Instagram introduces a redesigned wordmark
The social media giant says it was time for a sharper and more modern look after a decade.
Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps
Microsoft is simplifying Copilot by combining its consumer and business apps, and dropping AI-generated podcasts, Group Chats, Deep Research, and its Mico character.
Cloudflare and Trail of Bits now audit who Signal says you are talking to
Here is the problem, and it is easier to state than most people expect. End-to-end encryption scrambles a message so only the recipient can read it. That works perfectly, provided…
Nvidia’s new $500B plan is risky but brilliant, especially for aging GPUs
Nvidia has a plan to make sure its GPUs won't lose value. It wants to convince a new crop of financiers to keep lending for AI buildouts.
Volkswagen can build a $17,175 car. Just not in Europe
Start with the Volkswagen, because it is the one that should give Europe pause. SAIC Volkswagen, the joint venture with China’s state-owned SAIC Motor, opened preorders for the ID…
Who really needs a cocktail robot?
Bartesian's cocktail makers would be best described like a Keurig or Nespresso machine, but for alcoholic drinks.
An AI-written article needs no label. Your proofread email gets one
Start with what the mark actually is, because it is not a stamp on the page. When a model writes, it picks each word from a set of reasonable options. A watermark quietly splits t…
Apple in talks to pay publishers to provide Siri with current news: report
The tech giant has considered a nine-figure budget for the payments, according to the WSJ.
SK Hynix is spending $720bn as its shares fall by half
High-bandwidth memory is the part of an AI system that nobody photographs. It sits next to the processor and feeds it data, and if it is too slow the expensive chip waits. It is m…
Josh Kushner raised $2bn to buy the companies AI is coming for
Almost every AI business sells a product. Someone builds a model or a tool, licenses it, and hopes the customer works out what to do with it. Thrive Holdings inverts that. It buys…
In a first, US will allow some private firms to carry out cyberattacks
The new order sweeps away decades of existing U.S. cybersecurity policy prohibiting private companies from conducting 'hack back' attacks or offensive cyber operations.
CodeRabbit raised $143m to read the code AI wrote
Code review is the step where somebody reads a change before it ships. A developer proposes an edit, opens what the trade calls a pull request, and a colleague checks it for bugs …
Europe’s drought is shutting down nuclear reactors
Nuclear reactors need water. They sit beside rivers and coastlines for a reason. The water carries heat away from the core. When it runs low or runs warm, the reactor has to power…
Can social media start over? Bluesky’s CEO and COO deliver their case at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider is joined by COO Rose Wang for a Disrupt Stage session on whether social media can start over and where Bluesky fits into that potential reboot.
Accel raised $3.5bn. Europe now gets the same fund as the US
Accel is a venture capital firm. It gives money to startups early, usually before anyone else has, and takes a stake in return. It has done this since 1983, and it wrote the first…
Nebius revenue grew 454%. Most of the cash came from customers paying in advance
Nebius rents out computing power. It buys Nvidia chips, puts them in data centres, and charges companies to train and run AI models on them. The trade calls this a neocloud. It is…
A Pentagon memo tells staff to spend $244m with Palantir. Its subject line is ‘Funding Palantir’
Government software is usually bought by asking several companies to bid. A department writes down what it needs, suppliers compete, and the file records why the winner won. A mem…
AI compute becomes a tradable commodity on 5 October. The price goes public
Renting an Nvidia H100 for an hour costs whatever your supplier says it costs. There is no published price. Two companies buying identical capacity can pay very different rates, a…
Sachin Bansal’s Navi hires banks for a $315m IPO, four years after his first attempt stalled
Navi, the Indian fintech founded by Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal, has hired banks for an initial public offering of about $315m, according to a Bloomberg report. It is the cl…
Putting a number on a founder’s voice
Every few months another agency pitches me a personal-branding framework, and the pitches tend to land in the same place, with stages, arrows, and a trademark symbol above advice …
Legora is reportedly chasing a $10bn valuation, barely a season after its last raise
Legora, the Swedish legal-AI company that has become one of Europe’s fastest-rising startups, is reportedly seeking to raise fresh funds at a valuation of more than $10bn. If it l…
Revolut is building its own airport lounges, starting in Copenhagen in 2027
Revolut, the fintech that built a fortune on the promise that you would never again need to set foot in a bank, is about to start putting up buildings. The company said today that…
Oracle plans fresh August layoffs as its AI spending spree bites
Oracle is planning another round of job cuts this month, according to Business Insider, with some teams reportedly facing double-digit-percentage reductions. Managers have been to…
A billion-dollar game deleted a character in 8 days. Then it had the worst month of its life
In June, Love and Deepspace took about $38m across the App Store and Google Play. In July it took just over $10m, mobilegamer.biz reported this week, citing Sensor Tower. The game…