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My cut on what Canva’s drop to 20% growth means if you’re running a pre-AI product, hiring against Anthropic, and holding a VC/investment mark you set in 2021. Canva cutting 2026 growth from 30% to 20% was the convo this week. We churned Canva at SaaStr. We churned Notion too. Ne

Enthusiasm for Big Tech and its huge investments in artificial intelligence is powering the stock market to record highs again. With a resilient economy and scorching demand, there’s seemingly only one obstacle that can derail this ride: higher interest rates. Technology companie

Wall Street investors will closely track the minutes of the Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting, along with quarterly results from several major US retailers, in the week ahead. The Fed minutes could provide important clues about the central bank's thinking on interest rates

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently pushed back against the idea that he’s been painting an overly pessimistic picture of artificial intelligence and how it might shape the future. Amodei’s comments came in response to investor Gavin Baker, who argued — both on the All-In podcast

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Something was in the air this week because we had a heck of a lot of electric aircraft

Emergency phone alert put domestic abuse victims at risk, campaigners say - Published An emergency government phone alert warning of wildfires across England and Wales put domestic abuse victims at risk, campaigners have told the BBC. Millions of people's mobile phones lit up and

Changing pubs into homes to be made harder under new rules - Published Turning pubs into housing or offices will be made harder as part of changes to government planning rules in England. The updated National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) will come into force on Monday and is

ChatGPT’s desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and even picking up tasks you left half done. It uses your activity to build a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can r

Dell CEO unveils new 'Dude, you’re getting a Dell (AI server rack)' video — PC maker recycles famous PC ad campaign to tout its new AI data center products This is ‘2026’ according to CEO Michael Dell. Dell has created a humorous 2026 update to its iconic early-2000s “Dude, you’r

Many Americans are waiting longer to hit traditional milestones like getting married, having kids, or buying a home. Gail Rudnick has some grandmotherly advice for these late bloomers: "It doesn't all have to be perfect" to get started. The 84-year-old is part of the duo behind "

Maker compresses a 2.9MB song by 1000x and prints it on paper as eight QR codes — 21KB song is two minutes long, requires a neural network for playback Meta's AI codec was used for the compression. A maker known as Makestreme has printed an entire two-minute song onto a sheet of

There’s a pattern I’ve seen at hundreds of startups now, and it still catches founders off guard when they finally see it clearly. A sales exec from a well known logo joins them. Maybe not the best rep, not the sharpest tool in the shed. But someone with real experience in a scal

Four 'extraordinary' Renaissance paintings stolen from Italian museum - Published Four Renaissance paintings of "extraordinary value" have been stolen from a museum in Sicily, Italy's culture minister has said. Alessandro Giuli confirmed that three panels of the Polyptych of San

Lawmakers elected to Congress in 2026 are likely to be tasked with shoring up Social Security ahead of its looming 2032 funding shortfall, and that effort could be affected by the outcome of a Connecticut primary race. Democratic Rep. John Larson, the ranking member of the House

Ukraine built a $48,000 long-range drone after covertly snapping Chinese factory photos, clone destroys Russian Tu-95 bomber — attack drone has 2,000 km range, country builds 6,000 flying-wing drones a year Base configuration costs $2,000 less than the Chinese ZTK-150 it was copi

Critical macOS Screen Sharing flaw gives attackers remote root access — CISA bumps bug to 9.8 severity following active Monero cryptojacking attacks CISA rescored CVE-2026-65400 from 7.1 to 9.8 critical eight days after Apple's out-of-band patch. The Dutch National Cyber Security

Google reportedly taps AMD to design next-generation TPU — hybrid AI ASIC could integrate on-package CPU cores for reinforcement learning A custom TPU for agentic and RL workloads? Google has teamed up with AMD to develop one of its 10th-generation TPUs, according to a note by Se

Intel says it will launch new core with Nova Lake on desktop first, not in data center — VP Robert Hallock hopes enthusiasts ‘do the math’ compared to AMD A (very diplomatic) shot across the bow at Robert Hallock’s former employer. Intel will launch its new core with Nova Lake on

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI safety, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore For years,

The stock market continues to grapple with volatility amid geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and concerns about the sustainability of the AI boom. Given this uncertainty, investors looking for steady income can add dividend-paying stocks to their portfolios. Tracking the r

3D-printed sound-powered jet engines propel micro drones — fliers are completely silent; researchers use ultrasonic frequencies to drive 12,000-RPM silent hovering fliers This could potentially make drones completely quiet. A research team from Switzerland’s École Polytechnique F

3D-printing enthusiast creates ‘Flock Sock’ to blind controversial cameras, shares design — slip-on cover attaches to broom handle to make it easy to put on devices placed on traffic and streetlights "The very least you can do is help protect these valuable civil servants from ge

The PC age began 45 years ago with the breakthrough Intel 8088 processor — 8-bit bus fueled 45 years of x86 dominance Earl Whetstone won the IBM PC account for Intel and became the salesman all others would be benchmarked against. 45 years ago, in August 1981, the PC age began in

Modern OLEDs are just as vulnerable to burn-in as 2017 panels in 10,000-hour test — twice the brightness and 27% efficiency gains offer crucial headroom The extra brightness can allow you to extend the panel's lifespan. Rtings.com is back with another longevity test for OLED TVs

Tom's Hardware Verdict The xTool M2 color craft laser and engraver brings crafting flexibility at a new low price while improving on several features, at the expense of the cutting blade and pen options offered by the M1. Pros - +New $549 entry price - +Twin positioning cameras -

Earnings Watch Walmart and Target are about to reveal the health of the U.S. consumer Earnings reports from the two major retailers will show how shoppers are holding up in an era of persistent inflation Second-quarter earnings so far might be among the strongest on record — but

Thieves swap RTX 5080 GPUs for RTX 3060s in Chinese gaming hotels — rogue 'downgrades' go unnoticed until sudden blackout exposes $12,000 heist The two thieves have since been apprehended. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and necessity is the mother of invention. Such

Ex-farm bureau chief invites AI data center developers to buy his land —argues blocked $6.3B project will just move to willing neighbors, defies 500-jurisdiction moratorium wave and 70% public opposition "Developers, make me an offer." Blake Hurst, a farmer in Atchison County, Mi

AI - ai and ml Anthropic says text watermarking scheme relies on inconsequential words'Shall I compare thee to a summer's afternoon' is the sort of thing this will make, and others look likely to adopt it -

In 1965, a presidential advisory panel issued a report warning that pervasive chemical and carbon pollution was harming environmental health and changing the climate. Five years later, President Richard Nixon signed the Clean Air Act. Since that 1970 law and its amendments were p

Ukrainian drone regiment ‘decimates’ 3,500-strong U.S. armored brigade combat team in war game — High drone kill-rate forced continuous 'respawns,' reveals shortcomings in American response as drones easily spotted and destroyed tanks and armored vehicles These wargames are desig

European equities have historically struggled to ignite the kind of investor enthusiasm enjoyed by U.S. stocks and certain fast-growing Asian markets. The continent has fewer high-growth companies, shallower capital markets and is thought to have a less compelling long-term earni

Rogue iOS developer creates app that simulates messages sent by carrier pigeon; messages only travel at 100mph — LA to NYC correspondence takes 22 hours to deliver; virtual birds can get distracted or even lost Your virtual messenger pigeons fly at 100 mph ±25% speed variance. Ar

AI - ai and ml Anthropic says text watermarking scheme relies on inconsequential words'Shall I compare thee to a summer's afternoon' is the sort of thing this will make, and others look likely to adopt it -

Astrotalk pulled off something unique this week. It became India's 133rd unicorn but in the process, it didn’t raise any new funds or see any new investors join the cap table. In fact, the $1 Bn valuation came out of an ESOP buyback after the company bought shares back from its e