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Day 2 of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is here at San Francisco’s Moscone West. Explore innovative startups and solution providers in the Expo Hall, discover emerging technologies through live startup pitches, and use AI-powered matchmaking to connect with a community of 10,000+ founders, investors, startup teams, and technology leaders. Whether you’re looking for your next investment, discovering solutions for your business, or gathering ideas to take back to your team, there’s plenty to explore today. Today’s focus spans AI, with speakers including leaders from Nvidia, Waabi, Flock Safety, and Ricursive Intelligence, alongside Benchmark’s full partnership. Conversations will cover robotics, AI hardware,…

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is seven days away, bringing 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders to Moscone West in San Francisco from October 13-15 for three days of conversations, connections, and ideas shaping what comes next.  Included in your Disrupt pass, which you can currently save $100 on, plus 50% off a second, you’ll have the opportunity to take part in a series of interactive, deep-dive roundtables, where you’ll join founders, investors, operators, and industry experts tackling the same challenges you are. Bring your questions, share your experience, and get practical perspectives on everything from fundraising and AI to hiring, enterprise…

If anything, 2026 has made clear that cybersecurity is no longer a background concern. Today, security is at the front and center of many conversations, woven into almost every major story of the year.  Inequalities are still common, the climate is worsening, and we’re seemingly one dodgy sneeze away from the next global pandemic. But running beneath all of it is a digital current that touches everything: Wars are fought on digital fronts as well as physical ones, governments are weaponizing citizens’ own data against them, botnets are quietly undermining democratic institutions, nation-state hackers are targeting civilian infrastructure from power…

The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale successful companies. Hear from startup and venture leaders shaping the tech ecosystem, including Grant Lee, CEO and co-founder of Gamma; Leah Solivan, founder and general partner at Precedent.vc; Robby Stein, VP of Product at Google; and more. Through candid conversations and real-world case studies, speakers will share actionable insights on fundraising, hiring, go-to-market strategy, AI, and the operational decisions that fuel startup growth. Join more than 10,000 founders, investors, startup operators, and technology leaders at Moscone Center in San Francisco on October 13-15. Register…

The Trump administration has banned the import of new foreign-made humanoid robots, robot dogs and power inverters, citing “unacceptable” threats to national security. This move will have a major impact on imports from China, which currently accounts for the overwhelming majority of the global market share. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Tuesday announced a ban on foreign-made devices, saying they could be remotely controlled, used for surveillance by foreign governments, or used for other forms of cyberattacks. The FCC said exceptions would be made if the government determined the devices did not pose a risk to U.S. national security.…

Data security company Cyera, which recently raised $600 million at a $12 billion valuation, announced Tuesday that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire Oasis Security for about $1 billion. The deal will be mostly paid in cash, with the remainder to be paid in Cyera stock. Oasis focuses on non-human identities, primarily AI agents. As the number of AI agents proliferates, companies must deploy cybersecurity software that monitors the behavior of these agents and gives them permission to access other software. Founded in 2022, Oasis has raised approximately $195 million from investors including Accel, Craft Ventures and…

Countless Claude chats and artifacts (interactive mini-apps and documents that users can create within Claude) were discovered to be publicly searchable on Google over the weekend after Reddit users discovered that typing search operators like “site:claude.ai/share” into Google brought up a long list of shared conversations. It reportedly included health records, private company documents, and children's names and phone numbers. This issue appears to be caused by Claude's “shared chat” feature. This feature allows users to create links that allow anyone with an assigned URL to view a conversation or project. “Anyone with the link can view it,” a warning…

Microsoft announced its first cybersecurity-specific model and new AI cybersecurity platform at a small event in San Francisco on Monday, giving it a big win over the major players in the space: Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. The company describes MAI-Cyber-1-Flash as a model built “to find difficult vulnerabilities in complex codebases.” This model is built to animate MDASH, Microsoft's harness dedicated to identifying and remediating software vulnerabilities. The new security platform is called Perception and is designed to deploy a team of agents to assist and automate various security workflows, including identifying and remediating bugs. This platform can also be…

Europe's answer to TBPN is here and ready to publish 5 days a week from June 27th. Luke Knight and Ronan Chambers first launched the London-based European Technology Network (ETN) in October last year, analyzing technology trends and news in live streams two days a week. The show is currently livestreamed on X and YouTube and has received over 5 million views. The network on Monday announced a $1.6 million seed round from top players in the media ecosystem, including Powerhouse Capital, Axel Springer SE (owner of Business Insider and Politico), popular media publication LadBible, and angel investors from OpenAI…

Six 20-somethings from East London have built what they call an anti-San Francisco hacker house. Rowan Aldean, 26, explained that the goal is not “12 more weeks and Demo Day is coming up,” but “overall improvement in my life.” Intrigued, I spent an afternoon visiting the house, meeting the residents, and checking out the atmosphere. Aldean led us through the clean sidewalks of a new development in East London to a six-story building facing the water. The house is known as the London Island Founder House, or “Lift House,” and Aldean and his wife Zarah, 22, a PhD candidate in…