July 29, 2026

TechCrunch Top 3

Sam Altman is ready to decelerate: His change of position comes after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally." Read More

DoorDash is building its own drone delivery business: DoorDash has received FAA approval to operate a commercial drone delivery service in the United States. Read More

eBay reaches $56M settlement with e-commerce newsletter writers it terrorized in 2019: Ina and David Steiner inspired the ire of high-level eBay executives after occasionally criticizing the company in their newsletter. In 2019, a plot was concocted to intimidate the couple into halting their negative coverage. Read More

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General Compute is making a $300m bet against the GPU

General Compute raised $15m to build the world's 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.

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Morning Must-Reads

Saudi prince buys 5% stake in Lucid Motors: The investment comes after speculation that Saudi Arabia may take Lucid Motors private -- which the EV maker has denied. Read More

Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls: The startup analyzes calls, messages and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents. Read More

MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea: Runlayer is suing Rippling after Rippling evaluated the startup's MCP gateway product and then opted to build one itself. Read More

The robot NASA hired to lift a orbital telescope tumbled out of control: According to NASA, two of the three reaction wheels that control the spacecraft's alignment have failed, and there are problems with one of the spacecraft's thruster systems. Read More

Spotify adds a running mode to its app: Running Mode will be available to Premium users on iOS in select countries Read More

Last but Not Least

As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it: Pangram has raised $9 million to scale its AI detection software. The startup has also released a new AI text detection model, Pangram 4, and an AI image detection model in research preview. Read More

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