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In Brief Posted: 5:29 PM PDT · July 10, 2026 Image Credits:Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch Phia, the shopping startup co-founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe Gates, and Sophia Kianni, has been accused of a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” which may have helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it did not…

Being the richest person in world history comes with its own headaches, and Elon Musk has a migraine-sized one when it comes to his legal battles. Tesla is being sued for autopilot crashes, for misleading statements about Robotaxi, and for alleged workplace discrimination. Musk himself was recently …

7:19 AM PDT · July 10, 2026 The EU announced on Friday that Meta must overhaul Facebook’s and Instagram’s addictive design features or face a fine. The tech giant is in breach of the Digital Services Act by focusing on features like infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and highly personalized recommendation algorithms, the European Commission…

In the lead up to the SpaceX IPO, there were dozens of stories about early employees and investors who stood to make millions of dollars for betting on, or working for, Elon Musk. But thanks to Musk’s work with DOGE, his public comments on X, and the infamous gesture he made at Donald Trump’s inauguration…

Nilekani remains Fundamentum’s anchor investor as the firm expands its leadership team and targets AI and fintech startups in India…

Ishraq Khan is the founder and CEO of Kodezi, a developer tool platform that automates codebase maintenance and acts as an AI CTO. gettyAI has changed the feeling of building software. A developer can open an AI coding assistant, describe a feature in plain language and get working code much faster than before. Tools like…

Ivan Kan, global investor and entrepreneur at the intersection of capital markets, tokenization and emerging tech. Investor in HackIndia. gettyIn May 2026, tokenized instruments tied to Anthropic and OpenAI dropped significantly. Anthropic PreStocks dropped roughly 38% to around $879. OpenAI PreStocks fell approximately 46% to around $1,080. Both companies issued formal notices warning that equity…

ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make running AI less costly…

One last chance to apply Due to overwhelming interest, we’ve extended applications for Startup Battlefield Australia to July 20. If you’ve been thinking about applying, do it now. There won’t be another extension. One application could change everything Since the first Startup Battlefield Australia in 2017, there have been 26 alumni companies that have collectively…

The reality is, when you’re optimizing for production, you start looking at a price/performance,” Guillermo Rauch tells TechCrunch…