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AI

Meta is expanding its AI agent Muse to small businesses | TechCrunch

Meta announced on Tuesday that it’s expanding its AI agent Muse to small businesses and adding new integrations...

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Apps

Fireflies adds dictation to its desktop notetaking apps | TechCrunch

Voice AI has gained particular traction for a few consumer use cases: The biggest category is meeting note-taking,...

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Security

Still running iOS 26? Update your iPhones, iPads and Macs for this urgent security fix | TechCrunch

Apple has fixed a security vulnerability in its iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and macOS 26 operating systems that...

Space & Spaceflight

The Great Space Elevator

There are startups and then there are startups. Web 2.0 is all fine and dandy and I love...

Space & Spaceflight

Asteroid Bennu Came From an Unexpected Corner of the Solar System

A new study pinpoints Bennu's birthplace to a specific zone between the inner and outer solar system.

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Security

OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents breached government sites | TechCrunch

OpenAI on Monday apologized to the Australian government for not immediately notifying the country’s administration that its agents...

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AI

Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market | TechCrunch

Terms like “AI sprawl” have become common fare on tech social media and in thought leadership as enterprises...

Physics & Chemistry

CERN to Morons: Large Hadron Collider Won’t Destroy Earth. Morons.

Contrary to the somewhat feverish claims laid out in an recent lawsuit, when our favorite particle-smashing, Force-finding Large...

Physics & Chemistry

A Mathematician Discovered a New Eight-Faced Shape. It Looks Like a Glitch in Reality

For a seemingly pointless exercise, these odd shapes can actually serve a practical purpose.

Apple CEO Tim Cook arrives at the Sun Valley lodge for the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 8, 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho.
In Brief

Tim Cook reportedly tells employees Apple ‘must’ win in AI | TechCrunch

Apple CEO Tim Cook held an hourlong all-hands meeting in which he told employees that the company needs...