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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.
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
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
Self-Hosted AI Agent Ships Tested App From Single Prompt
A hobbyist built a fully self-hosted agentic development environment on home hardware that takes a single prompt and ships a tested, deployed web app with no further human intervention, costing just a
$15 million federal grant will fund fishing tech projects
A $15 million U.S. National Science Foundation grant awarded in late July will fund New England fishing technology projects, including a 'third eye' camera to reduce bycatch, autonomous robots to dete
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
Show HN: A desktop fly drawn to the scent of vibecode
A macOS desktop app renders a 3D fruit fly whose walking, grooming, and escape behaviors emerge from a real 668-neuron circuit (~19,000 synapses) sourced from the published FlyWire Drosophila connecto
Starcloud raises $250M at $2.3B valuation; Nvidia invests $25M
Starcloud, a startup building satellites that run AI inference in orbit, closed a $250 million extension to its March Series A at a $2.3 billion valuation, with Nvidia chipping in $25 million.
DeepSeek unveils an experimental multimodal version of its V4 Flash model, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on multimodal agentic tests (Bloomberg)
DeepSeek released an experimental multimodal version of its V4 Flash model, claiming it approaches Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on multimodal agentic tests.
Beijing Dumpling Shop Builds AI Agent Skill
A Beijing dumpling shop called Jinguyuan has become an unlikely symbol of China's grassroots AI enthusiasm, with owner Li Bo building an AI skill that lets customers check menus, get recommendations,
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.
New report outlines AI bioweapon safeguards
A new report argues AI-enabled bioweapons are a potentially catastrophic yet manageable risk, and outlines a roadmap requiring coordinated safeguards across government, the scientific community, the p
Wazuh Adds AI Analyst, Llama and Claude Integrations
Wazuh launched an AI Analyst service for its Cloud platform alongside integrations with Anthropic's Claude and Meta's Llama, giving SOCs automated posture reports and AI-assisted threat hunting across
Nvidia in Early Talks With South Korea's Rebellions
Nvidia is in early-stage discussions with South Korean AI chip designer Rebellions about a potential partnership, investment, or acquisition, according to people familiar with the matter.
Cisco Patches 9 Flaws, 5 Scored CVSS 10.0
Cisco released patches for nine security vulnerabilities across its Crosswork platforms and Secure Workload software, five of them carrying the maximum CVSS 10.0 severity rating. The flaws were discov
'We Don't Need to Aggressively Sell the Console': Sony CEO Says Timing of Memory Crisis Is 'Lucky' for PS5 - Push Square
Sony's CEO said the company no longer needs to aggressively push PS5 hardware sales, calling the timing of the industry-wide memory crisis 'lucky' for the console as it shifts focus toward users and I
Broadcom Seeks $60B+ Debt for AI Chip Deal Benefiting Anthropic
Broadcom is negotiating a massive debt raise to fund AI chip development, with the financing expected to support Anthropic and other tech firms in scaling their operations.
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.
xAI's Grok Sends Gibberish Responses to Users
xAI's Grok chatbot served nonsensical text to some users in what the company described as a temporary glitch, drawing coverage across multiple outlets.
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