Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market | TechCrunch
Cognition's valuation multiple is higher than Cursor's was before selling to SpaceX.
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Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it? | TechCrunch
Meta's new personal AI agent Muse wants access to users' email, calendars, payments, health services, and more — making the company's biggest consumer AI bet yet a major test of whether people still trust Meta with their data.
Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal | TechCrunch
Google Cloud expands its enterprise AI push with Accenture, betting on forward-deployed engineers to drive adoption and overcome deployment bottlenecks.
Nuclear startup Bluecore Energy raises $50M seed round, just two months after launch | TechCrunch
Bluecore Energy announced Tuesday an oversubscribed $50 million seed round — just months after raising a $10 million pre-seed and coming out of stealth.
Poseidon Aerospace lands $60M ahead of first pilotless test flight
The startup is trying to rethink the economics of cargo aircraft by removing pilots from the equation entirely.
Eric Wu's newest company, out of stealth since May, is going after construction's labor crunch | TechCrunch
Eric Wu, who built and ran Opendoor before stepping away in 2022, has had his new company, NavigateAI, out of stealth since May — building AI copilots that give construction workers real-time, hands-free guidance through smartphones and Meta's AI glasses, backed by $25 million from Elad Gil, Khosla Ventures, and Lennar to tackle a labor shortage severe enough that data center projects alone now need 4,000 to 5,000 workers apiece.
A secret new Elizabeth Holmes documentary stuns Telluride | TechCrunch
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's secret Elizabeth Holmes documentary, "You Can See Everything," stunned Telluride audiences Sunday night with its generous access to the Theranos founder.
Phil Schiller’s App Store exit reportedly driven by wariness over future plans | TechCrunch
Schiller reportedly had reservations about new CEO John Ternus' goal of bringing in more recurring revenue from the App Store.
Travis Kalanick’s Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business
The Uber founder has said that Atoms will allow him to complete "unfinished business."
TechCrunch Mobility: Tesla Cybercab hits the road — and a snag | TechCrunch
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
Explore the globe in field recordings
Earth Garden takes you around the world using environmental audio from Freesound.
Clucky's new alarm app wakes you up with a crowing rooster | TechCrunch
Clucky's new alarm app has an option where users are woken up to the sound of a rooster. They then complete a mission to turn it off.
Apple Vision Pro is overkill for tracking wall studs, but it works.
TikTok user CatJacks created an app for Apple’s headset that allows him to see through walls. When he’s running cable in a house, he’ll peek in the attic, mark where the studs are, then come around the other side and be able to see them and the cavity in 3D. [Media: https://www.tiktok.com/@getcatjacks/video/7681787923477302559?_r=1&_t=ZT-99T8Z2JV11K]
Canadian billionaire Kevin O’Leary says success takes sacrifice, focus, and an obsession with getting ...
Tech News News: Canadian billionaire and former Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary has shared his perspective on what it takes to achieve success at the highest level..
XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation | TechCrunch
The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
Instagram is finally letting everyone reorganize their profile grid
On June 8th, Instagram widely launched the ability to freely rearrange the order of photos and videos on your profile page.
Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows 'Tweet' for now | TechCrunch
A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the “Tweet” trademark and bird logo. The startup has since relaunched as Tweet.app.
No little kids allowed, and other new info about Tesla's Cybercab | TechCrunch
The company says no children under 13 can ride -- even with a parent. That's more restrictive than the Model Y SUVs it's using as robotaxis.