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Novak Djokovic has a new job — advisor to private equity firm General Atlantic
General Atlantic has tapped tennis legend Novak Djokovic to serve as a global strategic advisor, where, according to a press release, he “will work closely with the firm’s leadership, portfolio companies, and investors, bringing perspectives on leadership, resilience,...
OpenAI limits GPT-5.6 rollout after government request, says restrictions shouldn’t be the norm
OpenAI is limiting the release of its newest AI models to a “small group of trusted partners” at the behest of the U.S. government, the company said Friday. The next generation GPT-5.6 lineup includes Sol, its flagship model; Terra, a more balanced model for everyday...
OpenAI poaches Uber India chief to lead its biggest market outside the US
OpenAI is making yet another big, visible bet on India. It has appointed former Uber India and South Asia president Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for the country to scale its presence in what it has called its second-largest market after the U.S....
Why everyone from OpenAI to SpaceX is building their own chips (and turning up the heat on Nvidia)
Loading the player… Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence might be ending. OpenAI just shared its plans to spice things up with Jalapeño, its custom inference chip built with Broadcom, joining Google, Apple, and SpaceX in...
Autonomous security agents need complete data. Here’s how to check if yours is ready.
An endpoint agent cannot report its own absence. The 2026 Axonius Actionability Report, conducted with the Ponemon Institute and surveying 662 IT and security professionals, put a number on a gap SOC teams have worked around for years. Across the Axonius customer...
Russian hackers were behind $2.5B hack of Jaguar Land Rover: Report
Last year, hackers attacked car giant Jaguar Land Rover (JPL), one of the U.K.’s biggest employers. The hack halted production for months and made a dent in the country’s economy. The damage was so severe that the U.K. government decided to bail out the company with a...
OpenAI unveils GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna models — but only accessible to limited preview partners for now, per US Gov
OpenAI is announcing a limited preview of its next-generation GPT-5.6 model series today, introducing three distinct, capability-tiered models—Sol, Terra, and Luna—designed to re-engineer developer and enterprise workflows. Rolled out initially to a select cohort of...
Tesla settles FSD crash lawsuit as federal investigations continue
Tesla has settled a lawsuit connected to a fatal 2023 crash involving a vehicle using the company’s advanced driver assistance system known as Full Self-Driving. Bloomberg was first to report on the settlement. Terms were not disclosed. The lawsuit was filed against...
Early Bird pricing ends tonight for TechCrunch Founder Summit
Tonight is your last chance to save up to $190 on your pass to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026. Early Bird pricing ends today, at 11:59 p.m. PT, after which rates increase. Founders rarely scale alone. The fastest path to growth comes from learning from founders who’ve...
DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search
Last week, after Google announced its huge overhaul to Search, I overheard a woman on the phone saying she was switching to DuckDuckGo because you can “opt out of using AI.” “Google just isn’t Google anymore,” she said. It seems that others had the same idea. At I/O,...
DeepSWE blows up the AI coding leaderboard, crowns GPT-5.5, and finds Claude Opus exploiting a benchmark loophole
For months, the leading AI coding benchmarks have told enterprise buyers a comforting but misleading story: the top models are all roughly the same. OpenAI's GPT-5 family, Anthropic's Claude Opus, and Google's Gemini Pro have clustered within a narrow band on Scale...
Starship’s path to reusability looks murky after SpaceX’s S-1
SpaceX’s recent IPO and Starship rocket test flight delivered two big data points that offer a realistic vision for the coming years — and one that may disappoint both the company’s boosters and its critics. Hidden behind the fantastic expectations for AI enterprise...
The attack dominating financial services doesn’t steal passwords. It resets MFA and steals the token.
The attacker who hit the most financial services organizations over the past 12 months never phished a password. They called an IT support line, convinced an employee to reset their MFA, and registered their own device on the network.CrowdStrike’s 2026 Financial...
SpaceX’s Starlink nabs American Airlines contract, another win for its IPO
American Airlines said Tuesday it plans to install Starlink on more than 500 narrow-body Airbus aircraft beginning early next year, the latest carrier to pick the SpaceX unit for inflight Wi-Fi service. The deal provides more than just financial lift for Starlink, the...
OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year
Popular AI gateway maker OpenRouter, founded in 2023, has raised a hefty $113 million Series B led by CapitalG, the growth venture fund of Google parent company Alphabet. While the startup didn’t disclose its new valuation, The New York Times reports that it landed at...
This startup is betting India’s gig economy can train the world’s robots
In the last few years, India’s online food delivery market has grown significantly, with both Zomato and Swiggy going public and the number of cloud kitchens increasing. Meanwhile, startups working on home services, such as on-demand household staffing platforms like...
Dutch government blocks US company from acquisition, citing ‘risk to public interest’
The Dutch government has blocked American IT giant Kyndryl from acquiring Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider that hosts the Netherlands’ online identity platform. The government in The Hague said the deal poses a possible “risk to the public interest.” Dutch minister...
Ghost hackers: the cybersecurity mystery that nobody has solved
In the long history of hacking, there have been numerous data breaches that, years or even decades later, remain unsolved. Countless hackers and hacking groups behind them have never been unmasked. But prolific hacking groups do get caught. This is true...
Iranian hackers blamed for breach of Los Angeles transit system that took weeks to recover
Security researchers say a March breach of the Los Angeles transit system (LACMTA) was the work of Iranian-backed hackers. Israeli startup Gambit Security said in a report on Tuesday that the hackers work for Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and State Security (MOIS). ...
Ferrari’s first EV is not for you
Everyone seems to be mad about Ferrari’s first electric vehicle. Called Luce and revealed on Monday, the design of the five-seater (gasp!) was led in large part by Jony Ive and the design firm he runs with Marc Newson, LoveFrom. While it ticks a lot of spec sheet...
Universal Music Group and TikTok renew agreement to combat unauthorized AI music
Universal Music Group (UMG) and TikTok recently announced the renewal of their licensing agreement, which includes a commitment to get rid of unauthorized AI-generated music from the platform improve how artists and songwriters are credited. In their joint...
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New Weather Forecasting Technology in the Works
Are you tired of the weatherman getting the forecast wrong? That might start to happen less often if the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) succeed in a new venture. The two agencies have...
NASA Space Apps in Dnipro Extended by Max Polyakov‘s Association Noosphere
Image credit: Nasa Space Apps Challenge via Facebook This spring Ukrainian engineering students, were very excited when Max Polyakov’s Association Noosphere and EOS held NASA Space Apps Challenge 2017 in three cities across the country. Now they have more reasons to...
How The Internet Is Changing The Way We Advertise
You may have already noticed this. The ads that you see all around you are totally different than what was seen a few years ago. This is because the entire market advanced and evolved. A large part of why we see the evolution is the fast development of the online...
Homicide Prevention for Taxi Drivers: Security Cameras to the Rescue
When you drive a cab for a living, one of the major risks you face is being attacked. Muggings, and even murder, are not entirely uncommon for cabbies - they’re easy targets. In fact, cabdrivers are 60 times more likely than other workers to be murdered while on the...