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Tuesday 27 October
Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent.
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An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how much to trust free Chinese AI.
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Monday 26 October
Anthropic’s S-1 shows more than half of its $100,000-plus customers now use both the Claude Platform and a first-party app, a cross-selling playbook reminiscent of Amazon that’s making enterprise customers stickier.
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 26 Oct 2026, 17:36 GMT
SpaceX has locked in a binding commitment for roughly $40 billion in financing to pay for AI chips and related data center equipment, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing Monday. In a statement, SpaceX called it the “largest committed GPU financing” ever.
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 26 Oct 2026, 17:36 GMT
Anthropic has officially filed for an IPO, revealing soaring revenue, mounting losses, major enterprise adoption, and an unusual governance structure designed to preserve founder control and its AI safety mission.
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Sunday 25 October
The footage looks okay, as long as you're not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest.
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"Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech."
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- First seen by WIRE Sun 25 Oct 2026, 17:36 GMT
We compiled a list of all the hottest AI wearables, including Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more.
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Saturday 24 October
The moment you realize the internet is "held together by glue and dreams."
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 26 Oct 2026, 18:36 GMT
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.
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- First seen by WIRE Sat 24 Oct 2026, 20:36 BST
Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max
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- First seen by WIRE Sat 24 Oct 2026, 17:02 BST
A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.
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- First seen by WIRE Sat 24 Oct 2026, 16:36 BST
OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.
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Friday 23 October
The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.
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- First seen by WIRE Fri 23 Oct 2026, 23:36 BST
Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch, developing founder leadership, and scaling companies both inside and outside traditional startup hubs.
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- First seen by WIRE Fri 23 Oct 2026, 20:36 BST
inDrive plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027.
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- First seen by WIRE Fri 23 Oct 2026, 05:37 BST
MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.
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Thursday 22 October
Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 23:36 BST
The new feature allows agents to log into a customer's personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials that secure those accounts.
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 20:37 BST
OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev?
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 20:37 BST
Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 20:37 BST
Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Microsoft’s system itself.
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 20:37 BST
Microsoft points the blame for ConnectWise's breach at a China-aligned hacker, which relied on AI agents to rapidly hack into thousands of its customers.
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 18:16 BST
The ride share giant previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work, but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide.
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 17:36 BST
Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström explains why the rise of AI agents could be good news for the music service.
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 16:36 BST
Claude Duet is available through waitlist for Pro and Max plan users
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 15:37 BST
Nirva will ship its $249 ambient AI pendant by the end of the year.
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 14:36 BST
DeepSeek has reportedly raised $15 billion in one of China's largest funding rounds, just days after the US ordered federal agencies to remove its technology over national security concerns.
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Wednesday 21 October
Blackstone’s AI head on why the PE giant isn't panicked by market jitters.
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The social media giant is planning a new stock strategy to help power its broad investments in AI models and services.
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TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders across all stages connect with top VCs and experienced entrepreneurs to gain tactical insights on building and scaling their companies.
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- First seen by WIRE Wed 21 Oct 2026, 22:36 BST
Meta Muse users are adopting the app for shopping and personal productivity, the company said during Q3 earnings. The AI app now has over 10M users.
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- First seen by WIRE Wed 21 Oct 2026, 22:36 BST
Startup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early test of AI that improves itself.
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As Amazon blocks AI agents from shopping on its site, Walmart is taking the opposite approach, introducing new technology that lets AI agents make purchases on customers' behalf, with controls over spending and transaction approvals.
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This is the kind of security issue that was found and prevented by AI, but is also a high risk because of AI.
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 00:36 BST
Blacksmith, a platform that lets companies build and test AI code more effectively, just announced a $66 million Series C round led by Sequoia that values the company at $1 billion.
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More than 50% of managers say they're finding it harder to evaluate employees' work after adopting AI, according to a new survey.
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The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI run amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.
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Tuesday 20 October
Before you share the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue" take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face's co-founder who is featured in the film, says it went "full doomer mode" and isn't accurate.
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Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November IPO.
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SpaceX hit profitably in the third-quarter, with net income of $4.4 billion. AI was the engine.
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OpenAI says it's adding Orchestra's team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a harness that aims to help researchers plan experiments and analyze results.
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Google has joined Amazon in releasing a developer tool that makes it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs.
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- First seen by WIRE Tue 20 Oct 2026, 20:20 BST
The company says the feature is designed for situations where users might be discussing something personal or planning a surprise and want to keep those conversations private when handing their device to friends or family to show them something in another chat.
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The former Google CEO owns about 1% stake in the leading AI lab, Bloomberg reported.
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Meta's AI companion Muse has surpassed 10 million U.S. downloads in its first 40 days, joining an exclusive group of apps that includes Threads. New data also shows Muse is retaining users at higher rates than its AI rivals.
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It’s the moment everyone is waiting for — the ChatGPT moment for robotics, Amulya Vishwanath explained to TechCrunch’s Equity.
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Electric Plant has built an AI-powered translator to help humans listen to what plants are saying with the subtle electricity coursing through their stems.
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Figma said it plans to support as many standards as possible without exposing all of its data
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- First seen by WIRE Tue 20 Oct 2026, 15:21 BST
The US has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built using its technology, citing national security concerns.
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