Tech Market & VC news — Monday 28 September 2026

StartupDaily (AU) 23:43 UTC

Altman ducks Canberra as OpenAI sends Jason Kwon to answer for a rogue AI Medicare hack.

TechCrunch 23:39 UTC

A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for following orders.

TechCrunch 22:58 UTC

Self-driving truck company Aurora laid out an audacious plan for 2030. Its CFO says its targets aren't aspirational.

TechCrunch 21:29 UTC

The new financing is expected to more than triples the AI infrastructure startup's valuation from just four months ago.

CB Insights 21:13 UTC

Oban MacTavish , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Spade , tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Want to see more…

CB Insights 21:05 UTC

Omry Man , Co-founder & CRO of Anchor , tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Want to see more research? Start your…

CB Insights 21:01 UTC

Ryan Eisenman , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Arch , tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Want to see more…

CB Insights 20:57 UTC

Elad Efraim , CEO of Custodia , tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Want to see more research? Start your free trial…

CB Insights 20:55 UTC

Nathan Gunawan , CEO of Pallav tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Want to see more research? Start your free trial …

CB Insights 20:43 UTC

Matthew Wallace , CEO of ONOW Ascent, tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Want to see more research? Start your free…

CB Insights 20:40 UTC

Dylan DiMarchi , CEO of Eventual , tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Want to see more research? Start your free…

TechCrunch 20:39 UTC

The acquisition will see World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.

CB Insights 20:32 UTC

Amanda Cupples , The CEO of Hesta Health tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Want to see more research? Start your…

TechCrunch 19:33 UTC

Shopify is expanding WebMCP support to checkout, allowing browser-based AI agents to update order details and complete purchases with a buyer’s authorization.

TechCrunch 19:27 UTC

Tesla says the event "can only be held outdoors," as it's expected to show the car flying in some form using SpaceX thrusters.

TechCrunch 19:21 UTC

Just like the rest of the U.S., data centers and AI are dividing climate tech founders and investors.

Wired Business 18:47 UTC

Meta and other tech giants are pushing through structural changes at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism that outside researchers allege will weaken oversight of an already embattled consortium.

TechCrunch 18:31 UTC

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday introduced a toolkit of software and hardware products that add independent security layers around AI agents to ensure they stay within their test environments even if they attempt to break out.

CB Insights 18:10 UTC

George Favvas , CEO of Clara tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Want to see more research? Start your free trial …

CB Insights 18:07 UTC

Giacomo De Lorenzo , the CEO of Robin Health tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Robin Health operates in the digital…

TechCabal (Africa) 18:06 UTC

Truecaller has said any Nigerian can remove their phone number from its caller-identification service, following a Lagos High Court ruling that dismissed a privacy case brought by non-users of the platform. The company told TechCabal its…

CB Insights 18:06 UTC

Nate Beyor , Chief Revenue Officer of Salt tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Want to see more research? Start your…

TechCrunch 18:00 UTC

Anthropic has released the newest version of its mid-range model, boasting faster response times and less token burn.

CB Insights 17:50 UTC

Douglas Scott , the CEO of Ethic tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Ethic sits at the center of the fastest-growing…

CB Insights 17:45 UTC

Alexandra Mysoor , the CEO of Alix tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Want to see more research? Start your free…

CB Insights 17:42 UTC

Scott W. Ham , the CEO of Pinpoint Predictive , tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Want to see more research? Start…

CB Insights 17:40 UTC

Eric Keating , the VP Marketing of Cloud Capital tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Want to see more research? Start…

Fast Company Tech 17:30 UTC

SpaceX launched its enormous Starship into orbit for the first time Monday and successfully delivered the most advanced Starlinks yet, but cut the flight short to ensure safety. The spacecraft reentered over the Pacific and splashed down…

TechCrunch 17:29 UTC

As all-in-one AI agents like Meta's Muse and Instinct take off, Google is opting to end a feature that built task-specific agents.

TechCrunch 17:09 UTC

On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the breadth of the incidents is alarming.

TechCrunch 16:52 UTC

Meta says it will focus on bringing its full technology stack, including Muse, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, Muse Code, and more to businesses and developers.

YourStory (India) 16:51 UTC

The Tata Trusts has outlined a reorganisation of Tata Sons, the holding company of Tata Group companies which when given effect would ensure it would neither be a non-banking financial company or a core investment company. A statement from…

TechCrunch 16:47 UTC

The app imitates how Walkmans used to function: You can open up the Duo to pick your music and "insert" your cassette tape, then close the device shut to start listening.

Fast Company Tech 16:46 UTC

A few days ago, I attended a conference where the speaker read his talk off his note cards. I immediately recognized ChatGPT’s fingerprints : “and this is where it gets interesting,” “it’s not X, it’s Y”… The topic was management, a field…

TechCabal (Africa) 15:45 UTC

Nigeria is asking banks, fintechs, and payment companies to keep more data at home just as the government builds a broader framework for cloud infrastructure and data sovereignty. The question is not whether Nigeria wants localisation. It…

Fast Company Tech 15:31 UTC

As news of additional AI model security incidents continues to roll out, Nvidia has unveiled a new security platform it says will prevent AI agents from breaking containment and hacking into other companies. The chipmaker has teamed with…

TechCrunch 15:30 UTC

Anthropic, Clay, and Gamma on what it takes for an AI product to go beyond the demo at the AI Stage at TechCrunchDisrupt 2026. Register to join and get 50% off a second pass.

TechCrunch 15:29 UTC

The edge computing startup raised a $150 million Series C led by Fidelity and Amplify.

TechCrunch 15:26 UTC

Accounting staffing company MAVI emerges from stealth with $4 million in funding.

Fast Company Tech 15:15 UTC

It’s a busy time to be a lawyer for an AI company. British Columbia became the latest government to sue OpenAI last week, alleging the company failed to warn police before February’s mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School. The…

EU-Startups 15:12 UTC

DOD Solution , an Estonian-Ukrainian DefenceTech company developing onboard autonomy for unmanned systems, has closed a €1.8 million ($2.1 million) pre-Seed funding round to accelerate the development and scaling of its AURA AI autonomy…

TechCabal (Africa) 15:03 UTC

When Vambo AI, a Johannesburg-based artificial intelligence (AI) model builder, set out to build MORENA , a 1.5-billion-parameter model covering 12 African languages, it had access to a supercomputer through a United Nations Development…

TechCrunch 15:00 UTC

CFS' Brandon Sorbom and Helion's David Kirtley join the Smart Systems Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to discuss the breakthroughs moving fusion forward, the challenges that remain, and what it will take to deliver fusion power to the…

TechCrunch 15:00 UTC

After her grandfather was scammed by a deepfake of his brother's voice, Tarini Padmanabhuni founded DetectifAI, a San Francisco startup building AI models small enough to run directly on smartphones and flag fake voices in real time, and…

TechCabal (Africa) 14:54 UTC

Ten years ago, one could easily count the African startups that raised venture capital in a single year. In 2016, 77 startups raised $367 million in venture funding , according to Partech. Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya accounted for…

TechCrunch 14:50 UTC

The bureau has not yet publicly confirmed a breach, but has told its agents that their personal information and Social Security numbers were exposed.

YourStory (India) 14:32 UTC

Tata Trusts, the majority owner of Tata Sons, have proposed merging two operating companies with the group's holding company in a restructuring aimed at allowing Tata Sons to shed its regulatory classification as a non-banking financial…

EU-Startups 14:31 UTC

Some of the most useful signals for investors appear at the edges of established categories. Digital movements are one of those places. They are unusually demanding forms of online community. They need to attract attention, build trust…

TechCrunch 14:30 UTC

Thousands of applications. Multiple rounds of review. Hundreds of hours spent evaluating startups from around the world. Now comes the part everyone has been waiting for. Register for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 today.

TechCrunch 14:05 UTC

Modulate deploys its models to detect deepfake, fraud and scam

TechCrunch 14:00 UTC

The startup uses AI to automate tedious paperwork for insurance agencies and brokers.

TechCrunch 14:00 UTC

ElevenLabs v4 can clone voices with a 10 second clip

TechCrunch 14:00 UTC

The last day to book your Disrupt 2026 exhibit table is this Friday, October 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Secure your exhibit table and get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech leaders at San Francisco's Moscone West on…

EU-Startups 13:58 UTC

Imagine directing unmanned ground vehicles in urban operations without using your hands. That is what NeuroMech is working towards with a brain-computer interface designed to give operators a new way to control unmanned systems. The team…

YourStory (India) 13:56 UTC

Tonbo Imaging India, a defence electronics manufacturer, has received the approval from SEBI l for its initial public offering (IPO). The IPO will comprise of an offer for sale (OFS) of up to 18,085,246 equity shares of face value Rs 2…

TechCrunch 13:38 UTC

Instinct has raised a $1 billion Series C, saying 'we're just getting started.' The company is now valued at $10 billion.

TechCrunch 13:19 UTC

Though not without some drama along the way.

TechCrunch 13:00 UTC

The tech enables real-time awareness for what Quartermaster calls the “largest blind spot on Earth.”

YourStory (India) 12:57 UTC

Nvidia on Monday unveiled a new security platform that the chipmaker said can stop artificial intelligence agents from going rogue. The company said that its Open Agent Safety Platform includes software that “sets boundaries for agents,”…

YourStory (India) 12:46 UTC

For years, the big ideas in commerce have come from the US or China. Epik, the Try and Buy Everything Store, hosted Epiklogue,an evening for its brand partners, on September 18. Epik is a Bangalore-based experience commerce marketplace…

Fast Company Tech 12:00 UTC

Maura Healey, the governor of Massachusetts, recently laid down a new rule on the contentious question of whether to build data centers in her state: “Unless a community says yes to a data center, we are saying no.” Pennsylvania’s…

YourStory (India) 11:33 UTC

As September draws to a close, many readers begin looking back on the books that shaped their month. Some books entertain, some challenge long-held beliefs, and others offer a deeper understanding of the world and the people who inhabit…

EU-Startups 11:25 UTC

Klang , a Helsingborg-based AI company that transcribes, summarises and analyses interviews, meetings and dialogues, has raised €1.32 million (SEK 15 million) in fresh capital at a valuation of €13.2 million (SEK 150 million). The round…

EU-Startups 11:04 UTC

Milan and Rome-based Eureka! Venture today announces the launch of Eureka! Fund II – Deep Tech Lazio, a €20 million early-stage fund investing from PoC and pre-Seed through Seed and other early-stage rounds. The fund is managed by Eureka!…

Crunchbase News 11:00 UTC

Sandhya Venkatachalam spent the first half of her career building technology companies. She led product at an early data center hardware company that was sold to Cisco , then became a product executive at Skype before its sale to Microsoft…

Fast Company Tech 11:00 UTC

Founded in 1992, Rosetta Stone has long taken advantage of technological advances to deliver language learning to customers in the comfort of their own homes. Early on, that technology was the CD-ROM; the company’s yellow-boxed software…

YourStory (India) 10:54 UTC

IIT Madras Research Park has teamed up with Unicorn India Ventures to launch the IITM Unicorn Frontier Fund I—a Rs 1,000-crore venture capital vehicle built to give early-stage deep-tech founders room to breathe. Backed by global IIT…

Stratechery 10:25 UTC

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Fast Company Tech 10:11 UTC

Even the government sometimes freaks out about changes to the terms and conditions. Documents obtained by Fast Company through a public records request show that officials of at least two federal agencies were, at least briefly, anxious…

TechCabal (Africa) 10:09 UTC

Nigeria has demonstrated that distributed renewable energy can successfully expand electricity access beyond the national grid. Through the Nigeria Electrification Project (NEP), private developers built 180 solar hybrid mini-grids across…

Wired Business 10:00 UTC

Your next coworker might well be an AI agent—and will require a whole new model of workplace interactions.

YourStory (India) 09:48 UTC

On a Friday morning, down the road from the house Kamal Haasan grew up in, Ram Sukumar is talking about tennis. He’d played the evening before and overdone it a bit, so he went for a swim in the morning, and by the time I get there, the…

YourStory (India) 09:17 UTC

Music can build bonds even as funding into Indian startups gets diverse, YourStory brings you today’s headlines with the latest developments across sectors. Featured stories Meet Sollisai Sistahs, an all-female rap crew from Tamil Nadu…

EU-Startups 09:05 UTC

Sofinnova Partners , a Paris-based life sciences investor, has closed its Sofinnova MD Start IV fund at €82 million. The firm said the fund was oversubscribed and will build on a strategy dating back to 2008 that has created around a dozen…

Wired Business 09:00 UTC

In the wake of a series of high-profile AI safety incidents, Nvidia is introducing a new software tool that helps keep agents from escaping containment.

Wired Business 09:00 UTC

A British startup is shaping video game inputs into training data for AI models that can navigate the physical world.

TechCabal (Africa) 08:57 UTC

This is Follow the Money , our weekly series that unpacks the earnings, business, and scaling strategies of African fintechs, financial institutions, companies, and governments. A new edition drops every Monday. For a small business in…

Fast Company Tech 08:30 UTC

The people of northern Virginia have been living with data centers for many years. The area is home to the world’s largest concentration of data centers . In a survey we conducted, we found northern Virginians support development…

YourStory (India) 08:20 UTC

The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the Centre and others on a petition challenging the decision to impose a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on specified UPI person-to-merchant transactions above Rs 2,000. A bench of Chief…

Fast Company Tech 08:00 UTC

This is something you have probably noticed several times—at least, I certainly have. When you use an AI chatbot for personal questions, decision-making, research, and the like, it works amazingly well. But when you try your company’s AI …

EU-Startups 07:54 UTC

We’re excited to announce that Jesper Brøndum , co-founder and Group CTO of Boozt , will join us at the EU-Startups Summit 2027 , taking place on May 13-14 in sunny Malta! Jesper will deliver a keynote titled Intrapreneurial Insights from…

YourStory (India) 07:37 UTC

Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar has officially joined forces with OpenAI in a multi-year partnership designed to demystify artificial intelligence and show everyday users across India how ChatGPT fits into real life. The collaboration aims…

StartupDaily (AU) 07:16 UTC

Toyota-backed AI Literacy Lab will put 900 regional teens in the AI game.

EU-Startups 07:01 UTC

Reactive Technologies , a London-based power-grid technology company, has secured €19 million in financing from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to promote its platform, which aims to reduce the risk of electricity outages, lower grid…

YourStory (India) 07:00 UTC

A personal loan can help cover planned expenses, unexpected costs, or larger financial requirements without using your savings all at once. Since it is generally an unsecured form of borrowing, you do not usually need to pledge an asset as…

StartupDaily (AU) 06:58 UTC

Tank Stream Labs storms Brisbane with a CBD startup hub, investor events and Scalare firepower at 215 Adelaide St.

EU-Startups 06:30 UTC

bilt.me , a Tallinn-based AI-native mobile app builder, has raised €614.9k ($700k) in a pre-Seed funding round. The round was led by Superhero Capital, a Seed-stage VC backing software-driven startups across Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and…

YourStory (India) 06:22 UTC

Agricultural machinery company Balwaan Krishi has raised Rs 100 crore in Series B funding to support its next phase of growth across manufacturing, distribution and product development. The round was led by First Bridge India Growth Fund…

TechCabal (Africa) 06:17 UTC

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YourStory (India) 05:28 UTC

Amaani, the Dubai-based beauty and wellness startup, has raised $5 million in a Series A round of funding led by BECO Capital, with participation from Homegrown Ventures and Peak XV’s Surge. Amaani said it will use this capital to expand…

TechCrunch 04:30 UTC

Truecaller finds a new way to reach users as pressure grows on its traditional caller ID business in India, its biggest market.

StartupDaily (AU) 03:53 UTC

UNSW got GPT models ‘drunk’ and watched guardrails crack, leaks rise and jailbreaks land.

StartupDaily (AU) 03:39 UTC

Onside swallows Assura, fusing farm compliance workflows for 60k users as it gears up to raise capital.

YourStory (India) 02:00 UTC

Dear Reader, AI is getting harder to contain. OpenAI has paused training, evaluation and tool-based use of its most capable models after an agent bypassed internet restrictions through a gap in DNS filtering during a training run. The…