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Amazon’s Prime Air is taking off in nearly 500 U.S. cities

Amazon is significantly expanding its Prime Air drone delivery service, with plans to reach nearly 500 U.S. cities by the end of 2026....

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Calendly throws its hat into meeting note-taker circus

Calendly is also releasing a meeting scheduling assistant called Callie....

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The founder’s secret weapon: Work at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and learn how the pros do it

Volunteer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and get an insider's view of how world-class tech events get built and more....

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Home batteries are suddenly cheap and everywhere. Here’s why.

Companies including Tesla and Base Power are vying for a piece of the rapidly growing market for home batteries. One technology has made it all possible....

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CareCloud confirms 3.7M patients had their medical records stolen in data breach

The cyberattack at CareCloud resulted in one of the largest reported data breaches in the U.S. healthcare industry this year....

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You can Venmo your college tuition, for some reason

Kids these days don't know how good they have it....

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AI isn’t close to curing cancer. This startup says it knows what it will take.

It's the data, stupid....

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Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers

Relativity Networks deals in hollow-core fiber, a rarely deployed technology that allows data to be transmitted 30% faster than conventional fiber....

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Cursor capitalizes on Github frustration, launches rival hosting platform

Cursor, known for its AI Code Editor, is launching a new code hosting platform to rival developers' long preferred favorite, Github....

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DOJ’s probe into Andreessen Horowitz over board seats baffles VCs

Since portfolio companies often pivot and expand into competing markets, investors view occasional conflicts of interest as unavoidable for large VC firms....

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TikTok explores peer-to-peer payments via DMs, report says

If rolled out, the feature would use the social media service’s TikTok Pay offering, which is already available in Southeast Asia for TikTok Shop purchases....

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OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach

The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and security during the post-training process....

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Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month

Jane Street has installed Etched's first shipped AI cluster system, and was so impressed, it led another massive round, the startup says....

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Apple overhauls its EU App Store fees, loosens rules for alternative app stores

Apple is simplifying its EU App Store fees, replacing its per-install fee with a 5% commission for apps distributed outside the App Store and making it easier for developers to operate alternative app...

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Comcast adds motion sensing to millions of its newer routers, with a privacy catch

A new feature added to Comcast's newest routers can detect if there is motion is inside your home without needing traditional motion sensors....

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Why Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods may not be the ‘pervert pods’ consumers fear

Apple’s leaked camera-equipped AirPods might avoid the privacy pitfalls of other AI wearables by preventing users from recording photos and videos....

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Bluesky says its recent outage was caused by another DDoS attack

This is the latest large-scale DDoS attack to hit the social networking site this year....

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Peacock is raising prices across all of its streaming plans

The cheapest ad-supported “Select” plan is increasing from $7.99 to $8.99 per month....

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Warp’s new system is an out-of-the-box software factory for AI development

On Tuesday, Warp introduced Warp Factories, a new infrastrructure system designed to make building AI software factories as easy as possible....

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Anthro Energy breaks ground on factory that could pave the road to solid-state batteries

Battery materials startup Anthro Energy has broken ground on a Louisville factory to make electrolytes, including those for solid-state batteries....

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Apple’s new macOS update reportedly contains a video of AirPods with a camera

A video in a MacOS Tahoe release candidate version shows a user wearing AirPods, looking at a book, and talking to Siri....

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Daniel Ek’s body-scanning startup Neko Health opens first US office, in New York

The scanning and bloodwork health startup founded by Spotify's founder will officially launch in New York in about a month....

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Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to ‘expand human potential’

Reach Capital announced Tuesday an oversubscribed $265M Fund V....

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Fairphone is launching its latest repairable phone in the US too

The Fairphone 6+ is priced at $649 and will be available on Amazon....

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Einride strikes deal to add 500 Tesla Semis to its fleet

Einride will buy the Tesla Semis, which will be made to Amazon and other customers....

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Detroit startup Grounded raises $5M to customize electric and gas-powered vans

The company has shifted from making van-life builds to custom outfitting vehicles for small businesses, all while the EV landscape in the US changed dramatically....

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Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B

The model maker added $18 billion in annualized revenue in two months....

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AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team

Relay, which offered businesses workflow automation, will stop operating next month. Its CEO and some of its staff plan to get to work on Google Chrome next....

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‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators

Cybersecurity experts who investigate spyware attacks say the number of people who received a recent threat notification from Apple is unusually high....

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Save up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until August 21

If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the startup community gathering in San Francisco from October 13-15 at...

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Spotify’s new Playlist Notes let users and editors explain their song picks

Spotify launches a new feature that gives users a chance to explain the stories and reasoning behind their favorite music. Editors will be using the feature, too, on top playlists like RapCaviar and o...

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Higgsfield raises $400M Series B, quadrupling its valuation in 8 months to $5.4B

Higgsfield, founded by former Snap exec Alex Mashrabov, lets users create AI images and videos....

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Reddit begins testing a new audio and video experience, similar to popular TikTok videos

Reddit is beginning to test video and audio versions of popular posts, allowing users to watch or listen to Reddit stories instead of just reading them....

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Sound-powered fire protection startup gets $15M to snuff out fires before they turn catastrophic

Sonic Fire Protection raised its new funding to help get its sound-powered fire protection system into everything from commercial kitchens to apartment buildings....

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YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing

The change comes a year after YouTube applied the same approach to counting views on Shorts videos....

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Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, not its AI pivot

Feedly says a bug is behind the performance issues that have made its web app nearly "unusable" for some users, while complaints about its mobile apps and customer support are adding to frustrations....

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Amazon, once an online bookseller, is destroying rare books to train AI models

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online....

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Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud

Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint....

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