Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Marina Temkin·2 Sept 2026
Palo Alto Networks paid $500 million in cash and stock to acquire Console, a two-year-old startup that uses AI agents to automate routine IT help desk tasks, according to two people with knowledge...
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events·2 Sept 2026
At our past TechCrunch Disrupt events, AI has taken center stage, both throughout our programming and in a stage of its own.
Google spared from ad-business breakup, but judge orders changes to how it operates | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Lucas Ropek·2 Sept 2026
The Justice Department has spent years attempting to break up Google’s gargantuan advertising business across two separate antitrust lawsuits: one filed in 2020 focused on Google’s dominance in...
OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Russell Brandom·2 Sept 2026
OpenAI’s new Astra model will use a reasoning technique called “recurrent depth” that allows it to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models, the The...
MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump's 'Lake America' renaming | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·2 Sept 2026
MapQuest’s unlikely comeback just got even bigger. On Tuesday, the “OG” mapping application (and one that many thought no longer existed!) became the No. 1 overall app on the U.S.
X shifts US creator payouts from Stripe to X Money | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·2 Sept 2026
Elon Musk’s social network X on Wednesday said that starting today, all of its U.S. creator payouts will be handled through X Money, the app’s payments service.
U.S. government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Amanda Silberling·2 Sept 2026
In a lawsuit that the New York Times filed against OpenAI, the Trump administration has contributed a 20-page brief in defense of the ChatGPT maker’s unlicensed use of copyrighted material to train...
Enhanced geothermal notches another win as Google buys 400 MW from Fervo | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Tim De Chant·2 Sept 2026
Geothermal energy company Fervo notched another win as Google agreed to buy nearly half a gigawatt of electricity to power a planned new data center in Utah.
Wonderful more than doubles its valuation to $5B in under 6 months | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Ram Iyer·2 Sept 2026
Israeli-Dutch AI startup Wonderful has raised $550 million in a Series C funding round that gives it a price tag of $5 billion, more than doubling its $2 billion valuation the company gained when...
HiddenLayer nabs $100M as enterprises rush to secure their AI deployments | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Ram Iyer·2 Sept 2026
When AI security startup HiddenLayer raised its $50 million Series A three years ago, one of the big questions in the space was whether the AI threats the startup was protecting against would...
PSA: Amazon's shopping AI can now tell you if that message is a scam | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·2 Sept 2026
Amazon is turning to AI to help fight scammers, the company announced on Wednesday. The retailer said some 360,000 customers every year reach out to its customer service department, wondering...
Adobe acquires Indian market intelligence startup Rilo | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Ivan Mehta·2 Sept 2026
Adobe has acquired India-based marketing intelligence startup Rilo in a deal involving licensing and team acquisition, TechCrunch learned and the company confirmed.
Adobe is making its tools available in Slack | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Ivan Mehta·2 Sept 2026
Customers can now use Adobe’s apps like Firefly, Adobe Express, Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, Stock, Lightroom, and others directly with Slack’s AI chatbot, Slackbot, Adobe...
OpenAI faces 30 more lawsuits tied to Tumbler Ridge shooting | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Rebecca Bellan·2 Sept 2026
Edelson PC, the law firm that filed seven lawsuits against OpenAI in April on behalf of victims and families connected to the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting, is filing 30 additional complaints this...
Larry Page's flying car company Pivotal loses its CEO | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sean O'Kane·1 Sept 2026
The CEO of a flying car company backed by Larry Page has left the company. Ken Karklin, who was Pivotal’s CEO for more than four years, left the role this week, according to a press release.
Reliance's JioHotstar takes its streaming empire global — without sports | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Ivan Mehta, Jagmeet Singh·1 Sept 2026
JioHotstar, the streaming platform controlled by Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries, is taking its brand outside India for the first time and will replace Hotstar in the UK, Canada, and...
Apple follows Google in adopting Trump’s ‘Lake America’ name | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Kirsten Korosec·1 Sept 2026
Apple has followed Google’s lead and officially changed the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” on its Apple Maps service less than a week after President Trump ordered the change.
Open AI's Astra model is on the way—and very good at breaking into computer systems | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Tim Fernholz·1 Sept 2026
OpenAI shared new details on its forthcoming Astra model, which the company said is the first large language model to meet its “critical cybersecurity threshold,” in preparation for its imminent...
Google's Android update tackles motion sickness, accessibility, and more | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Lauren Forristal·1 Sept 2026
On Tuesday, Google announced it’s rolling out five new updates designed to make Android phones more accessible, useful, and personalized.
X says attackers are targeting user accounts after the launch of X Money | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·1 Sept 2026
Attackers are attempting to target X users following the launch of X Money. After numerous X users reported receiving unsolicited password reset emails, a representative said the social media...
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