The Exploration Company nabs $450 million to challenge SpaceX | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Anna Heim8 Sept 2026
The queue to send objects into orbit is growing, but space infrastructure isn’t keeping up with demand.
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top 69%Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it? | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez8 Sept 2026
Less than two weeks after Meta agreed to a massive $18 billion multistate settlement in a lawsuit over social media’s consumer harms, the company announced its biggest bet on consumer AI to date —...
OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Russell Brandom8 Sept 2026
NYU mathematics professor Tristan Buckmaster announced three proofs on Tuesday with a preliminary finding on one of the major unsolved problems in theoretical mathematics.
Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Rebecca Bellan8 Sept 2026
Google Cloud and Accenture are working together on a joint unit dedicated to sending engineers into enterprises to help them better adopt Google’s AI tools and services.
Google’s revived nuclear power plant gets $1.9B loan from US government | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Tim De Chant8 Sept 2026
Last October, Google said it would bring an Iowa nuclear power plant back from the dead. Now, the facility’s owner, NextEra Energy, has received a $1.9 billion loan from the U.S.
Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez8 Sept 2026
Chrome has officially switched from a four- to a two-week release schedule, as Google promised earlier this year, with Tuesday’s launch of Chrome 153 on desktop, iOS, and Android.
Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Anna Heim8 Sept 2026
French AI lab Mistral AI on Tuesday said it has raised €3 billion (about $3.58 billion) at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion (about $24.39 billion), confirming earlier rumors.
Exclusive: Poseidon Aerospace lands $60 million ahead of first pilotless test flight | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sean O'Kane8 Sept 2026
Silicon Valley is known for embracing the ethos of “move fast and break things.” Poseidon Aerospace’s co-founder and CEO David Zagaynov just wants to move things fast.
Stoke Space raises another billion to rival SpaceX at re-flying rockets | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Tim Fernholz8 Sept 2026
The fuel for a fully reusable rocket that can unlock truly low-cost access to space isn’t methane or liquid oxygen. It’s cash, and Stoke Space Technologies is tanking up.
Eric Wu's newest company, out of stealth since May, is going after construction's labor crunch | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Connie Loizos8 Sept 2026
Eric Wu built and ran Opendoor, one of the more ambitious real estate startups of the last decade, before stepping away in 2022 after fast-rising interest rates abruptly slowed down home sales.
Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Natasha Lomas, Romain Dillet, Kyle Wiggers, Lucas Ropek7 Sept 2026
AI is rewriting the world and, at the same time, inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it.
What we expect from the upcoming Apple launch | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Amanda Silberling7 Sept 2026
It’s finally happening — this week, we are (probably) about to see Apple’s first foldable iPhone, more than five years after Samsung launched its first foldable phone.
Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Anthony Ha6 Sept 2026
Some authors hoping to receive their share of Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement said they received surprising emails this week — emails informing them that someone else was making a...
TechCrunch Mobility: Tesla Cybercab hits the road — and a snag | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Kirsten Korosec6 Sept 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.
OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Anthony Ha5 Sept 2026
OpenAI has acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum.
Clucky's new alarm app wakes you up with a crowing rooster | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Lauren Forristal5 Sept 2026
I was yelled at by a rooster this morning. And no, I don’t live on a farm. The culprit was a newly launched iPhone app I downloaded.
Oura is going public, but these smart ring companies are coming for its crown | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Aisha Malik5 Sept 2026
The smart ring market is getting crowded, and Oura isn’t waiting around to see what happens next: it officially filed to go public on September 3.
XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Marina Temkin4 Sept 2026
Less than three months after emerging from stealth, XDOF, a startup that collects real-world teleoperation data for training general-purpose robots, is in late-stage talks to raise a Series B at a...
OpenAI's rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Rebecca Bellan4 Sept 2026
OpenAI is at the center of another agent swarm incident. Researchers say the company’s internally deployed agents took over an obscure German-language wiki in May and June, using it to coordinate...
Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows 'Tweet' for now | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez4 Sept 2026
A federal court in Delaware has ruled on a trademark fight between Elon Musk’s X and a startup trying to launch a rival social network.