen engineers charged with insider trading tied to Rivian joint venture: The indictment, which was unsealed Friday, alleges the Volkswagen engineers used confidential insider information to buy stock in Rivian. Read More

I tried out OpenAI's new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else: OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it. Read More

Elon Musk’s Boring Company reportedly raising funding at a $20 billion valuation: Elon Musk's tunneling startup is reportedly in talks for a major new funding round. Read More

Waymo reportedly mulling a breakup with Uber: The contract between the two companies ends in May 2028, Uber told TechCrunch. Read More

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One fallen power line exposed a growing AI data center problem. Here's how to fix it.: A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem. Read More

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