The candidate that Silicon Valley built is now the one they want to tear down

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View this email online in your browser  March 03, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 The candidate that Silicon Valley built is now the one they want to tear down: Ethan Agarwal, a 40-year-old tech entrepreneur with no political background, told TechCrunch on Monday evening that he is running for California's 17th congressional district. Read More ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal: Many consumers ditched ChatGPT's app after news of its DoD deal went live, while Claude's downloads grew. Read More India's Pronto formalizes house help as its valuation jumps 8x in under a year: Pronto handles 18,000 daily bookings and plans rapid expansion as it races rivals to digitize India's largely offline home services market. 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. Sign up! A message from LILT AI See Multilingual AI in Action: Platform Tour Take a guided look inside LILT's AI-native platform, where adaptive AI and human expertise seamlessly unite. Watch this video to see how teams streamline workflows, ensure brand voice fidelity, and deliver multilingual content faster than ever. Watch Video Morning Must-Reads A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses: A hobbyist developer's new app, which can detect nearby smart glasses, comes amid resistance to always-on recording and listening devices that invade people's privacy. Read More Users are ditching ChatGPT for Claude — here's how to make the switch: Following controversies surrounding ChatGPT, many users are ditching the AI chatbot for Claude instead. Here's how to make the switch. Read More Cursor has reportedly surpassed $2B in annualized revenue: The four-year-old startup saw its revenue run rate double over the past three months, according to one Bloomberg source. Read More Apple unveils M5 Pro and M5 Max chips with new 'Fusion Architecture': The chips are engineered around Apple's new Fusion Architecture, an advanced design that merges two dies into a single, high-performance system on a chip (SoC). Read More Fig Security emerges from stealth with $38M to help security teams deal with change: Fig traces data flows in the security stack and then alerts security teams when changes at any point affect detection or response capabilities. Read More A message from Snyk Agentic security for AI-powered software AI-native applications are dynamic, unpredictable, and moving at machine speed. Evo by Snyk introduces a new era of "agentic security"—using specialized AI agents to discover, test, and protect your AI ecosystem. Meet Evo Last but Not Least Apple's new Studio displays come with Thunderbolt 5: The new displays come with better cameras, new sound systems, and Thunderbolt 5 ports. 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

Users are ditching ChatGPT for Claude — here’s how to make the switch

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View this email online in your browser  March 02, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 Users are ditching ChatGPT for Claude — here's how to make the switch: Following controversies surrounding ChatGPT, many users are ditching the AI chatbot for Claude instead. Here's how to make the switch. Read More Paramount+ and HBO Max to merge into one streaming service after WBD deal closes: Ellison reassured investors that HBO's identity and creative vision as a studio would remain unchanged, stating, "Our viewpoint is HBO should stay HBO." Read More Tech workers urge DOD, Congress to withdraw Anthropic label as a supply-chain risk: Tech workers have signed an open letter urging the Department of Defense to withdraw its designation of Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" and instead to settle the matter quietly. 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. Sign up! A message from UK Office for Investment UK Quantum - The Commercial Frontier Building on historic strengths in physics, cryptography, and computing, the UK is becoming the commercial frontier of quantum computing. This multi-decade journey is now seeing early-stage commercial trials in finance, healthcare, and energy. By 2033, the UK aims to deliver a quantum‑enabled economy. Explore The Opportunity Afternoon Must-Reads Hacktivists claim to have hacked Homeland Security to release ICE contract data: A hacking group called Department of Peace said they hacked a specific office within Homeland Security to protest ICE's mass deportation campaign, and the companies aiding it. Read More MyFitnessPal has acquired Cal AI, the viral calorie app built by teens: After wooing Cal AI for months, MyFitnessPal has successfully acquired its up-and-coming rival, Cal AI, the app built by teens soaring on the apps stores. Read More Anthropic's Claude reports widespread outage: Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude experienced widespread service disruptions on Monday morning, with thousands of users reporting issues accessing the bot. Read More A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses: A hobbyist developer's new app, which can detect nearby smart glasses, comes amid resistance to always-on recording and listening devices that invade people's privacy. Read More A married founder duo's company, 14.ai, is replacing customer support teams at startups: 14.ai also launched a consumer brand to understand how much AI can handle customer support tasks. Read More A message from Microsoft and NVIDIA Know before you go: What's new with Microsoft at NVIDIA GTC Explore ways to engage with Microsoft at the leading AI conference of the year. Read the Azure Tech Community Blog for all the details on Microsoft-led talks and panels, in-booth sessions, hands-on labs, demos, and more. See what's coming and mark your calendars for the activities aligned to your AI goals. We can't wait to see you there. Read the blog You missed these chats from Disrupt: Kindred talks home-swapping platform for travelers, Chef Robotics introduces AI into commercial kitchens, and Character.AI addresses chatbot safety with teens. Watch on Cheddar.com Watch on Streaming Last but Not Least Hackers and internet outages hit Iran amid US air strikes: Users of a popular Iranian prayer app were flooded with phone notifications as U.S. air strikes hit Iran's biggest cities, killing the country's leader. 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