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Dutch police said the hacker, arrested for being part of the ShinyHunters cybercriminal gang, had plans to organize the murder of two people on his laptop.

Wabi is repositioning its prompt-based app builder as a personal AI agent that can create interfaces on demand, combining chat, apps, and ongoing tasks.

Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal oversight.

OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT plug-ins with dedicated sidebar homes, interactive panels, file viewers, improved discovery, and support for automations.

OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol delivers significant improvements over GPT-6 Sol across complex professional tasks, including code writing and debugging, document understanding, and executing multistep business workflows.

OpenAI is expanding Codex with reusable cloud development environments, a revamped CLI with voice controls, new code review tools, and a security-focused product for scanning repositories and preparing fixes.

America.gov is intended to simplify the process of navigating government bureaucracy, but large language models are imperfect and remain prone to hallucinations, which could cause new issues.

Instinct founder said the platform is growing 10% day by day, with transaction volume increasing at a similar rate.

Uhura Bionics, part of the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt, wants to replace flat, robotics voice devices with one that carries emotions.

The postponement of the IPO will delay some of the company's plans for its proceeds from the IPO, as well as those of its shareholders.

Mayer argues that if a photo is worth a thousand words, your camera roll is worth millions. By analyzing all the photos stored on your phone, Dazzle claims to understand your hobbies, interests, food, and style preferences, how you like to spend their time, and with whom.

The tech giant says the agent can help owners run their business and find new customers.

Apple says the bug was used to attack "specific targeted individuals" running iOS 26, which the majority of Apple customers are still using.

Fireflies said that it won't charge extra for the new dictation feature, which can be used with any desktop app.

The company also detailed how some of those breaches had happened, and outlined additional measures it is taking to assess the impact of the events.

The round builds on a $30 million fundraise in February, taking the company's total funding to $140 million.

Protego Ventures, the first and largest dedicated defense tech VC in Israel, just completed its final $125 million closing, TechCrunch learned exclusively.

Atomic's agentic supply chain software is now being used by companies like DoorDash and HelloFresh.

In its prospectus, Anthropic just told investors it's losing tens of billions of dollars a year, but also growing like crazy, and — oh yeah — its own AI might pose an existential risk to humanity.

Thirteen of the 18 startups in Peak XV’s latest Surge cohort are targeting global markets, while more than half are based in India.