Open or closed AI? How founders are choosing what to build on at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Learn how founders are choosing between building on open or closed AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register now to save up to $100 and get a second pass at 50% off.
Lola Vision Systems is trying to make it easier to run AI models on chips
Lola Vision Systems is one of TechCrunch's Battlefield 200 Companies
Hackers steal 8 million citizens’ records from Danish government database
The Danish government said the breach of names, addresses, and state-issued ID numbers affects 8 million people, including people living abroad and the deceased.
US judge rules a police Flock search was unconstitutional mass surveillance
A federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled that a deputy’s warrantless search of Flock’s licence plate reader network broke the US Constitution. In an order dated 1 October, Judge Sara…
Security teams are starting to treat AI like staff, and that means managing it
Ask anyone who has worked in a security operations center what the job actually involves, and you’ll hear a lot about alerts. Thousands of them, most of which turn out to be nothi…
Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI ‘agent fleet’
Independent researchers discovered an agent swarm that seems to be running on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's map service, Amap.
Collibra acquires Munich’s trail ML to automate AI governance
Collibra has acquired trail ML, a Munich startup whose agents work out which AI rules apply to a system, check whether its controls work, and block agent actions that break policy…
Meet the Startup Battlefield 200 judges who’ll decide the winner at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Meet the final five Startup Battlefield judges who'll decide who wins the pitch competition at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Get your pass now to save up to $100, and get a second at 5…
OpenAI’s chip chief tells More Than Moore he doesn’t fully trust AI design
OpenAI’s own AI models changed parts of its Jalapeño chip, and its engineers could not always say why. In one example, they saved more than 13% of die area, Richard Ho told Ian Cu…
The final Disrupt Stage lineup: Three days of conversations you won’t hear anywhere outside of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The full TechCrunch Disrupt Stage lineup revealed, featuring Max Hodak, Mark Wahlberg, Benchmark partners, and more. Register now to save up to $100 on your pass and get a second …
Dutch eyewear chain Hans Anders stops selling Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses
Hans Anders, one of the largest Dutch eyewear chains, has stopped selling Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium. The chain told Reuters on Friday that privac…
Apple adds new Full Disk Access controls on Macs because of AI agents
Apple will add new controls to Full Disk Access on the Mac. Users will only be able to give an app that level of access “with very explicit user action”. The company announced the…
PwC and Cohere form an enterprise AI alliance, launching first in Canada
PwC and Cohere have announced a global alliance to sell secure enterprise AI, beginning in Canada, with no client, value or timeline disclosed. Cohere markets itself as a sovereig…
Slovenia’s .si domains hit 20,000 in a day after Trump renamed AI
Slovenia’s domain registry recorded 20,276 new .si web addresses in the 24 hours to Monday afternoon, the live counter on Register.si shows. The .si country code matches the initi…
Google says some Android apps need developer tuning on Intel Googlebooks
Google has said a small number of complex Android apps and games need developer tuning to run properly on the Intel versions of its new Googlebook laptops, which reached Britain, …
Risotto launches an ‘Autonomous IT Engineer’ for complex IT tickets
Anyone who has ever worked at a large enterprise knows the drill. You submit an IT ticket for a complex software issue, and then you wait. First-generation AI chatbots have succes…
Reclinker raises £10m to turn demolition waste back into cement
Reclinker, a startup that turns demolition waste back into cement, has raised £10m in a Series A round. It will use the money to move from trials to full commercial production in …
Sam Altman says AI money in US politics is clearly not working
During the first episode of Decoded, Politico’s podcast, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman says the money AI companies are pouring into US politics has failed to improve how peopl…
Deliveroo is putting delivery robots on the pavements of five UK towns
Deliveroo has partnered with the American firm Coco Robotics to run four-wheeled pavement robots in five UK locations, starting in Canary Wharf this month, and says most orders wi…
Can Safeworld convince people that gen AI robots won’t hurt them?
Safeworld is building digital humans to make sure robots don't hurt the real ones.
OpenAI is putting ads inside ChatGPT’s image generation
OpenAI is testing a visual ad format during image generation in ChatGPT, placed by guardrails that assess whether a conversation is emotionally vulnerable or sensitive before an a…
Huawei and Qualcomm sign patent deal covering 5G, AI and networking
Huawei and Qualcomm have agreed to a multi-year patent licensing deal covering 5G, AI, computing and networking, and announced the agreement today. “This agreement not only demon…
Norway plans temporary ban on AI glasses in parks, schools and gyms
Norway’s government plans to ban the use of AI glasses in selected public places for a limited time and announced the plan today, saying that people could be filmed or recorded wi…
Schneider Electric to buy US software maker PTC for $22.6bn in cash
Schneider Electric has agreed to buy PTC, a US maker of industrial design and engineering software, for about $22.6bn (€20.1bn) in cash. The French group announced the deal on Mon…