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09-10-26 -
Thrive Capital led VCs into pro sports ownership; Collaborative Fund just upp...
Collaborative Fund just bought into D.C. United and its stadium, with firm founder Craig Shapiro pitching it as a way to showcase for the firm\'s startups.
09-10-26 -
Jensen Huang explains why Nvidia will grow an astounding 70% next year
Nvidia has its finger in every pie, and sees another year of plenty in its future, Jensen Huang says. But, he insists, its deals are not circular.
09-10-26 -
Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk abou...
Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness and building businesses.
09-10-26 -
OpenAI puts Pro subscriptions on hold due to Astra demand
The company said Pro subscriptions put the most strain on its systems, so it\'s pausing sign-ups while adding more capacity.
09-10-26 -
Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek
A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.
09-10-26 -
Furos founders left Silicon Valley and its paying off
The three 28-year-old founders behind energy startup Furo moved from Silicon Valley and back to Germany, and yet secured $4 million in funding from mostly U.S. backers.
09-10-26 -
Metas AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US
Meta\'s newest app Muse is off to a slower start than the company\'s other apps, like Meta AI or Threads.
09-10-26 -
Proxima Fusion bets 140M on a critical fusion ingredient dominated by Asian s...
Proxima Fusion\'s new high-temperature superconducting magnet factory will help supply its commercial power plant.
09-10-26 -
Amazon makes it easier to buy what you see on Prime Video
Amazon is expanding shopping integrations across Prime Video, letting viewers discover products tied to thousands of shows, movies, and live sports through X-Ray, its shopping app, and a new Lens-powered “Shop the Scene” feature.
09-10-26 -
Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you
Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it\'s human.
09-10-26 -
Indias Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio ...
Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.
09-10-26 -
Instagrams latest feature lets you add tagged posts to your profile grid
Instagram\'s newest feature lets users take posts from the Tagged tab and move it to their main profile grid instead.
09-10-26 -
Google is making it easier to switch between password managers on Android
Google\'s new feature will transfer your passkeys as well
09-10-26 -
The Boring Company raises $3B in round led by UAE
The company said it plans to dig more than 150 kilometers of tunnels in the Middle Eastern country.
09-10-26 -
AI agents are flooding public services with new requests
“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher told TechCrunch.
09-10-26 -
Bending Spoons to buy collaboration tools maker Miro for $1.36B, 90% less tha...
Bending Spoons is buying Miro for $1.36B, a huge dip in valuation for the workplace collaboration startup, which was valued at $17.5B in late 2021.
09-10-26 -
Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal
Maven Robotics emerged from stealth today with a $100 million Series A and active deployments.
09-10-26 -
Google signs its biggest rice-methane carbon credit deal with Indian startup ...
The four-year agreement will cover rice farms across three Indian states, reaching about 100,000 hectares at peak delivery.
09-10-26 -
ID verification giant IDScan confirms data breach with more than 150 million ...
The ID checking company said the data breach included people\'s full names and driver\'s licenses and other government-issued identity documents.
09-10-26 -
Defense tech Mach Industries doubles valuation to $3.7B in 3 months
The buzzy startup raised $600 million in its Series C round.
09-10-26 -
Snapchat takes aim at Partiful with new event-planning features
Snapchat says the new features can be used to organize everything from birthday celebrations and sporting events to study sessions and weekend hangouts.
09-10-26 -
European founders and VCs urge lawmakers to get EU Inc right
Amid negotiations for a new EU-wide corporate status, an open letter signed by unicorn founders and investors warns that \'EU Inc\' shouldn’t be watered down.
09-10-26 -
US Army places $11M bet on Austin-based GPS alternative Tern
Tern has described its tech as \"Google Maps for the battlefield.\"
09-10-26 -
AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce...
Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.
09-09-26 -
Automattics board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
Matt Mullenweg, the founder and CEO of Automattic, best known as the parent company of WordPress.com, has been put on a leave of absence by his board against his will, according to a Slack message seen by TechCrunch. Earlier Wednesday, Mullenweg p...
09-09-26 -
OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.
09-09-26 -
Massachusetts hits data centers with new clean power rules
Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.
09-09-26 -
Apples new CEO is reviving a Steve Jobs strategy from 25 years ago
John Ternus made the case in his first keynote as Apple CEO that the iPhone isn\'t going anywhere.
09-09-26 -
Apple Watchs new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is alwa...
Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.
09-09-26 -
Everything Apple announced at its fall iPhone event, from the foldable iPhone...
The main event was the tech giant\'s highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.
09-09-26 -
There are new shiny iPhones, so Apple is making you pay more for older models
Apple is raising the price of its existing iPhone models by $100, including iPhone 16, iPhone 17, and iPhone Air.
09-09-26 -
The hinge for Apples new foldable phone was built with AI
Apple says it used AI and 3D printing in the manufacturing process for its long-awaited foldable phone.
09-09-26 -
Apple Watchs new feature listens to your chats and recaps them
The Siri Recap feature is similar to other note-taking apps like Granola.
09-09-26 -
Harvey hits $15.5B valuation, months after reaching $11B
The legal AI startup and VC darling has nearly doubled its valuation in nine months.
09-09-26 -
Apples revamped Health app will calculate your health age and readiness score
The update uses Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data.
09-09-26 -
Apple unveils Watch Series 12 and Watch Ultra 4 with an AI upgrade that can r...
Most notably, Apple is taking aim at the growing wave of AI wearables with new \"Audio Intelligence\" features that let you rewind moments and remember details from daily conversations.
09-09-26 -
Apple has a new way to prove your iPhone photos arent AI slop
Apple introduced Apple Reference Image to help users determine whether photos have been edited, including alterations made by AI.
09-09-26 -
Apple shows off AirPods 5 with improved active noise cancellation
The AirPods 5 support better noise cancellation, Siri AI, and offer volume controls on the stem.
09-09-26 -
Apple unveils its first foldable, the iPhone Duo
Apple today introduced its first foldable device, named the iPhone Duo, at its “Surprise and Shine” iPhone event held in Cupertino. The phone is the first marquee device launched under the company’s new CEO, John Tern...
09-09-26 -
Apple CEO John Ternus says the best AI device is still the iPhone
The company also argued that its on-device models offer consumers more privacy.
09-09-26 -
Apple launches iPhone 18 Pro with upgraded camera
Apple\'s new iPhone 18 Pro lineup upgrades the camera and comes in burgundy.
09-09-26 -
DOJ wants more answers on Foxs $22B Roku deal
Fox’s $22 billion plan to buy Roku has hit a new hurdle. The Justice Department sent Fox and Roku what’s known as a “second request” on Tuesday, asking the companies to turn over more data and documents as it takes a closer look at the dea...
09-09-26 -
Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrat...
09-09-26 -
Viral AI assistant Instinct now has its own email address
Instinct’s new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses, handle support requests, and do more on users\' behalf.
09-09-26 -
Uber rival inDrive scales beyond ride-hailing to capture more consumer spending
inDrive\'s ad business, first piloted in July 2025, has served more than 2 billion impressions and attracted over 2,000 paying advertisers a month.
09-09-26 -
Gambling with our lives: Anthropic researcher quits, warns against self-impro...
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned over AI extinction fears, calling for pacing agreements between labs.
09-09-26 -
Shipt becomes the latest delivery app with an AI shopping assistant
Users can ask the assistant to do things like \"Create a cart for my Saturday tailgate for 25 people and include some brunch items,\" or \"Build a cart for easy school lunches and after-school snacks,\" Shipt says.
09-09-26 -
Uber invests $10M in Indian fleet operator Carrum at $168M valuation
Carrum Mobility operates about 5,100 vehicles in India and is Uber\'s largest fleet partner for its premium Uber Black service in the country.
09-09-26 -
AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August summer doldrums or a wa...
Falling token costs, cheaper models, and less spend per employee—AI adoption isn\'t playing out the way hyperscalers hoped.
09-09-26 -
Group of bipartisan lawmakers ask US government to ban several hack-for-hire ...
The three Indian companies are accused of using hackers to steal information used to sway litigation.

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