TechCrunch Top 3

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1. For VCs, fusion is the future: Fusion is still a long way away, but advancements in chips, AI and magnets are shortening that timeline, and investors are taking note. We've got a list of fusion startups that have raised over $300 million. Read More

2. AP4wANC: TC's Brian Heater reviewed Apple's AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation. He feels that despite the awkward branding name, the earphones are well worth their $179 price tag. Read More

3. Making fast fashion faster: Myntra, India's largest online fashion retailer, normally completes deliveries within two to three days. Now, it's trialing a four-hour delivery service to make the most of India's growing quick commerce sector. Read More

Morning Must-Reads

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🤓 How to grab everyone's attention: The startup says its AI coding platform can help reduce hallucinations in generative models, and investors are paying attention. Supermaven just raised $12 million from Bessemer Venture Partners, OpenAI co-founder John Schulman, and Denis Yarats, the founder of Perplexity. Read More

🤑 Lucky number 13: Insight Partners is about to secure commitments of more than $10 billion for its 13th fund. That may sound like a huge fund, but it's actually smaller than Insight's last fund of $20 billion. Read More

🏃 Pivots, a case study: In 2018, Alex Parmley launched Phood to enable students to use dining credits from schools and colleges to order food from third-party apps. That experience helped him understand how difficult moving money around for businesses was, and that inspired his new venture, ORNG, a real-time money transfer service. Read More

🔮 What's up with crypto? TC's Kate Park hit up a major blockchain event in Seoul. She notes there was a "strong undercurrent of unease in the crowd" as mainstream adoption of crypto has stalled and regulation remains a big question mark. Read More

🤲 App-to-app: DryMerge's chatbot makes connecting apps easier for nontechnical people. All you have to do is describe the chain of events you want linked, and DryMerge will handle the technical scaffolding. Read More

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The truth about building an enterprise-level eSignature API

Lumin's recent presence at MongoDB.local Sydney gained attention as founder and CEO Max Ferguson exposed the true challenges that come with building a compliant eSignature API. His take? It's better to buy than build when it comes to secure, legally binding signatures.

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Around the Web

💬 Battling misinformation: When Taylor Swift endorsed VP Kamala Harris for president, the singer said, "The simplest way to combat misinformation is with the truth." Tech Policy Press examines whether counterspeech is actually enough to counter misinformation. Read More

🧑‍⚖️ DOJ vs. TikTok: The DOJ is using classified information to argue that TikTok is a threat to national security, and the short video app can't review or argue against those materials, according to The Verge. TikTok will today present its arguments to avoid a forced sale, which, it says, amounts to a ban. Read More

🚘 Who crashed into my Waymo? According to an Ars Technica deep dive into Waymo's safety statistics, 16 of Waymo's 23 severe crashes were caused by human drivers ramming into the back of the robotaxis. Read More

Before You Go

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🎮 Some folk will do anything but go to therapy: DeepWell DTx has received FDA approval for its game developer tools that help turn video games into stress relieving activities. One of its proof of concept games is a "mental health action shooter." Read More