May 26, 2026

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What ClickUp's mass layoff tells us about the future of work: The nine-year-old startup is replacing hundreds of employees with thousands of AI agents. Read More

6 kitchen gadgets that make adulting feel easier: From a robot stirring your soup to a bread machine that kneads your dough, here are 6 gadgets that may make you feel like you’ve won adulthood. Read More

Amazon fulfillment competitor Stord raises $250M at $3B valuation: Stord was founded in 2015 by then-college students CEO Sean Henry and CTO Jacob Boudreau while they were still at Georgia Tech. Read More

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Morning Must-Reads

Xreal, Google's smartglasses partner, thinks it has finally mastered this notoriously tricky industry: Chi Xu, the founder and CEO of XREAL, thinks the smart glasses business has finally reached a turning point. Read More

7-Eleven data breach affects over 185,000 people's personal data: The data breach included names, dates-of-birth, postal addresses, and Social Security numbers, according to a state government listing. Read More

Everyone is navigating AI security in real time -- even Google: We're in the transition period -- all of us. Read More

The pope’s AI encyclical isn’t really about AI: Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical uses AI as a lens to diagnose older problems: concentrated power, eroding democracy, and a tech elite that shapes the world to its own advantage. Read More

TechCrunch Mobility: Robotaxi reality check: Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Read More

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Last but Not Least

The pitch trick that helped an eSports startup raise $20M when VCs only wanted AI: Earlier this year, Lucra Sports founder and CEO Dylan Robbins did something that no one else has ever done. And he shared several secrets on how he did it. Read More

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