In Brief Posted: 4:41 PM PDT · August 31, 2026 Image Credits:Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty Images The popular prediction market Polymarket has raised $300 million from 1789 Capital as part of a new funding ...

In Brief Posted: 4:14 PM PDT · August 31, 2026 Image Credits:David Paul Morris/Bloomberg / Getty Images Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has expanded its fifth growth fund to $8.5 billion. That means the firm ...

A well-known, pro-AI super political action committee is behind a new group that plans to blast voters in key battleground states with ads advocating for data centers, several outlets are reporting. That new group, called ...

Amazon is facing a new lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 22 states, which accuse the company of secretly charging businesses more for advertising on its platform. The lawsuit, filed Monday, claims Amazon ...

The Pentagon has launched versions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok, giving 3 million civilian and military personnel access to generative AI tools that have been tailored to “warfighter needs.” ChatGPT Mil and Grok for ...

We’re getting close to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026! From October 13-15, more than 10,000 innovators, founders, investors, and industry leaders will attend our event in San Francisco’s Moscone West, but the community gathering in the Bay ...

Instagram announced Monday that it’s changing how it labels AI-generated profiles and will start limiting the reach of accounts that feature AI-generated people without saying so. The platform says it’s renaming its existing “AI creator” ...

Tim Cook is departing from his long-held role as Apple’s CEO — and a wave of top executives are heading for the exits as he does. On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Phil Schiller, long the ...

In Brief Posted: 11:56 AM PDT · August 31, 2026 Image Credits:Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto / Getty Images Snow day? Microsoft on Monday confirmed a widespread, multi-hour outage affecting Outlook users, leading to email delays and failures, ...