Qualcomm backs Ultrahuman in $70M round on bet to turn smart rings into computers | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Jagmeet Singh·3 Sept 2026
Ultrahuman, an Indian startup best known for making smart rings, has raised $70 million in a new funding round that includes backing from Qualcomm’s venture arm, as it looks beyond sleep and health...
Circular unveils Ring 3 series with contactless payments and on-finger vibration alerts | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Aisha Malik·3 Sept 2026
Smart ring maker Circular on Thursday unveiled its upcoming Ring 3 series, which consists of a Pro model and a Slim option.
Google's latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Tim Fernholz·3 Sept 2026
Scientists at Google Deepmind and Google Research released a new artificial intelligence model for weather forecasting today that sees our changing atmosphere more clearly and predicts its behavior...
TikTok comments are getting more interactive with voice comments, polls, and more | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Aisha Malik·3 Sept 2026
TikTok’s comments section is getting an upgrade. The social network announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out new features for its comment sections, including voice comments, comment polls, photo...
Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Ivan Mehta·3 Sept 2026
After weeks of swirling rumors, Nvidia confirmed today that it has acquired Hugging Face for $12.93 billion.
Amazon's Zoox expands its robotaxi service to Las Vegas airport | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Kirsten Korosec·3 Sept 2026
Zoox isn’t wasting any time now that it’s allowed to operate and charge for rides in its custom-built robotaxi.
Builders Stage agenda revealed for Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events·2 Sept 2026
The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale successful...
Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Marina Temkin·2 Sept 2026
Palo Alto Networks paid $500 million in cash and stock to acquire Console, a two-year-old startup that uses AI agents to automate routine IT help desk tasks, according to two people with knowledge...
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events·2 Sept 2026
At our past TechCrunch Disrupt events, AI has taken center stage, both throughout our programming and in a stage of its own.
Google spared from ad-business breakup, but judge orders changes to how it operates | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Lucas Ropek·2 Sept 2026
The Justice Department has spent years attempting to break up Google’s gargantuan advertising business across two separate antitrust lawsuits: one filed in 2020 focused on Google’s dominance in...
OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Russell Brandom·2 Sept 2026
OpenAI’s new Astra model will use a reasoning technique called “recurrent depth” that allows it to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models, the The...
MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump's 'Lake America' renaming | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·2 Sept 2026
MapQuest’s unlikely comeback just got even bigger. On Tuesday, the “OG” mapping application (and one that many thought no longer existed!) became the No. 1 overall app on the U.S.
X shifts US creator payouts from Stripe to X Money | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·2 Sept 2026
Elon Musk’s social network X on Wednesday said that starting today, all of its U.S. creator payouts will be handled through X Money, the app’s payments service.
U.S. government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Amanda Silberling·2 Sept 2026
In a lawsuit that the New York Times filed against OpenAI, the Trump administration has contributed a 20-page brief in defense of the ChatGPT maker’s unlicensed use of copyrighted material to train...
Enhanced geothermal notches another win as Google buys 400 MW from Fervo | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Tim De Chant·2 Sept 2026
Geothermal energy company Fervo notched another win as Google agreed to buy nearly half a gigawatt of electricity to power a planned new data center in Utah.
Wonderful more than doubles its valuation to $5B in under 6 months | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Ram Iyer·2 Sept 2026
Israeli-Dutch AI startup Wonderful has raised $550 million in a Series C funding round that gives it a price tag of $5 billion, more than doubling its $2 billion valuation the company gained when...
HiddenLayer nabs $100M as enterprises rush to secure their AI deployments | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Ram Iyer·2 Sept 2026
When AI security startup HiddenLayer raised its $50 million Series A three years ago, one of the big questions in the space was whether the AI threats the startup was protecting against would...
PSA: Amazon's shopping AI can now tell you if that message is a scam | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·2 Sept 2026
Amazon is turning to AI to help fight scammers, the company announced on Wednesday. The retailer said some 360,000 customers every year reach out to its customer service department, wondering...
Adobe acquires Indian market intelligence startup Rilo | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Ivan Mehta·2 Sept 2026
Adobe has acquired India-based marketing intelligence startup Rilo in a deal involving licensing and team acquisition, TechCrunch learned and the company confirmed.
Adobe is making its tools available in Slack | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Ivan Mehta·2 Sept 2026
Customers can now use Adobe’s apps like Firefly, Adobe Express, Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, Stock, Lightroom, and others directly with Slack’s AI chatbot, Slackbot, Adobe...
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