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Microsoft rolls back some of its Copilot AI bloat on Windows

The company is reducing Copilot entry points on Windows, starting with Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and other apps.

21 Mar 2026 2:23 am
What happened at Nvidia GTC:NemoClaw, Robot Olaf, and a$1 trillionbet

CEOJensen Huang took the stage atNvidias GTC conferencethis week in his signature leather jacket to deliver a two-and-a-half-hour keynote, projecting$1 trillionin AI chip sales through 2027, declaring that every company needs an OpenClaw strategy, and closing with a rambling Olaf robot that had to get its mic cut. The message was hard to miss: Nvidia []

21 Mar 2026 1:32 am
Amidst legal turmoil, Kalshi is temporarily banned in Nevada

It's the latest escalation in a regulatory battle over the future of prediction markets.

21 Mar 2026 12:45 am
Pinterest CEO calls on governments to ban social media for users under 16

Pinterests chief compares social media to tobacco and alcohol, saying children need similar protections.

21 Mar 2026 12:31 am
Amazon acquires Rivr, maker of a stair-climbing delivery robot

Amazon and Jeff Bezos had previously invested in the startup.

20 Mar 2026 4:58 am
Polymarket continues its partnership spree with a Major League Baseball deal

MLB is only the latest in a string of recently announced partnerships involving the prediction market.

20 Mar 2026 1:16 am
Online bot traffic will exceed human traffic by 2027, Cloudflare CEO says

AI bots may outnumber humans online by 2027, says Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, as generative AI agents dramatically increase web traffic and infrastructure demands.

20 Mar 2026 12:39 am
Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition

The additional funds have been used to scale Bluesky's team, while the company continues to develop Bluesky's app and the underlying ATProto that powers it.

20 Mar 2026 12:30 am
DoorDash launches a new Tasks app that pays couriers to submit videos to train AI

Delivery couriers will be able to earn money by completing activities like filming everyday tasks or recording themselves speaking in another language.

19 Mar 2026 9:44 pm
Meta decides not to shut down Horizon Worlds on VR after all

Horizon Worlds was once a cornerstone of Meta's plans to build a social metaverse -- four years later, the company almost shut it down.

19 Mar 2026 9:06 pm
FBI seizes pro-Iranian hacking groups websites after destructive Stryker hack

The FBI and the Justice Department took down two websites linked to the pro-Iranian hacktivist group Handala, which last week hacked medical tech giant Stryker.

19 Mar 2026 8:40 pm
CISA urges companies to secure Microsoft Intune systems after hackers mass-wipe Stryker devices

The U.S. cybersecurity agency urged companies to prevent access to systems used for remotely managing their fleets of employee devices after hackers broke into a major U.S. medical tech giant and remotely wiped thousands of phones and computers.

19 Mar 2026 8:38 pm
TechCrunchStartup Battlefield 200 nominationsare stillopen

Nominate your startup, or one you know, for TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 before May 27. Chance to win $100,000 equity-free funding and VC access.

19 Mar 2026 8:30 pm
Rivian sacrifices 2027 profit goal to push deeper into autonomy

Rivian admitted in a regulatory filing that it is delaying its goal of reaching positive EBITDA next year because of how much it is spending on developing self-driving technology.

19 Mar 2026 8:09 pm
K2 to launch its first high-powered satellite for space compute

K2's Gravitas is an ambitious project that aims to demonstrate the tech needed to build data centers in space.

19 Mar 2026 7:30 pm
Tools for founders to navigate and move past conflict

Founders can create frameworks for working through conflict and change when the team is just two or three people, and if done correctly, it can scale with the company.

19 Mar 2026 7:30 pm
Anori, Alphabets new X spinout, is tackling one of the worlds most expensive bureaucratic nightmares

Anori aims to shrink down the pre-development process by getting all parties, including the city, on to a unified platform from the start so that compliance conflicts are surfaced in weeks instead of months or years.

19 Mar 2026 7:30 pm
Consumer-focused privacy company Cloaked raises $375M as it expands to enterprise

Cloaked's latest round is a mix of equity and growth funding.

19 Mar 2026 6:49 pm
Arc expands into electric commercial and defense boats with $50M raise

The Los Angeles startup raised $50 million from Eclipse, a16z, Menlo Ventures, and others as it seeks to expand beyond sport boats.

19 Mar 2026 6:30 pm
Tubi joins forces with popular TikTokers to create original streaming content

Tubi launched its Creatorverse Incubator to help TikTokers create original shows exclusively for the streaming service.

19 Mar 2026 6:30 pm
Feds intensify investigation into Teslas Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has upgraded its probe after finding more instances of Tesla's driving software struggling in low-visibility conditions.

19 Mar 2026 6:02 pm
Multiverse Computing pushes its compressed AI models into the mainstream

After compressing models from major AI labs including OpenAI, Meta, DeepSeek and Mistral AI, Multiverse Computing has launched both an app that showcases the capabilities of its compressed models and an API that makes them more widely available.

19 Mar 2026 1:30 pm
19 Mar 2026 11:41 am
Meta is having trouble with rogue AI agents

A rogue AI agent inadvertently exposed Meta company and user data to engineers who didn't have permission to see it.

19 Mar 2026 5:12 am
Sam Altmans thank-you to coders draws the memes

Altman expresses gratitude for people who knew how to write their code from scratch. The internet replies with salty jokes.

19 Mar 2026 4:42 am
Nvidia is quietly building a multibillion-dollar behemoth to rival its chips business

Nvidia's networking business raked in $11 billion last quarter despite getting significantly less fanfare than chips and gaming.

19 Mar 2026 1:31 am
FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms

FBI director Kash Patel told lawmakers that the agency is actively purchasing commercially available location data, which can track Americans without needing a warrant.

19 Mar 2026 12:02 am
The leaderboard you cant game, funded by the companies it ranks

Artificial intelligencemodels are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff. With so many players crowding the space, which one will be the best and who decides that?Arena, formerly LM Arena, hasemergedas the de facto public leaderboard for frontier LLMs, influencing funding, launches, and PR cycles. In just seven months, the startup went from aUCBerkeley PhD research []

18 Mar 2026 10:00 pm
This startup wants to make enterprise software look more like a prompt

The company has raised $12 million in seed funding to build an AI operating system for enterprise.

18 Mar 2026 9:30 pm
Facebook launches a new monetization program to attract popular creators from TikTok, YouTube

Facebook says it paid creators nearly $3 billion through its monetization programs in 2025, a 35% increase from the previous year and its highest annual total to date.

18 Mar 2026 9:30 pm
Sequen snags $16M to bring TikTok-style personalization tech to any consumer company

With its Series A, Sequen is bringing its proprietary AI ranking and personalization technology to large consumer business.

18 Mar 2026 9:28 pm
Microsoft hires the team of Sequoia-backed AI collaboration platform, Cove

AI collaboration startup Cove is shutting down after its team joined Microsoft, with service ending April 1 and customer data set for deletion.

18 Mar 2026 9:03 pm
Marquis says over 672,000 people had personal and financial data stolen in ransomware attack

Fintech company Marquis is notifying hundreds of thousands of people that hackers stole their personal and financial information, including their Social Security numbers.

18 Mar 2026 8:07 pm
Russians caught stealing personal data from Ukrainians with new advanced iPhone hacking tools

A suspected group of Russian government hackers was caught targeting Ukrainians with new iPhone hacking tools designed for espionage and potentially to steal crypto.

18 Mar 2026 7:30 pm
DOD says Anthropics red lines make it an unacceptable risk to national security

The Defense Department said concerns that Anthropic might attempt to disable its technology during warfighting operations validate its decision to label the AI firm a supply chain risk.

18 Mar 2026 7:10 pm
Mave Health aims to improve attention and mood with its brain-stimulating headset

Mave Health is listing the headset at $495 for pre-orders. It aims to ship devices to users in the U.S. and India in April 2026.

18 Mar 2026 6:24 pm
Kalshis legal troubles pile up, as Arizona files first ever criminal charges over illegal gambling business

It's the latest salvo in an escalating battle between state regulators and an industry that claims it's not beholden to them.

18 Mar 2026 3:09 am
Mistral bets on build-your-own AI as it takes on OpenAI, Anthropic in the enterprise

Mistral Forge lets enterprises train custom AI models from scratch on their own data, challenging rivals that rely on fine-tuning and retrieval-based approaches.

18 Mar 2026 2:30 am
Why Garry Tans Claude Code setup has gotten so much love, and hate

Thousands of people are trying Garry Tan's Claude Code setup, which was shared on GitHub. And everyone has an opinion: even Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini.

18 Mar 2026 2:20 am
Apple rolls out first background security update for iPhones, iPads, and Macs to fix Safari bug

Apple's first-ever ackground security improvement fixes a vulnerability in its Safari browser running its latest software.

18 Mar 2026 1:40 am
Kagi brings its small web of a human-only internet to mobile devices

Kagi's Small Web offers a handpicked collection of more than 30,000 non-commercial, human-authored websites, including personal blogs, webcomics, and independent videos.

18 Mar 2026 1:33 am
The Pentagon is developing alternatives to Anthropic, report says

After their dramatic falling out, it doesn't seem as though Anthropic and the Pentagon are getting back together.

17 Mar 2026 11:50 pm
BuzzFeed debuts AI slop apps in bid for new revenue

BuzzFeed unveiled new AI-powered social apps at SXSW, but its demos drew muted reactions.

17 Mar 2026 10:47 pm
Googles data center power playbook comes into focus

Google has long procured clean power for its operations and data centers, but recent deals show the company is changing tactics.

17 Mar 2026 10:16 pm
Googles Personal Intelligence feature is expanding to all US users

Personal Intelligence allows Google's AI assistant to tap into your Google ecosystem, such as Gmail and Google Photos, to provide more tailored responses.

17 Mar 2026 9:30 pm
Meet Vurt, the mobile-first streaming platform for indie filmmakers embracing vertical video

Micro-drama apps make billions in consumer spending, so VURT launched its streaming app to allow indie filmmakers to capitalize on the vertical video trend.

17 Mar 2026 9:30 pm
Stryker says its restoring systems after pro-Iran hackers wiped thousands of employee devices

The hack, which brought ongoing widespread disruption to the company's operations, is thought to be the first major cyberattack in the United States in response to the Trump administration's war in Iran.

17 Mar 2026 9:22 pm
OpenAI expands government footprint with AWS deal, report says

OpenAI has reportedly signed a partnership with AWS to sell its AI systems to the U.S. government for classified and unclassified work, marking an expansion beyond its Pentagon deal last month.

17 Mar 2026 9:07 pm
AIs boys club could widen the wealth gap for women, says Rana el Kaliouby

AI investor Rana el Kaliouby warns that if women are shut out of AI funding and leadership, the consequences will be grim.

17 Mar 2026 8:46 pm
Oura enters Indias smart ring market with the Ring 4

Finnish smart ring maker Oura is finally launching in India, taking on local rivals such as Ultrahuman in a relatively young smart ring market that is becoming price-sensitive thanks to an influx of low-cost options.

17 Mar 2026 8:44 pm