Google accused of overcharging 20 million UK consumers over Play Store fees
Google is defending a £1.2B claim at London’s Competition Appeal Tribunal brought for about 20 million British consumers who say Play Store commissions of up to 30% were passed in…
Mirror Particle is building a ‘world model’ of human behavior
Mirror Particle will launch at TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield with a world model built from scratch to predict human behavior, arguing LLM roleplay falls short for market …
Furientis lands $25M from Benchmark to mass-produce low-cost missile interceptors
The storied Silicon Valley firm makes its first pure defense investment.
Learn all about scaling, fundraising, founder how-tos, and more at TechCrunch Founder Summit, November 4
There isn’t a single manual to read or prompt to give an LLM that can equip you with the skills and knowledge to build a company. But on November 4, TechCrunch Founder Summit give…
Anthropic is giving startups a free year of Claude Team and $1,000 in credits
"We created this program because we believe the benefits of AI will reach most people through the companies that build on top of models, rather than through the models alone."
Revolut’s commercial real estate lending chief exits
Duncan Batty, hired from M&G Investments in January 2025 to build Revolut’s commercial real estate lending business, has left the company, with his departure appearing in Companie…
Investor urges Snap to raise outside capital for Specs
Blue Duck Capital Partners has written to Snap’s board urging it to sell about a fifth of its Specs subsidiary at a $5B valuation, raising $1B to fund roughly two years of spendin…
ASML’s chip packaging move threatens Besi shares, Bank of America says
Bank of America cut BE Semiconductor Industries to neutral and nearly halved its price target, saying the share price does not reflect the threat of ASML entering hybrid bonding, …
LibreOffice says ‘no AI’ is now a software feature
The maker of the open source document editor says it has no plans to add AI to its software's default configuration, citing user privacy.
Vinod Khosla believes ex-DeepMind engineer’s Wajo will win agent market on trust
Wajo's Fo agent can hire humans to complete a task.
Spiko raises a $90M Series B led by NEA for its tokenised cash funds
Spiko, a Paris and London company that issues tokenised cash funds, has taken its total funding to $120 million, it said in a statement on Tuesday. New Enterprise Associates (NEA)…
Asos app users get an alert claiming its Snowflake instance was compromised
Asos app users in the UK got a push notification on Tuesday morning in which the senders claimed to have fully compromised the online fashion retailer’s Snowflake instance. The me…
Bluesky wants to give you your own domain on the open web
Bluesky says the process will still take 18-24 months, so don't expect your new, shortened 'bsky' handle any time soon.
BT takes over TalkTalk and its 2.5 million customers out of administration
BT Group has acquired TalkTalk’s consumer and wholesale businesses out of administration. They have 1.5 million retail customers and 1 million wholesale customers. BT announced th…
Emmys will move from broadcast TV to Prime Video in 2027
Non-Amazon Prime subscribers will be able to watch the awards show on the platform.
Mistral’s new 1T model aims to leapfrog closed and open rivals
French AI lab Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, a new large multimodal model aiming to leapfrog both American and Chinese rivals.
Denmark’s CPR breach: 14 million lookups in ten days, found through a bill
Unknown users have pulled names, addresses and ID numbers on about 8.8 million people from Denmark’s Central Person Register (CPR). They abused a small Danish company’s legal acce…
Minerva Humanoids raises $10M for robots that do bomb disposal and rig work
Minerva Humanoids has raised about $10M in pre-seed funding to build humanoid robots for dangerous jobs. The San Francisco startup works on oil and gas and public safety. General …
Pinterest’s AI now turns beauty Pins into action plans
Pinterest’s new AI-powered Beauty Guides translate hair and nail Pins into salon terminology, with estimated costs, appointment times and maintenance needs.
Uber is spending $2.3B to get into catering
It's the latest in a string of deals meant to grow Uber Eats into a food delivery behemoth.
Get all your questions answered at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: The full breakout session agenda revealed
Get all of your scaling and tech questions answered at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Here's the full breakout session agenda, happening October 13-15 in San Francisco. Register now to …
Paramount closes historic Warner Bros. merger to form Skydance
The deal brings together two major streaming platforms, Paramount+ and HBO Max, along with networks including CBS, CNN, MTV, TBS, Comedy Central, and Food Network.
Zapata Quantum joins IBM Quantum Network to build quantum applications
Zapata Quantum, a Boston quantum software company, has joined the IBM Quantum Network, it said on Tuesday. It will use IBM’s machines to build software for its clients. Zapata doe…
Glimpse wants to give hardware companies an X-ray view of every critical part
Called Explore, Glimpse's new image processing software lets hardware makers speed up quality control checks using CT scanners.