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Meta trying to destroy whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, US senator says
A US senator accused Meta of using legal tactics to silence whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, who alleged the company’s dealings with China and harmful effects on teenagers in her memoir.
China’s Moonshot AI claims Kimi K3 can rival OpenAI and Anthropic
Chinese AI startup Moonshot unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter model set for open-source release, claiming capabilities rivaling top American AI firms.
Kalshi to offer betting on drug trial results and FDA regulatory decisions
Kalshi announced a pilot program to offer betting contracts on drug trial results and FDA regulatory decisions, partnering with AI firm AppliedXL to increase transparency in pharmaceutical development.
Jeff Bezos and UK government invest in £2bn British startup CuspAI
Cambridge-based CuspAI, a British AI startup, has raised $450m in funding from Jeff Bezos and the UK government, valuing the company at $2.6bn. The firm aims to discover new materials for chipmakers and other industries.
Uber to buy Germany’s Delivery Hero in $14.8bn global deal
Uber has agreed to acquire German food delivery company Delivery Hero for $14.8 billion, combining services across 99 countries to create a global delivery leader.
UK 16- and 17-year-olds to be encouraged to follow midnight social media curfew
UK plans to encourage 16- and 17-year-olds to adopt a midnight social media curfew from next spring, building on previously announced restrictions for younger users, though the measure will remain optional and overridable.
The UK wants to catch up in the global AI race – but is too wary to go all-in
The UK seeks to increase AI investment while the Bank of England expresses concerns about excessive lending and market risks. Meanwhile, OpenAI faces mounting legal and leadership challenges ahead of its planned stock market debut.
Anthony Albanese promises fast-track approvals for datacentres to shore up AI investment
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced plans to establish a new artificial intelligence office and implement faster approval processes for AI datacentre projects to attract investment and maintain public confidence in the technology.
The New York nurses replaced by AI: ‘It should concern every patient who cares about quality of care’
Twelve nurses at a New York hospital were laid off after being replaced by AI-powered software, sparking concerns from unions about AI’s impact on patient care quality and healthcare jobs.
Your brand deserves its own stage — Side Events at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The countdown is on. In just a few months, over 10,000 innovators, founders, investors, and industry leaders will descend on San Francisco for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. And here’s your insider opportunity: From October 10-16, host a Side Event and command the room. Why...
AI agents need context everywhere they run, even where the cloud can’t follow
The competitive edge in enterprise AI is shifting to context: which platform can give an agent the right memory, the right retrieval and the right data at the moment of decision.Couchbase on Tuesday announced its AI Data Plane, combining persistent agent memory,...
Crypto exchange OKX wants AI agents to hire and pay each other
When AI agents begin working for people — and increasingly for one another — they will need a way to find jobs, pay for services, and build trust. Crypto exchange OKX is betting that future is closer than many expect, launching a marketplace where AI agents can hire...
Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that’s been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips
A few hours ago, Chinese delivery app company Meituan officially unveiled LongCat-2.0 on GitHub, Hugging Face, and its native platform, unmasking the model as the computational engine behind "Owl Alpha," the anonymous stealth model that has spent the last two months...
The AI jobs debate just got messier
AI-related job loss fears grow each time another company announces a round of layoffs. Through May of 2026, companies announced that close to 90,000 job cuts were tied to AI, and, by some accounts, up to 15% of U.S. jobs are projected to be eliminated by AI over the...
Vibe coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI startups seek defensibility
Base44, the vibe coding platform that Wix acquired for $80 million just one year ago — when the company was barely six moths old and had a team of eight — has started rolling out its own AI model to support its users in creating apps with natural language. The move...
Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for his AI coding startup, takes CEO role
Chamath Palihapitiya, best known for his venture capital firm Social Capital and the All-In podcast, announced Monday that the AI coding startup he founded raised a sizable Series A. The company, 8090 Labs, closed a $135 million round led by Salesforce Ventures with...
DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%
Even as the geopolitical conversation around AI continues to grow more fraught following the U.S. government's actions to limit the new models from Anthropic and OpenAI, Chinese open source darling DeepSeek is back with yet another open release that could once again...
Gemini’s personalized AI image generation is now free for US users
Google announced on Monday that the Gemini app is now offering its personalized Nano Banana-powered image generation feature to a broader audience. Starting today, all eligible users in the U.S. can access the feature for free, a service that was previously only...
Watch out, Amazon: The Kobo eReader now has a Goodreads rival
Another challenger to the Amazon Kindle-Goodreads book-tracking empire has emerged. On Monday, the reading tracker StoryGraph teamed up with Rakuten’s Kobo, the maker of a more open e-reader (and Kindle alternative), allowing book lovers to automatically track their...
Waymo and Uber quietly part ways in Phoenix
Waymo robotaxis are no longer available on Uber’s ride-hail app in Phoenix, Arizona, ending a nearly three-year partnership in the city, both companies confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. Uber said it is readying the launch of a separate autonomous vehicle partnership...
Anthropic and Gov. Newsom forge deal allowing California government to use Claude at half price
Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Anthropic have made a deal that allows California government agencies to use Claude at a discounted price. This agreement comes at a time when businesses are struggling to manage the hefty costs of enterprise subscriptions to AI tools....
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Preventing Accidents with Better Vehicle Tech Despite all the chatter about autonomous vehicles, we’re still a long way from letting cars take the wheel. Instead, insurance companies have chosen to rely on supplemental technologies to make driving safer. These tech...
5 Tricks to Get High Organic Keyword Ranking on Amazon
When you put an item on Amazon, you obviously want it to sell. But, there is always the fact that your item is not special. There are a million other products that do the same thing and Amazon is not going to create a pop-up ad that says “Mark’s stuff is the best, buy...
Online Gaming In The Year 2017
There is a sense of anticipation as the year 2016 ends. People are making new resolutions and looking forward to many things as well. This sentiment is true even in the world of online gaming. There is plenty to look forward to simply because every New Year brings:...
Pros and Cons of Free PCB Design Tools
According to a research conducted a couple of years ago, the total market for PCBs is more than $60 billion a year. That number is expected to grow significantly in the next couple of years for a simple of years – the need for printed circuit boards is going to get...