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Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to raise $500M at a $4B valuation.... →

Whether it's a permanent shift or part of a familiar cycle is worth asking, though.... →

The feds are said to be investigating the compromise of the tankers' networks, which in one case interfered with one of the tanker's navigation and propulsion systems.... →

Nvidia's Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes discuss one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups on the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.... →

Muse is now available on the Mac, where it can work with your files and apps to take action on your behalf.... →

Sleeping on the Orion is like flipping your pillow to find “the cool side,” except that your whole entire bed is the cool side.... →

Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria on winning the modern financial consumer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register now to save up to $200 before September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT.... →

Inertia co-founder and CEO Jeff Lawson joins the Smart Systems Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register now to save up to $200 by September 25.... →

Security researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to exploit vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems, taking over employee accounts and gaining access to an internal code repository before reporting the flaws.... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

Last day to book your exhibit table at Disrupt is today, September 18. Get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders on October 13–15.... →

This week we covered the first week or so of Google's unusual ranking volatility only to see things spike up in a big way this week as well - something is up. Google's remedies are out for its ad tech monopoly ruling. Google has an AI contribution pilot for paying publishers...... →

Google may be more successful in blocking AI scrapers, search scrapers and third-party tracking tools since around September 13th or so. This coincides with the September 4th and September 12th reversals we reported, and it also aligns with the methods Google has been using to block non-human behavior in its search results recently.... →

Google is now testing adding the AI Mode button to the search bar when you are inside the search results page. Google has the AI Mode button almost everywhere else, but now we are seeing it added to the search bar, within the search results page, not just the home page.... →

Очаровательная новость в Financial Times — члены княжеской семьи Лихтенштейна угрожают судом для защиты своих прав и даже хотят дойти до Европейского суда по правам человека. Оказывается, наследный принц Алоис (правящий князь Ханс-Адам II еще в 2004 году передал ему управление страной, ему присвоен титул регента) провел изменения в семейном законе, дав права голоса и наследования женщинам-членам династии, но одновременно получив больше возможностей распоряжаться статусами и титулами членов династии. Статус ... →

Microsoft Bing is also asking some searchers to verify they are human before showing them search results. Google is doing this a lot, in various forms, and now Bing was spotted doing this.... →

Google has posted a new help document in the Google Ads help area named About commerce audience sharing through Google Ads. It explains that "Commerce audience sharing allows commerce partners, such as retailers or marketplaces, to share first-party data segments with their advertising partners, such as brands or sellers."... →

Google updated the upload a product reviews data source to Merchant Center help document to now say that you can do this via the Merchant Center API. Previously, the document said, "API isn't currently supported for product reviews data sources." Now it says, "Add product reviews using API."... →

Google has updated its guidelines for sites with explicit content to now specify that ecommerce sites must "label adult products in ecommerce feeds or markup." There is also a new section at the bottom of the help document titled, "For Google Shopping features."... →

Google Search has dropped the free product listings and carousel formats from the European Economic Area (EEA). This change is part of what the European Commission forced Google to do in these regions under the Digital Markets Act.... →