Smart glasses maker Even Realities hits $1B valuation with $150M funding led by Meituan, Tencent

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View this email online in your browser  July 06, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 Smart glasses maker Even Realities hits $1B valuation with $150M funding led by Meituan, Tencent: Even Realities, an ex-Apple team building camera-free smart glasses, raised $150 million from Meituan and Tencent at a $1 billion valuation. Read More Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk: These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Read More Trump memecoin investors lost $3.8 billion, analysis finds: Nearly 1 million people have lost a total of $3.8 billion after buying President Donald Trump’s $TRUMP memecoin, while Trump made $636 million. 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 Almost 90 new unicorns have been minted so far this year — here they are: With AI igniting an investor frenzy, more startups are achieving unicorn status every month.  Read More Canadian spy agency says it hacked drug traffickers, extremists and a ransomware gang last year: The hacking operations disclosed in a Canadian spy agency's annual report underscores some pressing national security threats facing the country and its top allies. Read More This humanoid robotics company is going public, but its CEO isn't promising a robot in your home anytime soon: While other humanoid startups chase sky-high valuations, Agility Robotics is betting its future on execution — and a SPAC. Read More 5 desk gadgets that can make your workday better: The right desk gadgets can help you reduce clutter, stay focused, and add a little extra convenience to your day. Read More New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI: Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace? 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 How to reserve and change your WhatsApp username: WhatsApp now lets users reserve usernames ahead of the feature’s full rollout, making it possible to connect without sharing a phone number once usernames go live. 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

Chevy built an all-American EV truck — why is nobody buying it?

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View this email online in your browser  July 05, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 Chevy built an all-American EV truck — why is nobody buying it?: The Chevy Silverado EV is a solid first draft of an EV pickup truck. Here's what could make it better. Read More Almost 90 new unicorns have been minted so far this year — here they are: With AI igniting an investor frenzy, more startups are achieving unicorn status every month.  Read More New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI: Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace? Read More Sunday Must-Reads Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code: Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software. Read More 5 desk gadgets that can make your workday better: The right desk gadgets can help you reduce clutter, stay focused, and add a little extra convenience to your day. Read More What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public: Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people. Read More The only AI glossary you'll need this year: The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter. Read More What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor: Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI in the hands of everyone.” Read More Disrupt 2026: Where deals and ideas ignite Oct 13–15 at San Francisco's Moscone West, 10,000 founders, investors, and operators gather for high-signal insights, curated connections, and real momentum. Register Now! Last but Not Least The browser wars aren't about search anymore — here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari: We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari. 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