How did the government decide OpenAIβs frontier model was safe to release? TechCrunch By:Tim Fernholz 9 July 2026 at 22:22 "Exactly what that dialog looked like between the government and Anthropic and OpenAI is unclear."
Venus Aerospace raises $90M Series B to build a new kind of rocket engine TechCrunch By:Tim Fernholz 8 July 2026 at 18:07 Build a new kind of rocket engine and the world will beat a path to your door.
Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space TechCrunch By:Tim Fernholz 8 July 2026 at 16:00 Kevin Weil's new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.
The first American autonomous ground vehicles are fighting in Ukraine TechCrunch By:Tim Fernholz 7 July 2026 at 13:00 Forterra has deployed more than 100 of its self-driving ATVs in conflict zones in Ukraine.