Andreessen Horowitz announced on 22 October 2026 that it is renaming its digital asset investment unit from a16z Crypto to a16z Frontier. The practice, led by Chris Dixon, has raised nearly $10 billion across five funds since 2018 and backed Coinbase. The new mandate covers emerging technologies such as AI, robotics and networks connectin…
OpenAI is reportedly working on a private funding round of up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation, led by Coatue and investors in the UAE, according to sources cited by CNBC. An earlier Bloomberg report put the figure at $1.4 trillion, and terms are still under negotiation. The UAE funding may be paired with a deal to s…
Rivian has acquired Third Dimension, a U.K. startup founded in 2024 that uses AI to turn images and video into realistic 3D worlds. Rivian plans to use the technology to turn real-world driving data into simulation environments for its advanced driver-assistance features and for the self-driving system of the robotaxis it plans to supply …
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…
UK cybersecurity services provider WorkNest Secure has been awarded Accredited Organisation status under The Cyber Scheme, a Licensed Body of the UK Cyber Security Council. The accreditation links company recognition to independently verified workforce capabilities, and many of WorkNest Secure's penetration testing consultants already hol…
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…
A new bipartisan House bill, the AI Cyber Defense Act, would direct NIST to develop voluntary industry standards and best practices for defending AI models against distillation attacks by foreign entities. The bill is sponsored by Reps. Pat Harrigan (R-N.C.) and George Whitesides (D-Calif.) and was shared exclusively with CyberScoop ahead…
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…
Amazon has rebranded its Kindle Unlimited subscription as Kindle+, keeping the price at $12 a month and the existing ebook borrowing model. The main change is a wider audiobook catalog that includes titles narrated by AI. Authors in the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) program can use the free Virtual Voice service to produce AI-narrated au…
A New Mexico state court ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in penalties for more than 43 million violations of the state's unfair practices law. The case was filed in 2021 and stems from the Cambridge Analytica scandal. District Court Judge Francis J. Mathew found that Facebook falsely promised users they controlled their data. Meta's chief…
American Renal Management LLC, doing business as Innovative Renal Care, a kidney care provider with more than 200 locations in 28 U.S. states, has proposed a $900,000 settlement to resolve consolidated class action litigation (In re American Renal Management LLC Data Breach Litigation, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennes…
UK-based secure data exchange provider DOQEX, headquartered in York, has obtained Cyber Essentials certification. It adds to the company's existing ISO 27001, ISO 27017 and ISO 27018 accreditations. Cyber Essentials is a UK Government-backed scheme that assesses five areas: firewalls, secure configuration, security update management, user…
Cybersecurity vendor Huntress has expanded its distribution agreement with Ingram Micro beyond the United States to cover Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean. The deal gives MSPs and VARs a single distribution route to Huntress services across the Americas. In Latin America, Huntress will work through Ingram Micro's export division ra…
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…