techcrunch.comadded August 2026
TechCrunchby Aisha Malik27 Aug 2026
Google is adding new ways for users to plan and book trips through AI Mode, its conversational search experience, the company announced on Thursday.
TechCrunchby Sean O'Kane27 Aug 2026
Josh Mackanic left a 10-year engineering career at Pacific Gas and Electric because he kept thinking about what the utility company doesn’t know about what’s buried underground.
TechCrunchby Rebecca Bellan27 Aug 2026
Hugging Face unveiled the Microduck on Thursday, a cute little duck-like robot that sells for $399 — and ships before Christmas.
TechCrunchby Ivan Mehta27 Aug 2026
You read that right. There is a new social network called “Twitter.now” on the block, and it’s being operated by a startup called Operation Bluebird, whose founding team includes former Twitter...
TechCrunchby Sean O'Kane27 Aug 2026
The rapid scaling of robotaxis over the last two years has come with a hidden human cost. Test drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more than two dozen injuries in 2024 and 2025 from hard braking...
TechCrunchby Zack Whittaker27 Aug 2026
Australian police have arrested two people in Perth accused of being members of TeamPCP, a prolific hacking group blamed for high-profile hacks against big tech giants in recent months.
TechCrunchby Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai27 Aug 2026
In July, OpenAI admitted that one of its agents tasked with completing a cybersecurity experiment broke out of containment and hacked AI dataset platform Hugging Face.
TechCrunchby Ivan Mehta27 Aug 2026
Hardware companies have realized that note-taking is one of the easiest AI use cases to build for, and consequently have been busy shoving mics into everything from pendants and rings to...
TechCrunchby Connie Loizos27 Aug 2026
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, The Information reported Wednesday night, citing a source familiar with the matter.
TechCrunchby Rebecca Bellan, Kirsten Korosec26 Aug 2026
Amazon and Nvidia just got a lot closer. The two companies announced Wednesday an expanded partnership that includes a deal to add another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to Amazon’s data centers.
TechCrunchby Amanda Silberling26 Aug 2026
Meta reached an $18 billion settlement on Wednesday over a lawsuit brought by 29 U.S. states concerning children’s safety.
TechCrunchby Lucas Ropek26 Aug 2026
Anthropic has signed a deal to rent about $45 billion in AI compute from Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company, a source familiar with the deal told TechCrunch.
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez26 Aug 2026
Google gets something right in its Wednesday announcement about new Gemini Live voice features when it says, “You shouldn’t have to guess whether a task requires Spark, a Daily Brief, or a quick...
TechCrunchby Russell Brandom26 Aug 2026
OpenAI released its official report Wednesday on the Hugging Face breach, offering the clearest picture yet of how an unusual chain of events allowed an AI model to escape its testing environment...
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez26 Aug 2026
Flipboard, the news magazine software company that has more recently invested in the open social web — the umbrella term for social platforms that let users, not one company, control their own data...
TechCrunchby Zack Whittaker26 Aug 2026
A cyberattack on U.S. medical device maker Boston Scientific is causing an ongoing “global disruption” to its operations, according to a federal regulatory filing on Wednesday, the latest...
TechCrunchby Dominic-Madori Davis26 Aug 2026
Capital F, one of the few all-female-led VC firms, announced Wednesday the $17 million close of its debut fund.
TechCrunchby Aisha Malik26 Aug 2026
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’ access to...
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez26 Aug 2026
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...
TechCrunchby Lucas Ropek26 Aug 2026
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.
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