Daily Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Wednesday, 30 September 2026
GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
Why has Shopify dropped React Native?
It’s only been a year since the e-commerce platform declared it was very happy with React Native, but now Shopify is dumping it – and the r…
Enforce positive security with Cloudflare Application Profiles
Cloudflare learns the structure of your HTTP requests and identifies deviations. You can add a positive security layer that helps reduce at…
Is your domain using post-quantum encryption? Now you can see for yourself
Cloudflare has added visibility into post-quantum (PQ) encryption in TLS 1.3 directly into HTTP Analytics, Log Explorer, and Logpush. Learn…
Oura Hits Pause On IPO While Anthropic’s Prospectus Reveals The Cost Of Its AI Ambitions
Although Oura has postponed its planned offering that could have raised as much as $2.2 billion, Anthropic is still making a move toward th…
Peak XV unveils Surge 12 with 18 startups across AI, robotics, space, consumer, healthcare, music and fintech
Peak XV Partners has unveiled the 12th cohort of its seed stage programme Surge, comprising 18 early stage startups across artificial intel…
a16z-backed EliseAI raises $350M, doubles valuation to $4B
EliseAI raises $350M, doubles valuation in a year.
Ex-Tesla team raises $12.5M to put supply chains on autopilot
Atomic's agentic supply chain software is now being used by companies like DoorDash and HelloFresh.
9 Things Your New Head of Product Should Do in Their First 30 Days
Dear SaaStr: Where should a new head of product focus in their first 30 days? My strong advice is speak with data. And that may mean at fir…
Quoting Anthropic Frontier Red Team
We evaluate several models on 100 tasks from the [internal Binary Exploitation benchmark] (selected at random), and find that GLM-5.3 devel…
DevDay 2026 Recap
Explore more than 20 announcements from OpenAI DevDay 2026, including GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, security, and new tools for builde…
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DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers
Dots: Always-on agents
OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog
I'm at OpenAI DevDay today, in Fort Mason, San Francisco. Same as last year I'll be live blogging the keynote and some other notes during t…
Unsurprisingly, Meta's new Muse AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions
A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]
NVIDIA Kumo Tabular Sets a New Accuracy-Efficiency Frontier for Tabular Prediction
Introducing Quine: An AI research system designed for the complexity of biology
Biology doesn't operate in silos, and neither should the AI representation of it. Quine is an early-stage research effort to create a multi…
How we will do better for Australia
OpenAI apologises for incidents involving Australian government websites and outlines stronger safeguards and support to strengthen Austral…
AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom
ChatGPT Pro 500
Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
Claude partial outage
How Diffusion Controller unifies and simplifies AI image generation
Getting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP Agents
Towards safety cases for frontier AI training
Our early guidelines for safety cases in frontier AI training cover technical safeguards, operational practices, and investigating misalign…
Introducing Threat Signals: agentic skills for open-source threat intelligence, free for every Cloudflare account
We are expanding access to Cloudforce One's Threat Events Platform to every Cloudflare account and introducing Threat Signals. Threat Signa…
Building a post-quantum certificate authority with Merkle Tree Certificates
As post-quantum signatures threaten to inflate TLS handshakes and certificate transparency logs, Merkle Tree Certificates offer a path to c…
Adaptive application security for the AI era: how Cloudflare connects code, traffic, and intelligence to stop attacks
Cloudflare introduces an adaptive security framework connecting risk discovery, agent governance, runtime protection, and AI-powered respon…
Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet
Twelve years after launching Universal SSL, Cloudflare is applying to become a certificate authority. By combining an established root, an…
Search trace spans from the Vercel CLI
GitLab and Claude Code: Fast, compliant AI
Government agencies are feeling twin pressures: While the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is urging you to deploy AI faster, the…
Personalization without user identity
How Airbnb uses proximity signals to personalize without relying on individual user history. By : Wei Jiang , Bin Xu , Bharathi Thangamani…
Amazon CloudWatch Omni Extends CloudWatch into the Agent Era
Recently launched, Amazon CloudWatch Omni is an AI-first observability platform designed to monitor, evaluate, and troubleshoot application…
Developer policy update: Transparency, state policy, and what’s ahead
Explore GitHub’s latest transparency data and learn more about policy updates affecting developers and open source. The post Developer poli…
Helping personal agents shop more intelligently and reliably with Link
As agents take on more purchases, agent builders have increasingly asked us to help agents navigate checkout and earn consumer trust. Today…
Python Workers Reach GA on Cloudflare, with Questions About Cold Starts and Upstream Maintenance
Cloudflare has made Python Workers generally available, built on PEP 783 and on socket syscalls implemented over the Workers connect API. T…
CoPhish and the Agentic Consent Problem: OAuth Phishing for the Agent-Builder Era
CoPhish showed that an agent-building platform can itself become an OAuth phishing vector. Here's what that means for anyone building MCP s…
Why Do LLMs Lie?
In this article, we will look at why this problem of hallucinations happens with LLMs and the techniques that can help make LLMs more depen…
Bliki: Sensible Default
A Sensible Default is a practice that, absent some overriding context, should be used when carrying out a certain kind of task. In software…
Fragments: September 29
Simon Willison: The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder W…
Preventing quantum downgrade attacks against IPsec
A sophisticated attacker with a quantum computer can exploit a protocol design flaw to downgrade post-quantum IPsec tunnels to classical cr…
We tested our own WAF with frontier AI models. Here’s what we found
We built a WAF tester that adapted each request based on what the WAF blocked or passed. This helped us explore variations that a fixed tes…
Using AI to chart a course for our post-quantum migration
We’re building CryptoLabe, an internal AI-powered tool that discovers cryptography across our codebase, surfaces dependencies, and helps us…
Evolving our calendar assistant Reclaim to be AI-native without starting over
How we redesigned Reclaim for AI and natural-language requests while preserving the scheduling experience people rely on.
Spring News Roundup: Second Milestone Releases of Boot, Framework, Data, Security, Integration
There was a flurry of activity during the week of September 21st, 2026, highlighting: second milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Bat…
GPT-6.1 Sol now available on AI Gateway
Segmentation Drives Market Share Wins in AI
Anthropic & OpenAI both re-rated their run rates in 2026 by segmenting : a mandatory enterprise repricing against an 80% price cut on the c…
Anthropic wants to eat my startup’s lunch. Here’s why I’m not worried
Meet The Startups From Peak XV’s ‘Surge 12’
VC firm Peak XV Partners has launched the twelfth cohort of its accelerator and incubation programme, Surge. The cohort features…
With Dazzle, Marissa Mayer bets your camera roll has more info on your life than your inbox
Mayer argues that if a photo is worth a thousand words, your camera roll is worth millions. By analyzing all the photos stored on your phon…
Tiny Health Raises $33M To Explore What Gut Data Can Reveal About Future Health
Austin-based Tiny Health has raised $33 million in a Series B funding round led by B Capital to help it meet growing demand for its at-home…
Protego Ventures closes debut $125M fund for Israeli defense tech
Protego Ventures, the first and largest dedicated defense tech VC in Israel, just completed its final $125 million closing, TechCrunch lear…
All of the Lenny & Friends Summit talks are now online!
Plus, some reflections and takeaways from the day
More Ways to Disrupt: New 2026 Side Events from KOTRA, WayFounder, Enterprise Ireland, SafetyWing + Descope
Disrupt doesn’t end when you leave Moscone West. 👀 Founder dinners, investor meetups, happy hours, workshops, roundtables and more are tak…
Arivihan Nets $10.2 Mn To Scale Its AI Tutoring Platform
AI-driven edtech startup Arivihan raised $10.2 Mn (about ₹98 Cr) in its Series A funding round co-led by existing backers…
After losing his voice to cancer, this founder is building ‘glasses for voice’
Uhura Bionics, part of the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt, wants to replace flat, robotics voice devices with one that carri…
Will Amend IT Rules To Bar Under-18s From Social Media: Centre To SC
The Centre has reportedly informed the Supreme Court (SC) that it plans to amend the IT Rules to prevent children…
[Update] AceVector IPO Closes With 4.93X Oversubscription
Update | September 29, 2026 19:55 IST Snapdeal parent AceVector’s ₹420 Cr IPO was oversubscribed 4.93X at the end of…
What 17,000 Subscription Apps Tell Us About Free Trial Length: Annual Plans Convert 86% Better With 30-Day Trials, Monthly Tops Out at Two Weeks, and AI Apps Hit a Wall at 16 Days
RevenueCat just published one of the richest datasets on free trials out there. They have the data, at least for mobile subscriptions apps,…
Ex-Soulfull MD Prashant Parameswaran Launches Arovia To Build Regional Food Brands Portfolio
Ex-Soulfull managing director and cofounder Prashant Parameswaran has launched Arovia Consumer, a new ecommerce rollup venture that intends…
Inside the ‘secondaries arms race’: How employee liquidity is becoming fundamental to private businesses
Jedlik Motors founder Raguram SK on building electric pod for urban commuters
Chennai-based EV startup Jedlik Motors is developing a fully enclosed electric two wheeler, e-POD, aimed at combining the maneuverability o…
StockGro Confidentially Files IPO Papers, Eyes Up To ₹2,500 Cr Issue
Investment advisory startup StockGro pre-filed its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India for…
PB Fintech Sheds Over ₹34K Cr In M-Cap In 3 Sessions, Turtlemint Loses ₹1,549 Cr
Shares of insurtech companies Turtlemint and PB Fintech continued to spiral today, losing over ₹35,705 Cr in cumulative market capitalisati…
AceVector’s IPO subscribed over 5X on final day
AceVector, the parent company of Snapdeal, Unicommerce and Stellaro Brands, saw decent demand for its IPO, with the issue subscribed 5.07 t…
As FlatPay soars, the rest of Nordic fintech searches for its next act
Ineffable, Recursive, Fractile call on UK to limit non-competes
SC declines stay on UPI MDR rollout, seeks response from Centre, RBI, NPCI on plea
The Supreme Court has declined to stay the October 15 rollout of the new Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) framework for specified UPI merchant…
You have to still ‘keep taste and judgement’: How companies are actually putting agentic AI to work
SC Refuses To Stay UPI MDR, Seeks Centre’s Response On ₹2,000 Threshold
The Supreme Court today refused to stay the Centre’s decision to introduce merchant discount rate (MDR) charges on select UPI…
Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over
500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
Google ending ChromeOS support two years early
Razer’s low-latency wireless gaming keyboard is almost half off
Woot has the Razer DeathStalker V2 Pro TKL on sale for $130, a significant discount from its usual $219.99 price point. This keyboard is bu…
OpenAI launches Dots, its Muse competitor
OpenAI is responding to Meta's buzzy Muse AI with agentic helpers of its own: Dots. During its DevDay keynote on Tuesday, OpenAI announced…
Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
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Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t go public until its models are safe
For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public. CEO Sam Altman says it won't happen until the company can make better promises…
Tcl/Tk 9.1
Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
Trump orders US government to call AI ‘Super Intelligence’
The US executive branch is no longer acknowledging the existence of "artificial intelligence." Going forward, official policy websites, pol…
Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative
New sculpture depicts AI leaders escaping a sinking ship.
Elon Musk’s AI-powered Grokipedia is updating again
Grokipedia, the AI-powered online encyclopedia from SpaceXAI, appears to be updating articles once again after a months-long pause. In Augu…
AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia
The deal, which is expected to close by year's end, is worth $8.2 billion.
PS5 Relapse Exploit
Trump ads paid for by US government allegedly violate anti-propaganda laws
FCC unlikely to stop Trump ads described as illegal taxpayer-funded propaganda.
NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers
So is SpaceX just being selfish or what?
Here's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hack
Without a "full set of safeguards," agent accessed "system information and source code."
1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds
AI researchers put out videos saying superintelligence is ‘exactly as dangerous as it sounds’
"The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view," Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a…
Apple pressured to explain Trump role in ICE-tracking app removals
Lawmaker rejects Apple excuse for banning ICE-tracking apps as unconstitutional.
Protesters gather at OpenAI’s DevDay
On Tuesday, OpenAI's annual DevDay event began with protests, flyers, and chants. "Sam Altman, get off it, put people over profit," said a…
GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
Xbox’s Mythic Achievements are here and they’re just like PlayStation Platinum trophies
Microsoft is officially announcing its new Xbox Mythic Achievements today, and they're already available for Xbox Insiders to test. Mythic…
U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels
OpenAI says planned GPT-6.1 is too insecure to release
Similar performance, security trade-offs also seen in current public models.
Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction
The Claude maker warns its own models could resist shutdowns and cause catastrophic harm.
The open-source AI platforms vying to become China’s Hugging Face
AI model platforms ModelScope and MoArk are competing to serve Chinese-speaking developers behind the Great Firewall.
Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far
Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites
Ask HN: What are you reading?
I'm plowing through the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, which is not particularly challenging as sci-fi/LitRPG goes, but entertaining enough.…
Sustainable energy without the hot air (2008)
Using any C++ library in Godot
U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982
Firebase SDK is crashing all iOS apps since this morning
A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
Most powerful obesity drug yet: People lost up to 25% of weight in trial
Retatrutide is a triple-hormone obesity drug simulating GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon.
BMW’s revamped i3 boasts up to 468 miles of range
When BMW first announced it was reimagining the i3 as an all-electric four-door sedan built on its Neue Klasse platform, it left out a lot…
Suspected ShinyHunters leader arrested in the Netherlands
Dutch police say they arrested a 24-year-old Amsterdam man in connection with ShinyHunters, the hacking group that claimed responsibility f…
Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery
19th century Nature account of 1841 train delayed by geomagnetic storm got year wrong—due to a typo.
F1 in Azerbaijan: That was almost a close-run thing
Kimi Antonelli could not repeat his Monza magic after a crash in qualifying.
Walmart won’t hike prices based on your shopping history, CEO says
Walmart says it won't change product prices based on your personal information or the time of day, as reported earlier by The Wall Street J…
NASA 'troubleshooting' transporter for space station's robotic arm [Updated]
NASA isn't saying much. The problem may be temporary.
Volkswagen replaces ID.4 with all-electric Tiguan
In a widely expected move, Volkswagen announced Monday that it will replace the recently retired ID.4 crossover with the upcoming ID.Tiguan…
This study looks at how and with whom connected cars share your data
Between the cars and their companion apps, you’re exposed to a lot of trackers.
Less protein for maggots means longer lives for fruit flies
Eating less protein as larvae may limit their ability to produce proteins as adults.