CALWIRE Tech Report (Saturday, August 15, 2026)

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SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition
AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX. — TechCrunch

How to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked
A guide on how to check if hackers have broken into your accounts on the most popular AI platforms. — TechCrunch

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M
Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies. — TechCrunch

Talks to sell PayPal to Stripe and Advent are heating up
PayPal is still reportedly negotiating a potential sale to Stripe and private equity firm Advent, as the fintech firm's new CEO at... — TechCrunch

Self-driving trucks are officially testing on California highways
Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, two companies developing self-driving trucks, have received permits from the California Departmen... — TechCrunch

Thrive’s Joshua Kushner chides Silicon Valley VCs over AI euphoria
The AI opportunity is huge, but "it would also be a grave error in our minds to let excitement weaken our investment discipline,"... — TechCrunch

What we know about the alleged Iranian hacks on US water utilities
Over the last couple of weeks, hackers have targeted and broken into the systems of several water plants in the United States. Her... — TechCrunch

Read-it-later app Pocket shut down — here are the best alternatives
Pocket users have until October 8, 2025, to export their saved articles and other items, including lists, archives, favorites, not... — TechCrunch

Unforgetful is a new reminders app for people who can’t stop hitting snooze
Unforgetful, the latest app from longtime indie developer Marco Arment, is designed to make reminders harder to ignore — or accide... — TechCrunch

Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations
Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file. — TechCrunch

Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a cont...

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