China’s Manus raises over $500M in first funding round since split with Meta
Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the funding round, and existing shareholders Tencent, HSG (formerly known as Sequoia China), ZhenFund, and others also participated.
Last call to volunteer at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026
TechCrunch Founder Summit is gearing up to return to Boston on November 4! We’re doing a last call for exceptional volunteers to join us in bringing this event to life. If you’ve ever wondered about the inner workings of tech events, now...
Google Completes September 2026 Spam Update After Nearly 14 Days via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google's latest spam update has finished rolling out after nearly two weeks, taking longer than any of the three spam updates it ran this year. The post Google Completes September 2026 Spam Update After Nearly 14 Days appeared first on Search Engine Jo...
Why Google Search Updates Cannot Be Judged During Early Rollout via @sejournal, @TaylorDanRW
Avoid costly site changes during a Google spam update by separating early ranking volatility from lasting losses and setting clear milestones for leadership. The post Why Google Search Updates Cannot Be Judged During Early Rollout appeared first on Sea...
Vesta raises $30M to bring swarms of agents to mortgage lenders
Vesta, an AI-native software startup that helps lenders originate mortgages, announced a $30 million round led by Conversion Capital.
AWS takes aim at runaway AI agent behavior with Strands Box
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced an open-source sandbox for AI agents that allows developers to restrict their actions based on previous behavior, seeking to address security risks as enterprises give autonomous systems g...
AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon
The story is a collaboration between MIT Technology Review and Aventine, a non-profit research foundation that creates and supports content about how technology and science are changing the way we live. A robot shaped like a human—white with a black head…
AI-powered data pipeline observability: Stop monitoring and start preventing
Devops tools are making it increasingly easy to monitor data pipeline failures. But in many cases, those alerts are already too late. Take marketing campaigns, for example. Every mistake in data for marketing and sales has a tric...
Five days to TechCrunch Disrupt: What’s next for AI and software development
First AI gave us code completion, predicting the lines of code, functions, and boilerplate we needed based on what we’d already typed. Then came code suggestions and code generation, where AI writes new code or improves existing ...
AI changed my role before it changed my software
My first attempt at vibe coding face-planted. I shook my head and stared at the screen. Well, this is obviously not for me. I became convinced the problem was the AI. I had uploaded the working Excel spreadsheet that alread...