Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Tim Fernholz·10 Sept 2026
Anthropic’s latest report about agentic misbehavior offers plenty to be concerned about—its Mythos 5 model gained unauthorized access to the internet and uploaded a malicious software package to a...
India's Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Jagmeet Singh·10 Sept 2026
Pocket FM, an Indian audio storytelling platform, has doubled its annualized revenue run rate to $500 million over the past year as it increasingly turns to artificial intelligence to produce its...
Instagram’s latest feature lets you add tagged posts to your profile grid | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Lauren Forristal·10 Sept 2026
Instagram is rolling out a small but useful new feature that gives users a little more control over what appears on their profiles.
AI agents are flooding public services with new requests | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Russell Brandom·10 Sept 2026
As AI makes it easier to fill forms and file complaints, public services around the world are seeing enormous jumps in applications and other requests.
Bending Spoons to buy collaboration tools maker Miro for $1.36B, 90% less than its 2022 valuation | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Ram Iyer·10 Sept 2026
Bending Spoons is continuing its trend of buying once-sought-after software companies for pennies on the dollar.
Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Tim Fernholz·10 Sept 2026
In 2024, Maven Robotics was brand new, and they had nothing—”a cartoon of a robot and a team of people,” CEO and co-founder Hamza Derbas told TechCrunch.
Google signs its biggest rice-methane carbon credit deal with Indian startup Mitti Labs | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Jagmeet Singh·10 Sept 2026
Google has agreed to buy 1 million carbon credits from Indian climate-tech startup Mitti Labs through 2030, in what the companies say is the largest publicly announced deal to date for credits...
ID verification giant IDScan confirms data breach with more than 150 million driver's licenses stolen | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Zack Whittaker·10 Sept 2026
ID verification service IDScan has confirmed that a data breach involved the theft of driver’s licenses from its systems, a week after a report said the identity document checker had been breached...
Defense tech Mach Industries doubles valuation to $3.7B in 3 months | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Julie Bort·10 Sept 2026
Defense tech startup Mach Industries has raised a fresh $600 million in capital in a Series C extension round that has doubled its valuation to $3.7 billion, the company announced on Thursday.
Snapchat takes aim at Partiful with new event-planning features | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Aisha Malik·10 Sept 2026
Snapchat announced on Thursday that it’s launching “Snapchat Plans,” a suite of features for creating, sharing, and managing real-world events with friends.
European founders and VCs urge lawmakers 'to get EU Inc right' | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Anna Heim·10 Sept 2026
Europe could soon have its own equivalent of the Delaware C Corp, but its advocates aren’t releasing the pressure on lawmakers.
US Army places $11M bet on Austin-based GPS alternative Tern | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sean O'Kane·10 Sept 2026
Austin-based Tern has won a contract from the U.S. Army to deploy the startup’s low-cost GPS alternative tech.
AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Marina Temkin·10 Sept 2026
Listen Labs, a market research startup that uses voice AI to conduct customer interviews, recently signed a term sheet for a $125 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation, with Menlo Ventures...
Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Julie Bort·9 Sept 2026
Matt Mullenweg, the founder and CEO of Automattic, best known as the parent company of WordPress.com, has been put on a leave of absence by his board against his will, according to a Slack message...
OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Tim Fernholz·9 Sept 2026
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on keeping AI systems aligned with human interests and under human control, is joining the OpenAI Foundation board, the frontier lab said...
Massachusetts hits data centers with new clean power rules | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Tim De Chant·9 Sept 2026
Massachusetts became the latest state to force data centers to bring their own power, but this time there’s a twist.
Apple’s new CEO is reviving a Steve Jobs strategy from 25 years ago | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Tim De Chant·9 Sept 2026
Apple CEO John Ternus wants you to know that the iPhone isn’t going anywhere. Ternus threw his weight behind the venerable device on Wednesday during his first keynote as CEO, placing it firmly at...
Apple Watch's new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·9 Sept 2026
Apple is trying to get consumers to accept, and even welcome, a new reality: Your tech is always listening.
Everything Apple announced at its fall iPhone event, from the foldable iPhone Duo to an always-listening Apple Watch | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Aisha Malik·9 Sept 2026
Apple on Wednesday unveiled its latest iPhones and Apple Watches at its first fall event under newly appointed CEO John Ternus.
Apple unveils Watch Series 12 and Watch Ultra 4 with an AI upgrade that can recap your day | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Aisha Malik·9 Sept 2026
Apple on Wednesday unveiled the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 at its iPhone launch event in Cupertino.
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