May 20, 2026

TechCrunch Top 3

Jeff Bezos, you were so close to making a good point: "Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75,000 a year paying more than $1,000 a month in taxes?" Bezos said Wednesday morning on CNBC. "That's $1,000 that could help with rent, or groceries, or anything." Read More

Intuit to lay off over 3,000 employees to refocus on AI: In a memo to employees, CEO Sasan Goodarzi said the layoffs are meant to reduce complexity, simplify the company's corporate structure, and deliver better AI products. Read More

The SpaceX IPO filing has arrived: SpaceX has finally made the contents of its IPO filing public, weeks ahead of what is expected to be the largest IPO ever. Read More

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Afternoon Must-Reads

NanoClaw creator turns down $20M buyout offer, raises $12M seed instead: NanoClaw was created as a secure alternative to OpenClaw to assist the Cohen brothers with their AI marketing firm that used agents to do much of the work. But instead of running directly on a computer, NanoClaw runs sandboxed in a container. Read More

Tesla's Full Self-Driving software is creeping into Europe: First came the Netherlands, now it's Lithuania. And more European countries appear to be in the queue for Tesla's driver-assistance system. Read More

GitHub says hackers stole data from thousands of internal repositories: The code hosting giant GitHub said it was investigating a breach but said there was no evidence of customer data theft. Read More

Airbnb gets into hotels, expands AI for host onboarding and customer support: Airbnb will soon let you book luggage storage and car rental services on its app. Read More

Customers say Trump Mobile is leaking their personal information: Trump Mobile is leaking customers’ email and home addresses but has not responded to people alerting the company of the data exposure, according to two YouTubers who said they verified that their leaked data is authentic. Read More

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Last but Not Least

Microsoft’s carbon-removal plans aren’t dead after all: Microsoft is responsible for over 90% of the carbon-removal market, and reports suggested the company was pausing purchases entirely. This new deal should help assuage the fears of CDR startups. Read More