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• Cursor’s Anysphere nabs $9.9B valuation, soars past $500M ARR [12d]
• Circle IPO soars, giving hope to more startups waiting to go public [12d]
• Why are Elon Musk and Donald Trump fighting? [12d]
• Europe will have to be more Tenacious to land its first rover on the moon [12d]
• Elon Musk and Donald Trump are smack-talking each other into their own digital echo chambers [12d]
• Perplexity received 780 million queries last month, CEO says [12d]
• Walmart and Wing expand drone delivery to five more US cities [12d]
• Amazon launches new R&D group focused on agentic AI and robotics [12d]
• Rippling calls Deel ‘a criminal syndicate’ and claims 4 other competitors were spied on, too [12d]
• Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf: ‘It would be odd for us to sell Claude to OpenAI’ [12d]
• Bonfire’s new software lets users build their own social communities, free from platform control [12d]
• X tests highlighting posts that are liked by users with opposing views [12d]
• Google says its updated Gemini 2.5 Pro AI model is better at coding [12d]
• Apple says 82% of compatible iPhones are running iOS 18 [12d]
• Anduril raises $2.5B at $30.5B valuation led by Founders Fund [12d]
• Introducing Bounce, a tool to move your following between Bluesky and Mastodon [12d]
• Snapchat launches an Apple Watch app globally [12d]
• How to watch Apple’s WWDC 2025 keynote [12d]
• WWDC 2025: What to expect from this year’s conference [12d]
• Less than 48 hours left to exhibit at TechCrunch All Stage [12d]
• Phone unlocking firm Cellebrite to acquire mobile testing startup Corellium for $170M [13d]
• Profitable African fintech PalmPay is in talks to raise as much as $100M [13d]
• Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai dismisses AI job fears, emphasizes expansion plans [13d]
• North America takes the bulk of AI VC investments, despite tough political environment [13d]