Saudi Aramco backs India's Mitti Labs to make Asia's rice farming more water-resilient

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View this email online in your browser  August 05, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 Saudi Aramco backs India's Mitti Labs to make Asia's rice farming more water-resilient: Mitti Labs plans to expand beyond India and enter the Philippines and Indonesia while growing its carbon credits and agricultural data business. Read More Elon Musk repeatedly one-upped his execs on SpaceX's first earnings call: Musk kept inflating the already-big promises being made by SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen and Gwynne Shotwell on the company's first call. Read More Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team: Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude-maker said it would co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently. Read More A message from AWS Find your people, fuel your ideas. We don’t gatekeep. AWS Builder Center has the resources you need to make your portfolio stand out. Sign Up Morning Must-Reads SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year: The purchase illustrates just how interconnected Elon Musk's universe of companies are. Read More Trump EPA wrongly canceled $20B in climate funds, appeals court rules: Climate nonprofits can again access their federal funding more than a year after the Trump EPA ordered Citibank to freeze their accounts. Read More Robinhood to list a fund that lets anyone back Y Combinator startups: Robinhood's latest financial instrument intends to let any retail investor feel like they, too, can make money by backing Y Combinator startups. Read More As Gen Z reconsiders dating apps, Tinder's IRL events expand to dozens more cities: Tinder is expanding its in-person events feature from an initial Los Angeles test to 26 cities worldwide by the end of September. Read More SpaceX doubles revenue on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth: SpaceX doubled its revenue compared to last year, according to its first quarterly earnings since going public in June. Read More Last but Not Least Disney+ looks to TikTok creators to bring fan content to its short-form video feed: As streamers compete with social media giants for viewer attention, Disney+ is partnering with TikTok to bring creator content to its app. Read More Check out some of our other newsletters: StrictlyVC TechCrunch Events TechCrunch Mobility Want to adjust your daily newsletter schedule? You can do it right here Got a tip? Get in touch securely. Want to advertise on TechCrunch? advertise@techcrunch.com Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. Unsubscribe Member Center Privacy Policy Copyright © 2026 TechCrunch Media LLC 501 2nd Street, Suite 650, San Francisco, CA 94107

Waymo opens up robotaxi service in Dallas to everyone

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View this email online in your browser  August 04, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 Waymo opens up robotaxi service in Dallas to everyone: Waymo has dropped the waitlist for its robotaxi service in Dallas, the latest step in the company's bid to scale its self-driving technology across the United States, U.K., and Europe. Read More Nvidia doesn't mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it's already showing progress: The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents. Read More Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta: Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta. Read More A message from AWS Find your people, fuel your ideas. Stop spinning and start learning. AWS Builder Center helps you build real projects that make you look legit. Get Started Afternoon Must-Reads Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B: At its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the secondary markets at a valuation of $4 billion. Read More Hackers steal over $130M by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets: A security vulnerability in the cryptocurrency hardware wallet Coldcard is allowing hackers to drain the crypto from victims’ wallets. The total losses amount to more than $130 million, according to blockchain-monitoring firms. Read More Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI: Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff may have retained or accessed confidential information. Read More SpaceX doubles revenue on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth: SpaceX doubled its revenue compared to last year, according to its first quarterly earnings since going public in June. Read More Elon Musk spends half his time talking robots and AI on Tesla earnings calls: An analysis of the last seven years of Tesla earnings calls shows just little attention Musk pays to Tesla's car business. Read More Last but Not Least Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits: Tech companies and developers have been scouring the U.S. for places to build data centers, and they’ve been drawn to Texas’ loose regulations and seemingly abundant power supply. But even Texas can be pushed to the brink. Read More Check out some of our other newsletters: StrictlyVC TechCrunch Events TechCrunch Mobility Want to adjust your daily newsletter schedule? You can do it right here Got a tip? Get in touch securely. Want to advertise on TechCrunch? advertise@techcrunch.com Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. Unsubscribe Member Center Privacy Policy Copyright © 2026 TechCrunch Media LLC 501 2nd Street, Suite 650, San Francisco, CA 94107