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Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a ‘Harvey for police officers’

Hackers claim millions of patient records stolen during data breach at healthcare giant McKesson

Meeting notetaker Circleback adds a free tier to attract more customers

Grindr wants to be the everything app for gay men; investors are still deciding whether it can pull it off

Liux’s Big microcar bets on sustainability to take on Chinese rivals

TechCrunch Mobility: The hidden human cost of robotaxis

Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining

Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft

At TechBBQ, Europe’s AI conversations kept coming back to: Who’s actually in control?

Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips

Brave’s browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases

Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets

Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI

OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach

Medical device maker Boston Scientific says a cyberattack is causing a ‘global disruption’ to its operations

Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat

Apply now to host a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns

US nutrition startup Berry Street merges with India’s Healthify as GLP-1 trends upwards

Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?

Uber faces fine of nearly $1B over automated driver suspensions

Two years after launch, Walmart’s Flipkart is closing in on India’s quick-commerce leaders

Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors

Will the DOJ’s investigation into a16z spook other VCs?

Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research

Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero

Waymo hands over documents in NHTSA’s child collision probe

Castelion hits $13B valuation to mass-produce hypersonic missiles

Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule

Gambling on the Little League World Series? Sports bettors have gone too far

Researchers say OpenAI revoked their access to limited cyber program

Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, launches rival hosting platform

TikTok explores peer-to-peer payments via DMs, report says

OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach

Reddit begins testing a new audio and video experience, similar to popular TikTok videos

YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing

Crypto hardware wallet owners face fresh security risks after recent spate of personal data thefts

Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+

Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future

Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’

TechCrunch Mobility: The shifting flight path of electric air taxis

Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery

Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work

Self-driving trucks are officially testing on California highways

Read-it-later app Pocket shut down down — here are the best alternatives

Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation.

IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push

Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.

Grubhub’s $24M FTC settlement is finally reaching diners and drivers

OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise

General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI

Clicks’ Power Keyboard brings BlackBerry-style typing to any phone — with some compromises

Google Play adds Venmo as a payment option

Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry

Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default

This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you

This former notorious red-light district is now one of the world’s top AI hubs

Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.

OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide

OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns

Security researchers scanned the Polish web and found courts, hospitals, and airports at risk of hacks

Defense tech Hadrian raises $1.37B at $8B valuation

ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users

Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders

Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup

Lucid Motors just delayed its affordable EV. Now what?

Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta

Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress

Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic?

WhatsApp says it is is fixing an issue that disabled several accounts

Samsung bans smart TV apps that share users’ internet connections with strangers

A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem

Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate

Inside the London hacker house taking a stand against founder burnout

YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’

Should you still buy your next smartphone — or subscribe to it instead?