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Lucid Motors just delayed its affordable EV. Now what?

The Cosmos EV is now slated for release in the second half of 2027.

Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls

Atlassian's Rovo AI contains vulnerabilities that allow attackers to exfiltrate sensitive data such as Jira tickets and…

Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure

Threat actors are increasingly exploiting legitimate cloud services like Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, Netlify, and GitHub…

AI is a bubble, just like dot-com

The author explores the tension between AI skepticism and enthusiasm by comparing it to the dot-com bubble, where…

After jacking up prices, Disney+ and Netflix consider offering free alternatives

Disney is interested in "price-sensitive" streaming customers.

Meet the eight startups pitching at Startup Battlefield Australia

The applications are in, and the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield team made their decisions!

EVgo starts building Tesla Superchargers under license

The V4 Superchargers will show up in the Tesla nav app and have NACS and CCS1 plugs.

I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words

A fiction writer concerned about AI plagiarism accusations built VellumProof, a word-based version tracking system…

Your model already knows the answer: how benchmark answers leak into LLMs

Large language models frequently achieve high benchmark scores not through genuine reasoning but by having encountered…

PSA: Apple’s Private Relay can leak your real IP address

A bug in how Apple implements its Private Relay feature, which in theory masks users’ IP addresses from the sites they…

Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

Celld is an open-source daemon that enables self-hosted deployment of Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects on your own…

Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod

HyperProbe is an AI agent backed by Y Combinator that automates incident debugging in production by placing read-only…

Why I'm leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

A former OpenAI researcher has joined Conduit as a Founding Researcher to develop thought-to-text technology that…

D-Wave on rails: Company tests entanglement on its dual-rail qubits

Company noted for building quantum annealers now also making gate-based hardware.

Stop sending me your errors

When email systems cannot generate a plain text version of an email, they often mistakenly send "Plain text version not…

Something is changing in the unit economics of software

Software's traditional unit economics—where distributing to millions cost nearly the same as one user—are being…

Discovery Loop

Discovery Loop, founded by prominent AI researchers Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals, is building…

Jeff Dean Leaving Google

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down

The next chapter of our AI momentum

Google and Alphabet are restructuring their AI leadership to accelerate progress on artificial general intelligence…

Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet

Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google

Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers.

Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks

Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.

Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4

Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.

The Valley of Webhooks

Developers repeatedly build complex webhook synchronization systems to maintain local copies of data from third-party…

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search

Wisconsin police used Flock's automatic license plate reader network to track a man traveling between Wisconsin and…

Zoox to start charging for robotaxi rides in Las Vegas

This marks the official launch of Zoox's commercial operations.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Real World AI Stage features robots, automated factories, and extinct animals 

On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways…

Qwen 3.0 Image Pro

Alibaba's Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro is an advanced image generation model that supports up to 4.5k tokens of input and can…