Remarkable's new Paper Pure is good. That's why I wrote this review on it.

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View this email online in your browser  July 17, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 Remarkable's new Paper Pure is good. That's why I wrote this review on it.: Remarkable's Paper Pure replaces Remarkable 2, and it is quite good. Read More Coca-Cola suspended production at its Fairlife dairy after a ransomware attack: Coca Cola said dairy production at its Fairlife unit will "remain suspended" in the United States following a hack. Read More Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos: Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from prompts and reference images. 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 SpaceX suddenly aborts second Starship V3 launch after ignition: The company didn't immediately say what went wrong. SpaceX's stock plunged more than 4% in after-hours trading before paring losses. Read More San Francisco mayor pushes for tougher rules after the Waymo traffic fiasco: In the wake of a massive hours-long gridlock event, San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie has told state regulators it's time to put more requirements on robotaxi operators like Waymo. Read More Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal: A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals. Read More Zoox issues software recall after a robotaxi got confused by heavy smoke: The recall comes as the top automotive safety regulator in the U.S. has warned AV companies about their vehicles interfering with first responders. Read More No product? No problem. This Disrupt 2026 session shows how to get pre-seed funding with conviction, storytelling : It’s not just you: AI startups are taking in a huge amount of seed funding, and in the process making things harder for anyone looking for funding even at a pre-seed stage. We’ve covered the trend in detail, and at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt event, we want to help pre-seed founders now being held to seed-stage expectations.  With AI making the development of a minimum viable product swifter than ever, is there even hope for a founder who has a compelling idea, but nothing concrete to show for it? That’s what our “Winning Pre-Seed Without a Product” panel will seek to answer.  And it's just one of the many sessions you can look forward to at our popular Builders Stage at Disrupt 2026. That’s where our most pointed conversations and workshops take place, tackling everything from getting your hands dirty with operational decisions, fundraising, go-to-market strategies, and other vital subjects.  And you can be a part of it all by getting your ticket to attend Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco at Moscone West, October 13-15, at the best prices you’ll find for the remainder of the year.  As for this specific session, we’ve gathered a great trio of speakers to provide their expertise on this nuanced and pivotal topic.  Sandhya Venkatachalam: Founder, managing partner, Axiom Partners  Venkatachalam both knows a thing or two about having a successful exit, and what investors are looking for when taking the plunge with companies that eventually succeed through an acquisition of their own. Her current role is overseeing the newly launched Axiom Partners, which is an early-stage, $52 million venture fund that’s focused on connecting founders to top-class AI practitioners to help fuel AI that leads to real-world improvements.  Previously, she worked as a GP at Khosla Ventures Read More Last but Not Least Uber's $14.8B Delivery Hero deal would nearly double its global footprint: Uber has agreed to acquire Delivery Hero in a $14.8 billion all-stock deal that would nearly double the company’s global footprint and create one of the world’s largest food-delivery platforms outside China. 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

Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos

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View this email online in your browser  July 16, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos: Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from prompts and reference images. Read More Uber's $14.8B Delivery Hero deal would nearly double its global footprint: Uber has agreed to acquire Delivery Hero in a $14.8 billion all-stock deal that would nearly double the company’s global footprint and create one of the world’s largest food-delivery platforms outside China. Read More Oil giant BP shutters its corporate venture arm after 20 years: BP Ventures is shutting down, ending a nearly 20-year run that was marked by reportedly lackluster returns. 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 How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product: Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world's most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the development of ChatGPT, Andrew Dai explains why he believes visual AI is one of the next major frontiers in artificial intelligence. Read More Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?: You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT basketball. Read More Moonshot's upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic's Opus 4.8: The FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion.  Read More Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line: DoorDash is opening a limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line tool that lets developers and AI agents search stores, build carts, and place orders from the terminal, marking another step toward software designed for AI agents instead of just humans. Read More Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba and Baidu: The deal, which was rumored to be in the works last year, marks an important step for Apple's AI ambitions in a key market. Read More Last but Not Least AI-powered travel agency Fora hits unicorn status, raises $60M: Travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion.  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