Building a startup in the age of AI is easier than it’s ever been in many ways. But it’s also become a more complicated, competitive ecosystem for founders to enter. That’s why TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is all about empowering founders like you to navigate those…
Read article →The FBI has seized a series of domains that were used by a large-scale botnet to coordinate and launch China-backed cyberattacks against American targets. According to the Justice Department’s statement…
Read article →Apple announced on Wednesday that its next launch event is taking place on September 9, with a “Surprise and Shine” tagline. The event is expected to be a notable one,…
Read article →Capital F, one of the few all-female-led VC firms, announced Wednesday the $17 million close of its debut fund. The firm backs companies building in the “female economy” — or…
Read article →Under the terms of its $18 billion settlement to resolve claims brought by 29 U.S. states over children’s safety, Meta on Wednesday agreed to sweeping changes designed to restrict minors’…
Read article →Particle, the AI newsreader startup founded by former Twitter engineers, is shifting its focus to a potentially more lucrative idea: indexing the spoken conversations buried in podcasts and making them discoverable.…
Read article →Amazon’s smart home division Ring said on Wednesday that it is adopting a new encryption standard called TAKE (Throw Away the Key Encryption) as the default setting for video encryption…
Read article →AI is transforming everything around us but, thus far, it has largely remained contained to the digital realm. Increasingly, however, startups are looking to take it into the real world.…
Read article →Over the weekend, the nerds were buzzing with speculation over which AI lab was behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious new open-weight AI model launched onto OpenRouter anonymously and already topping…
Read article →U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA said it has observed cyberattacks targeting over 100 internet-exposed systems across the U.S. water and wastewater sector, amid a wave of hacks targeting American critical infrastructure.…
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