Thursday, 24 September 2026

Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]

OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'

OpenAI extends cyber access to Ukraine for civilian defense

OpenAI is extending access to its Daybreak program to the Government of Ukraine to support the cyber defense of civilian infrastructure.

OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals

Ringg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI

Using GPT-5.6, Ringg powers multilingual agents across voice, chat, WhatsApp, and web for 90% less cost vs. GPT-4.1.

Harvey turns legal context into stronger drafts with GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra produces more structured, context-aware legal documents, freeing lawyers to focus on strategy.

Sam Altman’s remarks at the United Nations Security Council

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discusses AI safety, human control, and international cooperation in remarks to the United Nations Security Council.

Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground

Tool: Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground Google released two new Gemini text-to-speech models today - gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite…

Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform

Introducing MentalHealthBench

MentalHealthBench is an expert-informed benchmark for evaluating helpful and safe AI responses across realistic mental health conversations.

Airbnb widens access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models

Learn how Airbnb is expanding access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models to help engineering teams solve bugs, design systems, and sh…

Google Beam expands with new regions, partners, and customers

We’re expanding Google Beam to five new countries, and partnering with Industrious for an extended network.

Grab and OpenAI bring practical AI skills to Southeast Asia

OpenAI and Grab launch GO Forward with AI, a regional programme helping 30,000 partners build practical AI skills across Southeast Asia.

Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics

Robots are getting smarter, but how can their hardware match that growth? New Microsoft Research findings show that moving AI inference bey…

GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech

Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting

Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster

How invideo improves color grading 3x with GPT‑6 Astra

With GPT‑6 Astra, invideo plans edits with greater precision, improves color correction and grading threefold, and produces 50 custom effec…

Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series

Shadow roots, explained with live examples

Tool: Shadow roots, explained with live examples Prompt to Fable 5.1 Medium: Build an artifact to explain shadow roots in CSS with interact…

Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory

Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello

VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)

SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering

I'm hosting an evening event with Jesse Vincent in San Francisco on Wednesday 14th October for people who are building weird and interestin…

Unlimited Vercel Blob stores on every plan

Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app

How we rebuilt the diff surface in the GitHub Copilot app to open a million-line pull request with hundreds of inline review comments. The…

What is WorkOS Airlock? Intent-based access control for AI agents

What is WorkOS Airlock? See how intent-based access control governs AI agent calls, where Pipes fits, and how the email demo turns policy i…

Beyond Kubernetes at Modal: How to Scale 1 Million Concurrent Sandboxes in Seconds

In a recent article, Colin Weld and Connor Adams, staff engineers at Modal, describe how they rebuilt their sandbox infrastructure from the…

Developers want more efficient software. Here’s what over 1000 GitHub users told us they need.

New research from GitHub and Yale Program on Climate Change Communication finds strong demand for tools, measurement, and practical guidanc…

Article: Modular Edge Computing at Multi-Tenant SaaS Scale on Cloudflare Workers

At multi-tenant SaaS scale, a monolithic edge worker creates deployment coupling and broad blast radius. The article presents a modular Clo…

Elastic Beanstalk Adds Cluster Mode, Running Applications on Shared EKS Clusters

AWS has added Cluster Mode to Elastic Beanstalk, running applications on EKS clusters the service creates and operates. Clusters are assign…

How to Customize a Model to Learn New Tricks

In this article, we are going to look at the various strategies to customize and fine-tune a model.

Configure RUM SDKs remotely from Datadog

Use RUM Remote Configuration to change SDK sampling rates, privacy settings, and data collection independently of your release cycle.

Find answers in your logs faster with Datadog’s Tap to Parse

Use Datadog’s Tap to Parse feature to extract searchable fields from unstructured logs across Log Explorer, Log Pipelines, and Observabilit…

Teaching a 9B model to investigate production alerts

Learn how we fine-tuned Qwen3.5-9B into a specialized agent for change attribution that achieved 87% of GLM-5.3’s Recall@5 roughly 5% of th…

GitLab Critical Patch Release: 19.4.1, 19.3.3, 19.2.7

Node.js 22.23.3 (LTS)

Deterministic rules and AI judgment: how Airlock governs agent actions

Design AI agent authorization policies with fixed rules and runtime checks. See how Airlock handles allowed operations, sensitive content,…

Graphify: Unifying Codebase Context to Streamline Agentic Software Engineering

Graphify is an open-source tool designed to convert codebases and unstructured data into queryable knowledge graphs. Launched in April 2026…

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech models now available on AI Gateway

Presentation: APIs for Agents: Rethinking API Programs in the MCP Era

Jim Gough and Andreea Niculcea explain how Morgan Stanley uses Architecture as Code with CALM to modernize its API program. They demonstrat…

Modal Motors is trying to cut China out of electric motors entirely

The startup is working on small, light motors with no rare-earth magnets that are suited for drones, fans, and robots.

Revolut unveils facial recognition payments in UK

Ema raises $77M as AI starts eating into enterprise software and services

Ema has raised $140 million to date and has more than 50 enterprise customers, including Google and Microsoft.

Nscale helped ByteDance subsidiary access Nvidia chips, swerving US rules — reports

FSSAI Penalises Amazon, Flipkart, Instamart Over Regulatory Non-Compliance

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued a penal action against quick commerce and ecommerce platforms…

Multiples Leads $150 Mn Funding Round In Brahma AI

Multiples Alternate Asset Management has led a $150 Mn funding round in Prime Focus-backed AI audiovisual content platform Brahma AI,…

Anthropic and Nvidia back Basecamp Research in $140m round

Meta Sued For ₹1,000 Cr By Blink Digital Over Disabled Ad Accounts

Advertising agency Blink Digital India has recently sued Meta and its India entity Facebook India Online Services Private Limited for…

The Most Important Market in AI is the Middle

AI prices are collapsing, but the competition is not at the frontier. Anthropic held the Opus line at $5 & $25 across five releases while O…

Anthropic, OpenAI Roll Out Cheaper Models As AI Price War Intensifies

Anthropic and OpenAI have rolled out new AI models, putting lower inference costs and safety safeguards at the centre of…

RPS Ventures Offloads Meesho Stake Worth About ₹900 Cr

Meesho backer RPS Ventures sold nearly 3.9 Cr shares of ecommerce major Meesho to net ₹899.7 Cr. As per BSE…

Qdrant’s next chapter: From vector search into physical AI

Gupshup’s AI Rebuild: Can It Stay Ahead Of The Platforms It Runs On?

For a company that started out sending SMSes, Gupshup has spent nearly two decades learning one thing: how businesses talk…

Crusoe Is on Track for $2 Billion in Revenue as the Data Center Backlash Builds

CEO Chase Lochmiller says better marketing can quell the political uproar. Crusoe just raised $3.9 billion and is racing ahead.

StrictlyVC at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Inside the changing rules of venture capital

StrictlyVC joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to discuss the changing VC landscape thanks to AI. Get your Investor Pass to join these exclusive…

3 days left to save up to $200 and make impactful connections at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

3 days to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, plus 50% off a second. Make impactful connections with 10,000+ tech leaders…

The Emerging M&A Map For AI Agent Security

As AI agents gain access to enterprise data, systems and tools, they are emerging as a new class of active identity requiring specialized p…

Jumbo-Sized Series A Rounds Are On The Rise

So far this year, global startups have secured at least 114 Series A rounds of $100 million or more, per Crunchbase data. That’s the highes…

Enveda secures $311M to bring more nature-derived AI drugs into clinical trials

The round valued the AI biotech at $2 billion. It is currently testing drugs that treat skin conditions and preserve weight loss after stop…

PitPro’s first tire-changing robot goes live in Canada

The startup says its automated system can change four tires in under 15 minutes.

IPO-Bound Moneyview Nets ₹327.5 Cr From Anchor Investors

Ahead of opening its initial public offering (IPO) for bidding, fintech unicorn Moneyview has raised ₹327.5 Cr from anchor investors…

On-demand convenience platform TimBuckDo raises bridge round at Rs 120 Cr valuation

On-demand convenience platform TimBuckDo has raised an undisclosed amount in a bridge funding round at a pre-money valuation of Rs 120 cror…

BYJU’S Settles Rights Issue Dispute With Aakash

BYJU’S has reportedly reached a settlement with Aakash Educational Services Limited (AESL) over the dispute over the latter’s rights issue.…

Zelio E-Mobility To Raise ₹168 Cr Via Preferential Issue

Electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Zelio E-Mobility’s board of directors approved a proposal today to raise up to ₹167.95 Cr via…

RPS Ventures sells 0.83% stake in Meesho for Rs 900 Cr through block deals

RPS Ventures, an early investor in e-commerce platform Meesho, offloaded 3.86 crore shares in the Bengaluru-based company for around Rs 900…

Magic AI raises £8m to take its AI-powered fitness mirror to the US

DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why

Jev in 25 Lines of Python

Meta VR Glasses

The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)

Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock

I don't want the details

Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries

Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel

US criticises Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out laws as 'censorship'

Meta is making a standalone Muse AI gadget

Meta is building a dedicated hardware device for its new Muse AI agent. The product, called Muse Charm, was briefly shown off by Meta CEO M…

Meta Connect 2026: The 7 biggest announcements

Meta announced a slate of new wearables during its annual Meta Connect showcase on Wednesday. The star of the event was the new Meta VR Gla…

Muse is coming to Meta smart glasses

Just a couple of weeks after launching Muse, Meta announced that it's "working on" bringing the agent to its smart glasses, including the n…

Meta’s next VR device isn’t a headset — it’s glasses

Meta is launching new VR hardware: a pair of glasses. The new Meta VR Glasses sit on your ears like a typical pair of glasses instead of be…

Meta ditches the camera on its newest smart glasses

Walking around Meta Connect 2026, everyone's sporting smart glasses in all sorts of shapes, colors, and sizes. It's a marked difference her…

Meta is making Muse more powerful and will let you video chat with it, too

Meta is quickly iterating on its new Muse AI agent, announcing a bunch of updates today that make the bot more capable and able to chat wit…

Meta Connect 2026: The biggest news and announcements

It’s about time for Meta Connect, the company’s annual product launch event. This year, given the company’s major focus on AI and wearables…

Meta Connect 2026 live blog: On the ground at Mark Zuckerberg’s next big product launch

It's time once again for Meta's annual September product launch event, and The Verge is on the ground in Menlo Park to cover the show live.…

Why is Hacker News like that?

28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days

Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits

The Disney+ ad-free plan is now more expensive than Netflix's.

Trump’s China rivalry and “AI race” delusion may endanger US, experts say

Trump focus on winning “AI race” may deter China from sharing safety intel.

The darker side of being a doctor

Microsoft’s new Surface Mouse has haptic feedback and a customizable action button

Microsoft is launching a second generation of its Surface Mouse next month that includes haptic feedback support. The Surface Mouse also ha…

Microsoft refreshes its smaller Surface Pro and Laptop with Qualcomm’s X2 Plus

Microsoft is refreshing its Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch devices with Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon X2 Plus chips. The sma…

Netflix releases trailer for Brad Bird's Ray Gunn

"It’s film noir and a hard-boiled detective story, but it’s got a lot more comedy and a lot more action."

Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update

Tokens too cheap to meter

America gave up its rare earth edge. China took full advantage.

Decades of cheaper imports left US dependent on China for crucial rare earth processing.

I am done with this shit

Transit rewards

UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told

Strands Harness

A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts

Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol

Z80 REPL (2018)

Netherlands bracing for potentially devastating US sanctions against the ICC

RFK Jr.'s CDC isn’t letting states order COVID-19 shots for kids, blocking access

US health deptartment said it wants to ensure the vaccine orders are "appropriate."

FBI rushes to investigate if ShinyHunters hack of thousands of employees is real

It's unclear what will happen if FBI misses ShinyHunters' deadline.

Here's the Torcal, the first fully electric Bentley

It sounds like a V8, rides like a Flying Spur, but handles like a Continental GT.

XPRIZE Wildfire winners spotted fires within 10 min—but couldn’t stop them

$11M competition showed wildfire detection is still easier than stopping fires.