More top reads In more Meta news: Meta and IBM form an AI Alliance. Here's what that means. Speaking of AI, over on TechCrunch+, Alex writes that today's AI funding rush gives him all the feels of 2021 fintech investing. Read more. Master blaster: Fortnite expands its horizons this week with a Lego building game and a Rock Band successor. Game on. Breaker breaker one: Self-driving truck company TuSimple was flying, or should we say, driving, high in the U.S. Until it wasn't. Now it's leaving the country. Encrypted email no more: Used by only a few nerds, Facebook kills PGP-encrypted emails. Here's what happened. Link up: SoftBank takes a 51% stake in Cubic Telecom for $513 million to drive into the connected car world. Look, Mom, no wires. Toot toot, hey, beep beep: For iPhone users who really care about the color of text chain bubbles, Beeper reversed-engineered iMessage for Android users. Get the scoop. And thanks to Beeper, Darrell has a new favorite phone. Meet the OnePlus Open. When you need to find that next transmission: Egypt's Mtor nabs $2.8 million preseed for its online auto parts marketplace. Vroom. In the driver's seat: Foretellix raises $85 million to build and test scenarios for self-driving systems. Here's how. Carbon-friendly food: Carbon Maps, a French carbon accounting startup for the food industry, gets new backers. See what they do. Dumplings to your door: Vancouver's Fantuan raises $40 million to deliver real Chinese food to your doorstep. Knock knock. Heigh ho!: Mine digs up $30 million for its no-code approach to vetting data privacy. Read more. Even more for your Tuesday: Twilio might actually deserve activist investor attention (TC+) Rightbot, which is developing robots to unload freight, lands investment from Amazon Git platform AllSpice now curries favor with enterprises Vercel makes it easier to ship better code at scale Veteran life sciences firm RA Capital spins up 'planetary health' team to ride climate tech wave (TC+) | 
