An AI Training Data Startup Just Became Y Combinator's Fastest-Ever Unicorn

Afterquery's valuation jumped more than tenfold in five months, making it Y Combinator's fastest unicorn ever.

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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 …

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Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say

The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de-facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.

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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.

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FBI Seizes $560K in Crypto Bound for Hamas, Takes Over Fundraising Sites

Agents seized digital assets, domains, and servers allegedly used by Hamas’ military wing to collect donations and recruit supporters.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 …

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Anthony Armstrong, former CFO at Elon Musk’s xAI and X, joins Coinbase board

Anthony Armstrong, former CFO at Elon Musk’s xAI and X, joins Coinbase board

• Anthony Armstrong, former CFO at Elon Musk’s xAI and X, joins Coinbase board

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AI Could Make Small Trade Loans Pay Off Again

When a company sells goods to a buyer overseas, it often has to wait 30, 60 or 90 days to get paid.…

• In the meantime, it needs cash to keep running.
• Banks have historically been reluctant to lend against that wait, espe…
• That gap between what businesses need and what they can actually borro…

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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.

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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 …

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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.

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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.

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Goldman Sachs, BofA Among 21 Banks Planning Joint Dollar Stablecoin Launch

The bank-led consortium wants a U.S. dollar token live by the first half of 2027, with a euro version queued up next.

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How the SEC Went From Crypto Enforcement to Building an On-Chain Wall Street

Two years ago, Wall Street had to infer where blockchain fit inside securities law from enforcement actions.…

• In 2026, the U.
• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is writing the operating inst…
• On Tuesday (Sept.

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Google Escapes Forced Breakup of AdX Marketplace

Google avoided a forced breakup of its advertising technology business, Reuters reported Wednesday (Sept.…

• District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, rejected the D…
• She accepted most of the behavioral remedies proposed by the parties, …
• The DOJ and a coalition of states sued Google in 2023, alleging that t…

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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.

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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…

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Delivery Hero board backs Uber’s $15B takeover bid

If approved, the combined company would become one of the largest food delivery platforms in the world.

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'The Right Trade': Strategy CEO Has No Regrets Selling Bitcoin at $60K Before Buying Back Higher

Phong Le said Strategy’s cost of capital—not Bitcoin’s price—drove its decision to sell nearly 7,000 BTC before resuming purchases above $80,000.

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FNBO Expands Westward by Buying Denver’s InBank

First National Bank of Omaha is continuing its expansion push by acquiring Colorado’s InBank.…

• The roughly $200 million deal, announced by the bank (FNBO) Wednesday …
• 2), is designed to expand its presence in Colorado with nine new branc…
• “InBank is strategically and culturally aligned with FNBO and represen…

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Is Bitcoin About to Flash Crash? What a 'Bart Simpson' Pattern Would Actually Take

Bitcoin traders are calling August's spike-and-fade a Bart Simpson hairline. Here's what separates an actual flash crash from an ordinary correction.

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