Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.
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 …
These clever apps show off the iPhone Duo’s potential
From retro cassette players and virtual notebooks to flight trackers and even a digital toaster, developers are finding creative ways to take advantage of Apple's first foldable i…
The Boox Palma 2 Pro finally got me to stop reading on my phone
The $400 Boox Palma 2 Pro is a smartphone-sized e-reader designed for people who want to read books, articles, and documents on a small E Ink display.
Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
UK funds £100m AI biosecurity lab with OpenAI and Anthropic
The UK government will put £100m into a new AI Biosecurity Lab, which will use advanced AI to spot and respond to biological threats. OpenAI and Anthropic will add up to £200m bet…
OpenAI cuts live internet from all frontier model training
OpenAI has cut live web access from all training of its most advanced AI models. The models now browse and search a cached copy of the web instead, the company wrote in a blog pos…
Malaysia may extend Waze ban to the public, Anwar says
Malaysia could extend its ban on the Waze maps app from civil servants to the whole country, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Friday. A full ban would come only after official…
GMO asks Japan to use new cyber defence powers after hack
GMO Internet Group has asked Japan’s government to use its new active cyber defence powers against hackers who breached one of its services. The company made the request on Saturd…
What makes a fax HIPAA compliant in the AI era
HHS has never told healthcare to stop faxing. Its guidance says the Privacy Rule permits physicians to disclose PHI to another provider by fax for treatment, as long as reasonable…
Startups don’t need to go viral to win customers
At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, two founders and a VC discussed how to not just gain an early following but keep one.
OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”
OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.
Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell
The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.
VCs, Superhuman Mail founder share red flags about product market fit
Top investors from Iconiq and Sapphire Ventures, along with Rahul Vohra, the founder of Superhuman Mail share the do's and don'ts for building hit products.
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 roundtables: Go deeper on the challenges founders are solving right now
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 is coming to SoWa Power Station in Boston on November 4, bringing founders, investors, and operators together for a full day of candid conversations…
Carta and NewView partner, hoping to entice more startups to let employees sell shares early
A new program wants to encourage more startups to allow workers to cash out early by making it easier to transact tender offers.
From Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026
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, …
Hindsight puts up to $1M behind its AI content moderation as Google shuts down Perspective API
Starting January 1, any moderation pipeline calling Perspective will fail. Google’s Jigsaw unit shuts the service down on December 31, ending one of the most widely used tools for…
Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro and says it cut its hacking skills
Moonshot has released Kimi K3.1 Pro, an upgraded version of its open-weight Kimi K3, with full weights due by 4 November. It says the model nearly matches Claude Opus 5.5 on a cod…
AI chipmaker Cambricon’s sales miss points to tight chip supply in China
Cambricon’s revenue doubled to 3.53B yuan in the third quarter, well short of the 6.26B analysts expected, Bloomberg reported. Profit rose 148%, and the company kept its 2026 targ…
Wayve, Stellantis and Nvidia team up with France on self-driving cars
Wayve, Stellantis and Nvidia announced a collaboration with the French government to deploy self-driving vehicles in France and across the EU. Stellantis supplies L4-ready platfor…
Agent cloud startup Daytona hits $1B valuation backed by FirstMark and a who’s who of angels
Daytona is building a cloud for agents that's like giving every agent its own computer. It has attracted founders of Stripe, Perplextity, Datadog, Mercor and others as angels, it …
Commonwealth Fusion Systems gets $85M to build better fusion-ready semiconductors
Top-funded fusion startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems received an $85 million award from the federal government to advance conductors for fusion power plants.
Meta delays its website-crawling terms after a publisher backlash
Meta has pushed the start of its new business terms to 20 November from 30 October, Reuters reported. Publishers say the terms let Meta crawl their websites for its products. The …
What some of Anthropic’s backers are reportedly worth before its IPO
Early-stage and follow-on investors in the AI lab are already sitting on major paper returns.