Startups
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Flipboard acquires Graze, the feed builder working to monetize the open social web | TechCrunch
Flipboard is acquiring Bluesky feed-building startup Graze, bringing its privacy-friendly ad technology and creator monetization tools into Flipboard’s growing open social web ecosystem.
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OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach | TechCrunch
The report, which spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises, is the most complete accounting of the incident to date.
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US seizes domains of Chinese botnet used to hack NASA, Justice Department, and the Senate | TechCrunch
The Justice Department said that the domain seizures made the botnet and its command and control servers "inoperable," as the domains were hardcoded into the botnet's code and were critical for the botnet's communication and essential operations.
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Capital F closes $17M debut fund with goal to back the future of the 'female economy' | TechCrunch
The firm backs companies building in the “female economy,” or the markets where women drive demand — women’s health, digital commerce, and AI tools.
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How do we explain OpenAI's executive exodus? | TechCrunch
Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?
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Meta's $18B child-safety deal hinges on age verification tech that doesn't work well | TechCrunch
The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk.
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Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale | TechCrunch
The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.
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Google's Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI | TechCrunch
Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.
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Medical device maker Boston Scientific says a cyberattack is causing a 'global disruption' to its operations | TechCrunch
The company won't say if medical devices are affected or if any customer data was exfiltrated.
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Meta agrees to sweeping changes to restrict kids' access to its apps as part of settlement with states | TechCrunch
One of the most notable changes is that Meta plans to implement a daily two-hour time limit for teens that can only be disabled with parental permission.
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Apple is holding its iPhone launch event on September 9 | TechCrunch
The event is expected to be a notable one, as Apple is rumored to unveil its long-awaited foldable iPhone. It'll also be the first Apple event with John Ternus as CEO, who is scheduled to take the reins of the tech giant from Tim Cook on September 1.
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CISA confirms hackers targeted over 100 US water systems during July | TechCrunch
The federal cyber agency's warning comes amid a wave of suspected Iran-backed cyberattacks targeting critical water systems across the United States.
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Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and 'Human Reserved' jobs to mitigate harms from AI | TechCrunch
Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before.
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Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents | TechCrunch
Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searchable on the web and accessible to AI agents through an API and MCP.
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What’s driving Sweden’s startup boom, from Lovable to Legora | TechCrunch
Watch as Cherry Ventures partner Sophia Bendz joins Equity to dig into Sweden’s startup boom, from Lovable and Legora to founder networks, U.S. capital, and the forces shaping the Nordic tech ecosystem.
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Meta settles for $18 billion in lawsuit brought by 29 states over social media harms to children | TechCrunch
The lawsuit alleged that Meta knowingly designed platforms like Instagram and Facebook to addict children, despite knowing about the harms the platforms could pose to young users.
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Bluesky now lets you upload 10-minute long videos | TechCrunch
Bluesky's new 10-minute video support includes faster upload speeds, too.
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Ring introduces a new encryption standard, makes it the default for cloud features | TechCrunch
Ring says users can still opt for end-to-end encryption.
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Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor | TechCrunch
Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence.
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Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era | TechCrunch
Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.
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Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model | TechCrunch
Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights are set to be released soon.
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Hearing tech startup Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses | TechCrunch
The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into the arms of eyewear frames.
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Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them | TechCrunch
Runable says 60%–70% of its 1 trillion-plus token usage in the last 90 days came from paying customers.
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Arga is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents | TechCrunch
Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel.
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QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling you | TechCrunch
The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a plan to use LLMs and cybersecurity know-how to make AI queries coherent.
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Ventures Platform goes bigger — and broader — with its second Africa fund | TechCrunch
The Pan-African venture firm has raised $84 million and plans to invest in startups beyond its home market of Nigeria.
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India's Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call | TechCrunch
Ringg has raised $10 million from Peak XV as a part of its Series A extension.
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Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say | TechCrunch
The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.
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OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues | TechCrunch
Before Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting line away from President Greg Brockman and putting Vice President Sachin Katti in charge of the group.
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X sends cease-and-desist to open source project Nitter over alleged scraping | TechCrunch
X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X front ends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.
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Your vote matters! Decide which Audience Choice sessions will make it to TechCrunch Founder Summit | TechCrunch
Each year, we get a huge influx of applicants to speak at TechCrunch’s events, and this year’s Founder Summit in Boston on November 4 will be no different!
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Instagram’s 'First Draft' feature aims to make editing Reels less tedious | TechCrunch
Instagram is making one of the most tedious parts of creating Reels easier. The company announced Tuesday in a Threads post that it’s rolling out “First
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Waymo robotaxis are headed to Munich | TechCrunch
Germany's autonomous vehicle regulations have made it a hotspot for autonomous vehicle testing and eventual commercial robotaxi deployment.
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SpaceX will build a second, $100B 'Starbase' spaceport in Louisiana | TechCrunch
The company says it will start construction in 2027 and that a Starship rocket could take flight as soon as 2029.
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Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat | TechCrunch
Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects, preferences, and other context.
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Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding | TechCrunch
The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.
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Tonight marks your last chance to save up to $300 on a TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass | TechCrunch
If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the startup community gathering in San Francisco from October 13-15 at Moscone West!
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Apple debuts its 'most powerful chip ever' in M5 Ultra and M6 | TechCrunch
Apple unveils these new processors alongside an updated Mac Mini and Mac Studio.
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Pacific Fusion’s next fusion machine could clear a key hurdle to commercial power | TechCrunch
Fusion startup Pacific Fusion broke ground on a demonstration facility in New Mexico that it says will generate enough energy to power itself.
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Life360 expands pet tracking with new $8 scannable tags and zoomie alerts | TechCrunch
Life360’s new $7.99 scannable pet tags alert families when a lost pet is found and share its last known location, while new care-tracking features help households keep tabs on feeding, walks, medication, and more.
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OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale, benchmarks show | TechCrunch
Tested on SemiAnalysis’ InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than the currently available state-of-the art.
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Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica | TechCrunch
Lica co-founders are going to work on Gamma's new research team.
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Self-driving truck startup Gatik raises $200M following PepsiCo deal | TechCrunch
The funding, Gatik's largest so far, was led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies.
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Apple's latest Mac Mini runs on a new M6 chip, and starts at $899 | TechCrunch
The base model of the Mac Mini comes with 256GB of storage, 16GB of RAM, and costs $899.
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That fake Grand Theft Auto VI demo is actually just malware | TechCrunch
Grand Theft Auto fans, eager for news about one of the most anticipated video games of all time, appear especially vulnerable to this new cyberattack.
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Apple rescues Hide My Email feature from the privacy scrap heap | TechCrunch
Apple says it will no longer ditch using its icloud.com domain for hiding people's email addresses.
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Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents | TechCrunch
Now exiting stealth mode with a $26 million seed round, Keenable has been building a vast web search index for AI agents.
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WhatsApp tightens account security with stronger two-step verification and more | TechCrunch
WhatsApp’s two-step verification previously relied on a six-digit PIN, but now users can choose a longer, alphanumeric password with special characters.
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Fitbit founders launch Luffu Link, an LTE health and safety band | TechCrunch
Luffu Link combines all day health sensing, voice logging, location awareness, and the ability to get help from trusted contacts into a single device, all without needing a phone nearby.
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Uber launches live video streaming for teen accounts | TechCrunch
Uber said no one will be able to access the video once the ride ends