After a deepfake voice fooled her grandfather, this founder sprang into action | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Connie Loizos·14d ago
When the call came, Tarini Padmanabhuni’s grandfather believed he was talking to his brother. The voice on the other end of the line said his brother had been kidnapped and that the only way to get...
FBI reportedly declares 'cyber security incident' after hackers steal agents' personal data | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Zack Whittaker·14d ago
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reportedly told its agents and support staff that their personal information was stolen in a recent cyberattack that targeted the bureau’s job application...
Next five VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events·14d ago
Thousands of applications. Multiple rounds of review. Hundreds of hours spent evaluating startups from around the world. Now comes the part everyone has been waiting for.
Modulate raises $25M for its voice models and analysis suite | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Ivan Mehta·14d ago
Boston-based voice intelligence startup Modulate has raised $25 in new funding for its platform that uses an array of small models to offer enterprises transcription, emotional analysis, deepfake...
ElevenLabs' new v4 speech model supports more expression control and 90 languages | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Ivan Mehta·14d ago
ElevenLabs launched two new speech models on Monday, called ElevenLabs v4 and v4 Turbo, offering more expression control, lower latency for voice agents, and support for more than 90 languages.
Insuretech Outmarket raises $34.5M just months after prior round | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Marina Temkin·14d ago
Vishal Sankhala led product at a digital life insurance distributor Ethos before it went public earlier this year.
Disrupt 2026 exhibitor program extended until Oct 2 | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events·14d ago
This is the last week and your final opportunity to book your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 exhibit table. Book your exhibit table by this Friday, October 2, at 11:59 p.m. PT.
Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·14d ago
It’s only been a month since AI assistant startup Instinct announced a fundraise that valued it at $2.5 billion, and now the company has already raised another $1 billion, from investors including...
SpaceX's Starship rocket reaches orbit for the first time | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sean O'Kane·14d ago
SpaceX’s Starship rocket reached Earth orbit for the first time, though not without some drama along the way.
Exclusive: Maritime intelligence startup Quartermaster raises another $140M | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sean O'Kane·14d ago
Arlington, Virginia-based startup Quartermaster in May closed a $43 million Series A around its idea of using weather-hardened sensors to capture data and generate insights about maritime activity.
Truecaller takes its scam intelligence to the open web as it looks beyond caller ID | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Jagmeet Singh·14d ago
After more than a decade building a caller ID business serving over 500 million users, Truecaller is now taking the scam intelligence it gathered along the way to the open web, with no app or...
Can Muse overcome Meta’s trust issues? | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Anthony Ha·14d ago
Meta’s new AI agent Muse took the spotlight at the company’s annual Connect event, where CEO Mark Zuckerberg made it clear that Facebook’s parent company plans to push AI features everywhere.
TechCrunch Mobility: AV companies pick their lanes | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Kirsten Korosec·15d ago
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
Sennheiser Momentum 5 review: Great sound, incredible battery life, and few compromises | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Aisha Malik·15d ago
There are a lot of $300-$400 headphones on the market right now, and most of them blur together. I spent the last few weeks with the Sennheiser Momentum 5 to determine if this pair actually stands...
PNOE's new face mask wants to make lab-grade breath testing a self-serve affair | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Connie Loizos·15d ago
At first glance, the newest device from PNOĒ looks like something a comic-book villain might wear.
Meta says it will run ads for ‘Musk’ documentary after all | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Anthony Ha·15d ago
At least one social media company appears to be reversing its stance on whether it will accept advertising for director Alex Gibney’s upcoming documentary about Elon Musk.
Levoit's new air purifier is for the pet odors that have taken over your apartment | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Lauren Forristal·16d ago
Someone recently had to sit me down, hold my hands, and tell me something no pet owner ever wants to hear: my apartment smelled like wet dog. Horrifying.
I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Dominic-Madori Davis·16d ago
When Alexandru Voica, head of corporate affairs at the video-generation startup Synthesia, sent me a link this summer to the newest addition to their PR team, I was surprised.
At Meta Connect, the company's smart glasses were everywhere | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Lucas Ropek·16d ago
If there was one thing that was obvious this from Meta Connect this year, it’s that the social media giant is all-in on its burgeoning line of smart glasses.
Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Kirsten Korosec·16d ago
Crusoe, a Denver-based AI data center startup that recently raised $3.9 billion, has ended plans to use a new line of stationary power plants developed by fellow Denver company Boom Supersonic.
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