UNICEF study finds 60% of online child sexual abuse happens on social media
Around 20 million children experienced sexual exploitation or abuse online in a single year across 21 countries, according to a UNICEF study published on Thursday. That is roughly…
CrowdStrike put OpenAI in the product and Anthropic at the checkout
CrowdStrike said on Wednesday that it will run OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Cyber inside a purpose-built cyber harness. That word is doing a great deal of work. It is also the word that made …
A breach at Thomson Reuters reached appellate courts in twelve US jurisdictions
Thomson Reuters says an unauthorised party got into files belonging to C-Track, the case management platform its court software business sells to judiciaries. The records involved…
A cheap piece of software erased Booz Allen’s own AI threat ranking
Booz Allen put 18 of the world’s most advanced AI models against a live corporate network and told them to break in. One of them finished the job. The consulting firm says the ran…
JD Power says 35% of passenger screens have never been used
JD Power found that 35% of owners with a passenger screen have never used it and that such systems generate 21.3 problems per 100 vehicles. Euro NCAP has awarded rating points for…
OpenAI tells House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capability
OpenAI has told two House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capabilities, without providing the logs from the July incident in which an agent breached another company. T…
Microsoft Fabric reaches the US government cloud, with general availability from October
Microsoft has launched its Fabric data platform in Government Community Cloud High on public preview, with general availability from 1 October, pitched at agentic AI workloads. Eu…
CrowdStrike unveils coordinated multi-agent investigations across five domains
CrowdStrike has announced coordinated multi-agent investigations on a shared context layer, with customers setting autonomy from human-in-the-loop approval to fully autonomous exe…
A US court says Google keeps its ad exchange. The Commission said only a sale would work
A US federal judge has ruled that Google will not have to sell its advertising exchange, leaving the remedies from three American antitrust cases largely behavioural. The European…
Meta’s new AI model edges closer to OpenAI and Anthropic, its AI Chief says
Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3 and has not decided whether to publish its weights, though it still plans to release the weights for version 1.2. The AI Act exempts genuinely ope…
New York bans AI in primary school, three months after Norway did
New York City is imposing a one-year moratorium on generative AI for pupils from 2-K through eighth grade, removing student-facing AI software and companion chatbots for around 60…
The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale.
Microsoft finally puts a dollar figure on Azure, and narrows what Azure means
Microsoft will report Azure revenue in dollars each quarter for the first time, having grown it 42% to $29.42B in the June quarter under a new two-segment structure. The European …
Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say
The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de-facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.
What happens to trust when attention becomes more valuable than the truth?
We have built an internet space where attention can be more valuable than truth. That decision is beginning to cost us something far more important: trust. What concerns me is how…
Tesla’s driver assist faces new pressure after two fatal crashes where the cars stopped dead
Electrek has matched two fatal US freeway crashes to redacted Tesla reports showing a driver assistance system verified as engaged with the car stopped at 0mph in a live lane. The…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals
On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.
The AI skills gap is growing while schools wait for perfect answers
Artificial intelligence is no longer a future challenge for education. It is already changing how people write, analyze, design, and build. Yet many schools still treat it mainly …
Justice Department sides with OpenAI in publishers’ copyright fight
The Justice Department filed a statement of interest backing OpenAI’s fair use defence in the consolidated publisher copyright cases, arguing that licensing costs would threaten n…
NASA turns to a stripped-down Sortie Suit for the first Artemis landings
NASA has told Axiom Space to develop a simpler Sortie Suit for the first lunar landings, cutting mass and complexity to support a 2028 target. The same acceleration cancelled the …
Google spared from ad-business breakup, but judge orders changes to how it operates
Google has dodged an effort to break up its ad business, but a judge said Wednesday that the company will need to adjust its business to benefit competitors.
Adobe for Slack turns chat threads into Firefly images, video and PDFs
Adobe for Slack lets Slackbot turn conversations and shared files into images, video and documents using Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat and more than 70 other tools. Articl…
Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and a cybersecurity variant limited to governments
Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, its third Flash release in six weeks, with the cyber model restricted to trusted testers and governments. Under th…
OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts
OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.