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Apple updates guidelines to ban nudify apps masquerading as regular apps to pass review

Apple said that it will ban AI apps that don't moderate offensive content.

19 Oct 2026 6:26 pm
Musk pledges to give

That's more than $10 billion in shares, or around 1% of Musk's current net worth.

19 Oct 2026 6:12 pm
Khosla Ventures doubles down on Even Healthcare to challenge India

Even Healthcare reaches a $300 million valuation in a Khosla Ventures-led round as it plans to expand its hospital network in India.

19 Oct 2026 1:00 pm
No agenda, no rush, no leaving San Francisco: Benchmark

Benchmark may have grown its funds and swapped out some partners, but onstage the five who are left sounded like friends who just happen to be running one of the Valleys most storied firms

19 Oct 2026 2:30 am
Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI

After chatbot startup Character.AI filed for bankruptcy earlier this week, many of its employees will have the opportunity to take jobs at Disney. Character.AIs former CEO Karandeep Anand recently became the entertainment giants first CTO, and the startup previously said that Disney had agreed to acquire some of its assets for $20 million. A legal []

18 Oct 2026 10:00 pm
TechCrunch Mobility: Rivian

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

18 Oct 2026 9:35 pm
Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns

A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.

18 Oct 2026 3:01 am
TikTok permanently bans

A four-hour documentary about Elon Musk continues to meet resistance from social media platforms.

18 Oct 2026 2:25 am
Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings

The composition of Anthropics workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year.

18 Oct 2026 1:51 am
Mark Wahlberg wants to take on the longevity-startup crowd with an affordable gym concept

Mark Wahlberg, who once sank money into a gym chain that got kicked off the NYSE, is now building his own, and he promises youll get a cold plunge, a blood panel and a protein muffin without needing a trust fund.

17 Oct 2026 8:06 am
Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says

Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any indication that it was no longer with Anthropic.

17 Oct 2026 2:52 am
India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity

The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles.

16 Oct 2026 11:22 pm
A Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn

Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIAs robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its Lego era, with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still beingrebuilt. This view runs counter to those who believe that robotics, powered by a general foundation model,is about to have []

16 Oct 2026 10:00 pm
Elorian

according to Elorian's evaluations, Glimpse outperforms even GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning, with competitive results on other visual reasoning tasks.

16 Oct 2026 9:31 pm
Tressfecta wants to make hair braiding a less arduous task for hairstylists

Tressfecta builds products for textured hair. Its first project is a tool called Plait Pilot that helps braiders with the initial process of separating hair from packs before braiding begins.

16 Oct 2026 9:30 pm
Jev is Vercel

The data comes from Vercel's AI gateway, a unified API service similar to OpenRouter.

16 Oct 2026 9:03 pm
Even Benchmark thinks AI is eroding the venture pact against backing rivals

Benchmark says the Valleys rule against backing rivals is getting harder to keep.

16 Oct 2026 10:46 am