Destro AI's secret sauce is getting robots and humans on the same page | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Tim Fernholz·8d ago
The best path to successfully deploying a robot is not building one at all, according to Destro, a startup that came out of stealth Tuesday with an $8 million seed round.
Instinct's new product recommendations are giving some users the ick | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·8d ago
The buzzy AI startup Instinct has just revealed a new potential revenue stream: product recommendations. Unfortunately for the company, the rollout is already rubbing some users the wrong way.
Pledge signed by President Trump and top AI leaders misspells the United States | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Dominic-Madori Davis·8d ago
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump and top AI leaders announced a signed pledge called a “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities” — a voluntary promise to implement more controls and safety...
Cerebras Systems’ Andrew Feldman joins Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events·8d ago
AI models keep getting more capable. But every leap forward demands more compute, energy, and infrastructure. How far can that continue?
Restate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Marina Temkin·8d ago
When Stephan Ewen co-founded Restate in 2022 to provide durable workflow infrastructure, he couldn’t have anticipated how valuable such an offering would become for managing AI agent processes.
3 days left to exhibit at Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events·8d ago
This is it: 3 days to get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Exhibit bookings close Friday, October 2 at 11:59 p.m.
Amazon's new Fire TV Stick 4K comes with an actually good remote | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·8d ago
As part of its fall hardware refresh, Amazon on Wednesday introduced the next version of its Fire TV Stick 4K, which is now slimmer, faster, and can be directly charged via a TV’s USB port.
Tinder adapts to a social, IRL dating future with ‘Group Hangouts’ feature | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Lauren Forristal·8d ago
As younger users grow increasingly tired of the endless scroll, dating apps are scrambling to adapt to a generation that increasingly wants dating to feel more social and rooted in real-world...
Exclusive: Charter Space raises $5M to bring insurance to the stars | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sean O'Kane·8d ago
Charter Space, a finalist in last year’s TechCrunch Startup Battlefield, has raised a $5 million seed round to keep growing its budding space insurance business.
Airbnb adds AI search, more social features | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Ivan Mehta·8d ago
Airbnb is evolving in two directions: On the ground, it wants to compete with hotels by providing myriad services; online, it is using AI and people in its Airbnb network to aid travel discovery.
Two Google alumni raise $11.3M to back AI startups that enterprises will actually pay for | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Dominic-Madori Davis·8d ago
Two Google alumni have closed an $11.3 million fund to back early-stage AI startups, betting that the era of enterprise AI experimentation is ending and that customers will increasingly pay only...
America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it's not a glitch | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Amanda Silberling·8d ago
The U.S. government on Tuesday launched its very own AI chatbot — or do we have to call it an SI chatbot now?
Your car and its mobile app are probably handing over all kinds of data to tech companies | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Kirsten Korosec·9d ago
Modern-day vehicles built with connected car technology such as WiFi and GPS collect reams of data about its owners.
More Ways to Disrupt: New 2026 Side Events from KOTRA, WayFounder, Enterprise Ireland, SafetyWing + Descope | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Jean Bradley, TechCrunch Events·9d ago
TechCrunch Disrupt is where the tech community comes together to build, debate, and connect. And during Disrupt Week, that conversation doesn’t stop when the doors to Moscone West close.
Apple Pay set to launch in India with Axis Bank today, sources say | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Jagmeet Singh·9d ago
Apple is set to launch Apple Pay in India later Tuesday with Axis Bank as its initial banking partner, TechCrunch has learned, bringing its payments service to the world’s most populous country...
Here's why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia's industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Julie Bort·9d ago
When Nvidia announced on Monday a new consortium of more than 100 companies dedicated to solving rogue AI agents, there was one name notably missing: OpenAI.
OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT's own office suite | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Lucas Ropek·9d ago
OpenAI has been a close partner of Microsoft from the jump, but the AI lab is increasingly going after the company’s bread and butter, workplace software, with new features that closely resemble an...
Dutch police arrest ShinyHunters hacker accused of planning two murders | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Zack Whittaker·9d ago
The FBI and Dutch law enforcement say they have arrested a member of the ShinyHunters hacking group, which the agencies say are responsible for hacks on over 140 organizations around the world.
AI-powered app maker Wabi pivots to a messaging experience | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·9d ago
Wabi, the AI startup that allowed anyone to use prompts to build apps, is undergoing a slight pivot as demand for AI agents, like Meta’s Muse and Instinct, takes off.
OpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Lucas Ropek·9d ago
At OpenAI’s Dev Day event on Tuesday, the company announced the launch of Dots, a new personal agentic assistant powered by GPT-6 Astra.
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