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In Brief Posted: 1:55 PM PDT · June 29, 2026 Image Credits:Brian Ach / Getty Images for TechCrunch Chamath Palihapitiya, best known for his venture capital firm Social Capital and the All-In podcast, announced Monday that the AI coding startup he founded raised a sizable Series A. The company, 8090 Labs, closed a $135 million…

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In Brief Posted: 5:38 PM PDT · June 26, 2026 Image Credits:Spencer Platt / Getty Images Elon Musk is eyeing an acquisition of Mesh Optical Technologies, a startup founded by three former SpaceX engineers last year developing hardware for fast data center communications. The potential acquisition, which was revealed in a Federal Trade Commission filing…

Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup Corgi became embroiled in yet another controversy earlier this week when Papermark, maker of open source data room software, accused Corgi of stealing its software and passing it off as its own. Corgi denies this. “No code was used from Papermark,” the company tells TechCrunch. But there were reasons why…

AI agents are becoming more sophisticated. They are evolving from answering questions to autonomously executing multi-step complex tasks. But before these agents can be trusted to book trips or conduct financial analysis on behalf of users, model providers and the startups building such agents want to ensure that they perform reliably across a vast range…

In Brief Posted: 9:48 AM PDT · June 24, 2026 Image Credits:Agility Robotics Agility Robotics, the humanoid robotics startup that spun out of Oregon State University in 2015, plans to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company Churchill Capital Corp XI in a deal that values the company at roughly $2.5 billion.…

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This is the second data breach to affect LastPass customers in recent years, after one of the password manager’s tech partners was recently breached…

Image Credits:Instagram 7:14 AM PDT · June 22, 2026 Instagram is exploring new formats in an apparent effort to bring its platform to more TV users. The social network, which launched a TV app last year, says it’s going to experiment with longer-form content, episodic series, and Live TV. Instagram said it is exploring ways…

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