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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-2215666246.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Clutch Security, a startup that secures AI agents’ access to company systems, for $500 million in cash plus additional milestone-based payouts, according to a person familiar with the discussions. Three-year-old Clutch was last valued at $85 million when it raised a $20 million Series…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2198481572_7937f4.jpg?resize=1200,800″] The New York Times Company has reportedly “entered exclusive negotiations” to acquire Letterboxd for $330 million, according to a report from The New York Times itself. Letterboxd, an online platform for movie lovers that could be compared to Goodreads for movies, has grown dramatically in recent years. Letterboxd reported 3 million users…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Airbnb-Summer-feat.jpg?resize=1200,675″] Airbnb has teased its plans to build its own AI travel agent before, but on Thursday the company announced that the new AI feature will launch in the first half of 2027. In the company’s Q3 shareholder letter on Thursday, Airbnb also provided more detail about how the agent will work, what…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Serve_robot_05.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Serve Robotics, a maker of self-driving sidewalk delivery robots, is expanding beyond its autonomous delivery operations in a bid to become a technology supplier to other companies building robots. The company, which spun out of Uber’s acquisition of Postmates in 2021 and went public in 2024, said Thursday it will launch a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/muse-ai-meta.jpg?w=1200″] Muse Voice, a feature that lets users call and video chat with Meta’s consumer AI agent, Muse, is now available to everyone in the U.S., the company announced on Thursday. First introduced at Meta’s Connect developer conference in September, the video-chatting feature involves new AI models, Muse Realtime Avatar and Muse Realtime…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/data-center-2.jpg?resize=1200,899″] Meta president Dina Powell McCormick said that the Democratic wins in the midterm elections are going to make it a lot harder for companies to build data centers, adding that the industry has “not done as good a job as we needed to explain the benefits of these investments.” Speaking at the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/openai-daybreak.jpg?resize=1200,798″] Max Justicz, the chief technology officer and co-founder of the startup Charge Robotics, used an OpenAI model to find a severe vulnerability that — if exploited — could allow hackers to take control of servers running Ubuntu, a widely used open source Linux-based operating system. Justicz, who has a hobbyist’s interest in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/freezer-hacks-2299339780.jpg?resize=1200,800″] The U.S. government is warning of an “ongoing cyber threat” facing industrial refrigeration units, after reports of cyberattacks targeting freezers and fridges in supermarkets around the world, U.S. military bases, and at least one blood bank. U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA, the FBI, and several other federal government departments warned in a joint…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Greg-Brockman-OpenAIDSC02862.jpg?resize=1200,800″] OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman said the company would be ready for an IPO in 2027, noting that its enterprise revenue has been growing. Speaking at a Wall Street Journal tech conference on Wednesday, the executive touted how the company had been gaining ground in the enterprise market, where rival Anthropic…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Stephen_Ward_horiztonal.jpeg?resize=1200,1077″] Every time venture capitalists write a check, they’re secretly running numbers in their heads about different exit scenarios. It’s their job as fiduciaries. But nearly all will tell you (publicly, anyway) that every portfolio company is headed for an IPO. Stephen Ward, the co-founder of Brightmind Partners, a two-year-old cybersecurity fund in…