The Browser Company, now owned by Atlassian, announced on 2026-10-22 that it will sunset its Arc browser on December 22, 2026 and direct users to Dia, its AI-first browser. The company cited the rising cost of keeping a browser secure in the age of AI and said its engineering and security teams will focus on Dia. This is product and busin…
1Password launched 1Password for Agents on 22 October 2026. It lets users delegate logins to AI agents without exposing passwords or secrets to the agent. The launch coincides with an Axios report that U.S. banks are detecting agentic activity inside customer accounts and often cannot tell whether it was user-requested. The article presen…
Design platform Canva released Canva Craft, its first image generation model, built by its research team to compete with models from Google, OpenAI, ByteDance and Meta. The article describes a product launch and contains no security incident, vulnerability or threat activity. The model is available to all Canva users through the Dream Lab…
This article is not a security incident. It covers a TechCrunch Disrupt panel with Lovable go-to-market lead Luke Arno, Polsia founder Ben Broca and Theory Ventures investor Tomasz Tunguz on startup growth in the AI era. Arno advised founders not to treat fast early revenue as a sign they are ready to scale. He said a go-to-market motion …
OpenAI has made its Decisions API available to all customers, entering the market for fast, low-cost "decision" or System One models that TypeSafe pioneered with its Jev model. The API is a reconfigured ChatGPT Luna tuned for faster inference, cutting latency from 1-3 seconds to roughly 100-180 milliseconds. The public release adds voice …
Microsoft AI published a study in Science showing its MAI-DxO diagnostic system, which coordinates several AI agents acting as a panel of doctors, correctly diagnosed 83% of complex New England Journal of Medicine cases in simulation. Primary care doctors and general internists working alone scored 36%, though specialists and physician te…
Former OpenAI science lead Kevin Weil has launched Warp Sciences, an AI startup that trains robots to synthesize and test promising drug compounds. Weil announced on X that the company raised $215 million at an $865 million valuation. The round was led by Lightspeed, with participation from IVP, Premji Invest and Lux Capital. Warp Science…
Elon Musk has reportedly invested about $1 billion in the newly formed media company Skydance, according to Semafor, as relayed by TechCrunch. The report comes a few weeks after Paramount completed its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Co-CEOs David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz are merging Paramount+ and HBO Max and a portfoli…
Tesla said on its Q3 earnings call that it will expand Cybercab service from Austin to Dallas next month and to other cities by the end of 2026. It also plans to sell Cybercabs to fleet operators by year-end. CFO Vaibhav Taneja said Tesla wants to "own transportation of any kind on Earth". The expansion could put Tesla in direct competiti…
Spotify confirmed during its Q3 investor call that it is rolling out QR code verification for Family Plan members, which co-CEO Alex Norström called a "routine improvement" to existing verification tools rather than a crackdown. The app prompts members to confirm they live with the plan manager by scanning a QR code shown on the manager's…
Uber and OpenAI announced an expanded partnership under which Uber's whole global workforce, about 30,000 employees, will use ChatGPT Work. OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Work in July as an enterprise-focused AI agent for corporate workflows. Uber first piloted it with 1,000 employees, about 80% of them non-engineers across finance, operations…
TechCrunch recapped the Startup Battlefield 200 cohort at Disrupt 2026. The event selected 200 startups, and Intero Biosystems won the $100,000 equity-free prize and Disrupt Cup, with Apate as runner-up. The article is event and business news with no incident, vulnerability, threat actor or malware content. The only security-adjacent item…
At TechCrunch Disrupt, three investors from Peak XV, Index Ventures and Bessemer described how founders can raise a Series A in the current market. Shailendra Singh of Peak XV called seed and venture markets the most dysfunctional he has seen and predicted a correction as soon as 2027. He cited inflated ARR figures, rounds priced at up to…
Spotify reported 788 million monthly active users and nearly €5 billion in Q3 revenue. On the earnings call, co-CEO Gustav Söderström said AI agents will help the business because entertainment is not a chore people want to delegate. Spotify wants to be the music service agents choose, and it already integrates with ChatGPT, Claude and Me…
Helion, a fusion startup, announced a three-year, $175 million award from the U.S. Department of Commerce under the CHIPS Act. The money will fund R&D and manufacturing of advanced semiconductors and power electronics for its fusion power plants. Helion also disclosed a new $50 million private investment from an undisclosed investor, brin…
Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, an agent app for professionals and small businesses that automates and manages tasks. It competes with Meta Muse, OpenAI Dots, Hark, Instinct, Grok Bot and Fo. Duet runs on the Claude Opus 5.5 model and works in the background in its own virtual machine, returning to the user when it needs approval. It …
Nirva, a startup founded in 2025 by ex-Meta Reality Labs employees Wei Lyu and Jason Chen with Hanying Hu, announced a $25 million pre-Series A round, bringing total funding to $33 million (earlier backers include Lightspeed and South Park Commons). Its first product is a roughly 8 g pendant, also wearable as a bracelet, priced at $249, w…
DeepSeek, the Hangzhou-based Chinese AI lab, has reportedly raised about $15 billion (roughly 100 billion yuan), according to Bloomberg as relayed by TechCrunch. The round came two days after the U.S. ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek's AI technology from their systems over security concerns. Potential investors reporte…
Tesla said on its Q3 earnings call that it will begin selling the Cybercab, an autonomous two-seater with no steering wheel or traditional controls, to customers by the end of 2026. Current production is destined for Tesla's own robotaxi fleet, and external sales will start small. Elon Musk said unsupervised FSD for existing owners is now…
This is a business and finance item with no cyber threat content. Blackstone executive Jas Khaira, who leads the firm's San Francisco AI hub Blackstone N1 (BXN1), said at TechCrunch Disrupt that concerns over AI infrastructure debt are overblown. Rising interest rates, wider credit spreads and the roughly $50 billion in CoreWeave debt hav…