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Who is John Ternus, the new Apple CEO?

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Published: 2026-09-01 18:02:00 | Created: 2026-09-01 18:33:56

Starting on September 1, Ternus will lead one of the world's most valuable companies, but if you're not a dedicated Apple enthusiast, you've probably never heard of this man, who has largely remained out of the spotlight until now.

Google’s answer to Canva is an AI tool where you prompt instead of design

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Published: 2026-09-01 17:35:37 | Created: 2026-09-01 17:35:55

With Google Pics, Google is pushing deeper into the creative software market dominated by Canva and Adobe, but with a distinctly AI-first approach.

ChatGPT Health adds Epic integration for clinicians to import patient data

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Published: 2026-09-01 17:00:00 | Created: 2026-09-01 17:00:54

OpenAI said that the integration provides read-only access to health records for clinicians.

Waymo goes on offense ahead of Tesla’s Cybercab launch

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Published: 2026-09-01 16:49:12 | Created: 2026-09-01 16:49:54

Waymo argued that fully autonomous vehicles aren't possible without using a mix of sensors and warned that pure end-to-end AI systems aren't safe enough.

Sequoia-incubated Empirik launches with $21M to predict outages before they happen

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Published: 2026-09-01 16:31:04 | Created: 2026-09-01 16:31:55

The startup wants to do for IT infrastructure what Cursor did for software engineering.

GoPro to be acquired for $285M, will remain a public company

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Published: 2026-09-01 15:57:23 | Created: 2026-09-01 15:57:56

GoPro is merging with a company that builds AI infrastructure, and will continue supporting existing consumer products.

Amazon Alexa can now alert you when something new might tempt you to shop

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Published: 2026-09-01 15:51:55 | Created: 2026-09-01 15:52:54

Amazon is adding a new Alexa-powered feature called “Update Me When” that can send personalized alerts about product launches, tours, books, shows, and other events that could trigger a purchase.

AIR raises $50M to help companies vet the skills and add-ons AI agents use

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Published: 2026-09-01 15:45:51 | Created: 2026-09-01 15:45:55

AIR's platform can discover agents running at a company, continuously vets any skills and add-ons they use, and blocks any unwanted behavior.

Microsoft 365 outage drags on, but things are improving

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Published: 2026-09-01 15:23:15 | Created: 2026-09-01 15:23:54

Microsoft 365 and Outlook are still seeing service degradations on Tuesday, the company's status page indicates.

Fambot introduces an ‘AI chief of staff’ for families

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Published: 2026-09-01 15:10:58 | Created: 2026-09-01 15:11:55

Fambot is building an AI “chief of staff” to help families manage the emails, calendars, school updates, sports schedules, and other logistics of raising kids.

Florida and Texas move to block Flock cameras over privacy concerns

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Published: 2026-09-01 15:00:10 | Created: 2026-09-01 15:00:55

Flock's searchable network of 130,000 license plate cameras around the U.S. have sparked bipartisan privacy and civil liberties concerns.

This startup is fuel-injecting hydrogen to make cargo ships more efficient

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Published: 2026-09-01 14:52:12 | Created: 2026-09-01 14:52:55

Newlight has raised a $9 million seed round and completed an 8,500-nautical-mile test run from Singapore to Ghana.

Waymo accelerates robotaxi expansion with launches in Denver, San Diego, and Tampa

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Published: 2026-09-01 14:20:44 | Created: 2026-09-01 14:20:56

Waymo will begin inviting riders on a rolling basis and slowly ramp up access in the three cities, following its usual commercial playbook.

Help build the future of startups: Volunteer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

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Published: 2026-09-01 14:03:00 | Created: 2026-09-01 14:03:54

TechCrunch Disrupt is where those moments happen. And we can't pull it off without volunteers like you.

India’s Unacademy sells to rival upGrad for $206M, about 94% less than its peak valuation

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Published: 2026-09-01 13:58:42 | Created: 2026-09-01 13:58:54

"We raised at a peak, but sold at a fraction of that," Unacademy co-founder and CEO Gaurav Munjal wrote. "I'm not going to dress these facts up."

If space data centers feel far-fetched, why not interstellar travel?

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Published: 2026-09-01 10:00:00 | Created: 2026-09-01 10:00:55

The team behind Starcloud's orbital data centers has a new high-risk space project: Sending a probe to Alpha Centauri.

Magna increases bet on battery swapping in India with $35M for Yuma

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Published: 2026-09-01 05:00:00 | Created: 2026-09-01 05:00:54

Magna's investment in Yuma Energy has reached $87 million as the Canadian auto supplier increases its majority stake in the Indian battery-swapping firm.

Lachy Groom backs Indian startup aiming to keep aircraft aloft for a year

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Published: 2026-09-01 00:30:00 | Created: 2026-09-01 00:30:55

Founded by a 20-year-old, Alteon is developing autonomous aircraft that hopes to harvest wind energy to stay aloft for several months.

Apple shares ‘shocking evidence’ against former employee accused of stealing company data for OpenAI

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Published: 2026-09-01 00:13:00 | Created: 2026-09-01 00:13:54

Apple says it has evidence that a former employee destroyed evidence of data theft after learning he was under investigation.

Polymarket reportedly raises $300 million from Donald Trump Jr.’s investment fund

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Published: 2026-08-31 23:41:10 | Created: 2026-08-31 23:41:54

The firm, 1789 Capital, led the funding round that reportedly will total around $1 billion.

a16z brings growth fund to $8.5B days after launching new $1.1B fund

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Published: 2026-08-31 23:14:14 | Created: 2026-08-31 23:14:54

Andreessen Horowitz held out its hand and returned with billions more in new funds to invest in startups.

A group funded by Andreessen, Horowitz, and Brockman plans data center ads to sway midterms

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Published: 2026-08-31 22:14:05 | Created: 2026-08-31 22:14:54

Build American AI plans to lobby voters in select states about the virtues of data centers by spending millions of dollars on ads.

FTC accuses Amazon of running a ‘secret ad surcharge scheme’ in new lawsuit

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Published: 2026-08-31 20:20:25 | Created: 2026-08-31 20:20:54

Amazon is facing a new lawsuit from the FTC and 22 states for allegedly secretly charging businesses more for advertising.

The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok

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Published: 2026-08-31 20:13:45 | Created: 2026-08-31 20:13:54

Versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT and SpaceXAI's Grok will join Google's Gemini on the Pentagon's central portal for AI tools.

Instagram puts new limits on undisclosed AI profiles

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Published: 2026-08-31 19:16:59 | Created: 2026-08-31 19:17:55

As frustration over AI influencers has been growing, Instagram is limiting the reach of undisclosed AI profiles.

Apple’s top App Store exec, Phil Schiller, follows wave of exits as CEO Tim Cook steps down

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Published: 2026-08-31 19:02:06 | Created: 2026-08-31 19:02:54

The longtime executive won't be leaving Apple just yet but staff at the company say it's a step closer to Schiller retiring.

Microsoft tests fix for latest hours-long Outlook outage

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Published: 2026-08-31 18:56:41 | Created: 2026-08-31 18:56:54

Microsoft says it's testing a fix for the widespread Outlook issues that have led to email delays and failures.

Kalshi bans George Santos for life over State of the Union bets

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Published: 2026-08-31 18:53:41 | Created: 2026-08-31 18:53:55

The disciplinary action comes two months after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission settled charges against Santos.

Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a ‘Harvey for police officers’

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Published: 2026-08-31 18:35:11 | Created: 2026-08-31 18:35:54

Blue Voice is trained on department-specific laws, local ordinances, protocols, and guidelines that general-purpose AI tools can't access on the public internet.

Hackers claim millions of patient records stolen during data breach at healthcare giant McKesson

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Published: 2026-08-31 18:10:09 | Created: 2026-08-31 18:10:55

The company, which distributes medicines and medical devices to hospitals and healthcare practices across the U.S., said it was hacked and expects intermittent service degradation.

Ryan Breslow is raising up to $27M in pay-to-play bridge funding to save Bolt

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Published: 2026-08-31 17:14:44 | Created: 2026-08-31 17:14:54

The controversial founder of the checkout startup once valued at $11 billion is putting in $5 million of his own money.

Tim Cook’s parting message: Apple is in the hands of a product builder

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Published: 2026-08-31 17:02:42 | Created: 2026-08-31 17:02:54

Tim Cook’s farewell memo to Apple employees offers a glimpse at how he wants John Ternus to be seen: as a product builder with deep experience across the iPhone, Mac, AirPods, and other major hardware lines.

VLC crosses 7 billion downloads

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Published: 2026-08-31 16:07:46 | Created: 2026-08-31 16:07:55

In our world of expensive streaming platforms, the very free and offline VLC media player has crossed 7 billion downloads.

Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video and is now valued at $250M

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Published: 2026-08-31 16:00:00 | Created: 2026-08-31 16:00:54

The three-year-old startup says it reached $15 million in ARR and profitability before raising its latest $15 million round.

How AI could make it harder for governments to use hacking tools

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Published: 2026-08-31 15:19:32 | Created: 2026-08-31 15:19:54

AI is proving effective at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities. Some say this will make it harder for governments to use hacking tools and spyware and could reignite calls to backdoor devices.

Nvidia’s $3.5B MediaTek bet reveals its plan for tackling Big Tech’s AI chip buildout

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Published: 2026-08-31 15:15:25 | Created: 2026-08-31 15:15:54

Nvidia invests $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek. The deal shows how Nvidia plans to stay essential to AI infrastructure as Big Tech begins to build its own AI chips.

MapQuest’s app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario

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Published: 2026-08-31 14:51:33 | Created: 2026-08-31 14:51:54

MapQuest is getting an unexpected boost from its decision to defy President Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario.

Meeting note-taker Circleback adds a free tier to attract more customers

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Published: 2026-08-31 12:56:46 | Created: 2026-08-31 12:56:54

Circleback is also introducing new pricing plans starting from $14 per month.

The US is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them

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Published: 2026-08-31 02:34:00 | Created: 2026-08-31 02:32:55

The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere.

Grindr wants to be the everything app for gay men; investors are still deciding whether it can pull it off

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Published: 2026-08-31 02:18:57 | Created: 2026-08-31 02:19:54

George Arison is done letting Wall Street's "Grindr discount" go unchallenged — in a wide-ranging Q&A, the CEO walks us through how AI, a controversial $350-plus EDGE tier, and a bet on healthcare and long-distance matchmaking are turning Grindr into the "gayborhood in your pocket" he's been promising since 2022.

Liux’s Big microcar bets on sustainability to take on Chinese rivals

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Published: 2026-08-30 18:33:44 | Created: 2026-08-30 18:33:55

The Liux Big microcar is made in Spain. The startup thinks it can compete in a crowded market with its tiny electric car built around sustainability.

Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem

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Published: 2026-08-30 16:54:25 | Created: 2026-08-30 16:54:54

Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it's a bet on a fuel source that's already triggering lawsuits and health studies everywhere his (and others') turbines have gone in.

TechCrunch Mobility: The hidden human cost of robotaxis

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Published: 2026-08-30 16:03:00 | Created: 2026-08-30 16:03:54

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining

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Published: 2026-08-30 15:00:00 | Created: 2026-08-30 15:00:54

Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It's now bringing that experience to AI deployment.

Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a ‘brazen campaign’ of intellectual property theft

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Published: 2026-08-29 18:41:59 | Created: 2026-08-29 18:42:54

This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.

At TechBBQ, Europe’s AI conversations kept coming back to: Who’s actually in control?

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Published: 2026-08-29 17:51:10 | Created: 2026-08-29 17:51:54

Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how humans can have agency over AI.

‘We’re not doing 30 bets a year’: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4B at a16z

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Published: 2026-08-29 17:36:47 | Created: 2026-08-29 17:37:54

Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one, why clinical trials are still brutally expensive, and why he thinks open, shared datasets (not walled-off ones) are what will actually let AI transform medicine.

Hollywood celebs are getting into microdrama apps

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Published: 2026-08-29 16:10:00 | Created: 2026-08-29 16:10:55

Several Hollywood celebs are ditching the massive eight-figure checks and exotic movie sets for a rising format: microdramas.

The Theragun Sense makes everyday recovery surprisingly easy

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Published: 2026-08-29 14:00:00 | Created: 2026-08-29 14:00:54

The Theragun Sense, which retails for $299, is a wellness-focused massage gun that’s designed for everyday aches, muscle tension, relaxation, and soreness.

Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU

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Published: 2026-08-29 13:00:00 | Created: 2026-08-29 13:00:54

The new generation of data center systems is increasing efficiency with smarter traffic control instead of just more processor cycles.

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