CScale exits stealth with $145m to stop laser failures stalling AI
CScale, a Palo Alto startup building optical interconnect for AI data centres, has come out of stealth with $145m in Series C funding. The round takes its total funding to $188m, …
The ugly economics of consumer AI
There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gunshy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough.
Oura postpones its $2.2bn IPO, citing market uncertainty
Oura has postponed its Nasdaq IPO, citing “uncertainty in the IPO market”. The Finnish-founded smart ring maker said so in a statement on Tuesday, a week after it launched the off…
OpenAI is sued over the rogue agents that hacked Hugging Face
OpenAI has been sued over the AI agents that hacked Hugging Face in July. The New York non-profit Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) filed the complaint in Sa…
Alex Stamos joins Cognition to make AI security affordable
Alex Stamos has joined Cognition, the maker of the Devin AI coding agent, as its chief information security officer. He announced the move in an article on X on Tuesday, titled “W…
ElevenLabs doubles its valuation to $22bn in a $300m share sale
ElevenLabs is now worth $22bn, double its $11bn valuation in February. Employees and existing investors sold $300m of shares, the voice AI company said in a blog post on Wednesday…
Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission
Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the requir…
FTC opens probe into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs
The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs over the risks their technology poses to consumers. An FTC spokesperson confirmed the probe on…
DoorDash launches a text-to-order AI agent that runs inside Apple Messages
DoorDash has opened an American waitlist for an AI agent that takes food orders inside Apple’s Messages app, using your order history and stored payment method. Bloomberg’s testin…
Amazon launches a faster Fire TV Stick 4K with a new remote design
Amazon has launched a faster Fire TV Stick 4K with a redesigned remote, running its own Vega operating system rather than Android. That switch also removes sideloading, and the Di…
DoorDash launches an AI agent you can text to order food
By launching an AI agent for food ordering, DoorDash is looking to gain an edge over rivals Uber Eats and Grubhub.
Destro AI’s secret sauce is getting robots and humans on the same page
"One of the biggest reasons we are winning against robotics companies is because we are not a robotics company."
Instinct’s new product recommendations are giving some users the ick
Instinct is rolling out human-curated product and travel recommendations, but some users aren’t happy about getting suggestions they never asked for.
FedEx orders 2,000 electric trucks from Harbinger in $300M deal
The order -- Harbinger's biggest ever -- comes as the startup is reportedly considering an IPO.
ElevenLabs opens Brussels office and plans to triple its Belgian team
ElevenLabs has launched in Belgium and opened an office in Brussels, the voice AI company said on Wednesday. The office is in the European District, close to the main EU buildings…
Pledge signed by President Trump and top AI leaders misspells the United States
Pledge signed by President Trump and top AI leaders misspells the United States.
Google launches Fitbit Air in India, though its high price might deter the masses
Fitbit Air costs around $146 in India, roughly $47 more than its U.S. pricing.
Instagram rolls out an AI video assistant for creators
This conversational AI assistant is intended to provide personalized feedback to creators, rather than generic advice.
Cerebras Systems’ Andrew Feldman on whether AI can keep scaling at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Cerebras Systems CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman will explore the growing demand for compute, energy, and infrastructure, how Cerebras is approaching…
Instagram rolls out an AI video editor for creators
This conversational AI assistant is intended to provide personalized feedback to creators, rather than generic advice.
Restate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents
Founded by Apache Flink veterans, the startup is taking on workflow heavyweight Temporal.
At a private AI retreat, the vendor told us the tool won’t save you
Grady Sokaras, Zapier’s head of sales, opened a session at the company’s private AI retreat with a line about the kind of product Zapier sells. “A tool is never the solution,” Sok…
3 days left to exhibit: Turn visibility into your next opportunity at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Three days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Book by October 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT to showcase your startup to 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders.
WhatsApp adds new parental controls for teen accounts
Parents can limit how teens use channels, whose Status they can see, who can see their Status updates, and control who can add teens to groups.