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View this email online in your browser  March 02, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 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 Let's explore the best alternatives to Discord: With many users feeling uneasy about Discord's new age verification requirement, here are some alternatives that could be worth exploring. Read More Be the first to know when news breaks Subscribe to our News Alerts, and you won't miss a thing. Breaking news, exclusives, and special reports—straight to your inbox. Sign up for News Alerts! 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 Apple speeds up the iPad Air with an M4 upgrade, starting at $599: Apple refreshes the iPad Air with the M4 chip and more memory to make it better for AI use cases. Read More Apple bakes in AI smarts into its new $599 iPhone 17e: The base model comes with 256 GB of storage, which Apple says is twice the entry storage from the previous generation at the same starting price. Read More Investors spill what they aren't looking for anymore in AI SaaS companies: TechCrunch spoke with VCs to learn what investors aren't looking for in AI SaaS startups anymore. Read More Polymarket saw $529M traded on bets tied to bombing of Iran: Six newly-created accounts made a profit of $1 million by correctly betting that the U.S. would strike Iran by February 28. 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 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 Anthropic's Claude rises to No. 1 in the App Store following Pentagon dispute: Anthropic's chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the company's fraught negotiations with the Pentagon. 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