Robinhood CEO says companies shouldn’t get veto over stock tokens in AMC feud
In a post on Friday, Vlad Tenev said securities issuers should control shareholder rights, but not separate products that track their publicly traded shares.
Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data
The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.
Cyberattacks on Law Firms Nearly Double as Stolen Documents Hit the Dark Web
Greenberg Traurig said documents were posted to the dark web, while BakerHostetler recorded a near-doubling of law-firm incidents in 2025.
Khosla Ventures is opening a New York office this fall — its first outpost outside Sand Hill Road
“It’s actually allegedly being built out now,” said Rabois, who has clearly dealt with a missed construction timeline or two.
Credible Captain Launches Independent Consumer Review Platform Focused on Transparency, AI and Trust
Sacramento, Calif, September 11th, 2026/TechnologyWire/–Credible Captain has officially launched its independent consumer review platform, giving consumers a place to share authentic experiences and businesses an opportunity to be evaluated on genuine customer feedback rather than commercial influence. Created with transparency, fairness, and innovation at its core, Credible Captain was founded by a group of successful … Read more
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants U.S. open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
Tan argues that frontier models themselves trained on public human knowledge so access to capable AI should be “a form of public good.”
OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating
Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.
Bitcoin Golden Cross Flickers Off as Rate-Hike Bets Firm Up
A rapidly changing interest rates market has changed the near-term outlook on the Bitcoin chart. Here’s why.
Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case
New Mexico’s Supreme Court is punishing a lawyer for including AI-fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony in an appeal for his client’s murder conviction, according to a report from Reuters. In a filing on Wednesday, the court fined Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt for failing to “verify the factual claims and legal … Read more
One week left to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Only one week left to secure your exhibit table. Tables are limited and can sell out before the September 18 deadline.
Final, final, final call for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Events
The absolute last chance to apply to host an official Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is tonight, September 11, at 11:59 p.m. PT.
Bitcoin Suisse to shift up to half of Swiss jobs abroad
The Swiss crypto financial services firm plans to move back-office functions to lower-cost international hubs as it expands its global wealth and asset management business, according to Finews.
Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2 billion in annual revenue
While K3’s usage figures have declined slightly in recent months, OpenRouter data currently shows as many as 300 billion tokens being generated each day by K3 models on the system.
Fandom is the Rollout: How Fandoms Redefine Music Marketing
I studied PR and Advertising for two years before I realized I had already watched one of the most sophisticated marketing operations in the industry from a fan account at 2am. I was just there because I loved music. Comeback season meant sleeping at odd hours because an album was dropping at midnight in another … Read more
Roblox is making it easier to build games with AI — and play them outside Roblox
At its annual Roblox Developer Conference (RDC), the company announced several new features, including new game-creation tools, expanded NPC capabilities, and the ability to make games available across platforms, including the web.
Central Eurasia names its 2026 Road to Battlefield winners: Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ
Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ took the top three spots at the regional final of Road to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 2026 and will represent Central Eurasia in the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this October.
Hyperliquid’s biggest risk is regulation, says Ran Neuner
The Crypto Banter founder said Hyperliquid’s network effects give it a strong competitive moat, but regulatory uncertainty remains its biggest threat.
Monitoring production agent lifecycle with AWS DevOps Agent and AgentCore Evaluations
Multi-agent systems in production experience issues in ways that traditional monitoring misses. For example, the agent can’t invoke its foundation model (FM) and returns an empty response. This could be because of a missing AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permission on an agent’s execution role that doesn’t throw a 500 error. A supervisor agent … Read more
Beyond the price per token: Choosing the right OpenAI model on Amazon Bedrock for your workload
Organizations building generative AI applications usually compare models the same way: dollars per million tokens. It’s the number on every pricing page, so it becomes the number in every spreadsheet. But production workloads don’t buy tokens. They buy outcomes: a resolved support ticket, a completed research brief, a correct financial summary. Between the pricing page … Read more
Build interactive MCP Apps using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
As customers shift to interacting with digital services through AI hosts like ChatGPT and Claude, organizations need a way to make their services accessible across these applications with rich UI, not only plain text. They also need to do this without coupling to a single host. MCP Apps and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore provide exactly that. … Read more
OpenAI Asks Congress Whether an AI Slowdown Would Be Legal
The company is seeking clarity on antitrust rules as researchers call for restraint and experts warn that competition encourages companies to overlook risks.
GoMining Launches GoMining Gifts, a Bitcoin Miner You Can Send as a Present in One Link
Every December the same small tragedy plays out in wallets and kitchen drawers across the world. Somebody buys a gift card. Somebody receives it. The card sits half-used or entirely forgotten until it is worth nothing to anyone. Americans alone leave about $23 billion of gift card value unspent every year, a tenth of the … Read more
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Robinhood Crypto Trading Volume Jumps 61% in August
Fresh operating data shows crypto trading bouncing back, but the company’s fastest-growing business these days isn’t traditional trading at all.