OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Russell Brandom·26 Aug 2026
OpenAI released its official report Wednesday on the Hugging Face breach, offering the clearest picture yet of how an unusual chain of events allowed an AI model to escape its testing environment...
Flipboard acquires Graze, the feed builder working to monetize the open social web | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·26 Aug 2026
Flipboard, the news magazine software company that has more recently invested in the open social web — the umbrella term for social platforms that let users, not one company, control their own data...
Medical device maker Boston Scientific says a cyberattack is causing a 'global disruption' to its operations | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Zack Whittaker·26 Aug 2026
A cyberattack on U.S. medical device maker Boston Scientific is causing an ongoing “global disruption” to its operations, according to a federal regulatory filing on Wednesday, the latest...
Capital F closes $17M debut fund with goal to back the future of the 'female economy' | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Dominic-Madori Davis·26 Aug 2026
Capital F, one of the few all-female-led VC firms, announced Wednesday the $17 million close of its debut fund.
Meta agrees to sweeping changes to restrict kids' access to its apps as part of settlement with states | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Aisha Malik·26 Aug 2026
Under the terms of its $18 billion settlement to resolve claims brought by 29 U.S. states over children’s safety, Meta on Wednesday agreed to sweeping changes designed to restrict minors’ access to...
Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·26 Aug 2026
Particle, the AI newsreader startup founded by former Twitter engineers, is shifting its focus to a potentially more lucrative idea: indexing the spoken conversations buried in podcasts and making...
Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Lucas Ropek·26 Aug 2026
AI is transforming everything around us but, thus far, it has largely remained contained to the digital realm. Increasingly, however, startups are looking to take it into the real world.
Ring introduces a new encryption standard, makes it the default for cloud features | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Ivan Mehta·26 Aug 2026
Amazon’s smart home division Ring said on Wednesday that it is adopting a new encryption standard called TAKE (Throw Away the Key Encryption) as the default setting for video encryption and user...
Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and 'Human Reserved' jobs to mitigate harms from AI | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Russell Brandom·26 Aug 2026
Bill Gates posted a long essay to his Gates Notes site today, showing just how much the Microsoft co-founder has been thinking about the social impacts of AI.
CISA confirms hackers targeted over 100 US water systems during July | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Zack Whittaker·26 Aug 2026
U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA said it has observed cyberattacks targeting over 100 internet-exposed systems across the U.S.
Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Tim Fernholz·26 Aug 2026
Physical AI is one of the hottest sectors in venture investing, with companies raising billions to apply the tools that gave us Large Language Models to robotics.
QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling you | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Tim Fernholz·26 Aug 2026
Shapor Naghibzadeh learned the value of a good story in 2009 as a Google sysops engineer. When hackers backed by China set their sights on the search giant as part of an effort dubbed Operation...
Arga Labs is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Russell Brandom·26 Aug 2026
Making AI agents work in practice is a lot harder than many companies expected — but there’s help on the way.
Hearing tech startup Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Aisha Malik·26 Aug 2026
Hearing loss affects an estimated 50 million adults in the United States, but only around 20% of those with diagnosed hearing loss seek treatment.
Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Jagmeet Singh·26 Aug 2026
As artificial intelligence makes it easier than ever to build websites and apps, Indian startup Runable is betting the next opportunity lies in what comes after: finding customers and helping...
India's Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Ivan Mehta·26 Aug 2026
More than 76% of consumers in India prefer talking to businesses over a phone call, according to a recent study from Truecaller.
Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Marina Temkin·26 Aug 2026
Generalist, a robotics startup, is now valued at $3 billion after raising additional capital led by 8VC, according to two people with knowledge of the funding.
OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Lucas Ropek·26 Aug 2026
OpenAI has lost yet another executive, and the timing of this one stands out in particular given this individual oversaw the execution of the company’s data center strategy.
X sends cease-and-desist to open-source project Nitter over alleged scraping | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·25 Aug 2026
Nitter, an open source project that allowed people to read X posts without logging into or even opening the X app, has received cease-and-desist letters from X demanding that it shut down.
Instagram’s 'First Draft' feature aims to make editing Reels less tedious | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Lauren Forristal·25 Aug 2026
Instagram is making one of the most tedious parts of creating Reels easier. The company announced Tuesday in a Threads post that it’s rolling out “First Draft,” a new editing feature that...
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