Mark buys a castle
Mark Zuckerberg just bought a cozy abode somewhat close to Meta’s international headquarters in Ireland.
Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses
Google is giving publishers a new button that lets readers make them a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News, potentially boosting their traffic as AI search sends fewer clicks to the web.
Bitcoin Is Pumping But Prediction Market Traders Aren’t Convinced
Bitcoin’s sharpest rally in five months flipped prediction-market odds from bearish to a coin flip—but the longer-term bets still price in a crash.
Runlayer, Rippling drop lawsuits — but the brouhaha is still a cautionary tale for founders
Runlayer and Rippling have dropped their lawsuits. No money was paid. Rippling celebrated by releasing a competing product.
Castelion hits $13B valuation to mass-produce hypersonic missiles
Founded in 2022, Castelion set out to manufacture hypersonic weapon systems at a lower cost and at faster speeds than traditional defense primes.
U.S. CFTC chief puts staff on notice to create crypto regulations if Clarity Act fails
Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Mike Selig told the inaugural gathering of the Innovation Advisory Committee that his agency won’t sit idle.
Mark Zuckerberg bought an Irish castle
Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg now owns an actual castle. Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan bought Strancally Castle and its 440-acre estate in Ireland “several weeks ago,” according to The Irish Times. While the exact price of the purchase is unclear, the family could … Read more
CFTC Chair Readies Crypto Rules If Congress Fails to Pass Clarity Act
The CFTC chair said staff is already exploring a crypto market structure framework and could move quickly to propose rules if Congress fails to act.
Alibaba’s Revenue Jumps 9% as AI Cloud Growth Hits 45%—But a Profit Plunge Sends Shares Lower
Cloud and AI product revenue accelerated in the June quarter, but a 75% drop in net income extended Alibaba’s run of profit misses to a fifth straight quarter.
Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule
Linkdaze’s smart digital calendar stands out for not putting its features behind a paywall, including an AI meal planner tool.
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XRP Notches Best Week Since 2024 Election Pump on Bitcoin Short Squeeze
The token’s steepest daily and weekly gains in months rode Bitcoin’s record liquidation wave—though ETF flows and futures data hint the move is running on borrowed momentum.
US debt tops $40T stoking debate on what it means for Bitcoin
Analysts say the $40 trillion debt milestone could bolster Bitcoin’s long-term case, even as Treasury yields, dollar strength and liquidity remain key near-term drivers.
Australia says Roblox hasn’t fixed its child predator problem
Roblox is promising more changes to its child safety features following testing from Australia’s online safety regulator, eSafety. eSafety has been looking into concerns that the company hasn’t been in compliance with Australia’s Online Safety Act, including “allegedly failing to have sufficient measures in place to prevent contact between adults and children under 16. While … Read more
FCC officially decides gigabit speeds are too good for you
Another day, another sad thing to report about our compromised Federal Communications Commission. Chairman Brendan Carr has followed through on his 2025 threat to kill long-term broadband speed goals established during the Biden administration, which aimed for eventually getting us to gigabit download and half-gigabit upload speeds. How dare we dream of spreading great download … Read more
Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users
Affected users told TechCrunch they were using Grok Lite, and noticed the issues as early as Wednesday morning.
The investor’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know
Year after year, investors who’ve explored the Expo Halls, met founders, and learned from peers have proven why you need to be on the ground at Disrupt this year.
A third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds
ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.
Framework says it’s addressing a BIOS update that bricked some of its older laptops
The 2023 Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040-series chips. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Some Framework Laptop 13 owners with last-gen AMD chips have reported that a recent BIOS update is bricking their laptops on both Windows and Linux. The BIOS update causing this issue is version 3.20 for Ryzen … Read more
Iranian Hackers Tied to $6 Million Bitcoin Extortion Charged in Massive Cyber Campaign
Seventeen alleged members of Iran-based Mabna Institute were charged over hacks targeting hundreds of universities, companies, and government agencies.
Early Cerebras investor Adit Singh joins Mayfield as infrastructure partner
At Mayfield, Singh will focus on semiconductor, cybersecurity, and physical AI investments.
Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router
Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models via an API.
Nearly 2,000 Hacked WordPress Sites Turned Into Criminal Infrastructure
The StopAndProtect operation used compromised WordPress websites to spread malware, steal crypto wallet files, and deploy ransomware.
Authoring Dogwood policies from natural language in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AI agents can automate complex workflows but might take actions that don’t align with your organization’s policies or regulatory constraints if used without proper controls. To address this, we built Policy in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore so teams can implement controls that are applied across agents running in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. This was recently expanded with … Read more
Scaling agentic AI: Enterprise patterns without vendor lock-in
Scaling agentic AI across an enterprise requires architectural patterns that preserve flexibility while avoiding vendor lock-in. This post is Part 2 of our series on multi-agent systems at scale. In this post, we examine how machine learning (ML) teams operate agentic AI systems across a “multi-everything” environment of frameworks, models, and providers. We also cover … Read more
Treasury buybacks could set up Bitcoin’s next move toward $180,000, says strategist
Longtime bond market investor Mark Connors sees routine government bond buybacks improving liquidity and bringing bitcoin’s next rally closer.
Bitcoin miners pour billions into AI as capex outpaces revenue 15-to-1
Nine public miners generated $341 million from AI and HPC operations in the first half of 2026 after spending more than $5 billion on capital assets.
Scaling cloud migrations with agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Scaling cloud migrations with agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore starts with recognizing where large-scale migrations break down. Discovery consumes weeks per application. Engineers write infrastructure code from scratch for each workload. Post-migration operations devolve into reactive firefighting. Multiply those bottlenecks across over 300 applications and a fixed fiscal year deadline, and migration programs struggle … Read more