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Topgolf and VMware "ran deep" before the migration.

Pluto Security has raised $42 million Jump Capital, TLV Partners, Ansa Capital and angel investors.

Twenty founders just earned their shot at Disrupt glory. They're headed to the main stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to compete for the $100,000 prize and the coveted Disrupt Cup.

As AI data centers and EVs drive up demand for copper, Giraffe Bio has unearthed a $6.4 million seed round to help miners extract more of the mineral.

WHO report on Russian lab worker death highlights "key uncertainty" and more — today's url signal.

Without a cause of death, it's unclear if Russia's precautions were the right ones.

Kojima's discontinued "playable trailer" is no longer stuck on a few aging PS4 hard drives.

Google’s newest wearable costs $179.99 and has a sleek feel like the Fitbit Air but with an OLED display.

What does this mean for a fall full of movies starring villainous tech CEOs?

Richualist is one of TechCrunch's Battlefield 200 Companies!

This Battlefield 200 startup has developed blood-purification tech to save children

Learn how OpenAI protects user data when AI agents open links, preventing URL-based data exfiltration and prompt injection with built-in safeguards.

Max Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, detailed on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt how his company's work with PRIMA is part of its path toward a novel brain-computer interface (BCI).

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman predicts a future where personal AI assistants become as commonplace as household appliances, running partly on local devices and partly in the cloud.

Redesigning source control at Anthropic Interesting piece from Anthropic describing why and how they built their own custom alternative to Git, based on the dramatic increase in rate of changes to their code after the past six months. In May 2026, Anthropic averaged around 2,500

Industrial Next helps manufacturers automate complex, delicate tasks that have traditionally required human labor.

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman has a message for AI leaders spreading doomsday warnings: Maybe stop talking? At TechCrunch Disrupt, he argued that the industry's focus on AI's risks is drowning out its potential benefits.

Release: llm-gemini 0.35 I added support to llm-gemini for the new Gemini 4 Argon model, made available today via the Gemini API and for customers of their $100/month subscription plan. Here are the low, medium and high pelicans. As expected, they are all excellent: Gemin

But third-party sellers, not Anbernic, are the ones routinely selling ROM-filled SD cards.

Topgolf and VMware "ran deep" before the migration.

The steel industry is a big polluter, but Helix Carbon can upcycle pollution from blast furnaces to drive down emissions and improve margins.

It's not clear exactly for what purpose the recording device was used, but FBI director Kash Patel said the scheme was to "capture sensitive communications about the company’s super intelligence technology."

A federal judge ruled that Apple can access OpenAI's interview materials involving former Apple employees, as well as private messages and testimony from key figures in the case.