Daily Wednesday, 16 September 2026
Wednesday, 16 September 2026
Introducing System One Models and Jev
LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Build with Claude Code
We’re relaunching Build with Claude Code, a 2-day intensive cohort-based course taught by John Kim, who has trained hundreds of engineers a…
Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory
A deepdive into how Codex has “taken over” OpenAI, how the frontier lab builds its agentic software factory, and the engineering challenges…
Nail the Narrative
Sumeet Gayathri Moghe finds many folks building presentations get tangled in building slides without a coherent narrative. He advises disti…
Have it both ways: stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training
Cloudflare is giving site owners a way to stay discoverable while disallowing AI training. New controls and an Accountable designation esta…
Beyond the model: Engineering AI infra with scientific judgement
How Airbnb’s agent harness transforms unstructured data exploration by encoding scientific methodology into scalable, reproducible, and aud…
Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents
Their startup, Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) has raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Ribbit Capital, with p…
Exclusive: Revolut’s Storonsky hits back in €350m superyacht court case
CCPA Orders Detailed Probe Into Apple Over iOS 18 Software Issues
The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has reportedly intensified its scrutiny of big tech giant Apple’s software warranty terms.…
What Would an Independent Slack Look Like If It Hadn’t Sold to Salesforce? And Would It Still Be Worth $27 Billion?
Julian Lehr asked a good question the other day on X: what if Slack had never sold to Salesforce, stayed in founder mode, and went hard at…
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A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals
Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it
The Inference Hardware Revolution of 2026
OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M
Bypassing inference bottlenecks: Accelerating complex AI search with Retrieve-for-Train
Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
New insights from Google’s AI & Economy ATLAS
We’ve translated ATLAS’s millions of global data points into an interactive, open-access experience.
Building AI to accelerate science and improve lives
The true measure of AI is who it helps. Here’s how it’s impacting lives today. We're focused on key areas where advanced technology can hel…
There's a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?
Your Agent Aced the Task. Will It Do It Again?
AI for everyone in every language
We’re moving beyond traditional text translation to build models that understand the world’s rich, living languages exactly as they are exp…
AI for Societal Impact
Explore this collection to see how experts and local leaders are using AI breakthroughs to ensure everyone can share the opportunity of AI.
How to test an AI agent policy before enforcing it
Design and test AI agent policies that block unsafe actions and keep useful work moving. Learn to test intent, RBAC, and approvals, or try…
How Delphi ships 100 times a day with its Python backend on Vercel
Let coding agents review PRs without giving them unrestricted merge access
Set GitHub permissions for AI code review, govern merges with Airlock, and prevent agents from merging code that changed after approval.
What Stripe data shows about fraud at AI startups
We analyzed attempted fraud rates and customer abuse patterns on Stripe over the past year and found that AI companies faced 4.3x more frau…
Amazon Linux 2027 Enters Public Preview with SELinux Enforcing by Default
AWS has released Amazon Linux 2027 in public preview, built on the AL2023 baseline with kernel 7.1 and SELinux in enforcing mode by default…
Java 27 in IntelliJ IDEA
In line with the six-month release cadence, Java 27 was released on September 15, 2026. In this blog post, we will look at what’s included…
AI, JD, and other letters of the law
Ryan chats with Kevin Frazier, director of the AI Innovation and Law program at the University of Texas School of Law, about the legal and…
Calling the WorkOS API from server-side Swift
Typed resources, structured errors, automatic retries, and AsyncSequence pagination for server-side Swift apps.
Is Agentic now tailors its audit by site type
Do LLMs Have the Memory of a Goldfish?
In this article, we will learn how LLMs handle memory so that they are useful to end users in performing complex tasks that require convers…
Manage Cursor costs with Datadog Cloud Cost Management
Analyze Cursor spend by user and model, catch unexpected cost changes, and manage AI coding costs alongside your cloud and SaaS spend.
How to operate shared platforms safely at agent scale
Learn how Datadog models agent demand, allocates capacity under contention, and preserves control as AI agent workloads scale across shared…
Monitor TAS and gang scheduling for AI training in Kubernetes
Learn how Datadog helps you correlate Kueue, Coscheduling, GPU, and training framework signals to validate gang scheduling and topology-awa…
Give every teammate and agent the right level of access to your Workers
You can now scope access to individual Workers and assign narrower Developer Platform roles, so teammates, CI tokens, and agents get only t…
Most people prefer traditional architecture
Who gets to define an AI agent's intent?
An agent's task describes the work to do. Learn how to define useful intent while keeping identity, resource access, and company policy in…
From Atlas experiment to Airlock: extracting agent governance into a product
Airlock grew out of Atlas to give IT and security teams a shared way to govern agent actions. Aaron Tainter's Agent Night demo shows how it…
Gemini 3.8 Live models now available on AI Gateway
How Solaris' Turnstile Influenced the Modern System Designs of Web Browsers and Language Runtimes
Sun's Solaris influenced modern systems engineering, with key innovations like the Slab Allocator for efficient memory management, OpenZFS…
When Inbound Sells Itself
Jeanne DeWitt Grosser, COO of Vercel, reports 90% automation of inbound sales development, a support agent handling 93% of cases, a 32x ROI…
AI interactive content startup Flam raises $40 Mn led by QED Investors
Bengaluru-based AI interactive content company Flam has raised $40 million in its Series B funding round led by QED Investors. The round al…
Delhi HC Asks RBI To Mediate PayU’s Dispute With Banks, Visa
The Delhi High Court has asked the RBI to mediate a dispute involving Prosus-backed fintech platform PayU Payments, YES Bank,…
Exclusive: Lovable, Supercell, Langdock founders back Zero in $10.3m seed round
Revolut faces questions over ‘deeply concerning’ data breach
Meta Agrees To Report CSAM Cases To Indian Authorities Amid Govt Scrutiny
Social media major Meta has agreed to report instances of child sexual abuse to the appropriate law enforcement agencies in…
Apple’s Siri AI Gambit, Moneyview Trims IPO Size & More
Apple’s High-Stakes Gamble On Siri AI Two years on, Apple’s rebuilt Siri AI has now finally arrived with iOS 27.…
Evvy raises $40M as it seeks to further women’s health research with vaginal microbiome data
Women’s health company Evvy announced Tuesday a $40 million Series B led by Catalio Capital Management.
4 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Last day to exhibit at Disrupt is Sept 18. 4 days left. Get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators and tech leader…
Sector Snapshot: AI Takes A Growing Share Of Sales And Marketing Startup Funding
Startups across sales, marketing and customer management have raised $7.5 billion so far this year, according to Crunchbase data. The large…
AI Is Creating Wealth Faster Than Financial Lives Can Adapt
AI startups are reaching massive valuations and liquidity events so quickly that young founders and employees often acquire life-changing w…
60+ new creative growth ideas
How to stand out when everyone is running the same playbook
Health benefits platform Thatch reaches $1B valuation as healthcare costs surge
Thatch helps employers keep healthcare costs manageable by offering an individual plan marketplace through an Individual Coverage Health Re…
AEO startup Profound hits unicorn valuation, raises $180M Series D 7 months after last round
Profound has raised a $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation, less than seven months after it raised a $96 million Series C.
Discover how to take your startup from prototype to production at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Learn how to scale your startup breakthrough from prototype to production at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 with scaling leaders, Adrian Macneil (…
New Italian unicorn Exein rides the physical AI wave
Italian startup Exein has raised a $270 million round of funding led by Headline at a $1.7 billion valuation.
Exein raises $270m to fight AI hackers, doubles valuation
UPI MDR Regime Explained: Here’s What Will Be Charged After Oct 15
India’s ubiquitous UPI payment system is set for a significant change from October 15, with the introduction of a merchant…
AI Startups To Watch: 5 Startups That Caught Our Eye In September
India’s AI story is moving beyond models, and the next quest is about how AI is being deployed, integrated into…
Fibe gets SEBI nod for Rs 750 Cr IPO
Digital consumer lending platform Fibe, operated by Social Worth Technologies, has received SEBI’s nod to proceed with its proposed i…
CCPA Penalises Rapido Over ‘Advanced Tipping’ Prompts
The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has imposed a penalty of ₹10 Lakh on ride unicorn Rapido for misleading advertisements,…
Does Europe have a voice in AI safety?
Rebel Foods Cuts FY26 Loss By 16% To ₹282 Cr, Revenue Jumps 21%
Foodtech unicorn Rebel Foods managed to cut its net loss for the fiscal year FY26 by 16.3% to ₹281.8 Cr…
Novastar Partners Backs Pre-Seed Stage Focused VC Firm AJVC
Investment firm Novastar Partners has made its maiden India bet by investing an undisclosed sum in Aviral Bhatnagar-led venture capital…
NPCI sets 0.4% MDR on UPI above Rs 2,000, caps fee at Rs 300 for Rs 75,000 and higher transactions
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has introduced a 0.4% Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on select Person-to-Merchant (P2M) UPI…
NPCI Sets 0.4% MDR On P2M UPI Transactions Over ₹2,000
After months of anticipation, UPI operator National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has introduced the merchant discount rate (MDR) fe…
Samsung and EU Scaleup Fund back efficient AI startup Euclyd in €200m Series A
MP calls for scrutiny of AI Security Institute as fears grow
Teachers’ Venture Growth Doubles Down On Darwinbox With Fresh Investment
HR tech unicorn Darwinbox has received a follow-on investment from Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG), the late-stage venture and growth invest…
I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
25 years of mass surveillance is enough
We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub in 25 minutes
German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol
Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
An Update on Wayback Machine Access
Google copied our open-source code, removed engineers' names without credit
US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
Java 27
Linux from Scratch
Let's make quality the norm again
Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
Hey HN, I always had the problem that building HTML pages is really simple now, but trying to save data required hosting it somewhere, and…
America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster
Israeli Minister Threatens Filmmakers' Citizenship over Gaza Documentary
Microsoft announces Windows and Surface event for October 7th
It's been more than two years since the last major Windows event, so Microsoft is heading to San Francisco next month to outline the future…
SpaceX declares Starship ready for orbit, sets launch date next week
Reaching orbit would mark a significant milestone.
Meta’s new One subscriptions put a price on social media and AI
Shortly after launching its new do-everything AI assistant Muse, Meta's launching subscription bundles that pair its standalone app subscri…
Now Light’s minimalist phone can easily call an Uber
More than a decade after its Kickstarter proposed a "cell phone designed to be used as little as possible," Light is adding a direct connec…
CSS-Tricks in Limbo
Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
GM gives its most important trucks a new UI—and includes CarPlay
The new look debuts in the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and 2027 GMC Sierra pickup trucks.
Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality
Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
Where in the world is the iPhone cheapest?
Apple’s high-end models cost more in markets like India and Turkey owing to high taxes and import duties.
Show HN: Hacking a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device
Global bond yields hit 2008 highs, raising stakes for big borrowers
Chopping up books when they're physically too big
WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages
25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough [Auth: Cindy Cohn; Bruce Schneier]
Swift 6.4 Released
The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped
GEFS on OpenBSD: A Early Preview
A Cop Searched 19,000 Flock Cameras Across 1,558 Cities. His Reason: 'LMAO'
Australia 'on the same page' as Canada as it seeks deeper EU alliance
The EOS R8 Mark II is Canon’s lightest full-frame camera with stabilization
Canon announced the second-generation of its EOS R8 with a new retro-inspired redesign and the addition of in-body stabilization. That feat…
AI and data centers are incredibly unpopular in every poll
Poll data released Tuesday by the New York Times and Siena University confirms what we've already been seeing, and what politicians are res…
The Roman telescope has enough gas for 22 years, double NASA's expectations
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is the first NASA observatory designed for in-space refueling.
“Filmmaker” suing PassThePopcorn may be banned user out for revenge
Allegedly fake filmmaker targeted trackers like PassThePopcorn, BroadcasTheNet, and HDBits.
What if social media isn’t hurting kids?
Two years ago, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt released his New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation. The book posits that the r…
18-year-old dies of measles in PA from severe neurological complication
Teen developed acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a known measles complication.
Kia’s electric van lineup is getting more interesting with reveal of PV7
You may not know it, but minivans are making a comeback in the US. Look around, and you'll start to notice an uptick in these breadboxes on…
Agility’s new humanoid robot will stop, squat to avoid harming human coworkers
Robots can start working outside physical cages and without safety barriers.
Boston dumps Flock, says it shared data nationwide in violation of contract
City: Flock enabled "nationwide lookup" despite contract requiring it to be disabled.
One of the best 3D printers for beginners is almost $100 off
If the high price tag of premium 3D printers have kept you from exploring the hobby, this deal is a great entry point. Elegoo has its Centa…
Demand for EV chargers is outstripping supply, says ChargePoint report
EV growth is happening, even in the US, and those EVs will need plugs to charge.