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Month: October 2026

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Startups

The full Disrupt 2026 breakout session agenda revealed | TechCrunch

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 lands at Moscone West in San Francisco on October 13-15, bringing together 10,000+ founders, investors,...

Space & Spaceflight

Space Force Just Retired the Satellites That Watched for World War III

The last two remaining satellites were transported to an orbital graveyard as the program officially comes to an...

Flai co-founders Juan Alzugaray, Ari Polakof, and Alen Polakof
Transportation

Flai’s AI dealership software is booking 50,000 appointments per month | TechCrunch

When Flai was raising its seed round last year, it was just a team of three people pounding...

A render of Type One Energy's Infinity One fusion device.
Climate

Type One Energy raised $200M to build a fusion power plant by 2034 | TechCrunch

Type One Energy, a Knoxville, Tennessee-based startup founded in 2019 to build fusion power plants, announced Tuesday morning...

photo illustration of Facebook logo is seen displayed on a smartphone.
Social

Facebook tests going Reels-first in India | TechCrunch

Meta has started testing a new Facebook UX in India that sends some users directly into full-screen video...

Health

Health Influencer Brags About Drinking From a Radioactive Jug for 250 Days Straight

Radium water products were banned in the U.S. roughly a century ago for causing cancer and other harms.

Health

Motiva Home Health Monitoring

Motiva is a kind of backwards TiVo for the elderly. It transforms the TV into a way for...

The ChatGPT application icon is displayed on a smartphone screen.
AI

OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT’s text in the EU | TechCrunch

OpenAI will start adding an invisible watermark to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex in the European Union...

Etched founders with Sequoia partners
Startups

Etched fields funding offers at $40B+ valuation, sources say | TechCrunch

Although it’s only been a couple of months since Etched raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation,...

AI

Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost | TechCrunch

Reflection AI is officially unveiling Beam, its first frontier, open-weight AI model. The two-year-old, Brooklyn-based startup claims Beam...