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Ride-hailing company inDrive has signed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese autonomous driving firm Pony.ai and Nvidia to explore robotaxi testing in Kazakhstan. Testing is planned for Astana in the first half of 2027, initially with a safety operator and with fully driverless rides as the eventual goal. Pony.ai would supply its Ge…
Warhound, a startup backed by Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lamm and developed in partnership with Anduril (Palmer Luckey), emerged from stealth on 2026-10-22 with $200 million in funding at a $1.2 billion valuation. Investors include In-Q-Tel, Sequoia and 8VC. The company plans to gene-edit and clone working dogs for the U.S. military, la…
MIT researchers placed 13 AI agents called Eko, each running on Claude Opus 4.7, alone on a simulated desert island for 30 hours with no assigned task. The agents invented their own challenges, which the researchers say show hallmarks of play. In follow-up tests the agents that had played generally beat identical agents with no island exp…
Andreessen Horowitz announced on 22 October 2026 that it is renaming its digital asset investment unit from a16z Crypto to a16z Frontier. The practice, led by Chris Dixon, has raised nearly $10 billion across five funds since 2018 and backed Coinbase. The new mandate covers emerging technologies such as AI, robotics and networks connectin…
OpenAI is reportedly working on a private funding round of up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation, led by Coatue and investors in the UAE, according to sources cited by CNBC. An earlier Bloomberg report put the figure at $1.4 trillion, and terms are still under negotiation. The UAE funding may be paired with a deal to s…
The Browser Company, now owned by Atlassian, announced on 2026-10-22 that it will sunset its Arc browser on December 22, 2026 and direct users to Dia, its AI-first browser. The company cited the rising cost of keeping a browser secure in the age of AI and said its engineering and security teams will focus on Dia. This is product and busin…
1Password launched 1Password for Agents on 22 October 2026. It lets users delegate logins to AI agents without exposing passwords or secrets to the agent. The launch coincides with an Axios report that U.S. banks are detecting agentic activity inside customer accounts and often cannot tell whether it was user-requested. The article presen…
Microsoft AI published a study in Science showing its MAI-DxO diagnostic system, which coordinates several AI agents acting as a panel of doctors, correctly diagnosed 83% of complex New England Journal of Medicine cases in simulation. Primary care doctors and general internists working alone scored 36%, though specialists and physician te…
Uber and OpenAI announced an expanded partnership under which Uber's whole global workforce, about 30,000 employees, will use ChatGPT Work. OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Work in July as an enterprise-focused AI agent for corporate workflows. Uber first piloted it with 1,000 employees, about 80% of them non-engineers across finance, operations…
TechCrunch recapped the Startup Battlefield 200 cohort at Disrupt 2026. The event selected 200 startups, and Intero Biosystems won the $100,000 equity-free prize and Disrupt Cup, with Apate as runner-up. The article is event and business news with no incident, vulnerability, threat actor or malware content. The only security-adjacent item…
At TechCrunch Disrupt, three investors from Peak XV, Index Ventures and Bessemer described how founders can raise a Series A in the current market. Shailendra Singh of Peak XV called seed and venture markets the most dysfunctional he has seen and predicted a correction as soon as 2027. He cited inflated ARR figures, rounds priced at up to…
Spotify reported 788 million monthly active users and nearly €5 billion in Q3 revenue. On the earnings call, co-CEO Gustav Söderström said AI agents will help the business because entertainment is not a chore people want to delegate. Spotify wants to be the music service agents choose, and it already integrates with ChatGPT, Claude and Me…
Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, an agent app for professionals and small businesses that automates and manages tasks. It competes with Meta Muse, OpenAI Dots, Hark, Instinct, Grok Bot and Fo. Duet runs on the Claude Opus 5.5 model and works in the background in its own virtual machine, returning to the user when it needs approval. It …
Nirva, a startup founded in 2025 by ex-Meta Reality Labs employees Wei Lyu and Jason Chen with Hanying Hu, announced a $25 million pre-Series A round, bringing total funding to $33 million (earlier backers include Lightspeed and South Park Commons). Its first product is a roughly 8 g pendant, also wearable as a bracelet, priced at $249, w…
This is a business and finance item with no cyber threat content. Blackstone executive Jas Khaira, who leads the firm's San Francisco AI hub Blackstone N1 (BXN1), said at TechCrunch Disrupt that concerns over AI infrastructure debt are overblown. Rising interest rates, wider credit spreads and the roughly $50 billion in CoreWeave debt hav…
Airbnb has updated its policy to stop hosts from requiring guests to strip beds, wash and put away dishes, start laundry or remove trash before checkout. The rule applies to reservations made on or after November 20. The change responds to long-running guest complaints about burdensome checkout instructions and fines for not disposing of …
Automattic, parent company of WordPress.com, WooCommerce and Tumblr, has begun layoffs, and insiders expect more cuts. Over at least the past week the cuts have hit the communications team, social team, WordPress.com and the VIP enterprise business. The turmoil follows the board's failed attempt in September to oust CEO Matt Mullenweg, wh…
Recursive, an AI startup led by CEO Richard Socher, released its first model, Flint, on 21 October 2026. It is a free coding model that runs locally on a laptop. The company says its automated research system, the Eureka Machine, contributed to nearly every stage of development, which let a small team build the model in under four months.…
Year-old AI startup Flapping Airplanes announced a $1 billion Series A round co-led by Index and Lux, reportedly at a $6 billion valuation. The round comes nine months after a $180 million seed round from GV, Sequoia and Index that valued the company at $1.5 billion. Other investors include Kleiner Perkins, Valor, Atreides, A and Nvidia. …
Walmart announced an Agent Gateway, an MCP server that lets approved AI agents search its inventory and make purchases for shoppers, covering Walmart and Sam's Club. The announcement came as Amazon began blocking AI agents from making purchases, and as various travel and booking sites lock agents out entirely. CEO John Furner presented th…
