May 14, 2026

TechCrunch Top 3

Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 gas turbines unchecked at its Mississippi data center: Gas turbines at xAI's Colossus 2 data center have drawn a lawsuit over the company's use of "mobile" gas turbines as power plants. Read More

Cisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to spend more on AI, reports 'record quarterly revenue': This is Cisco's latest layoff in recent years, while the company's chief executive touts record revenue and growth. Read More

Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI agents: Notion’s new developer platform lets teams connect AI agents, external data sources, and custom code directly into their workspace as the company pushes deeper into agentic productivity software. Read More

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Morning Must-Reads

Clio's $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante: Legal tech startups, including Clio, which just hit $500 million in ARR, are seeing massive customer adoption. Read More

Instagram's new 'Instants' feature combines elements from Snapchat and BeReal: The feature lets users share disappearing photos with their close friends or mutual followers that can be viewed only once and remain available for 24 hours. Read More

Who decides what AI tells you? Campbell Brown, once Meta's news chief, has thoughts: "The conversation is sort of happening in Silicon Valley around one thing, and a totally different conversation is happening among consumers." Read More

Uber to open 2 campuses in India to support product development, operations: Uber plans to open two new engineering campuses with a capacity of nearly 10,000 people in India by the end of 2027. Read More

A spyware investigator exposed Russian government hackers trying to hijack Signal accounts: A group of likely Russian government hackers tried to hack a security researcher who investigates spyware attacks. He was then able to turn the tables on the hackers and reveal details of their espionage campaign. Read More

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Last but Not Least

Wirestock raises $23M to supply creative multi-modal data to AI labs: Wirestock has over 700,000 creators on its platform, which supplies photos, videos and 3D content to AI labs. Read More

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