Tuesday, September 1, 2026
The Dealer Brief #3
This week: Apple shares ‘shocking evidence' against former employee accused of stealing company data for OpenAI — plus what's free, and what's new in the index.
What moved in AI this week
7 stories worth the click, newest first.
- Apple shares ‘shocking evidence' against former employee accused of stealing company data for OpenAITechCrunch AI
- Introducing wraptureSimon Willison
- The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and GrokTechCrunch AI
- The Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAIMIT Technology Review
- Debian won't ban AI code from its Linux distributionThe Verge AI
- New York Governor Kathy Hochul thinks AI should be ‘less evil’The Verge AI
- Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac StudioHacker News
The software business
Funding, pricing and how SaaS companies are actually doing.
- Sector Snapshot: Proptech Funding Holds Up, But Investors Are Placing Different BetsCrunchbase News
- Lachy Groom backs Indian startup aiming to keep aircraft aloft for a yearTechCrunch Startups
- Ryan Breslow is raising up to $27M in pay-to-play bridge funding to save BoltTechCrunch Startups
- We've Been Running Salesforce Headless for 6 Months on Our Own “Claudeforce.” We're Never Going BackSaaStr
Start free this week
Tools in the index with an ongoing free plan — not a countdown trial.
In the index
A few listings worth knowing about if you missed them.