November 02, 2026

TechCrunch Top 3

New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping: The New York Times is suing privacy-focused web browser company Brave for allegedly scraping the outlet’s copyrighted content and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, like Anthropic and Perplexity. Read More

Web host Squarespace lays off 19% of its employees: The website builder said that the job losses are part of a broader restructuring of its organization. Read More

Germany says lawmakers' iPhones may have been hacked with spyware: German lawmakers and a filmmaker are among the people who received notifications from Apple warning that their phones may have been hacked. Read More

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42AI comes out of stealth with $62.5M and a world model that can 'predict human behavior': Here's a question straight out of sci-fi: What if AI could predict what you were going to do before you decided to, even in a completely new situation? Read More

SpaceX reportedly wants to buy Boost Mobile to compete with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon: SpaceX has been looking for new ways to use its Starlink network, and a tie-up with cellular operator Boost Mobile could give it the terrestrial access it needs. Read More

Readwise takes on Amazon's Kindle and Goodreads with its new app for book lovers: Readwise Books combines an e-book store, reading tracker, detailed reading stats, and AI features in a bid to challenge Amazon's ecosystem. Read More

Elon Musk throttles Grok Bot limits due to 'unsustainably high' costs: Musk recently referred to Grok Bot as having "the fastest growth of a product that I've ever seen in my life." Read More

Last but Not Least

OpenAI is finally merging ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs: OpenAI said that ChatGPT and Codex will draw usage from the same allocation pool after this change. Read More

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