Medicare’s new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea

by News Feed Editor | May 12, 2026 | Technology

Neil Batlivala has spent seven years building a healthcare company that most of the tech industry has never heard of and that serves a patient population most of Silicon Valley ignores. But last month, that work put him at the center of something much bigger. His...

Protect your enterprise now from the Shai-Hulud worm and npm vulnerability in 6 actionable steps

by News Feed Editor | May 12, 2026 | Technology

Any development environment that installed or imported one of the 172 compromised npm or PyPI packages published since May 11 should be treated as potentially compromised. On affected developer workstations, the worm harvests credentials from over 100 file paths: AWS...

Perceptron Mk1 shocks with highly performant video analysis AI model 80-90% cheaper than Anthropic, OpenAI & Google

by News Feed Editor | May 12, 2026 | Technology

AI that can see and understand what’s happening in a video — especially a live feed — is understandably an attractive product to lots of enterprises and organizations. Beyond acting as a security “watchdog” over sites and facilities, such an AI model...

Kevin Hartz’s A* just closed its third fund with $450 million

by News Feed Editor | May 12, 2026 | Technology

Early-stage venture firm A* on Tuesday announced a $450 million Fund III. The firm takes a generalist approach, backing companies across categories including AI applications, fintech, healthcare, and security.The average check size for this fund will be between $3...

Former Tesla exec and Heron Power CEO Drew Baglino has founded a heat pump startup

by News Feed Editor | May 12, 2026 | Technology

Former Tesla executive Drew Baglino has quietly founded a heat pump startup, TechCrunch has learned. This is the second company founded by Baglino in the two years since he left Tesla. Sources confirmed the existence of the startup, called Sadi Thermal Machines, and...

Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies

by News Feed Editor | May 12, 2026 | Technology

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman finally took the stand this morning to defend himself against his former co-founder Elon Musk’s lawsuit challenging OpenAI’s corporate structure. Altman was immediately asked what he thought of Musk’s allegation that OpenAI’s other founders...