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We’re in the final stretch. Exhibitor tables for TechCrunch All Stage, happening July 15 in Boston, are almost completely sold out — and less than 48 hours remain before booking officially closes. TC All Stage is built for founders  This isn’t just another startup event — it’s where brands connect directly with investors, customers, and press who are there to discover what’s new and what’s next. If you’ve got something to show, reveal it on the show floor at TC All Stage. The perks of exhibiting at TC All Stage  Here’s a preview of what’s in store when you join…

WWDC 2025, Apple’s annual developers conference, starts at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET. Monday. Last year’s event was notable for its focus on AI, and this year, there is considerable pressure on the company to build on its promises. As in previous years, the company will focus on software updates and new technologies, including the next version of iOS, which is rumored to have the most significant design changes since the introduction of iOS 7. But iOS 19 (or 26, if other rumors about the new naming system are true) isn’t the only thing the company will announce…

Cameron Winklevoss, co-founder and president of Gemini Trust Co., left, and Tyler Winklevoss, co-founder and chief executive officer of Gemini Trust Co., on stage during the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. Bridget Bennett | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGemini, the cryptocurrency exchange and custodian founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has confidentially filed for an IPO in the U.S., according to a press release on Friday. The number of shares and the pricing terms have not yet been decided upon, and the company said a listing “is expected to occur after the SEC…

A major development showcasing the potential for the open social web was unveiled Thursday at the online conference known as FediForum. The makers of Bridgy Fed, the tool that connects decentralized open social networks, like Mastodon and Bluesky, developed a new project called Bounce that will allow users to migrate their social network followers across networks powered by different protocols. This is a significant step toward making the open social web a more viable alternative to the locked-in ecosystems provided by tech giants like Meta, Snap, Google, TikTok, and X — and where you may be able to delete your account and export…

Snapchat announced on Thursday that it’s launching a watchOS app to allow Apple Watch users to access the social network on their wrists. With this new app, users can now use Snapchat across mobile, web, tablets, and Apple Watch. Users can now preview an incoming message and also reply using the keyboard, Scribble, Dictation, or an emoji. The company says the new app will allow users to do things like quickly let their friend know they’re “here” when meeting up at a restaurant or glance down and send a quick reply while on a run. While you could already preview…

NEW YORK (AP) — Artificial intelligence ‘s use in movie making is exploding. And a young film festival, now in its junior year, is showcasing what this technology can do on screen today.The annual AI Film Festival organized by Runway, a company that specializes in AI-generated video, kicked off in New York Thursday night with ten short films from around the world making their debut on the big screen.“Three years ago, this was such a crazy idea,” Runway CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela told the crowd. “Today, millions of people are making billions of videos using tools we only dreamed of.”The film…

President Donald Trump’s push to dramatically increase nuclear power in the U.S. will require a tremendous amount of fuel, but the country remains heavily dependent on foreign state-owned companies for its supplies, the CEO of the only publicly traded uranium enricher in the world told CNBC.”There’s barely enough Western enrichment, if at all, to satisfy existing operating plants,” Centrus Energy CEO Amir Vexler said in an interview. “If the nuclear industry is to add all this generation capacity, there will have to be a tremendous amount of enrichment capacity that’s added.”Trump issued a series of executive orders on nuclear power…

Founders Fund has led another, enormous round for defense tech startup Anduril with a $1 billion investment as part of a new $2.5 billion raise, the largest check the firm has ever written. Existing investors also piled in, an Anduril spokesperson tells TechCrunch. Anduril has now doubled its valuation to $30.5 billion with this Series G raise. The spokesperson says the round was over 8x times oversubscribed, meaning many more investors wanted to buy than the amount of stock Anduril was selling. Anduril, which makes autonomous weapons and software to control them, says the new funding was raised after the…

The Docusign Inc. application for download in the Apple App Store on a smartphone arranged in Dobbs Ferry, New York, U.S., on Thursday, April 1, 2021.Tiffany Hagler-Geard | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesShares of DocuSign tanked 18% in trading on Friday, a day after the e-signature provider reported stronger-than-expected earnings but slashed its full-year billings outlook.Here’s how the company performed in the fiscal first quarter, compared with estimates from analysts polled by LSEG:Earnings per share: 90 cents, adjusted, vs. 81 cents expectedRevenue: $764 million vs. $748 million expectedBillings, a closely-watched sales metric, came in at $739.6 million in the fiscal first…

X announced on Thursday that it’s launching an experiment that will recognize posts that are liked by people who normally disagree. The experiment leverages the platform’s crowdsourced Community Notes feature, which is currently used when content has been marked as misleading or incorrect. Starting Thursday, a subset of Community Notes contributors will see callouts to rate and provide feedback about certain posts. The callout will be shown based on the post’s initial Like activity. X says that this feedback will help develop an open source algorithm that can identify posts liked by people with different perspectives. Image Credits:X Contributors will…