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Bluesky says the process will still take 18-24 months, so don't expect your new, shortened 'bsky' handle any time soon.

Non-Amazon Prime subscribers will be able to watch the awards show on the platform.

French AI lab Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, a new large multimodal model aiming to leapfrog both American and Chinese rivals.

Pinterest’s new AI-powered Beauty Guides translate hair and nail Pins into salon terminology, with estimated costs, appointment times and maintenance needs.

It's the latest in a string of deals meant to grow Uber Eats into a food delivery behemoth.

Get all of your scaling and tech questions answered at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.

The deal brings together two major streaming platforms, Paramount+ and HBO Max, along with networks including CBS, CNN, MTV, TBS, Comedy Central, and Food Network.

Called Explore, Glimpse's new image processing software lets hardware makers speed up quality control checks using CT scanners.

Flai's revenue has grown 20x in a year, and the company just closed a $27 million Series A funding round.

Meta is testing a new Facebook UX in India that sends some users directly into full-screen video when they open the app, putting Reels front and center.

Type One Energy is betting that its lean approach to fusion power will get a power plant on the grid faster, and investors have rewarded it with $200 million.

The company is deliberately limiting production after years of struggling to find mass-market demand for its EVs.

OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act.

Just a couple of months after its last big raise, the AI chip startup is already being plied with investment offers at double or more its current value, sources tell TechCrunch.

Days after Vinod Khosla called Factory a struggling also-ran, Menlo has shown up with a check and a glowing blog post.

Nvidia-backed Reflection AI unveils Beam, its first open-weight model, which it says rivals GLM-5.2 on reasoning with far less inference compute.

Instinct is launching group chats that let friends use its AI agent together for tasks like planning trips, organizing carpools, and coordinating events.

TikTok describes its new Shopping Assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users discover and purchase products.

Ghost announced Monday its official emergence from stealth and an $11 billion seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Founded by two sisters, Hot Girl Hotline uses AI to give young women personalized dating and relationship advice, with an emphasis on safety and avoiding emotional dependency.

TechCrunch attended Pear’s latest demo day and discovered which startups generated the most buzz, from spatial models to chips for local AI.

HackerRank’s AI interviewer has already conducted more than 500,000 interviews, with Snowflake, Snorkel, and Capgemini among its early testers.

OpenAI said the new visual ads will show up after your image generation results appear in the U.S. only for now.

Learn how founders are choosing between building on open or closed AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.

Lola Vision Systems is one of TechCrunch's Battlefield 200 Companies

The Danish government said the breach of names, addresses, and state-issued ID numbers affects 8 million people, including people living abroad and the deceased.

Independent researchers discovered an agent swarm that seems to be running on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's map service, Amap.

Meet the final five Startup Battlefield judges who'll decide who wins the pitch competition at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.

The full TechCrunch Disrupt Stage lineup revealed, featuring Max Hodak, Mark Wahlberg, Benchmark partners, and more.

Safeworld is building digital humans to make sure robots don't hurt the real ones.

AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.

On Equity, we discussed the Trump administration's attempts to rebrand AI.

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

This new task force is Trump's latest response to the debate over AI safety.

A federal judge ruled that a sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock to search for her license plate without a warrant.

The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers.

By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.

Bitchat has become largely unavailable in India as a result of the restrictions.

Vessev hopes its electric hydrofoil ferry will change the way people and cities think about boats.

Farooq Abbasi, an investor in Neko Health, talked to Equity about the hot health tech company and what's next for it.

We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.

Meta wants Muse in your TV and your toaster, so it's giving the code away for free.

The proposed legislation would extend to all automotica license plate readers.

Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.

Your next opportunity could be one conversation away.

Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier.

This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.”

Blackstone's Jas Khaira will take the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on building next-gen AI.

With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it's easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people psychologically.

The roughly $110 billion deal is expected to close October 6.