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Today’s highlights
- The best tech and gadgets announced at IFA so far — 2026-09-03
- The doors to Europe’s largest consumer tech show haven’t opened to the public yet, but there’s already plenty of news coming out of IFA 2026 in Berlin, Germany. If you’re already struggling to keep up with what has been
- The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — 2026-09-02
- 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.
- Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say — 2026-09-02
- The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.
- TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals — 2026-09-02
- 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 — 2026-09-02
- 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.
- Uber beats Waymo as first to launch robotaxis in London — 2026-09-02
- Uber beat out Waymo in launching a commercial robotaxi service in London, the city’s first. The vehicles use autonomous driving tech developed by Wayve, a UK-based startup, and will initially feature safety drivers behin
- OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts — 2026-09-02
- 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.
- MapQuest is now the No. 1 US app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming — 2026-09-02
- 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.