Lucid Motors denies report it's considering bankruptcy

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View this email online in your browser  July 14, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 Lucid Motors denies report it's considering bankruptcy: The company said the "rumors are completely false" after its stock sank more than 50% on a report that it was weighing the option. Read More DeepMind CEO calls for an independent standards body to regulate frontier AI: DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is proposing an AI "standards body" modeled after FINRA, to test frontier models and develop best practices for their release. Read More Anthropic's newest ad is creeping people out: Anthropic has consistently attempted to depict itself as the ethical foil to other AI companies. This latest marketing stunt — which leans into criticism of AI as a way to make Anthropic seem aware of the responsibility it carries — would appear to be more of the same. Read More A message from CAST New: Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for tech debt AI agents are not only accelerating software delivery, but the creation of architectural technical debt. Learn how leading organizations are tackling it. Download your full complimentary copy.  Download here Afternoon Must-Reads Iran abused mobile networks' vulnerabilities to locate US military in the Middle East, report says: The Iranian government exploited well-known flaws in cellphone networks to locate and then strike U.S. military personnel in the build-up and beginning of the war. Read More Telegram's shortlink domain is back online after day-long suspension: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov confirmed an outage in a tweet, saying that shortlinks to the messaging app had "stopped working." Read More OpenAI's new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning: A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning. OpenAI had basically disclosed the problem in June. Read More Spotify expands its AI push with a ChatGPT-like music assistant: Spotify is rolling out a new AI-powered conversational feature that lets Premium subscribers chat with the app to discover music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more. Read More Meta’s Adam Mosseri says AI token budgets could soon be capped per engineer: Instagram head Adam Mosseri believes companies will eventually need to manage AI token spending the same way they manage payroll or other operating expenses, predicting that engineers could soon face limits on how much they spend using AI tools. Read More Last but Not Least Apple opens its new Siri AI to everyone with the iOS 27 public beta: If you’ve been waiting to try Apple’s revamped Siri without installing a developer beta, you now can. The company on Tuesday released the iOS 27 public beta, giving iPhone owners early access to its AI-powered assistant and other new features before the software’s official launch this fall. Read More Check out some of our other newsletters: StrictlyVC TechCrunch Events TechCrunch Mobility Want to adjust your daily newsletter schedule? You can do it right here Got a tip? Get in touch securely. Want to advertise on TechCrunch? advertise@techcrunch.com Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. Unsubscribe Member Center Privacy Policy Copyright © 2026 TechCrunch Media LLC 501 2nd Street, Suite 650, San Francisco, CA 94107

Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again

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View this email online in your browser  July 14, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again: They're rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI's defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even more money -- potentially a lot more. Read More Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI: Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley — that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary models are somehow acting like Trojan horses. Read More Telegram's shortlink domain is back online after day-long suspension: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov confirmed an outage in a tweet, saying that shortlinks to the messaging app had "stopped working." Read More A message from General Compute General Compute is making a $300m bet against GPUs General Compute raised $15m to build the worlds first ASIC cloud. By removing the GPU bottleneck, it runs frontier LLMs up to 16x faster than standard GPU clouds. ASIC silicon is also far more energy efficient, so it deploys in air-cooled data centers, making growth and expansion dramatically easier. Learn more here Morning Must-Reads X just tweaked its algorithm to make it more friendly, less battleground: The social media site says it will amplify posts made by users' mutual followers' to give the feed more of a communal feel. Read More Spotify expands its AI push with a ChatGPT-like music assistant: Spotify is rolling out a new AI-powered conversational feature that lets Premium subscribers chat with the app to discover music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more. Read More Apple says former employee exploited 'rare' bug to download confidential files after leaving for OpenAI: Apple would not comment on the "security breach," which allegedly allowed a former employee to download sensitive files from Apple's network long after he departed the company for rival OpenAI. Read More Superhuman's new auto-draft feature almost makes me like AI replies: Superhuman’s latest AI email drafting feature is its most convincing yet, generating replies that often required little to no editing in our testing. Read More The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier: Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises increasingly want open models, due to cost, accessibility, and ownership. Do frontier models still matter if most production AI ends up running on open models? Read More Last but Not Least Video-generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B: With the cash, the company aims to expand its world model offering and reach customers across geographies. Read More Check out some of our other newsletters: StrictlyVC TechCrunch Events TechCrunch Mobility Want to adjust your daily newsletter schedule? You can do it right here Got a tip? Get in touch securely. Want to advertise on TechCrunch? advertise@techcrunch.com Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. Unsubscribe Member Center Privacy Policy Copyright © 2026 TechCrunch Media LLC 501 2nd Street, Suite 650, San Francisco, CA 94107