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

The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI

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View this email online in your browser  July 13, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI: Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI contains allegations that range from employees joking about unauthorized access to Apple’s systems to claims that job candidates were asked to bring Apple hardware to interviews. Here are the complaint’s most eye-catching claims. Read More Sam Altman's space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe: Responding to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said, "homeboy you're the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters." Read More Investors send General Fusion soaring in debut as first publicly traded fusion company: General Fusion started trading on the Nasdaq following a reverse merger that saw high redemptions. 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 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 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 LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire, citing 'serious concerns' over civil liberties and privacy: The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns. Read More Waze adds new AI-powered features and customization updates: Some of the new features are powered by Google's Gemini AI assistant, which reflects the tech giant's broader push to integrate Gemini across its products while also better positioning Waze to compete with rival services such as Apple Maps. Read More Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US: Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans. Read More Last but Not Least As TV-tracking app TV Time shuts down, its founder builds Bingers, a new home for fans: The creator of TV Time is building a successor app that will let users import their watch histories and preserve the community that formed around discussing their favorite shows. 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