Anthropic Admits Security Failures Behind Claude Hacking Incidents
After Claude models accessed real systems during cyber tests, Anthropic tightened its safeguards and warned that flawed training can encourage dangerous behavior.
Fed Beige Book Shows High-End Spending Defying Consumer Strain
The American consumer is still spending, but the Federal Reserve’s latest survey makes it increasingly difficult to speak of all consumers as though they were experiencing the same economy.…
The Fed’s August Beige Book, based on information collected through Aug.
24, found that consumer spending grew slightly overall.
The national result, however, joined two conditions that sit uneasily …
The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals
On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.
Google spared from ad-business breakup, but judge orders changes to how it operates
Google has dodged an effort to break up its ad business, but a judge said Wednesday that the company will need to adjust its business to benefit competitors.
Japan’s Remixpoint Dumps Ethereum, XRP in Shift to Bitcoin-Only Treasury
The Japanese company booked a ¥117.8 million profit after selling its ETH, SOL, XRP and DOGE, leaving roughly 1,506 BTC as its only cryptocurrency holding.
X Replaces Stripe With X Money for US Creator Payouts
Social platform X is moving U.S.creator payouts to its own payments service, X Money, as it expands the role of its financial products within the platform.…
Starting Wednesday (Sep.
2), all payouts to creators in the United States participating in X’s …
The move replaces Stripe, which previously powered creator payouts on …
Top Pentagon AI Official Sold Millions in Perplexity Stock, Disclosures Show
Emil Michael's latest financial filings show a summer exit from Perplexity, months after a January sale of xAI stock that reportedly netted him up to $24 million.
Anthropic Gives Retailers Blueprint for AI Shopping Agents
Anthropic is giving retailers a set of blueprints to build artificial intelligence agents that can help shoppers find products and assist merchants with tasks including inventory, pricing and marketing, as retailers prepare for the holiday shopping season.…
The AI company announced the blueprint Wednesday (Sept.
Reuters reported that the initiative comes as shoppers increasingly us…
Adobe Analytics said last month that visits to retail sites driven by …
MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming
The once-dominant mapping app has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump’s “Lake America” name, drawing more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads in just six days.
OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts
OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.
It sure looks like hackers breached a major ID card verification service
An identity theft search site claimed to have more than 150 million driver's license photos stolen from an ID verification service. The crime site has now shut down.
Shopline Taps Splitit for Card-Linked Installment Payments
Commerce Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform Shopline has chosen Spilit as its card-linked installment payments partner, according to a Wednesday (Sept.…
2) press release.
The collaboration will embed Splitit’s technology into the Shopline pl…
“The partnership addresses one of the most significant opportunities i…