The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Kirsten Korosec·31 Aug 2026
The Pentagon has launched versions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok, giving 3 million civilian and military personnel access to generative AI tools that have been tailored to “warfighter needs.”...
Apply now to host a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events·31 Aug 2026
We’re getting close to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026! From October 13-15, more than 10,000 innovators, founders, investors, and industry leaders will attend our event in San Francisco’s Moscone West, but...
Instagram puts new limits on undisclosed AI profiles | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Lauren Forristal·31 Aug 2026
Instagram announced Monday that it’s changing how it labels AI-generated profiles and will start limiting the reach of accounts that feature AI-generated people without saying so.
Apple's top App Store exec, Phil Schiller, follows wave of exits as CEO Tim Cook steps down | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Lucas Ropek·31 Aug 2026
Tim Cook is departing from his long-held role as Apple’s CEO — and a wave of top executives are heading for the exits as he does.
Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a "Harvey for police officers" | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Marina Temkin·31 Aug 2026
David Lawrence was a Harvard Law student when an on-campus shooting involving a police officer sparked intense controversy over police conduct.
Hackers claim millions of patient records stolen during data breach at healthcare giant McKesson | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Zack Whittaker·31 Aug 2026
A prolific hacking group has taken credit for last week’s cyberattack against U.S. pharmaceutical distribution giant McKesson, leading to the latest spill of highly sensitive health data by an...
Ryan Breslow is raising up to $27M in pay-to-play bridge funding to save Bolt | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Marina Temkin·31 Aug 2026
Ryan Breslow, the controversial entrepreneur who returned as CEO of Bolt last year after years of legal battles and clashes with investors, refuses to give up on the checkout processing startup he...
Tim Cook's parting message: Apple is in the hands of a product builder | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·31 Aug 2026
On his last day as Apple CEO, Tim Cook offered a rousing endorsement of his successor: John Ternus, the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering.
How AI could make it harder for governments to use hacking tools | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai·31 Aug 2026
Earlier in August, cryptography professor Matthew Green wrote a controversial thread on X and a longer blog post that went viral within the cybersecurity community.
Nvidia’s $3.5B MediaTek bet reveals its plan for tackling Big Tech's AI chip buildout | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Rebecca Bellan·31 Aug 2026
Nvidia is investing $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek. As part of the deal, MediaTek will adopt Nvidia’s technology that will help it design custom chips for AI companies and...
MapQuest's app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·31 Aug 2026
MapQuest stood up to President Donald Trump, and now its app is reaping the rewards. The “OG of online mapping,” as the company calls itself, announced on Thursday that it would not change the name...
Meeting notetaker Circleback adds a free tier to attract more customers | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Ivan Mehta·31 Aug 2026
The meeting note-taker market is a crowded space. Just in the last few weeks, dictation app Wispr launched its own note-taker and scheduling app, and Calendly added a similar tool to its stack.
The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Kate Park·31 Aug 2026
In July and August, Washington tightened restrictions on foreign-made advanced robotic systems and imposed steep tariffs on imported drones and their components, both moves citing national-security...
Grindr wants to be the everything app for gay men; investors are still deciding whether it can pull it off | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Connie Loizos·31 Aug 2026
When George Arison took over Grindr in 2022, he inherited a company that had been bounced from Chinese ownership to a forced divestiture to a private-equity rescue — a business that was printing...
Liux's Big microcar bets on sustainability to take on Chinese rivals | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Anna Heim·30 Aug 2026
Cars in European cities are smaller than ever. But as Europe’s appetite for microcars has grown, the cute Italian ‘yoghurt pots’ have largely given way to small Chinese EVs.
Musk's faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Connie Loizos·30 Aug 2026
Elon Musk says he’s found a way to solve one of AI’s biggest bottlenecks by making a hard-to-manufacture turbine part himself.
TechCrunch Mobility: The hidden human cost of robotaxis | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Kirsten Korosec·30 Aug 2026
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Kate Park·30 Aug 2026
Nearly every company that’s trying to deploy artificial intelligence runs into the same problem: it’s hard to integrate the tech into everyday operations.
At TechBBQ, Europe's AI conversations kept coming back to: Who's actually in control? | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Dominic-Madori Davis·29 Aug 2026
At TechBBQ in Copenhagen, the conversation among investors, founders, and operators from across Europe wasn’t just about what to build with AI, but who should control it.
"We're not doing 30 bets a year": Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Connie Loizos·29 Aug 2026
It used to be that Vijay Pande was better known in academic circles than investor circles. That changed pretty abruptly a dozen years ago, when Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz — who’d spent their...
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