November 05, 2026

TechCrunch Top 3

Zipline hits $21.5B valuation as Walmart expands bet on drone delivery: Zipline raised $1.5 billion and ramped up its partnership with Walmart. Read More

Amazon ditches GrubHub, taps Uber Eats for Prime: Amazon has made Uber Eats its official restaurant delivery partner for Prime members in the United States. Read More

Apple is reportedly cutting budgets for its internal AI usage: The company is said to be significantly dropping the amount it's spending on AI for its engineering teams. Read More

A message from NVIDIA and Microsoft

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Morning Must-Reads

Aina's smart ring has a screen, a joystick and a mic so you can talk to AI agents: Aina's ring can also take calls and help you dictate notes on your Mac. Read More

RadianX promises solar-powered devices that never need charging: Today’s portable devices are too hungry to run on traditional solar panels, but RadianX says its perovskite cells promise to make charging obsolete in some cases. Read More

Box taps Nvidia’s Nemotron for new agent-first content retrieval system: The system can supposedly answer queries four times faster, with 20% fewer errors and 90% fewer tokens used. Read More

TikTok quietly launches a standalone TikTok Shop app: The app will offer personalized product recommendations, shopping through live streams and short-form videos, app-exclusive deals, in-app checkout, order tracking and customer support. Read More

A YC startup is putting $1M behind five unsolved materials science problems for AI: Discovered Materials, a months-old YC startup that uses AI to find chip materials, is offering $200,000 for each solution to five open materials science problems. Read More

Last but Not Least

Dropbox acquires Tigris Data for $350M to bolster its AI infrastructure: The deal is expected to support the development of DBX Agent Cloud, a new storage platform aimed at developers building AI models and agents. Read More

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