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Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation ↗
The high-profile startup's annual revenue run rate stands at over $100 million.
TechCrunch09/03/2026
Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails ↗
Abliteration.AI is making powerful AI models without guardrails easier to access, arguing that giving defenders the same tools as bad actors could ultimately improve cybersecurity.
TechCrunch09/03/2026
Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model ↗
For its new Muse Spark model, intended for operating coding and other agents, Meta is offering an explicit discount averaging out to about 95% for users who "contribute" to the development of future m
TechCrunch09/03/2026
OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful (and controversial) new model ↗
OpenAI claims that Astra represents "a new frontier on computer and browser use," and that it handles tasks with unmatched "speed, accuracy, and safety."
TechCrunch09/03/2026
Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race ↗
The family-focused AI assistant wants access to the details of your everyday life, but says it won’t use that data to train AI models or share it with others.
TechCrunch09/03/2026
Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella ↗
WeatherNext 3 is the latest wave of a sea change in meteorology brought out by deep learning techniques. Google says it will start feeding into weather information users see in search, Google Maps, an
TechCrunch09/03/2026
Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion ↗
Nvidia said Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is used by over 18 million developers.
TechCrunch09/03/2026
The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ↗
The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale.
TechCrunch09/02/2026
Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say ↗
The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.
TechCrunch09/02/2026
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals ↗
On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.
TechCrunch09/02/2026
OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts ↗
OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.
TechCrunch09/02/2026
Pangram’s Max Spero on why AI detection is harder than ‘Real or Fake’ ↗
The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applications, product reviews
TechCrunch09/02/2026
We’re ‘dangerously close’ to dead internet theory, says Pangram’s CEO ↗
The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applications, product reviews
TechCrunch09/02/2026
US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material ↗
"The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and competitive artificial intelligence industry that sets the standard for the practice and procedure of AI use globally," t
TechCrunch09/02/2026
Wonderful more than doubles its valuation to $5B in under 6 months ↗
Wonderful said it will use its $550 million Series C funding to develop products faster, expand its FDE teams, and meet demand for its products.
TechCrunch09/02/2026
India’s richest man now wants to turn aging computers into AI-ready PCs ↗
Jio is betting it can turn an aging computer into an AI-ready PC for as little as about $11 for two months.
TechCrunch09/02/2026
HiddenLayer nabs $100M as enterprises rush to secure their AI deployments ↗
Security companies are scrambling to build products that can monitor not just agents but also the tools and add-ons they use.
TechCrunch09/02/2026
PSA: Amazon’s shopping AI can now tell you if that message is a scam ↗
Amazon is adding a scam-detection feature to Alexa for Shopping that can verify whether suspicious emails, texts, and other messages actually came from the retailer.
TechCrunch09/02/2026
Adobe acquires Indian market intelligence startup Rilo ↗
This is Adobe's second acquisition out of India after Rephrase.ai in 2023
TechCrunch09/02/2026
Enterprise AI's real risk isn't autonomous agents. It's the complexity between them. ↗
Presented by Gravitee Agent complexity is the insidious shadow lurking inside enterprises right now that needs a light shone on it.That’s because enterprises don't deploy a single agent and watch it r
VentureBeat08/27/2026
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