Thursday, 1 October 2026

Helping small businesses put AI to work

OpenAI is partnering with America’s SBDC to expand hands-on AI training and local support for small businesses, alongside a new report on h…

The AI Race Just Got Awkward

Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal

Tool: Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal I took a photograph of some protesters, then thought about how I don't like s…

He Built This City

I visited the Museum of the City of New York today and got to see He Built This City: Joe Macken’s Model , the 50 x27 feet model of the cit…

Introducing SynthID Bio

Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.

Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents

Hey HN, Anders and Tom here. We're building Magnitude, an inference engine for agents that optimizes itself to run as fast as possible on y…

Forecasting space weather risks on power grids

Extreme space-weather events can damage power systems on Earth and degrade GPS accuracy and satellite operations. A new machine learning sy…

Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning

Cloudflare Containers, rebuilt to scale agent sandboxes

Cloudflare Containers now start 6x faster, let your agent choose each sandbox's image and instance type at runtime, and support filesystem…

Pay Per Use: when AI uses your work, you should get paid

Pay Per Use is now in beta. AI companies report when they use publishers’ content, and Cloudflare handles billing, payouts, and reporting,…

Monetization Gateway beta: charge AI agents for consumption with HTTP 402

Cloudflare’s AI Gateway, Ceramic.ai, Stocktwits, and more are using the Cloudflare Monetization Gateway today to charge agents for access t…

Simplifying domains for people and agents

Cloudflare Registrar’s new search delivers fast, transparent results across 420+ extensions using Workers, Durable Objects, and WebSockets.…

Detect and send production issues straight to your agent

You can now use built-in error monitoring in Cloudflare Workers to group production failures and send stack traces, logs, traces, and appli…

Cut your AI spend with AI Gateway's Auto Router

Cloudflare AI Gateway now features a model router that evaluates request complexity using an edge-deployed classifier to select the optimal…

Amazon S3 Tables now support all Apache Iceberg V3 data types

Amazon S3 Tables now offer complete support for the Apache Iceberg V3 spec. Upgrade existing V2 tables or create new V3 tables with built-i…

Amazon S3 Vectors now supports metadata pre-filtering for higher recall on filtered searches

Amazon S3 Vectors now supports metadata pre filtering, delivering up to 5x higher recall on filtered searches. Filters evaluate before simi…

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data in your data lake

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now lets you directly query Apache Iceberg and Parquet data stored in your data lake alongside live operational da…

Celebrating Our Newest AWS Heroes – September 2026

Today, we’re excited to introduce the newest members of the AWS Heroes program. AWS Heroes are a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts wh…

OUSD is now the default stablecoin on Stripe

Open USD (OUSD), a stablecoin built for global money movement, is now available across Stripe. Businesses can use OUSD to manage funds, mak…

Vercel CDN no longer caches responses with Vary: Cookie

Vercel Sandbox now supports Secure Compute

Presentation: Context Is the New Code

Patrick Debois discusses how to manage, evaluate, distribute, and observe context using proven software engineering practices. He shares ho…

Vercel Connect now accepts service submissions

Set up the WorkOS MCP server in every coding agent with one command

How workos mcp install configures Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, why configured is not the same as authenticated, and the failure modes wo…

Distributed databases with Peter Mattis

Cockroach Labs co-founder Peter Mattis discusses building reliable distributed systems and how AI helps him write more code without sacrifi…

How DoorDash Built a Toolbox for AI Agents

In this article, we will look at how the DoorDash engineering team built this gateway and the decisions they made.

AI Gateway adds Browserbase Search and Fetch tools

Principles for effective slides

Not every presentation needs slides, but when they earn their place, they work as a visual channel that complements the speaker rather than…

Edge Requests are now called CDN Requests

Identify AI model overuse with User Insights

AI Gateway User Insights now adds task, model, turn, and user categories to help teams understand AI adoption and make better model decisio…

Ling 3.1 Flash is now available on AI Gateway

Organizations need decision-grade knowledge. AI makes it urgent.

AI can make the first part remarkably fast. It can find the page, the discussion and the person who might know. The harder work begins when…

Anyone can start building verified knowledge with Stack Internal

Stack Internal transforms your daily work into a living memory that’s shared with the rest of your team. Now anyone can create and share th…

Getting ready for 2026 results: A look back on Developer Survey findings

Agents Refactor 300K Lines in Three Weeks, and Practitioners Ask What It Proves

CodeScene has published a case study in which coding agents refactored 300,000 lines of C over three weeks for roughly $4,000 in tokens, ve…

Two Google alumni raise $11.3M to back AI startups that enterprises will actually pay for

BAG Ventures announces close of a $11.3M Fund I to invest in all things AI.

OpenAI Dev Day 2026: The releases that actually matter

Watch now (24 mins) | 🎙️ Claire tests OpenAI’s DevDay releases, from Dots, Spaces, and Sites to AI-picked thumbnails and a $97 game, and s…

Is Neko Health’s body scan worth it? Spotify billionaire’s startup has come to America

Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s Neko Health raised $700 million to build a business around scanning your body, but it’s not the only company ce…

AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B

The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.

Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation

Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.

Cerebras Systems’ Andrew Feldman on whether AI can keep scaling at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Cerebras Systems CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman will explore the growing demand for compute, energy, and inf…

ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22bn with tender offer

How to build stress intelligence into your business model

India’s Scale Demands Planning For Failures Beyond Your Stack: Razorpay’s Prabhu Ram

Building reliable digital payments at India’s scale requires planning for failures in infrastructure a company does not control, according…

How Swiggy Is Using AI Agents To Take Commerce Beyond Its App

Swiggy is stepping up its focus on making its commerce services accessible to external AI agents, enabling users to discover…

Apple Pay launches in India with Axis Bank cards; Razorpay, Cashfree and others enable merchant support

Apple has launched its Apple Pay payment service in India, with Axis Bank as its first banking partner. At launch, the service supports Vis…

Apple Pay Launches In India, Partners With Axis Bank

Apple Pay has entered the Indian market with Axis Bank as its first banking partner. At launch, Apple Pay supports…

Moneyview IPO: Ribbit Capital Bags 11.85X Return, Tiger Global Scores 3.42X

Moneyview’s IPO unlocked sizable gains for early investors, with Ribbit Capital fetching 11.85X its acquisition cost and Tiger Global reali…

Edtech startup Arivihan raises $10 Mn in Series A led by Accel and Prosus

Bengaluru- based edtech startup Arivihan has raised $10 million in Series A funding from existing investors Accel and Prosus Ventures, alon…

Exclusive: Sequoia-backed Juicebox lands in London to take on Jack & Jill

3 days left to exhibit: Turn visibility into your next opportunity at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Three days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Book by October 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT to showcase your startup to 10,000+ founders, inv…

Jev: 8 real use cases for the fastest, cheapest model I’ve ever used | John Lindquist

Watch now (46 mins) | 🎙️ Educator and developer John Lindquist shares eight Jev demos, from live voice classification and deduplication to…

Traders Call Off ‘No UPI Day’ Protest After Meeting FM Sitharaman

The All India Mobile Retailers Association (AIMRA) and the All India Consumer Products Distributors Federation (AICPDF) have called off the…

Restate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents

Instead of building its durable execution engine on top of an external database, the company developed its own storage, replication, and re…

TPG Sells More Shadowfax Shares Via ₹114 Cr Bulk Deal

Private equity (PE) giant TPG has now offloaded more shares of listed logistics giant Shadowfax via an open-market transaction for…

Cofounder Upasana Taku Picks Up 1.1 Lakh MobiKwik Shares

MobiKwik cofounder and chief financial officer (CFO) Upasana Taku has picked up 1.07 Lakh shares of the listed fintech company…

Charter Space raises $5M to bring insurance to the stars

As Charter explains on its website, a common experience for space companies is that regular insurers "heard a bunch of scary science words…

Smart ring maker Oura delays IPO amid 'market uncertainty'

Exclusive: EU’s €5bn Scaleup Fund can back UK — and even US — companies

“This Is a Pretty Fancy Dinner. That Probably Means I’m Overpaying.” A Dreamforce Lesson From a Top 5 Customer

Dreamforce this year was an epic rebirth in many ways of AI for CRM, and a lot more than CRM. I’ll share more thoughts on that soon. But be…

Legora CEO: UK stock options make London expansion a ‘no-brainer’ — but Sweden is ‘almost impossible’

Building AI Products For Indian Users: The Challenge Of Scale, Access, And Cost

Today’s brief: does voice help Meesho sell?The challenge of taking AI products to millions of Indian users is making them…

H Company cofounder Charles Kantor launches new AI neocloud startup

How AI Is Helping PhonePe Improve Efficiency & Cut Costs

AI is helping PhonePe reduce operating costs and speed up internal workflows, with specific audit processes shortened from four days…

UK AI minister working ‘extremely rapidly’ on non-compete changes

Simple Energy Raises $180 Mn To Unlock Next Growth Phase

Electric two-wheeler (E2W) manufacturer Simple Energy has raised $180 Mn (₹1,750 Cr) in its Series C funding round. The round…

EV startup Simple Energy raises $182 Mn in Series C round

Bengaluru-based electric two-wheeler maker Simple Energy has raised Rs 1,750 crore ($182 million) in a Series C funding round. This is its…

September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy

SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering

Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia has a ‘newly refreshed’ design

Grokipedia, SpaceXAI's AI-powered competitor to Wikipedia, recently started incorporating edits again, and today, it got some design tweaks…

Neon sticks it to A24 by announcing a Creative Commons SCP Foundation movie

A24 pissed off one of the internet's largest horror communities when it announced it was working on an SCP Foundation film, but apparently…

Google announces Gemini 4 and says it’s so capable that only ‘trusted cyber defenders’ can have it right now

Google today revealed its next AI frontier model, which it's calling Gemini 4 Argon. The new model delivers "frontier performance in comple…

Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can't use it yet

"An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack

OpenAI makes others suffer "the harms of its unsafe decision-making," nonprofit says.

A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal

The AI Tamagotchis are coming

While AI has made plenty of inroads on people's phones and computers, it's largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two…

Amazon’s delivery driver smart glasses will reportedly take photos ‘almost constantly’

Amazon deliveries could soon come with a new catch: the delivery driver's smart glasses will be snapping photos of anything they see while…

Here’s what AI leaders are saying about Trump’s new safety plan

After hosting a meal with Big Tech leaders on Tuesday, President Donald Trump responded to journalist questions about his artificial intell…

Google's early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling

Many sites see just one-tenth of one percent of their advertising revenue from AI payments.

Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins

Intended to help with biosecurity, it works with a popular AI protein design tool.

Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?

OpenAI delays IPO over AI safety concerns

OpenAI is seeking another $30 billion privately as its IPO plans slip.

EDG C++ front-end goes public

Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use

Cloudflare plans to issue quantum-safe TLS certificates

The move will be part of a major overhaul of the ecosystem for website authentication.

The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites

AI companies want to embed safety evaluators, but countries need their own

At a Rest of World event in New York last week, speakers explored how countries sidelined by the U.S.-China race can retain some control ov…

The last time my family was replaced by technology

Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm

Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings

America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft"

5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs

What TLA+ can and can't check

Commit description as a thinking tool

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The new and huger Paramount has a new co-CEO

Paramount is appointing a new co-CEO ahead of the close of its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Ynon Kreiz, previously Matt…

Dinosaur-killing impact crater might have been teeming with life

Hot, nutrient water might have lasted for over 5 million years after the impact.

Fifth unvaccinated person dies of measles; CDC still not counting all deaths

State health officials race to vaccinate residents by giving over 8,500 doses.

Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant.

Reminder: The "border exemption" to your rights is real.

A local network of implants uses your body as the wiring

It's possible to send electrical signals right through human tissues.

Attackers have been exploiting critical Zimbra flaw to steal emails

A simple email gives the attackers the ability to remotely inject OS commands.

Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com

Reddit says it's fighting "automated abuse."

RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the "tyranny" of medical facts, expertise

AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate less than Kennedy.

The Disney protests were a wake-up call about the risks of streaming mergers

Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves

Trump gets dozens of AI firms to agree to voluntary safety tests.

Reddit says it has to cut back access to ‘Old Reddit’ because of AI bots

Reddit is further limiting who can use the "Old Reddit" experience as part of its efforts to combat scraping and automated traffic. Reddit…