Oura is going public, but these smart ring companies are coming for its crown |

The smart ring market is getting crowded, and Oura isn’t waiting around to see what happens next: It officially filed to go public on September…

XDOF, just 3 months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation |

Less than three months after emerging from stealth, XDOF, a startup that collects real-world teleoperation data for training general-purpose robots, is in late-stage talks to…

OpenAI's rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them |

OpenAI is at the center of another agent swarm incident. Researchers say the company’s internally deployed agents took over an obscure German-language wiki in May…

Phil Schiller’s App Store exit reportedly driven by wariness over future plans |

Why is longtime Apple executive Phil Schiller stepping down from his role as the head of the App Store? Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Schiller’s…

Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement |

Some authors hoping to receive their share of Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement said they received surprising emails this week — emails informing them that…

Mobility: Tesla Cybercab hits the road — and a snag |

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

AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing |

In Brief Posted: 2:12 PM PDT · September 4, 2026 Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company founded just two years ago, has said it may…

Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows 'Tweet' for now |

A federal court in Delaware has ruled on a trademark fight between Elon Musk’s X and a startup trying to launch a rival social network.…

What will Apple's John Ternus era look like? |

It’sofficially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped downas CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memopromised…

No little kids allowed, and other new info about Tesla's Cybercab |

Tesla’s private Cybercab event has come and gone, and it was very different from the large, loud, livestreamed events the company usually puts on —…