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Outer Biosciences trains AI on month-old living skin
Michael Polansky's Outer Biosciences keeps living human skin alive outside the body for over a month and feeds the resulting molecular data into an AI model that screens cosmetic ingredients — a pipel
Letara Raises $16M to Build Larger Hybrid Rockets
Sapporo-based hybrid propulsion startup Letara raised ¥2.6 billion (~$16M) to scale beyond small satellite thrusters into large rocket systems for space, defense, and security markets, betting on a gl
The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom
Ulanqab, a city of 1.5 million in China's Inner Mongolia, has become the country's fastest-growing AI data center hub, with 12.5 gigawatts of capacity pledged — exceeding OpenAI's Stargate target — de
Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine
TechCrunch found Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 complied with all 10 direct requests for explicit sexual content, despite company usage standards forbidding it, via a jailbreak shared by an anonymous UK
Nvidia takes minority stake in Cloverleaf
Nvidia has taken a minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a utility-to-data-center middleman founded in 2024, as the chipmaker increasingly finances the physical infrastructure driving demand fo
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol's API and credit prices by over 20% for the next three months, to $4/1M input tokens and $20/1M output tokens (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
OpenAI announced a more than 20% price cut on its frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model for developers, valid for three months, bringing API rates to $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens
How AI accounting startup Rillet raised $100M and became a unicorn in 48 hours
AI-native accounting startup Rillet raised $100 million at a $1 billion valuation in just 48 hours without actively fundraising, doubling its annualized revenue last quarter while poaching customers f
Nvidia's AVO scores 100% on all 183 ARC-AGI-3 levels
Nvidia's general-purpose coding agent system AVO achieved a perfect 100% score across all 25 environments of the ARC-AGI-3 public benchmark, completing every one of its 183 levels by lifting Claude Op
ChatGPT Mac App Can Now Read And Reply To iMessages
ChatGPT's Mac app now has the ability to read and reply to Apple iMessages via a new plug-in, a capability Bloomberg flagged for potential privacy risks.
Nvidia harness design beats model choice for agentic AI
Nvidia's latest research demonstrates that the software scaffolding wrapping an AI model — not the underlying model — drives long-horizon task performance, with a custom harness scoring 100% on the AR
Last chance: Save up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket today
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026's lowest ticket prices end tonight at 11:59 p.m. PT, with up to $300 in savings per pass before rates rise for the October 13-15 San Francisco conference.
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Anthropic Opens Mythos 5 to Cyber Defenders
Anthropic is broadening access to its most capable cyber defense model, Claude Mythos 5, by embedding it in partner security tools, launching it in Claude Security for enterprise code scanning, and st
Anthropic Opens Mythos 5 Public Beta
Anthropic has launched Mythos 5 in public beta for Claude Security for Enterprise users and is working with providers to embed the model in defensive tools, broadening access to its cyber-defense capa
MAHA warns Trump against coal-powered AI data centers
Leaders in the Make America Healthy Again movement sent President Trump a joint letter opposing coal-powered AI data centers, creating a public collision with administration officials who back coal to
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Review - TechPowerUp
TechPowerUp published a multi-section review of the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU, billed as a 10th-anniversary retrospective, testing it across general, machine learning/AI, and software/game development w
Proliferate: Self-Hostable Multi-Agent Coding Hub
Proliferate launched as an open-source, self-hostable control plane that runs Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, Grok, and other coding agents in parallel within a single workspace, each task isola
Microsoft Defender BTR.sys Weaponized to Disable Security
Check Point Research disclosed a technique using Microsoft Defender's own legitimately signed BTR.sys boot-time driver to perform arbitrary kernel-level operations and disable security software on Win
Nevada Clears Tesla, Waymo, Uber for Up to 5,000 Robotaxis
Nevada regulators cleared Tesla, Waymo, and Uber to operate up to 5,000 robotaxis each in Las Vegas, with Elon Musk publicly calling Tesla's growth outlook "crazy."
Report: Limited Edition Xbox launches Black Friday for €900 - Digital Foundry
Microsoft is launching a limited edition Xbox Series X console on Black Friday at a €900 / $899 price point, with coverage framing it as the priciest Xbox hardware release to date.
Google Adds Publisher Tools Against AI Traffic Loss
Google is rolling out personalization controls across Search, Discover, and News, framed by TechCrunch as a new tool for publishers to recover clicks lost to AI-generated search answers.
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