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Image Credits:Thea Energy 1:40 PM PDT · July 27, 2026 For hard-tech startups, manufacturing is a pricey endeavor. Now, Thea Energy has a leg up courtesy of a Department of Energy grant. The fusion power startup told TechCrunch Monday that it has received a $20 million award from ARPA-E to help manufacture its modular high-temperature…

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it…

At libraries around the country, “Avoiding AI” workshops have elicited unprecedented demand…

In Brief Posted: 1:55 PM PDT · July 25, 2026 Image Credits:Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg / Getty Images Warner Bros. Discovery filed a lawsuit this week accusing Amazon of interference with contractual relations, breach of contract, and unfair competition. As reported by Deadline, the lawsuit alleges Amazon has been “hurriedly seeking to pirate away a number…

Elon Musk’s tunneling startup The Boring Company is in talks to raise a $4 billion funding round at a valuation of $20 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. The deal hasn’t closed and the terms could change, the WSJ says. At $20 billion, the valuation would be a significant increase from The Boring Company’s…

9:11 AM PDT · July 24, 2026 World, the online verification startup co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, has raised $52.5 million through a crypto token sale to strategic investors. Participating investors joined a 12-month lockup sale of World’s token, WLD. Lockup periods prevent asset buyers from selling or trading their tokens for a set period…

Google’s cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits…

ServiceNow’s investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally…

White House science advisor Michael Kratsios said that Moonshot, the Chinese company behind Kimi K3, the largest available open-weight LLM, built its model by copying Anthropic’s Fable LLM while using chips that aren’t cleared for export to China. “Large-scale, covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing proprietary U.S. technology and undermining American research is unacceptable,” Kratsios…

At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity’s oldest pastime: using our imaginations…