Agent confidence on the technical frontier

June 29, 2026

Enterprise investment in AI is booming. Gartner is calling 2026 an “inflection year” for organizations to align their AI projects with strategic business objectives. As the pressure to prove ROI mounts, executives and technology leaders are looking to agentic AI to drive the measurable financial outcomes their businesses seek. A prime opportunity for AI agents…

Rocket Lab continues buying spree by acquiring satellite company Iridium

June 29, 2026

The all-stock deal values Iridium at $8 billion, and gives Rocket Lab even more firepower to compete against Amazon and SpaceX.

Ford Tried to Fix Its Quality Problems With AI. It Didn’t Work. So They Brought Back a Squad of Human ‘Gray Beards.’

June 29, 2026

The automaker leaned on AI to solve its quality woes and got worse results. So it rehired 350 veteran engineers.

This Startup Is Challenging Waymo and Tesla With Its ‘Off-the-Shelf’ Self-Driving Technology

June 29, 2026

While Tesla and Waymo are building self-driving cars for themselves, Wayve wants to sell its AI to everyone else.

These 3 Innovative Ideas Seemed Like the Future for Restaurant Franchises — Here’s Why They All Failed

June 29, 2026

Dynamic pricing, restaurant subscriptions and hot food vending machines had promise a year ago but went south.

Robot hand company settles Tesla trade secret suit and announces $11M raise

June 29, 2026

Jay Li doesn’t recommend getting sued by Tesla if you’re trying to get a startup off the ground. But he does think his company, Proception, might be better off for having endured the experience. “I think it’s kind of like a resilience test, or pressure test,” he told TechCrunch in an exclusive interview. “People say […]

Pocket raises $11M in bet on rising demand for AI note-taking devices

June 29, 2026

Pocket sells a $129, credit card-shaped puck, which sticks to the back of your phone, and promises unlimited recordings, transcriptions and to-do items.

Flipper Device’s new Busy Bar is a customizable display for productivity

June 29, 2026

Flipper Device’s new Busy Bar will retail for $249.

Omen AI’s plan to optimize data centers is all wet

June 29, 2026

Omen AI raised a $31 million Series A to monitor chip coolant and stop bacterial outbreaks in data centers.

The Download: metric weaknesses and AI elephant warnings

June 29, 2026

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The inevitable weakness of metrics There are plenty of useful things a metric can reveal. There are even more that it can obscure or corrupt. Like a lot of people bitten…

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