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Today’s highlights
- Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months — 2026-08-06
- xAI’s Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia with AI-generated articles that Elon Musk once promised would be a “massive improvement” over Wikipedia, apparently hasn’t been updated since April 24th, according to a report fro
- Get up to $400 off your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until Friday — 2026-08-05
- Starting today, you can take an additional $100 off your founder, investor, or attendee TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, which is a nice bonus on top of our current discounted pricing.
- X product chief Nikita Bier is leaving after one year — 2026-08-05
- X head of product Nikita Bier is stepping down and says he will move into a role as an advisor, writing that “it’s time to pass the torch and demote myself to my natural state: a poster.” He shared the update just over a
- Nikita Bier steps down as X’s head of product — 2026-08-05
- The serial entrepreneur is stepping down a little over a year after taking the “24/7 job” of overseeing X.
- Travis Kalanick’s robotics startup Atoms taps former Uber finance chief as CFO — 2026-08-05
- Kalanick continues to get the band back together, after acquiring Anthony Levandowski’s autonomy startup, and even soliciting investment from Uber.
- Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases — 2026-08-05
- Meta expanded its AI coding offerings with a new agent that, it promises, can handle complex tasks with complex software.
- Trump’s DOJ gains oversight of OpenAI’s green-card employee sponsorships — 2026-08-05
- The DOJ alleged that OpenAI did not meaningful attempt to hire U.S. citizens before seeking permanent residence for Visa-holding employees.
- Moove raises $250M to become the backbone of the robotaxi industry — 2026-08-05
- Moove is scaling up the autonomous vehicle fleet management side of its business and plans to someday own, not just manage, Waymo robotaxis.