Welcome back to Week in Review! Lots of news for you this week, including Travis Kalanick’s possible return, CoreWeave’s CEO is now worth $10 billion, Apple users aren’t happy with how the company is promoting its new F1 movie, and much more.
Vitalik Buterin has reservations about Sam Altman’s World project
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is arguing that the digital identification approach being promoted by Sam Altman’s World project has real privacy risks.
Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got ‘weird’
Researchers at Anthropic and AI safety company Andon Labs gave an instance of Claude Sonnet 3.7 an office vending machine to run. And hilarity ensued.
Data Driven Design: Wind Energy Engineering Challenge
[[{“value”:” Post by Kristina Klammer & Dr. Natasha WilkersonPosted: June 27, 2025 What if your students could design a machine powered by nothing but the wind? Inspired by the true story of William Kamkwamba, a teen from Malawi who built a windmill to bring electricity to his village, this challenge asks students to design and build a wind-powered machine that…
As job losses loom, Anthropic launches program to track AI’s economic fallout
As warnings mount about AI’s potential to displace millions of jobs, Anthropic on Friday launched a its Economic Futures Program, new initiative to support research and policy development that addresses AI’s economic impacts.
YouTube’s mobile video editor is coming to iOS
Google is preparing to bring YouTube Create to iOS devices nearly two years after the video editing app launched exclusively on Android. Job listings reviewed by TechCrunch reveal the company is actively hiring engineers in India for the iOS development project. The job postings show Google is recruiting software engineers in Bengaluru specifically to build […]
Jesse Draper’s Halogen Ventures closes $30M Fund III to focus on ‘future of family’
Halogen Ventures closed a $30 million Fund III to invest in early-stage startups building in the “future of family,” as reported first by Fortune. The firm was founded in 2015 by Jesse Draper, the daughter of famed venture capitalist Tim Draper. She explained to Fortune that the fund will focus on the physical and financial […]
TikTok is testing its own version of Instagram’s ‘broadcast channels’
TikTok is testing a new bulletin boards feature, the social network confirmed to TechCrunch on Friday.
Only 2 exhibitor tables up for grabs at TechCrunch All Stage — claim by June 29
TechCrunch All Stage hits Boston’s SoWa Power Station on July 15 — and just 2 exhibitor tables remain.
Prolific cybercrime gang now targeting airlines and the transportation sector
The fresh wave of attacks targeting airlines comes soon after the hackers hit the U.K. retail sector and the insurance industry.