Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms: The safety board confirmed Tesla's account of the crash, which the company shared days after it happened last month. Read More
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Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI: Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley — that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary models are somehow acting like Trojan horses. Read More
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Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US: Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans. Read More
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General Compute raised $15m to build the world's first ASIC cloud. By removing the GPU bottleneck, it runs frontier LLMs up to 16x faster than standard GPU clouds. ASIC silicon is also far more energy efficient, so it deploys in air-cooled data centers, making growth and expansion dramatically easier.
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Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI's favorite second act: Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI models for coding. Read More
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SpaceX suddenly aborts second Starship V3 launch after ignition: The company didn't immediately say what went wrong. SpaceX's stock plunged more than 4% in after-hours trading before paring losses. Read More
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Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not just models: Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption. Read More
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Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out: Neil Rimer, the venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures, predicts the historic wealth AI is generating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed, voluntarily or involuntarily. Read More
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Apple and Google ordered to purge 'nudify' apps from App Stores: In letters sent to Apple and Google, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said that both companies have long been aware that they are hosting apps in violation of state law. Read More
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Disrupt 2026: Where deals and ideas ignite |
Oct 13–15 at San Francisco's Moscone West, 10,000 founders, investors, and operators gather for high-signal insights, curated connections, and real momentum.
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Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos: Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from prompts and reference images. Read More
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