Your iPhone's Green Bubble Messages Get Safer With iOS 26.5: Look for the LockMessaging between blue and green bubbles is getting more secure. With the release of iOS 26.5, end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging will start rolling out in beta for iPhone owners and Android phone users with the latest version of Google Messages, according to a post from Apple on Monday.End-to-end...

Mundi Ventures closes on €750M for Kembara, its largest deep tech and climate fund Europe invests billions into early-stage climate startups, only to watch too many fail at Series B, according to a recent report. But new funds are being raised to fill this gap, and Spain-based Mundi Ventures’ latest fund, Kembara Fund I, is one of them. After securing a €350 million commitment from the...

Sales automation startup Rox AI hits $1.2B valuation, sources say Rox, a startup developing autonomous AI agents to boost sales productivity, has raised a round valuing the company at $1.2 billion, according to multiple sources. The funding included a lead investment from returning backer General Catalyst, two of the people said. Rox AI and General Catalyst did not respond to TechCrunch’s...

Iran deal presents political nightmare for Netanyahu36 minutes agoLucy WilliamsonMiddle East correspondent, JerusalemAFP via Getty ImagesDonald Trump accused Netanyahu of showing no judgement when ordering a strike on Beirut over the weekendThe US ceasefire agreement with Iran has presented Israel's prime minister with a political nightmare, smashing the three cornerstones of Benjamin...

The billion-dollar infrastructure deals powering the AI boom It takes a lot of computing power to run an AI product — and as the tech industry races to tap the power of AI models, there’s a parallel race underway to build the infrastructure that will power them. On a recent earnings call, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang estimated that between $3 trillion and $4 trillion will be spent on AI...