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Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president
In Brief Posted: 2:08 PM PDT · October 1, 2026 Image Credits:Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images Dominic-Madori…
ChatGPT can now virtually try on clothes for you
OpenAI is again experimenting with how its conversational AI assistant, ChatGPT, can help users as they shop…
Google thinks SpaceX’s Starship has to launch 1,800 times before space data centers get off the ground
Google’s prototype of its orbital compute satellite took off today onboard a SpaceX rocket launched from…
OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers, WSJ reports
OpenAI has parted ways with three researchers on its safety team who allegedly shared confidential company…
Opus 5.5 loves to tell you ‘this matters’ (and other AI writing tells)
Now that LLM-generated prose is everywhere, human beings are eager for ways to sniff it out. While early…
Amazon releases its own Jev clone as decision models flood the web
Amazon Web Services released an open source decision model inspired by TypeSafe’s Jev, with AI developers…
Shopify debuts Canvas, a way to build online stores by chatting with AI
Shopify introduced a new site-building tool Thursday called Canvas that lets merchants set up their Shopify…
Brian Chesky interview: AI agents need their own operating system
Airbnb rolled out its new AI-powered search this week as part of its fall update, a significant step for a…
Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents.
The AI startup Photon is so sure that agents will eventually come to replace mobile apps that it held a…
Exclusive: Homeward Raises $120M To Help Homeowners Buy And Sell More Quickly As Housing Market Stalls
Homeward, a startup that helps homeowners buy before selling their existing homes or get cash offers for…
Hearing tech startup Legato launches its AI hearing glasses
Hearing tech startup Legato announced on Thursday that its flagship AI-based hearing glasses are now…
Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites
The way Rama Afullo tells it, he saw orbital data centers coming. The Kenyan American engineer previously…
The IPO Window Is Opening Selectively; Readiness Will Decide Who Gets Through
By Mark Williams The 2026 IPO pipeline is sending a clear signal. Public-market activity is returning…
Nuclear Startup Funding Is Up, But The Sector’s Public Markets Take A Bearish Turn
Funding to nuclear power-focused startups hit an all-time high this year, fueled by expectations of surging…
Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet
Google parent company Alphabet has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a new AI model built to handle a variety of tasks…
New AI jailbreak: get your chatbot drunk
If you train a chatbot on the whole internet, it has the good stuff and it has the naughty stuff. So chatbots…
Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation
In Brief Posted: 2:07 PM PDT · September 30, 2026 Image Credits:Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch…
OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents
One of the more intriguing announcements at OpenAI’s Dev Day event on Tuesday came in an aside from CEO Sam…
AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B
In Brief Posted: 11:23 AM PDT · September 30, 2026 Image Credits:ElevenLabs Marina Temkin AI voice startup…
Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots
Amid a number of updates for moderators and developers announced Wednesday, comes bad news for supporters of…
The ugly economics of consumer AI
After this week, you could argue that consumer AI is making a comeback. Meta’s personal AI assistant,…
Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission
Meta is fighting back against a journalist’s claim that its AI agent Muse read the user’s private…
DoorDash launches an AI agent you can text to order food
In Brief Posted: 9:00 AM PDT · September 30, 2026 Image Credits:DoorDash / Aisha Malik DoorDash launches an…
Destro AI’s secret sauce is getting robots and humans on the same page
The best path to successfully deploying a robot is not building one at all, according to Destro, a startup…