27-Oct-26
TechCrunch [ 27-Oct-26 1:01pm ]
Billionaire Palmer Luckey isn't leaving California over the wealth tax [ 27-Oct-26 1:01pm ]
"It's causing a lot of people to run who I don't want to be running," native Californian Palmer Luckey said. "But I'm planning on staying in California. I'm going to keep fighting it."
Anduril, Qualcomm launch BlueChip, a new kind of US-made laptop [ 27-Oct-26 1:00pm ]
Anduril founder Palmer Luckey is vowing to bring computer manufacturing back to the U.S. and by that he doesn't just mean assembly, but every individual component, some of which are exclusively made in China today.
General Compute raises $100 million Series A, countering the neocloud disaster narrative [ 27-Oct-26 1:00pm ]
General Compute is betting on inference chips from outside the Nvidia ecosystem.
Opera introduces a new web standard to let users deploy AI locally in their browser [ 27-Oct-26 1:00pm ]
The new standard, WebAI, is designed to work with a variety of AI models.
Nvidia backs Indian startup helping companies run AI models with fewer GPUs [ 27-Oct-26 11:00am ]
Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown 14-fold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.
X is nudging users to promote their posts with a pointing hand, and people are confused [ 27-Oct-26 6:34am ]
Whose hand is behind this travesty?
How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant [ 27-Oct-26 2:00am ]
Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent.
Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing [ 27-Oct-26 1:12am ]
An AI model said it wouldn't use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it's probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how much to trust free Chinese AI.
26-Oct-26
Databricks co-founder shares his secrets for winning big enterprises customers [ 26-Oct-26 10:00pm ]
Turns out selling to big companies isn't about having the shiniest tech: it's about hitching a ride on a giant's sales team.
Watch out, YouTube; Instagram goes from short-form to 90-minute videos [ 26-Oct-26 9:05pm ]
As Instagram rolls out long form videos of up to 90 minutes, the platform has an opportunity to challenge YouTube if it plays its cards right.
Uh oh, it sounds like the iPhone Duo keeps cracking and users aren't happy about it [ 26-Oct-26 7:22pm ]
A small number of early adopters of the much hyped new foldable phone from Apple have complained of screens cracking.
Fusion startups are giving the government shares in exchange for awards. Is it worth it? [ 26-Oct-26 6:59pm ]
Fusion startups face a new challenge, one unrelated to plasma physics: Give the government shares in exchange for funding awards or go it alone?
This startup's self-driving excavators help dig up $600M in new funding [ 26-Oct-26 5:45pm ]
Bedrock Robotics, which is now valued at $4.1 billion, is particularly focused on autonomous excavators, in part because of a growing shortage of skilled operators.
Anthropic's IPO filing reveals its strategy for keeping enterprise customers hooked [ 26-Oct-26 4:49pm ]
Anthropic's S-1 shows more than half of its $100,000-plus customers now use both the Claude Platform and a first-party app, a cross-selling playbook reminiscent of Amazon that's making enterprise customers stickier.
SpaceX locks in $40B GPU financing deal with Apollo [ 26-Oct-26 4:46pm ]
SpaceX has locked in a binding commitment for roughly $40 billion in financing to pay for AI chips and related data center equipment, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing Monday. In a statement, SpaceX called it the "largest committed GPU financing" ever.
Microsoft offers buyouts to around 60,000 employees, reports say [ 26-Oct-26 3:58pm ]
The buyout offers mark Microsoft's latest efforts to cut costs and rework its workforce.
Anthropic officially files for its public debut [ 26-Oct-26 2:35pm ]
Anthropic has officially filed for an IPO, revealing soaring revenue, mounting losses, major enterprise adoption, and an unusual governance structure designed to preserve founder control and its AI safety mission.
Apple unveils new iPad mini with OLED display and faster A20 Pro chip [ 26-Oct-26 2:25pm ]
The new iPad mini features a thinner and lighter design than its predecessor.
Matiks raises $10M to expand its math and puzzle gaming platform [ 26-Oct-26 2:08pm ]
Matiks has introduced a new platform for users to create games using AI.
Tesla turns to Turo to boost adoption of Full Self-Driving (Supervised) [ 26-Oct-26 12:58pm ]
Eligible Turo hosts will also get a one-month free trial of Tesla's FSD software.
The best apps for tracking your reading and discovering new books [ 26-Oct-26 1:10am ]
There are numerous apps on the market that promise to do just that, so we've compiled a list of some of the best ones to help you pick the right one for you.
25-Oct-26
Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated 'Odyssey' [ 25-Oct-26 9:31pm ]
The footage looks okay, as long as you're not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest.
'Cyberselfish' author takes aim at Silicon Valley libertarians as her book returns from the dead [ 25-Oct-26 8:20pm ]
"That's a 12-year-old view of the world."
AI delivers 'zero financial payoff' to most companies, Apollo economist says [ 25-Oct-26 4:57pm ]
"Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech."
TechCrunch Mobility: Blue-green is the color of autonomy [ 25-Oct-26 4:05pm ]
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
The hottest AI wearables and gadgets you should know about [ 25-Oct-26 2:10pm ]
We compiled a list of all the hottest AI wearables, including Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more.
24-Oct-26
Starlink seems to be working normally again in Ukraine [ 24-Oct-26 9:46pm ]
Elon Musk reportedly ordered SpaceX to throttle Ukraine's Starlink access.
Will AI expose the rickety infrastructure of the internet? [ 24-Oct-26 9:15pm ]
The moment you realize the internet is "held together by glue and dreams."
The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn't make it [ 24-Oct-26 8:00pm ]
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.
Instacart reportedly discussed selling itself with DoorDash and Uber [ 24-Oct-26 5:30pm ]
Instacart might sell itself to a larger competitor.
Block's new voice model sounds eerily human [ 24-Oct-26 5:00pm ]
Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max
PHP-ocalypse: How two critical web bugs almost broke the internet [ 24-Oct-26 4:30pm ]
Two critical bugs in the PHP web programming language, used by the majority of the internet, threatened to upend the internet — and it's unlikely to be the last major software scare.
These clever apps show off the iPhone Duo's potential [ 24-Oct-26 4:00pm ]
From retro cassette players and virtual notebooks to flight trackers and even a digital toaster, developers are finding creative ways to take advantage of Apple's first foldable iPhone.
Forced to pick, Grok's AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI's picks Democrats. [ 24-Oct-26 4:00pm ]
A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.
The Boox Palma 2 Pro finally got me to stop reading on my phone [ 24-Oct-26 3:15pm ]
The $400 Boox Palma 2 Pro is a smartphone-sized e-reader designed for people who want to read books, articles, and documents on a small E Ink display.
Startups don't need to go viral to win customers [ 24-Oct-26 12:07am ]
At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, two founders and a VC discussed how to not just gain an early following but keep one.
OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing "significant risks" [ 24-Oct-26 12:05am ]
OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.
23-Oct-26
Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell [ 23-Oct-26 10:59pm ]
The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.
VCs, Superhuman Mail founder share red flags about product market fit [ 23-Oct-26 9:57pm ]
Top investors from Iconiq and Sapphire Ventures, along with Rahul Vohra, the founder of Superhuman Mail share the do's and don'ts for building hit products.
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 roundtables: Go deeper on the challenges founders are solving right now [ 23-Oct-26 9:03pm ]
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 is coming to SoWa Power Station in Boston on November 4, bringing founders, investors, and operators together for a full day of candid conversations, practical sessions, live pitching, networking, and smaller roundtables built for deeper discussion.
Carta and NewView partner, hoping to entice more startups to let employees sell shares early [ 23-Oct-26 8:25pm ]
A new program wants to encourage more startups to allow workers to cash out early by making it easier to transact tender offers.
From Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 [ 23-Oct-26 8:06pm ]
Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch, developing founder leadership, and scaling companies both inside and outside traditional startup hubs.
Agent cloud startup Daytona hits $1B valuation backed by FirstMark and a who's who of angels [ 23-Oct-26 5:26pm ]
Daytona is building a cloud for agents that's like giving every agent its own computer. It has attracted founders of Stripe, Perplextity, Datadog, Mercor and others as angels, it says.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems gets $85M to build better fusion-ready semiconductors [ 23-Oct-26 5:20pm ]
Top-funded fusion startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems received an $85 million award from the federal government to advance conductors for fusion power plants.
What some of Anthropic's backers are reportedly worth before its IPO [ 23-Oct-26 5:02pm ]
Early-stage and follow-on investors in the AI lab are already sitting on major paper returns.
Lab testing giant Quest Diagnostics confirms patients' personal and health data was compromised during breach [ 23-Oct-26 4:00pm ]
Quest is the latest in a series of healthcare technology companies that have been hacked in recent months.
Oura sues rival Ultrahuman again, threatening its U.S. smart ring comeback [ 23-Oct-26 5:22am ]
Oura alleges in its newest lawsuit that Ultrahuman's Ring Pro infringes two of its patents.
Uber rival inDrive eyes 2027 robotaxi tests in Central Asia with Pony.ai and Nvidia [ 23-Oct-26 5:00am ]
inDrive plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027.
Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing [ 23-Oct-26 1:45am ]
MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.
Mark Zuckerberg's creative plan to pay California's proposed billionaire tax without losing control of Meta [ 23-Oct-26 12:50am ]
A newly launched stock class being offered was partially engineered to help Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pay the "billionaire's tax," should the measure be voted into law.