The CEO of Allbirdsβ new AI biz has a plan, but no team TechCrunch By:Tim Fernholz 19 June 2026 at 17:00 Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what's next is less clear.
Telegram ban in India sparks a rush to VPNs, rival apps TechCrunch By:Jagmeet Singh 19 June 2026 at 05:01 Telegram argues India should block specific content, not an entire platform used by millions.
Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed Deductive AI for up to $85M TechCrunch By:Marina Temkin 19 June 2026 at 04:51 Deductive AI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, was founded just three years ago.
Rivian owners file lawsuit alleging false promises on self-driving features TechCrunch By:Kirsten Korosec 18 June 2026 at 23:31 Plaintiffs in the class -action complaint allege Rivian falsely promised for years it would bring hands-free driving to its first-generation R1 vehicles.
General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation TechCrunch By:Rebecca Bellan 18 June 2026 at 19:20 The startup trains embodied AI and world models using Medalβs dataset of 2 billion videos per year from 10 million monthly active users.