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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/GettyImages-2217247219.jpg?w=1024″] Amazon deliveries keep getting faster. On Tuesday, the online retailer announced the launch of its 30-minute delivery option, dubbed “Amazon Now,” in dozens of U.S. cities. This ultra-fast delivery option will allow customers to shop across “thousands” of items, Amazon says, including fresh groceries, household essentials, and other locally relevant items. At…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2271655163.jpg?resize=1200,879″] Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded last year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, on Monday announced something called interaction models, which, at its essence, sounds like AI that can interrupt you. Right now, every AI model you’ve ever used works the same way. You talk, it listens. It responds, you…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/vlad-tenev-robinhood-GettyImages-2272038864.jpg?w=1024″] Just two months after listing its first venture fund on the stock market, Robinhood is preparing to launch a second. The company has filed a confidential registration for RVII, a standard regulatory step that allows it to work through the approval process before making details public. Unlike its first fund, which currently holds stakes…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/gm-headquarters-getty.jpg?resize=1200,800″] General Motors has laid off more than 10% of its IT department, or about 600 salaried employees — in a deliberate skills swap: clearing out workers whose expertise no longer fits and making room for some with AI-focused backgrounds. GM confirmed to TechCrunch that it had conducted layoffs; they were first reported…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2194681867.jpg?resize=1200,700″] At long last, Android and iPhone users will be able to send each other end-to-end encrypted text messages. On Monday, end-to-end encrypted messaging is starting to roll out in beta for conversations between iPhone and Android users running the most up-to-date software. End-to-end encrypted (e2ee) messaging is an important privacy feature that…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Helsing.jpg?resize=1200,962″] Five-year-old European military drone startup Helsing is reportedly close to raising a new $1.2 billion round at about an $18 billion valuation. The round is expected to be led by Dragoneer and co-led by existing Helsing investor Lightspeed, the Financial Times reported. Helsing last raised just under a year ago, in June…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2205537583.jpg?resize=1200,800″] It’s about time that the microdrama trend has gone mainstream. As microdrama apps like ReelShort and DramaBox quietly rake in billions, Peacock announced on Monday that it’s launching two unscripted Bravo microdramas, which will stream on its app. These vertical video series, with episodes around 60 to 90 seconds, are designed for…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/digg-ver2-at-10.40.29-AM.jpg?resize=1200,888″] Digg is back from the dead. Again. Just months after launching, the reboot of Kevin Rose’s once-popular link-sharing site shut down in March as the company shifted course. Originally redesigned as a competitor to the massive community forum site Reddit, the new Digg found that it wasn’t able to effectively manage the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/redwood-materials-lithium.jpg?resize=1200,900″] Redwood Materials has finally found a new chief financial officer roughly a year and a half after its last one departed. He’s a familiar face to the former Tesla executives running the battery recycling and energy storage company. On Monday, Redwood Materials said it has hired former Tesla finance chief Deepak Ahuja…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/wordle-sells-1.webp?resize=1200,674″] The New York Times is betting that the Wordle craze isn’t over yet. On Monday, the Times announced that it would be turning the hit mobile word game into a televised game show on NBC. “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie will host the affair, while The Times and “The Tonight Show” host…