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There are only 3 days left to save up to $410 on your ticket to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Early Bird pricing ends May 29 at 11:59 p.m. PT, and once the deadline passes, ticket prices increase. If you plan to attend one of the most influential gatherings in tech this year, now is the time to lock in your pass before rates go up again.

SoFi Technologies has made SoFiUSD available to its nearly 15 million members, becoming the first U.S. national bank to offer a bank-issued stablecoin directly inside a banking application. SoFi Opens SoFiUSD to 15 Million Users, Targets Cross-Border Transfers and Bullish Listing The San Francisco-based company announced the launch on May 27, giving members the ability […]

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A nonprofit in the city’s most troubled district has turned to robotic meal prep tech to make up for a dearth of human volunteers.

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — IXSAR Capital, a San Francisco–based venture firm investing at the frontier of Space Technology, Autonomy, and Robotics, today announced its focused venture platform designed to back technical founders building the next generation of intelligent systems, physical AI, and advanced infrastructure. IXSAR Capital partners early with founders developing hard engineering solutions across orbit, […]

Climate change is pushing starving grey whales to San Francisco Bay, where ship strikes led to 40% of 21 deaths Ferries, cargo ships and tankers cut through choppy waters in the San Francisco Bay Tuesday as a whale surfaced nearby, its spout barely visible against the white caps. Until now, whales could easily go unnoticed by mariners, but an AI-powered detection network launched this week is designed to track them day and night. The system, called WhaleSpotter, scans the bay around the clock for whale blows and heat signatures up to 2 nautical miles away, alerting mariners to slow down or reroute when whales are nearby. Continue reading...

PASADENA, Calif. and SAN FRANCISCO, May 20, 2026 — Virtualitics and OpenAI today announced a memorandum of understanding to jointly work with customers on decision intelligence in complex, critical workloads. […] The post Virtualitics and OpenAI Announce Strategic Collaboration appeared first on AIwire.

Insider Brief San Francisco startup Gatsby announced it completed what the company describes as the first residential cleaning service in the U.S. performed by a humanoid robot for a paying consumer, dispatching a robot to an apartment booked through its app. According to the company’s website, the robot handles routine household tasks such as cleaning […]