Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms

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View this email online in your browser  July 16, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms: The safety board confirmed Tesla's account of the crash, which the company shared days after it happened last month. Read More Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex: OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with its agentic coding app. 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 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 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 Lululemon backs nylon-recycling startup Syntetica in $30M Series A: Syntetica, a French startup that has developed a novel approach to recycling nylon, has already obtained big-name partners and investors. Read More Microsoft patches bug in video game Age of Empires II: The vulnerability in the decades-old game could have allowed hackers to take over victims’ computers with a malicious game invite. Read More Daniel Ek's body-scanning startup Neko Health raises another $700M: Neko Health has developed proprietary body-scanning technology, which it couples with bloodwork, to assess a person's health. Read More Why Greylock capped its new fund at $1.5B when it says it could have raised more: By keeping the number of investments to about 25 per fund, Greylock aims to remain what it calls "the most important partner" to its founders. Read More Last but Not Least Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic: Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models. 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

Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling

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View this email online in your browser  July 15, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling: It's the company's first public proof point after a year and a half spent building AI infrastructure largely out of public view. Read More Microsoft patches bug in video game Age of Empires II: The vulnerability in the decades-old game could have allowed hackers to take over victims’ computers with a malicious game invite. Read More Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex: OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with its agentic coding app. 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 Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not just models: Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption. Read More Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI: Microsoft's monthly release of security fixes, dubbed Patch Tuesday, resolved a record 570 security vulnerabilities across the company's product line, thanks to discoveries with AI. Read More Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms: The safety board confirmed Tesla's account of the crash, which the company shared days after it happened last month. Read More Daniel Ek's body-scanning startup Neko Health raises another $700M: Neko Health has developed proprietary body-scanning technology, which it couples with bloodwork, to assess a person's health. Read More US charges Russian 'bulletproof' web hosts over cyberattacks that netted $62M from cybercrime victims: The 2024 indictment, now unsealed, accuses three Russians and two web hosts of aiding hackers and profiting from cybercrime. Read More Last but Not Least Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI: 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 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