Friday, 18 September 2026

Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries

In Our framework for reporting model misalignment OpenAI provide "six reports on unexpected or concerning model behavior we’ve observed in…

How GLM built its own inference infrastructure

Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU

CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3

DeepSeek-v4.1 Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression

Reimagining advertising with AI

Explore new AI-powered advertising experiences from OpenAI, including Sponsored Agents, tools for marketers, and integrations with HubSpot…

AI safety is mostly a sex cult

I Don't Like LLMs

The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities

Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others

I kept seeing engineers share what they were building with AI; however, I was always more curious about how they worked. Which agents did t…

Stallman: Thousands Dead, Millions Deprived of Liberties (2001)

Infinite-Parameter LLMs: Generating and Adapting Weights from Live Data

The future of practice: Enabling teachers to create learning interactives with generative UI

Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

In hopefully good news for anyone who, like me, was increasingly confused at Cowork v.s. Claude v.s. Claude Code: Starting today, Claude Co…

The skills CLI now supports Notion hosted skills

The guest journey, updated in real time: extending Airbnb’s sequence recommender with Chronon

How two new Chronon capabilities, Push Mode and NRT Model Transform, allows us to provide more relevant search results instantly as a guest…

New low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances are generally available

AWS introduces new low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Granite R…

SaaS platforms are surging despite the SaaSpocalypse

The SaaSpocalypse was a useful warning for the software industry, but SaaS platforms that help businesses run core operations are more deep…

GPT-6 Astra Is the First Model OpenAI Classifies as Critical for Cybersecurity

OpenAI has classified GPT-6 Astra at the Critical cybersecurity threshold under its Preparedness Framework, a first. In expert-led testing…

AI Changed How Spotify Builds. What We Learned (and Fixed) About Quality at Higher Velocity

Quality and reliability have always been a point of pride for Spotify. We run an extraordinarily complex... The post AI Changed How Spotify…

Migrations at Scale: Changing the Application Engine at 30,000 Feet

In this article, we will look at how migrations work at scale and the key strategies that can help make it as efficient as possible.

Turbo build machines can now be enabled per deployment

GitLab Duo CLI takes a task from goal to done

Complex tasks hit a wall at the end of every chat turn. Developers already know what they're trying to accomplish. What stalls the work is…

Optimize your team's price-performance with hosted open weight models

There’s no single best model for every software development task. Implementing a new feature, diagnosing a failed pipeline, and resolving s…

AI Skills with Matt Pocock

Matt Pocock explains how he uses AI coding skills and agents to plan and build software, and why engineering fundamentals matter more than…

Open-weight models take 56% of token volume, Astra doubles Fable 5.1 spend

Native Marketplace integrations now support custom environments

Beyond Two Towers: Launching the 3-Tower Engagement Co-Train Model (Part 2)

Authors: Longyu Zhao (Staff Machine Learning Engineer), Gwendolyn Zhao (Staff Machine Learning Engineer), Peng Yan (Senior Machine Learning…

Building a RAG Pipeline for Semantic Code Search: A Developer Diary and Field Notes

Part 1: Parsing, chunking, and vectorization Some time ago, we set out to build the best semantic code search platform we could: a RAG pipe…

Behind the Scenes: How the OpenTelemetry Plugin Maps Your Microservices in Real-Time

We’ve all been there: you join a new project, and the first thing you ask for is the architecture diagram. You’re handed a diagram that loo…

How much do you know about Italian?

You might know more Italian than you think!

5 things nobody told me about becoming an engineering leader

A few surprises from one engineering manager’s journey into leadership.

Revolut mulls dual listing in London and New York

SEBI Greenlights Kuku Technologies’ ₹3,500 Cr IPO

Markets regulator SEBI has greenlit the proposed listing of audio OTT startup Kuku Technologies months after it filed its draft…

OpenAI & Anthropic Want To Pace Frontier AI, But Who Sets The Rules?

In July this year, OpenAI’s models were being tested in a controlled cybersecurity environment and tasked with spotting and exploiting…

Enlight Metals raises $1.5 Mn at $10 Mn valuation from Exar North Group

New Delhi-based metal procurement platform Enlight Metals has raised $1.5 million from US-based investment firm Exar North Group at a valua…

Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular ‘AI factories’

The round values the data center giant at $30.9 billion.

Laundry and home cleaning brand Ecosys raises Rs 5 Cr in pre-Series A round

Laundry and home cleaning brand Ecosys has raised Rs 5 crore in a pre-Series A funding round led by GVFL Prarambh Fund, with participation…

RentoMojo makes stock market debut at 19% premium

Furniture and appliance rental platform RentoMojo made its stock market debut on Thursday, September 17, with its shares listing at a nearl…

2 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Last day to book your exhibit table at Disrupt is September 18. Two days left. Get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, op…

Exclusive: Fintech Offers Startups Alternative To Venture Debt With A New Model To Finance Customer Acquisition Costs

Newly launched Skalar provides startups with capital to fund sales and marketing initiatives in a fairly straightforward, though somewhat u…

How Bain Capital Ventures plans to deploy its fresh $1.6B fund

BCV's latest fund targets early-stage founders harnessing AGI and building the infrastructure to run it efficiently.

Comp AI sets eyes on a continuously agentic future for security and compliance

Comp AI, a cybersecurity and compliance startup, announced a $34 million Series A round led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures.

5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: Floating Nuclear Power, Robot Report Cards And Voice AI For Farmers

From putting nuclear reactors on barges to grading how well AI models can control robots, this month’s crop of interesting startup deals ta…

PrismML hopes its tiny LLM will change how we all use AI

If AI lab PrismML isn't on your radar yet, it should be.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Events schedule: NMI, Backblaze, PeakXV Partners, Augment, and more to host

TechCrunch Disrupt is where the tech community comes together to build, debate, and connect. And while the main event takes over Moscone We…

Last call: Disrupt volunteer application closes soon

If you've been on the fence about volunteering at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, this is your sign to stop deliberating and start applying.

Kissht Gets Board Nod To Raise ₹832 Cr Via Preferential Issue

Listed NBFC Kissht has secured board approval to raise up ₹832.2 Cr via a preferential issue of equity shares to…

Kissht parent OnEMI’s board approves Rs 832 Cr fundraise

OnEMI Technology Solutions, the parent company of digital lending platform Kissht, has approved a fundraise of up to Rs 832.2 crore through…

MDR On UPI Is Here, But Who Foots The Bill?

UPI is one of the cheapest ways for Indian merchants to collect digital payments. Now, the economics of India’s biggest…

Baby-focused quick commerce startup Kiddo raises Rs 12.5 Cr led by Campus Fund

Baby-focused quick commerce startup Kiddo has raised Rs 12.5 crore in a pre-seed funding round led by Campus Fund, with participation from…

5 Interesting Learnings from ServiceTitan at $1.14 Billion in Revenue: 21% Growth … But a Back Half Guided to Mid-Teens, and a 30% One-Day Stock Price Drop

“Vertical SaaS for The Traders” leader ServiceTitan reported its fiscal Q2 2027 on September 8 (quarter ended July 31, 2026), and on paper…

Bombay Shaving Company Revises ‘Switch4’ Ad Post Delhi High Court Direction

Bombay Shaving Company (BSC) founder Shantanu Deshpande said the company has revised its Switch4 advertisement in accordance with the under…

DealShare Hunts For One Last Deal; Will It Find Any Takers?

“DealShare is today an empty vessel with $90 Mn in cash.” That’s how an investor who is aware of the…

India Gets ₹1 Lakh Cr Investment Commitments Under Semicon 2.0: Vaishnaw

Under the recently approved Semicon 2.0 mission, the Central government is seeing investment commitments worth approximately ₹1 Lakh Cr ($1…

The Harness Margin Opportunity

A UC Berkeley study finds the harness sets the price of an answer : GPT-5.6 Sol costs 71% less on Pi than on Claude Code, the same model re…

[Update] RentoMojo Shares End Market Debut 32% Above Issue Price

Update | September 17, 16:30 IST Shares of furniture and appliance rental startup RentoMojo closed their maiden trading session at…

Info Edge leads Rs 8.9 Cr seed round in Factrika

On-demand industrial workforce platform Factrika has raised Rs 8.9 crore in a seed funding round led by Info Edge. The proceeds will be use…

Applied Materials Commits $5 Bn To Boost India’s Semiconductor Ecosystem

US-based semiconductor equipment and materials-engineering company Applied Materials has announced a $5 Bn (₹47,980.8 Cr) investment commit…

DheyaTech Bags ₹43 Cr To Scale Indigenous Gas Turbine Engine Production

Aerospace propulsion startup DheyaTech has raised ₹43 Cr (around $5.1 Mn) in a funding round led by Avaana Capital, with…

Centre Rejects External Pressure Claims Over UPI MDR Rollout

Amid the ongoing debate over the introduction of MDR on select UPI transactions, the finance ministry’s Department of Financial Services…

Aakash Trims FY26 Loss By 16% To ₹186.5 Cr, Top Line Flat At ₹2,040 Cr

Gurugram-based test-prep major Aakash Educational Services Ltd (AESL) managed to narrow its net loss for the financial year FY26 by…

Europe's AI moment is moving from hype to execution

Avaana Capital leads Rs 43 Cr pre-Series A round in deeptech company DheyaTech

Bengaluru-based deeptech company DheyaTech has raised Rs 43 crore in a pre-Series A funding round led by Avaana Capital, with participation…

A founder’s guide to early IP management: ‘You don't own it just because you invented it’

Practo elevates Jagnoor Singh to CEO, Shashank ND to Executive Chairman

Healthcare platform Practo has announced a new leadership structure as it enters its next phase of growth. Founder and CEO Shashank ND Sing…

PB Fintech to acquire remaining 20% stake in MyLoancare, invests Rs 10 Cr in PB Wheels

PB Fintech, the parent company of Policybazaar and Paisabazaar, has received in-principle approval to acquire the remaining 20% stake in it…

super.money appoints former BharatPe CPO Rohan Khara as Chief Product Officer

Fintech platform super.money has appointed Rohan Khara as its Chief Product Officer (CPO) as the company looks to expand its product offeri…

What’s The Whole Truth? India’s Clean Label D2C Brands Vs FSSAI

India is in the middle of its biggest food-regulation crackdown in years, and the Supreme Court has now weighed in. …

Practo Leadership Reshuffle: Jagnoor Singh Elevated To CEO, Shashank ND Becomes Chairman

Healthtech startup Practo has overhauled its top leadership, appointing former COO Jagnoor Singh as CEO, while cofounder and former CEO…

BlueStone appoints CarDekho CEO Amit Jain as Non-Executive Independent Director

Jewellery retailer Bluestone has appointed Amit Jain, co-founder and CEO of CarDekho Group, as a Non-Executive Non-Independent Director, ef…

The Latest Payments Battle Point: AI Agents For Merchants

Almost every Indian payments giant delivered a similar pitch at the Global Fintech Fest 2026 organised last week: merchants no…

Firi Bags $3 Mn To Expand Beauty Quick Commerce Platform

Beauty quick commerce startup Firi has raised $3 Mn (about ₹28.8 Cr) in a seed funding round led by 360…

Why Polish startups are growing faster than ever

Why US VC Left Lane is betting on the European consumer

Are VCs doing their AI safety due diligence?

Inside Luminar Ventures, the Nordics' early-stage deal sourcing machine

‘If you don’t have defaults, you’re not taking enough risks’: William Jalloul, CEO of Flowpay

NSE raises Rs 6,746 Cr from anchor investors ahead of IPO

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) has raised Rs 6,746 crore from anchor investors ahead of its much-awaited initial public offering (IPO),…

Semiconductor verification startup VerifAIX raises $5 Mn in seed round

AI-native semiconductor verification startup VerifAIX has raised $5 million in a seed funding round co-led by Endiya Partners and Bluehill…

Fashion discovery platform Slayd raises pre-seed funding led by ajvc

Gurugram-based fashion discovery platform Slayd has raised Rs 1.5 crore in a pre-seed funding round led by ajvc, an early-stage fund founde…

I hate you Microsoft

Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing

Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill

Artificial intelligence now beats some of the best human forecasters

Astra for Law

Everybody's Lost Their Minds

Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds

Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023

I was looking at neovim's donation footer at the bottom of their site and saw a bitcoin donation address. Thought I'd check how much in don…

Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'

The AI Superintelligence Slowdown

Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after…

Save $30 or more on a refurbished Apple TV 4K

Most hardware prices have soared in 2026, and that includes a variety of Apple laptops, tablets, and smart devices. Thankfully, you can off…

Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes

Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse

Lunacy Audio Nova is a place to build and sell your own AI-powered music plug-ins

Lunacy, purveyor of fine VST plug-ins like Cube, a synth that you control by moving a ball around a 3D space, has just launched Nova, a pla…

Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse

Today, I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. As you’re no doubt aware, the biggest story in tech right now is the spi…

Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter

More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older

Bose’s next open earbuds have more bass, more volume, and more battery life

Bose announced a new version of its Ultra Open Earbuds that helped kick off the industry trend of clip-on wireless earbuds nearly two-and-a…

CrowdSec Source Code Leak

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Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud

The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and libr…

Xbox’s clever disc-to-digital feature was 15 years in the making

When Xbox announced a new feature last month that lets you digitize existing physical game collections, I immediately thought of the Xbox O…

Your robotaxi might be a narc

In early September, two teenagers got into a Waymo, but then ended up in the back of a police car. The robotaxi company said it detected "a…

Camp Snap’s 110D gives slim retro film cameras a digital upgrade

Camp Snap is expanding its small collection of screenless digital point-and-shoot cameras with the new pocket-friendly 110D featuring a thi…

Lawmakers target Flock cameras with a threat to highway funding

A bipartisan bill would restrict Flock cameras to a handful of public safety uses.

AI is feared globally as the destroyer of jobs

Pew Research has published a new global survey that sheds light on how people view AI, including its impact on jobs, life in general, and i…