Trump DOE loans $5B to nuclear plants that will power data centers
Constellation Energy will get $5 billion in government loans to modernize nuclear reactors. Most of the new capacity is already committed to Google, Amazon, and Meta.
South Korea’s financial industry hit by fresh wave of cyberattacks
South Korea’s financial institutions have been hit by another wave of cyberattacks, highlighting the growing risk of AI-driven hacking in Asia.
Revolut sign-in hit by problems, eight days after its last outage
Revolut customers are reporting that they cannot log in to their personal accounts. The problems come eight days after an earlier outage left users unable to use the app or their …
Machenta raises $40M to teach robots a task from a single demonstration
Machenta, a London robotics startup spun out of Imperial College London, has raised a $40M seed round. It is building an AI model that teaches robots a new task from a single demo…
Anthropic’s IPO filing leaves Ben Mann out of its founder voting group
Anthropic’s IPO filing leaves Ben Mann, who co-leads its Labs team, out of the founder group that will control the company after it lists. A footnote on page 248 of the S-1 prospe…
Voice AI in vogue: Nvidia releases new open transcription model
Nvidia just released a free speech-to-text model that can transcribe up to 40 languages, but it only works on recordings, not live audio, so it’s a big step for meeting and medica…
Musk’s AI Odyssey arrives as a seven-minute episode, and critics pan it
Elon Musk’s AI Odyssey has arrived as a seven-minute first episode, not the full-length film he promised. Grok Imagine, the video tool behind it, posted the episode on X on 23 Oct…
Satya Nadella says he was wrong to think AI alignment would come with scale
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella no longer believes AI alignment will come just from making models more capable. He said so on a new episode of the 20VC podcast. Host Harry…
Amazon debuts the Alexa Photo Frame and Echo Time smart clock, plus other upgraded devices
Amazon's other new decides include an upgraded Echo Dot, an Echo Studio with visual intelligence features, and the Echo Show 16.
TikTok expands into restaurant guides with ‘Must Eat’ feature
The move puts TikTok in more direct competition with platforms like Yelp and Google.
CISA confirms attackers are exploiting both PHP2Shell flaws
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has put both PHP2Shell flaws in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue. It made the change on Monday, accordi…
Netherlands to cut 25,000 government jobs as it turns to AI
The Dutch government plans to cut an estimated 25,000 full-time jobs in central government, it said in a statement on Monday. The cuts are spread over several years. They should s…
Meta has a new AI pet app called Waddle World
Meta has launched a new app called Waddle World, which essentially looks like a Tamagotchi clone, but with AI.
Free Fire returns to India as Garena launches localized version four years after ban
Free Fire India was originally set to launch in September 2023, but Garena postponed its release.
Hackers hired a man to walk into a US law firm, CrowdStrike says
CrowdStrike calls CHATTY SPIDER the dominant threat to US law firms. The cybercrime group grew its activity 129% in the first eight months of 2026, compared with all of 2024. Law …
7 days until TechCrunch Founder Summit: Save up to $100 on your pass before doors open
In just 7 days, TechCrunch Founder Summit takes over Boston’s SoWa Power Station on November 4. Your chance to save up to $100 on tickets is running out, and the opportunity to le…
Kodiak lands first commercial deal to supply driverless trucks for public highways
The deal with DTL Transport puts it on a path to become an an asset-light tech supplier, rather than owner and operator.
Circuit Mind raises $25m to design circuit boards with AI
Norwest has led an $18.5 million Series A in Circuit Mind, a London startup that designs circuit boards with AI. The company also disclosed an earlier seed round led by Third Prim…
Amazon puts a camera in its Echo Studio so Alexa can see
Amazon has put a camera in its Echo Studio speaker so that Alexa can see what is in front of it. The Echo Studio with Home Camera is one of five new Alexa devices the company unve…
Amazon warns its engineers against tokenmaxxing in new AI guidelines
Amazon says token usage, AI tool adoption and counts of code changes are “deeply flawed” ways to measure its engineers’ work with AI. The company published the warning on Tuesday …
Dayforce puts its HR and payroll data inside Anthropic’s Claude
Dayforce is bringing its HR, payroll and scheduling data into Anthropic’s Claude. A new Dayforce connector lets customers ask questions about their workforce in plain language ins…
Upwind’s $400M Series C backs a runtime-first security strategy as revenue quadruples
The moment a cloud workload changes, the security picture around it can change too. A new application release, an altered configuration or an interaction between services may affe…
Parents sue OpenAI over ChatGPT advice to cut daughter’s seizure drug
The parents of a 31-year-old Amazon software engineer have sued OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT coached their daughter to stop taking her epilepsy medication before she died in Febr…
Anthropic buys a one-person biotech and starts its own drug programmes
Anthropic has acquired Mithril Medicine, a one-person company developing treatments for two rare forms of muscular dystrophy. The company announced the deal in a blog post on Tues…