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Actor and entrepreneur Mark Wahlberg will appear at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in a fireside chat with Bruce K. Lee, founder and CEO of Keebeck Wealth Management. The conversation will focus on Wahlberg's shift from Hollywood fame into building businesses, angel investing, and developing institutional-level investing discipline, particularly in healthcare and wellness startups.
The NTSB detailed early findings from the cockpit voice and flight data recorders recovered after 21 Air Flight 7598, a Boeing 767-33A cargo plane, overran the runway at Miami International Airport on Sept. 6. The recorders captured over two hours of audio and 54 hours of flight data, with a timeline showing the crew configuring flaps and gear for landing while one pilot repeatedly warned about excessive approach speed.
Ninja has released its first ceramic-coated cookware line, called NeverQuit, sold in three-, six- and 12-piece sets. The cookware is dishwasher- and oven-safe up to 550 degrees, and Ninja claims it's twice as durable as rival Caraway's cookware, though no independent testing has verified this.
Anthropic disclosed a report detailing five cases where scientists used its Claude AI models in ways that could aid biological weapons development, including gain-of-function work on chikungunya and bird flu viruses and a project mapping venom toxin peptides. The company's biological safety classifiers flagged the activity, prompting Anthropic to intervene and, in some cases, involve outside scrutiny given links to military research institutions.
A client invested $30,000 into a fully managed Amazon storefront run by Elite Automation, which handles sourcing, fulfillment, pricing and account operations while she retains ownership. Four years later, the store is generating over $165,000 in monthly sales with roughly $25,000 in net profit and a 22% ROI, a pattern that has held steady for months rather than being a one-time spike.
Google is rolling out a built-in Android feature that lets users securely transfer both passwords and passkeys directly between credential manager apps, replacing the old method of exporting unencrypted text files or manually recreating passkeys. At launch, the tool supports Google Password Manager, 1Password, Bitwarden, and Dashlane, with other providers able to add support via Android's Credentials Transfer API. Users initiate the process from their new password manager, and Android handles detection, review, and authorization before completing the transfer in seconds.
OpenAI has temporarily disabled new subscriptions to its $200-per-month Pro plan after unprecedented demand for its Astra model overwhelmed its infrastructure. Product lead Thibault Sottiaux said the Pro tier strains systems the most, so the company chose to pause it rather than degrade service for existing users. Other offerings, including API access and the Go and Plus plans, remain open to new customers.
Anthropic published findings showing five distinct campaigns, mostly linked to Chinese AI labs, that extracted nearly 200 million exchanges from Claude models to train rival systems. The largest, attributed to Alibaba, alone generated 151 million exchanges between May and recent months, using tricks like disguised translation requests to expose the model's hidden reasoning steps.
A federal judge in California dismissed two proposed class actions accusing LinkedIn of illegally scanning users' browser extensions, ruling that the plaintiffs failed to show they actually had extensions installed that leaked private data to the company. Judge Vince Chhabria allowed the plaintiffs to amend their complaints but expressed skepticism they could ever establish a valid privacy claim, given that browser extensions are voluntarily installed and inherently share data with websites. One plaintiff's attorney says he may refile in state court or appeal to the Ninth Circuit.
Oracle reported fiscal first-quarter results that topped Wall Street forecasts, with adjusted earnings of $1.92 per share and revenue of $19.35 billion, both above LSEG estimates. Revenue climbed nearly 30% year over year, driven largely by rapid growth in cloud infrastructure as Oracle pushes deeper into AI-related data center buildouts. The company raised its long-term outlook, now projecting $8.10 in adjusted earnings per share on at least $90 billion in revenue for fiscal 2027.
Furo, a startup building software for industrial battery storage systems, has raised $4 million from mostly U.S. investors including TQ Ventures, Neo, and Sheryl Sandberg's Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners. The three 28-year-old founders, originally from Germany, moved back home after studying and briefly operating in the Bay Area, and within a year landed enterprise clients like Deutsche Bahn. Co-founder Lena Sophia Voß says the company is scaling faster in Europe than it would have in the U.S.
Meta has begun onboarding contributors to test Community Notes across 16 Latin American nations including Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia, following its US rollout that replaced professional fact-checkers. During this testing phase, notes won't be visible to users and existing third-party fact-checking arrangements remain unchanged, but Meta has signaled it eventually intends to fully transition away from professional fact-checking once the crowd-sourced system proves effective.