OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work. spr.ly/6013BHj6GD

At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, two founders and a VC discussed how to not just gain an early following but keep one. spr.ly/6011BHbhvD

The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command. spr.ly/6011BHb4Yt

Top investors from Iconiq and Sapphire Ventures, along with Rahul Vohra, the founder of Superhuman Mail share the do's and don'ts for building hit products. spr.ly/6011BHbLKR

TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 is coming to SoWa Power Station in Boston on November 4, bringing founders, investors, and operators together for a full day of candid conversations, practical sessions, live pitching, networking, and smaller roundtables spr.ly/6019BHbtLH

A new program wants to encourage more startups to allow workers to cash out early by making it easier to transact tender offers. spr.ly/6012BHbUQu

Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch, developing founder leadership, and scaling companies both spr.ly/6012BHbWka

Daytona is building a cloud for agents that's like giving every agent its own computer. It has attracted founders of Stripe, Perplextity, Datadog, Mercor and others as angels, it says. spr.ly/6010BHbrem

Top-funded fusion startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems received an $85 million award from the federal government to advance conductors for fusion power plants. spr.ly/6016BHbRmM

Early-stage and follow-on investors in the AI lab are already sitting on major paper returns. spr.ly/6015BHbOLv

Quest is the latest in a series of healthcare technology companies that have been hacked in recent months. spr.ly/6013BHb1uB

Oura alleges in its newest lawsuit that Ultrahuman's Ring Pro infringes two of its patents. spr.ly/6016BHwOrM

inDrive plans to begin testing spr.ly/6016BHw3wo's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027. spr.ly/6019BHw3wS

MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs. spr.ly/6015BHwBjS

A newly launched stock class being offered was partially engineered to help Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pay the "billionaire's tax," should the measure be voted into law. spr.ly/6016BHZAnw

Warhound, the brain child of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement. spr.ly/6011BHZNMF

The digital asset unit, helmed by Chris Dixon, broadens its scope. spr.ly/6016BHZL7I

Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the mostly highly valued private company ever. spr.ly/6019BHZx99

Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. spr.ly/6017BHZsNv

At this year’s Disrupt, Lovable GTM lead Luke Arno, Polska’s Ben Broca, and Theory Ventures’ Tomasz Tunguz gave founders some tips on how to achieve true sales success in the first 90 days. spr.ly/6011BHZmA7