Fireflies adds dictation to its desktop notetaking apps | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Ivan Mehta·13d ago
Voice AI has gained particular traction for a few consumer use cases: The biggest category is meeting note-taking, and the other is AI-powered dictation, in which filter words are removed and the...
OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents breached government sites | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Kate Park·13d ago
OpenAI on Monday apologized to the Australian government for not immediately notifying the country’s administration that its agents had breached some public services websites.
Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Ram Iyer·13d ago
Terms like “AI sprawl” have become common fare on tech social media and in thought leadership as enterprises start deploying AI agents en masse.
Protego Ventures closes debut $125 million fund for Israeli defense tech | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Anna Heim·13d ago
Defense and venture capital used to rarely overlap, but that’s no longer the case. Defense tech VC dealmaking set a record in Q1 2026, and new VC firms have emerged around the world to invest...
Exclusive: Ex-Tesla team raises $12.5M to put supply chains on autopilot | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sean O'Kane·13d ago
Supply chain startup Atomic came out of stealth last year with founders who promised to use their experience at Tesla to streamline inventory and boost customers’ bottom lines.
Anthropic's prospectus details losses, growth, and, yes, a warning that its AI could end humanity | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Connie Loizos·13d ago
Anthropic devoted nearly a third of its hotly anticipated IPO prospectus to risk factors, according to the Financial Times, which says it has reviewed the filing in recent days.
Peak XV ups Surge seed investment ceiling to $5M, unveils 18-startup cohort | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Jagmeet Singh·13d ago
Peak XV Partners, one of the largest venture capital firms investing in markets including India and Southeast Asia with more than $10 billion in assets under management, has increased how much it...
Aurora CFO says 30,000 driverless trucks by 2030 isn't as far-fetched as it sounds | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Kirsten Korosec·13d ago
Autonomous vehicle technology company Aurora told investors last week that it expects to have more than 30,000 self-driving trucks on the road generating $5 billion in annual revenue by the end of...
Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Marina Temkin·13d ago
AI inference infrastructure provider Modal Labs is nearing a $750 million funding round led by Accel at a $15.75 billion valuation that includes the investment, according to a source with knowledge...
AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Tim Fernholz·13d ago
AMD is acquiring World Labs, one of the leading developers of deep learning models intended to understand physical reality, in a $8.2 billion deal, the two companies said today.
Shopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agents | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·13d ago
While some retailers, like Amazon (and Adidas, apparently!), are blocking AI agents from making purchases on users’ behalf on their respective platforms, e-commerce platform Shopify has moved in...
Tesla delays Roadster 2 event again due to bad weather | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sean O'Kane·13d ago
Tesla is pushing back the reveal of its redesigned, second-generation Roadster once again, this time due to a forecast of severe weather.
The AI boom took over Climate Week and not everyone is happy about it | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Tim De Chant·13d ago
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times … I’ll spare you the rest, but the cliché Dickens line really does sum up this year’s New York Climate Week.
Nvidia launches new platform for reining in rogue AI agents | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Kirsten Korosec·13d ago
As the debate rages over whether the recent spate of rogue AI agents is a step toward AGI or a more conventional engineering problem, Nvidia is offering its own answer to problem.
Google is killing off Gemini's Gems in favor of 'skills' | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·13d ago
As all-in-one AI agents like Meta’s Muse and Instinct take off, Google announced it’s shutting down the Gemini feature known as “Gems,” which had allowed users to build custom AI assistants for...
OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Russell Brandom·13d ago
On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the sheer breadth of the reports is alarming, as they cover many types of rogue behavior over a long period of time.
The iPhone Duo may already have its first killer app: a virtual Walkman | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·13d ago
Pre-orders for the new iPhone Duo don’t start until later in October, but the device may already have its first killer app. Or at least its most whimsical one!
Anthropic, Gamma, and Clay talk AI at Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events·14d ago
An AI demo can look brilliant in five minutes. Then customers start using the product. They push it into workflows you didn’t anticipate. They expect it to work reliably.
Mavi bets on the AI boom creating demand for a new kind of accountant | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Dominic-Madori Davis·14d ago
Molly Liu and Aman Puri are tackling the U.S. accounting shortage from another angle — a global one, that is.
CFS' Brandon Sorbom and Helion’s David Kirtley join Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events·14d ago
For decades, commercial fusion power has seemed perpetually out of reach. Now two companies are building toward something much more concrete: putting fusion-generated electricity on the grid.
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