Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests

Plus more of TechCrunch's top stories this weekend

View this email online in your browser  September 13, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests: Revolut said it notified affected customers and alerted the relevant government agency, law enforcement, and financial regulators. Read More Fusion power startups find new partners in the defense world: Fusion startups are inking defense-related deals, reigniting the relationship between fusion and national security that might have gone dormant, but never completely disappeared. Read More Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted ouster by board: Automattic says Mullenweg is back as "chairman and CEO of Automattic, with full support of the board." Read More A message from Alumni Ventures Invest in High-Potential Startups Like These Alumni Ventures is giving readers early access to high-potential startup opportunities across today’s most active sectors, co-invested alongside name-brand VC firms like Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Bessemer, & Y Combinator. You Get: Curated deal flow of high-potential startups, Investing alongside name-brand vc firms, No cost to see deals, No obligation to invest. See Current Deals → Sunday Must-Reads Tesla says it will finally unveil the second generation Roadster on October 1: Tesla’s halo sports car was first announced in November 2017. Read More Anthropic CEO outlines plan to slow AI development: Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman seem to agree that it's time to "pace the frontier." What would that actually look like? Read More OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be 'ill-advised' to go public in 2026: While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman. Read More OpenAI's feud with mathematicians is only escalating: Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work. Read More Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data: The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A. Read More Disrupt 2026: Where deals and ideas ignite Oct 13–15 at San Francisco's Moscone West, 10,000 founders, investors, and operators gather for high-signal insights, curated connections, and real momentum. Register Now! Last but Not Least Roblox is making it easier to build games with AI — and play them outside Roblox: At its annual Roblox Developer Conference (RDC), the company announced several new features, including new game-creation tools, expanded NPC capabilities, and the ability to make games available across platforms, including the web. Read More Check out some of our other newsletters: StrictlyVC TechCrunch Events TechCrunch Mobility Want to adjust your daily newsletter schedule? You can do it right here Got a tip? Get in touch securely. Want to advertise on TechCrunch? advertise@techcrunch.com Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. Unsubscribe Member Center Privacy Policy Copyright © 2026 TechCrunch Media LLC 501 2nd Street, Suite 650, San Francisco, CA 94107

OpenAI's feud with mathematicians is only escalating

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View this email online in your browser  September 11, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 OpenAI's feud with mathematicians is only escalating: Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work. Read More Matt Mullenweg tells (trolls?) Automattic staff, saying he's back in control after CEO ouster: In a Slack message seen by TechCrunch, Matt Mullenweg told Automattic employees he’s back in control of the company, days after its board put him on leave. Automattic has not yet confirmed the apparent reversal. Read More Khosla Ventures is opening a New York office this fall — its first outpost outside Sand Hill Road: "It's actually allegedly being built out now," said Rabois, who has clearly dealt with a missed construction timeline or two. Read More Afternoon Must-Reads Jensen Huang explains why Nvidia will grow an astounding 70% next year: Nvidia has its finger in every pie, and sees another year of plenty in its future, Jensen Huang says. But, he insists, its deals are not circular. Read More Roblox is making it easier to build games with AI — and play them outside Roblox: At its annual Roblox Developer Conference (RDC), the company announced several new features, including new game-creation tools, expanded NPC capabilities, and the ability to make games available across platforms, including the web. Read More Nscale adds former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo to its board ahead of potential IPO: The No. 2 exec at OpenAI also led Instacart through its IPO in 2023. Read More Scammers target hundreds of thousands of crypto owners after Trezor confirms data breach of email provider: This is the second data breach affecting a company that hardware crypto wallet maker Trezor relies on. Read More Y Combinator's Garry Tan wants U.S. open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too: Tan argues that frontier models themselves trained on public human knowledge so access to capable AI should be "a form of public good." Read More A message from ThoughtSpot Is your AI giving confident answers or correct ones? AI agents sound sure of themselves even when they're wrong. The fix isn't a better model — it's a governed trust layer underneath it. See how engineering and data teams at Roche, Snowflake, and dbt built theirs in ThoughtSpot's free 3-day virtual series, September 22–24. Register now Last but Not Least Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2B in annual revenue: While K3's usage figures have declined slightly in recent months, OpenRouter data currently shows as many as 300 billion tokens being generated each day by K3 models on the system. Read More Check out some of our other newsletters: StrictlyVC TechCrunch Events TechCrunch Mobility Want to adjust your daily newsletter schedule? You can do it right here Got a tip? Get in touch securely. Want to advertise on TechCrunch? advertise@techcrunch.com Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. Unsubscribe Member Center Privacy Policy Copyright © 2026 TechCrunch Media LLC 501 2nd Street, Suite 650, San Francisco, CA 94107