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Technical progress has encouraged a new batch of companies to jump in on the promise of profits from humanoid robots. And they're all Chinese automakers.

Are XREAL's smart glasses the way of the future for home entertainment?

Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom.

Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance.

The backlash against license plate readers comes amid a wave of police abuses of surveillance cameras.

Retro, a friend-focused photo-sharing app built by former Instagram employees, has raised more than $21 million in Series A funding.

Now, Apple TV subscriptions will cost $14.99 per month, up from its previous price of $12.99 per month.

The firm, known for its focus on software, is going to start throwing more money at the hardware behind AI.

A federal judge ruled the Trump administration illegally labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk, handing the AI company a victory as its second Pentagon lawsuit continues in Washington.

Launched by Belgian startup Any, LUV1 is a modular electric motorcycle with 120 liters of cargo space that can be used to carry bags, work equipment, or even pets.

A boutique StrictlyVC evening returns to New York's West Village on September 10 with Keith Rabois, Craig Shapiro, Jason Levien, Tristan Walker, Brynn Putnam, and Deven Parekh covering AI, sports investing, community-building, venture economics, and politics, with cocktails, food, and networking throughout the night.

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.

Sometimes people just want to post to their followers, Bluesky says.

Metas settlement with 29 states allows it to retain certain data from children under 13 to train and test age-detection models, highlighting a privacy tradeoff built into the deal.

The update turns product recommendations into a more direct revenue stream for creators, and for Amazon, the move puts its massive online marketplace inside one of the most popular video platforms.

Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.

The ATF is the latest federal government agency in recent years to notify Congress of a major incident involving its cybersecurity.

Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off a new generation of cyber threats.

Shoppers can visit the Atorie website and buy handbags or clothes made from the same material and coming from the same factory that manufacturers use in high-end goods.

Hoomanely has developed a smart bowl to measure and record dogs' feeding data, then tells owners if behaviors change.

The arrests come after a wave of cyberattacks earlier this year targeting tech companies that rely on high-profile and widely used open source software.

OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidia both protect its chip empire and jump back into the cloud business.

The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns.

Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips.

The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.

Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?

The report, which spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises, is the most complete accounting of the incident to date.

Flipboard is acquiring Bluesky feed-building startup Graze, bringing its privacy-friendly ad technology and creator monetization tools into Flipboards growing open social web ecosystem.

The company won't say if medical devices are affected or if any customer data was exfiltrated.

The FBI has seized domains associated with a botnet that allowed Chinese-backed hackers to breach several U.S. government departments.

Capital F, one of the few all-female-led VC firms, announced Wednesday the $17 million close of its debut fund. The firm backs companies building in the female economy or the markets where women drive demand. That mainly falls into three buckets for the firm, Margaret Coblentz, the firms co-founder, told TechCrunch womens health, []

The event is expected to be a notable one, as Apple is rumored to unveil its long-awaited foldable iPhone. It'll also be the first Apple event with John Ternus as CEO, who is scheduled to take the reins of the tech giant from Tim Cook on September 1.

One of the most notable changes is that Meta plans to implement a daily two-hour time limit for teens that can only be disabled with parental permission.

Particles new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searchable on the web and accessible to AI agents through an API and MCP.

Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence.

Ring says users can still opt for end-to-end encryption.

Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before.

The federal cyber agency's warning comes amid a wave of suspected Iran-backed cyberattacks targeting critical water systems across the United States.

The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the companys patented hearing-assistance technology into the arms of eyewear frames.

Runable says 60%70% of its 1 trillion-plus token usage in the last 90 days came from paying customers.

The Pan-African venture firm has raised $83 million and plans to invest in startups beyond its home market of Nigeria.

The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.

Before Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting line away from President Greg Brockman and putting Vice President Sachin Katti in charge of the group.

X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X front ends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.

The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.

Grand Theft Auto fans, eager for news about one of the most anticipated video games of all time, appear especially vulnerable to this new cyberattack.

Fusion startup Pacific Fusion broke ground on a demonstration facility in New Mexico that it says will generate enough energy to power itself.

Lica co-founders are going to work on Gamma's new research team.

Apple says it will no longer ditch using its icloud.com domain for hiding people's email addresses.