June 24, 2026

TechCrunch Top 3

Slate Auto's radically simple electric truck starts at $24,950: The Jeff Bezos-backed startup finally revealed more pricing details for its debut EV, including a $29,950 starting price for the SUV variant, and boosted the base range to 205 miles. Read More

If you want to cut your screen time, just get a Brick: After years of struggling to curb my screen time, apparently all I needed was a $59 hunk of plastic. Read More

HaloBraid raises $7M from Seven Seven Six to end the six-hour hair salon appointment: HaloBraid aims to help salons speed up braiding with its first device, slated to launch later this year, that acts as a braiding assistant for professional stylists. Read More

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Password manager maker LastPass says hackers stole customer support case data during Klue breach: 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. Read More

Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time: Anthropic’s new Claude Tag brings an always-on AI teammate to Slack. But beyond productivity, the feature is a strategic play to capture organizational context, institutional knowledge, and enterprise workflows. Read More

Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to launch its own prediction market: The app would be independent of Meta's other social media offerings, although sources told the NYT that those social sites could direct users to engagement with the app. Read More

Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero: Superhuman, which also has an AI detection tool as part of Grammarly, has snapped up GPTZero. Read More

How to invest when everything is moving too fast: TechCrunch's StrictlyVC evening in Los Angeles late last week brought together two of the more straight-talking investors working in AI right now. They were as entertaining as they were illuminating. Read More

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Last but Not Least

Valor Equity Partners looks to raise a $2.5B Fund VII, per Bloomberg: New details have emerged about Valor's latest fund, which last year announced it was raising an unspecified amount of capital. Read More

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