Ofcom says it still has concerns over how X removes illegal hate content
Britain’s online safety regulator, Ofcom, says it still has concerns about how well X removes illegal hate and terror content. This comes even though X is now reviewing these repo…
US charges 14 over North Korean IT worker scheme at more than 70 companies
The US Justice Department has charged 14 people over a North Korean job scam, announced on Tuesday. North Korean IT workers used stolen names to get remote jobs at more than 70 US…
Scimplify raises $25M to challenge China’s grip on critical materials with AI
Scimplify's annualized revenue run rate has tripled to $200 million as it eyes U.S. expansion.
Microsoft Azure executive asked teams to find 20% cost cuts, report says
A senior Microsoft cloud boss has asked team leaders to find ways to cut costs by at least 20%, The Information reported, citing people who know about the plans. We have not indep…
Anthropic opens a Singapore office and signs an AI safety MOU with the government
Anthropic has opened an office in Singapore, its fifth in Asia-Pacific, and signed a memorandum of understanding with the government. Neither comes with a figure or a headcount. T…
Bumble agrees to be bought by Ithaca Holdings for about $1.3bn
Bumble has agreed to be acquired by Ithaca Holdings in an all-cash deal valuing the dating app at about $1.3 billion, the companies said on Tuesday. Ithaca will pay $6.05 per Bumb…
Anthropic’s international chief says open models carry more risk by definition
Anthropic’s head of international told Bloomberg TV in Dublin that open alternatives to its models carry more risk by definition. That is a broader claim than the one Dario Amodei…
Home consoles face extinction as cloud and AI boom, BI research says
Bloomberg Intelligence forecasts that streamed games will become a $38B market by 2035 and that the dedicated console will stop being a mass-market product. The case depends on su…
Google DeepMind opens its science AI models to 200 European researchers
Up to 200 European researchers will get direct access to Google’s most advanced science AI models, plus $3 million in computing credits, Google said today. The offer comes from it…
Nvidia commits $250M of compute to UK AI safety research
Nvidia has committed $250M over five years to UK agentic safety and security research, in the form of compute access rather than cash. Provider selection and commercial terms have…
Anthropic asks the full appeals court to rehear its Pentagon case
Anthropic has asked the full federal appeals court in Washington to revisit a 2-1 ruling upholding the Pentagon’s designation of it as a supply-chain risk. It argues the designati…
ASML says it cannot meet chip tool demand in 2027 or 2028
ASML says its supply plans mean it cannot fully meet demand in 2027 or 2028, and some customers want to place orders for 2029 and 2030. It raised the low end of its 2026 sales gui…
Cachet raises new funding to insure Europe’s gig and mobility platforms
Tallinn startup Cachet, which sells insurance to ride-hailing, scooter, and gig-work apps, has closed a funding round led by Spintop Ventures. The deal raises its total capital to…
Justice Department says North Koreans have infiltrated dozens of U.S. companies
U.S. authorities warn that sanctioned hackers are increasingly targeting Americans to act as facilitators between breached U.S. companies and Pyongyang.
Science Corporation implants its vision-restoring chip in its first Stargardt disease patient
Max Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, detailed on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt how his company's work with PRIMA is part of its path toward a novel brain-com…
Cerebras CEO says we’re nearing a future where everyone has a personal AI assistant at home
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman predicts a future where personal AI assistants become as commonplace as household appliances, running partly on local devices and partly in the cloud.
Industrial Next wants factory robots to switch tasks in minutes, not weeks
Industrial Next helps manufacturers automate complex, delicate tasks that have traditionally required human labor.
Cerebras CEO pushes back on AI doomsday warnings
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman has a message for AI leaders spreading doomsday warnings: Maybe stop talking? At TechCrunch Disrupt, he argued that the industry's focus on AI's risks …
An OpenAI engineer is charged over a listening device in the boardroom
An OpenAI engineer has been arrested over a listening device found behind a television in an executive conference room, and is charged with endeavouring to intercept oral communic…
Beyond AI: what Europe’s flagship customer contact event revealed
Amsterdam, early October. Customer Contact Week Europe 2026 brought together around 700 attendees and 50 exhibitors over three days to talk about the future of customer contact. A…
Helix Carbon says it can make iron cheaper by recycling blast furnace pollution
The steel industry is a big polluter, but Helix Carbon can upcycle pollution from blast furnaces to drive down emissions and improve margins.
FBI arrests OpenAI employee accused of planting hidden recording device in conference room
It's not clear exactly for what purpose the recording device was used, but FBI director Kash Patel said the scheme was to "capture sensitive communications about the company’s sup…
Judge orders OpenAI to turn over hiring records in Apple trade secrets case
A federal judge ruled that Apple can access OpenAI's interview materials involving former Apple employees, as well as private messages and testimony from key figures in the case.
Marina Segal wants your cloud to say no
Cloud security spent a decade learning to see everything. Half of what it found is still open. Tamnoon’s CEO says the next decade belongs to machines that know when not to act, an…