Apple to produce Made in America wireless chips with Broadcom

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View this email online in your browser  July 08, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 Apple to produce Made in America wireless chips with Broadcom: Apple has signed a $30 billion+ multiyear deal with Broadcom to design and produce more than 15 billion U.S.-made custom wireless connectivity chips for Apple products.  Read More Figma acquires team behind a vibe-coding app: The Y Combinator-backed company started a vibe-coding platform and later built an agent-creation product. Read More AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round: AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11 billion valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion. Read More A message from General Compute General Compute is making a $300m bet against GPUs General Compute raised $15m to build the worlds first ASIC cloud. By removing the GPU bottleneck, it runs frontier LLMs up to 16x faster than standard GPU clouds. ASIC silicon is also far more energy efficient, so it deploys in air-cooled data centers, making growth and expansion dramatically easier. Learn more here Morning Must-Reads Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos: The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising and decorating, and creator-based opportunities. Read More Blue Origin reportedly raising $10B at $130B valuation: Blue Origin is raising $10 billion at a $130 billion pre-money valuation from Coatue Asset Management, Bezos himself and other big-name investors, the New York Times reported. Read More Venus Aerospace raises $90M Series B to build a new kind of rocket engine: Build a new kind of rocket engine, and the world will beat a path to your door. Read More Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models: Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending. Read More Why the rise of open source AI isn't hurting Anthropic ... yet: Open source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life cycle. Read More A message from TechCrunch Events Your PC refresh strategy is already behind - free webinar, July 29 Thinking about stretching your PC fleet to wait out the price spike? The research says that's backward. Organizations that handle AI PC transitions best refresh consistently — not with a one-time buy. Join us for a free online webinar on July 29th at 10am PT/1pm ET to learn how to spec smarter for what's coming. Register Now Last but Not Least Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips: ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make running AI less costly. 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

Figma acquires team behind a vibe-coding app

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View this email online in your browser  July 07, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 Figma acquires team behind a vibe-coding app: The Y Combinator-backed company started a vibe-coding platform and later built an agent-creation product. Read More Netflix dabbles in shorter video content with its new set of publisher deals with Variety, others: Netflix is bringing 2- to 20-minute videos to its platform through new partnerships with digital publishers, including Rolling Stone and Variety. Read More Hacked, leaked, and held for ransom: The worst breaches of 2026 so far: From a massive DOGE data breach and the hacking of critical energy and water systems to the hack of an FBI surveillance system, here are the most damaging security incidents and data breaches of 2026. Read More A message from Ai4 America’s Largest AI Conference Returns to Las Vegas Join 12000+ attendees at Ai4 2026, America’s largest AI conference. Discover the strategic insights and use cases driving real business impact. Hear from industry pioneers like Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng, explore 400+ exhibits, & network with peers in Las Vegas, Aug 4-6. Final call to register now and save $600+ before Aug 2. Register Now Afternoon Must-Reads The first American autonomous ground vehicles are fighting in Ukraine: Forterra has deployed more than 100 of its self-driving ATVs in conflict zones in Ukraine. Read More Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models: Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending. Read More Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web: With this update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their phone, and pick up the finished output later — even if their laptop is closed.  Read More Why the rise of open source AI isn't hurting Anthropic ... yet: Open source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life cycle. Read More AI law startup Norm raises $120M, hits unicorn valuation: AI law startup Norm has raised a $120 million Series C round led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the startup at $1.2 billion.  Read More Last but Not Least Hacktivists call out Trump by hacking and defacing US Army websites: The U.S. Army has fixed two of its websites that were hacked to display messages calling President Trump a "pedophile" and a "thief." 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