When Your Health Minister Drops a Marriage Bomb: The Wes Streeting Cousin Controversy So here’s a question you probably weren’t expecting to debate over your morning coffee: Should first cousins be allowed to marry? Yeah, I know. It’s not exactly your typical political hot potato. But UK Health Minister Wes Streeting just lobbed this grenade into the public conversation, and...
Legal AI giant Harvey acquires Hexus as competition heats up in legal tech
Hexus founder and CEO Sakshi Pratap, who previously held engineering roles at Walmart, Oracle, and Google, tells TechCrunch that her San Francisco-based team has already joined Harvey, while the startup’s India-based engineers will come onboard once Harvey establishes a Bangalore office.
How PopWheels helped a food cart ditch generators for e-bike batteries
PopWheels realized its battery swapping network could be used for more than food delivery workers who need to charge their e-bikes. Now, its planning for an “aggressive rollout” this summer.
A new test for AI labs: Are you even trying to make money?
It’s getting hard to tell which AI labs. are actually trying to make money. We created a rating system to help sort it out.
SEC drops lawsuit against Winklevoss twins’ Gemini crypto exchange
The Securities and Exchange Commission has dropped its lawsuit against Gemini, the crypto exchange founded by Trump backers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.
Former Googlers seek to captivate kids with an AI-powered learning app
Sparkli said that education systems often fall behind in teaching modern concepts. The company wants to teach kids about topics like skills design, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship by creating an AI-powered learning “expedition.”

Virginia’s Bold Bet: Why Lawmakers Just Scrapped Minimum Sentences
Virginia just did something that would’ve been unthinkable a decade ago. The state legislature passed a bill eliminating mandatory minimum sentences for most crimes, and Governor Glenn Youngkin – a Republican, mind you – signed it into law. In a political climate where “tough on crime” still wins elections in most places, what’s driving this dramatic shift? The answer is...
Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects’ laptops: Reports
The FBI served Microsoft a warrant requesting encryption recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of people involved in an alleged fraud case in Guam.
This startup will send 1,000 people’s ashes to space — affordably — in 2027
Started by an engineer who worked on the space shuttle program, and at Blue Origin, Space Beyond has a spot on a 2027 Falcon 9 flight.
Meta pauses teen access to AI characters ahead of new version
Meta will developed new versions of AI characters that will give age-appropriate responses
