July 12, 2026

Reed Jobs would rather talk about curing cancer than his last name: When we last sat down with Jobs at TechCrunch Disrupt nearly three years ago, his firm Yosemite was brand new and biotech was still reeling from its post-pandemic crash. Now, the venture outfit has a team of 17; a cluster of blockbuster drugs are all losing patent protection in roughly the same window, creating all kinds of new opportunities; and AI has gone from a curiosity to, in Jobs's words, a huge part of what Yosemite does. "I didn't expect Yosemite to be moving this fast," he said. Read More

Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft: Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAI's senior leadership, including a longtime former employee. Read More

Phia accused of 'cookie stuffing,' taking affiliate credit on purchases it didn't earn: Phia, the shopping startup founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe, and her friend Sophia Kianni is under fire for a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” which helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it did not actually generate, per a Bloomberg investigation.  Read More

Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash: "Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," the company said in a blog post. "We've heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it's no longer available." Read More

US cybersecurity agency CISA had to build its incident playbook during the incident, agency reveals: Independent cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs reported in May that a security researcher with cyber firm GitGuardian alerted him to reams of exposed passwords stored in a publicly accessible GitHub repository, which an employee of a CISA contractor had uploaded. Read More

OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households: ChatGPT is hiring a dedicated product manager to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults, according to a job posting. Read More

Smart glasses without a camera? Even Realities bets productivity beats recording everyone: The glasses are targeted at people who might be constantly in meetings, giving presentations, and traveling to countries where different languages are spoken.  Read More

A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed: HyperTexting's new app aims to make the open web feel more like social media by turning websites, blogs, newsletters, and podcasts into a scrollable feed, while also making it easier to post to your own website. Read More

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SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs: The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build U.S. factories. Read More

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