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Stop Saying Kids Can’t Read
Everyone is talking about the reading crisis. But inside the “Mississippi Miracle,” it’s all about comprehension.
Read →What actually got our articles cited by ChatGPT (and what didn't)
A few weeks ago I found out our site had a table of contents that rendered for absolutely nobody. The code was there. The CSS was there. It had been shipping to production for months. It just never a...
Read →I reverse-engineered Claude's undocumented Design API so a file sync wouldn't cost 665k tokens
A build log about protocol archaeology, three wrong guesses, and refusing to trust my own mocks. The token bill that started it Claude Design (claude.ai/design) is a nice place to keep a d...
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VMware releases vSphere Express for virtualization on up to 128 cores
“We started listening to a lot of our lower-end customers," VMware exec says.
Read →Uranium cubes reveal why the German nuclear project failed
"Our calculations suggest Heisenberg significantly underestimated the materials required."
Read →Data centers are turning to old jet engines as the wait for power grows
The years-long wait for access to the grid and new turbines is causing data center builders to turn to an unusual, less-efficient and less environmentally friendly solution: once-discarded jet engines...
Read →Anthropic is working on a system to prove AI models’ identity
Called FlashProve, the system would let anyone check that an AI response really came from the model it claims to be from.
Read →India’s EloElo nabs $80M from NBCUniversal to bet on the country’s rising microdrama market
More than 118 million users watch microdramas every month as the serialized format has taken off in India. EloElo's Story TV is one of the top apps for microdramas, with over 33 million active users,...
Read →Canva lays off over 1,200 people amid slowing growth
Canva is cutting 22% of its staff as it faces its 'hardest year' yet.
Read →TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Doors open at 9 a.m. ET in Boston
Today is the day to join TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 in Boston's SoWa Power Station. Register now to join this founder-focused conference today.
Read →Revolut’s valuation jumps 53% to $115B in new share sale as it prepares to launch US bank
Glade Brook, Coatue, and T. Rowe Price were among the investors that led the share sale.
Read →Titan OS raises $46 million to expand its smart TV OS internationally
Titan OS has raised $110 million in funding to date.
Read →Google faces backlash for plan that would turn off Search for schools that restrict AI
Politicians on the left, like NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani and former FTC chair Lina Khan, accused Google of acting as an unregulated monopoly.
Read →I tried Apple’s Siri Recaps. They’re surprisingly useful — and a little unsettling
Apple's AI-powered Siri Recaps won me over in just one day, despite my privacy reservations. But there's still room for improvement.
Read →Sequoia hits rewind, undoing 20 years of expansion
Sequoia is consolidating into a smaller, Bay Area–centered firm, shutting down the programs and offices it built during a 20-year expansion while announcing roughly $10 billion in new funds.
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