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Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet. Google has released its latest Gemini model, marketing it as a workhorse for coding and cybersecurity work.

The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just launched a 120-day study on the future of warfare, led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich, and while it makes sense given their ties to the administration, critics could point out that Musk's and Luckey's companies already sell the kinds of technology the study is likely to recommend.

Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation. Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.

Factory CEO just accused his VC board adviser of spying for Cognition. VC Chris Degnan and former board adviser to Factory AI has taken a job as chief revenue officer for competitor Cognition -- and everyone is arguing on X about it.

Is Neko Health’s body scan worth it? Spotify billionaire’s startup has come to America. Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s Neko Health raised $700 million to build a business around scanning your body, but it’s not the only company centering its roadmap around a new kind of preventative healthcare. Midjourney is building its own body scanner, while Function Health has also raised significant capital to build out its preventative-health platform. Why are investors betting so big on this category? On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, […].

Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach. The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.

DoorDash’s drone strategy started on the ground. DoorDash unveiled the six-propeller aircraft that will be used in its new drone delivery business at its annual Dash Forward 2026 event.

BMW built the same car for gas and electric. The EV is $4,400 cheaper. The new BMW 3 Series shows just how quickly EVs have caught up to fossil fuel vehicles on pricing.

OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents. OpenAI's "Decisions API" is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence.

AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B. The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots. Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.

The ugly economics of consumer AI. There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gun-shy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough.

Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission. Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off.

DoorDash launches an AI agent you can text to order food. By launching an AI agent for food ordering, DoorDash is looking to gain an edge over rivals Uber Eats and Grubhub.