Daily Sunday, 4 October 2026
Sunday, 4 October 2026
Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
Istio 1.31 Adds Agentgateway Waypoints and Moves Release Artifacts off Google Cloud
Istio 1.31 adds agentgateway waypoints in ambient mode, with a canary configuration fix included in 1.31.1. It also ends the publication of…
EP228: How SSH Works
Secure shell is a method to access a remote machine securely over an unsecured network. It starts with a TCP connection from the SSH client…
Presentation: Building GenAI Platform at DoorDash
Swaroop Chitlur and Sidd Kodwani share DoorDash’s journey building an internal GenAI platform. They discuss core architectural bets, transi…
Spotify billionaire’s body scan startup has come to America
Farooq Abbasi, an investor in Neko Health, talked to Equity about the hot health tech company and what's next for it.
Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat Goes Offline In India, Apple Cites MeitY Order
Bitchat, the decentralised messaging platform founded by Twitter (now X) cofounder Jack Dorsey, has been removed from Google Play Store…
We Vibe Coded Our Own Calendly. Our AI Agent Pushed Us To Do It, and It Was Right.
Calendly is cheap, proven, and works well. We used it for years, and a three-person team has little reason to build its own scheduling tool…
IPO-Bound Kuku Technologies Turns Profitable In FY26, Revenue Surges 6X To ₹1,484 Cr
Kuku Technologies Limited, parent company of audio OTT platform Kuku FM and microdrama app Kuku TV, swung into the black…
Why Okta Tripled on … 11% Growth. 5 Interesting Learnings From One of the Biggest Re-Ratings in B2B This Year: 14% cRPO Growth, 30% of Bookings From New Products, and ~50x Forward Earnings
Evidence the SaaSpocolypse is over? Okta is a good place to start. In April, Okta was one of the most hated names in B2B. On April 10, trad…
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OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'
Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the sovereign German LLM works
I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code
Rex's Dino Store
Museum: Rex's Dino Store Located just before the turnstiles in the Grand Army Plaza subway station at the north end of Brooklyn's Pros…
September sponsors-only newsletter
I just sent the September edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter . If you are a sponsor (or start a sponsorship now) you can access…
AI Agents Are Disrupting Open Source Security Disclosure
A recent article by Anil Madhavapeddy argues that AI agents can turn publicly available clues about software vulnerabilities into working e…
New-Age Tech Stocks Extend Slide, Turtlemint Slumps Another 20% This Week
New-age tech stocks remained under pressure this week, with 47 stocks declining as benchmark indices recorded their eighth consecutive week…
AceVector IPO: SoftBank Pockets ₹88 Cr, Most Selling Shareholders Book Losses
Snapdeal parent AceVector’s initial public offering (IPO) provided an exit opportunity to several of its early investors and promoters, wit…
🧠 Community Wisdom: Getting value from personal AI agents without handing over your inbox, the ego threat of going from IC to manager, uncommon perks to negotiate for, and more
SaaStr AI App of the Week: Chargebee. The Billing System Behind How Gorgias, CodeRabbit, Lambda and Zapier Price AI
Chargebee has been around 14+ years and runs billing for 6,500+ businesses. It makes the list this week because of what it shipped in 2026…
Skin In The Game: Why Banks Are Taking Stakes In AI Labs
Rogo, a US-based financial-services AI startup, raised $30 Mn this month. What made this unique was that some of the…
Funding and acquisitions in Indian startups this week [Sep 28 - Oct 3]
This week, 24 Indian startups raised $411.46 million across five growth-stage deals, 13 early-stage deals, and 6 undisclosed rounds. The we…
From Simple Energy To Arivihan — Indian Startups Raised Over $233 Mn This Week
Funding momentum in the Indian startup ecosystem continued through the final week of September. Homegrown new-age tech ventures raised…
Less than 24 hours to apply for a Side Event at Founder Summit 2026
The clock is almost out. You have less than 24 hours left to apply to host a Side Event during TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026. Applications…
The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux
Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'
Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields
ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]
The best early October Prime Day deals happening now
It’s not even October yet and Amazon is already offering some Prime Big Deal Day discounts on its own hardware, along with plenty of other…
An OpenAI safety employee has quit and is sounding the alarm
David Robinson used to write the safety reports that accompanied every major model release at OpenAI. This week, he resigned from his posit…
We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
FTL: A new operating system for clouds
City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2
Kolibri – Tech Report [pdf]
The Escalation of War in Ethiopia
An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows
Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.
Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94
Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava thinks AI emails are killing conversations
Kakul Srivastava is the CEO of Splice, the sample platform countless producers rely on for one-shots and melodic loops. Samples pulled from…
3D movies are finally worth watching
Why am I suddenly buying up every 3D Blu-ray I can find after 3D became one of the biggest tech flops of all time? The technology's finally…
The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
The devices continue to show noticeable benefits for users in various real-world tasks.
TCL is right to question Samsung’s use of the term “Mini LED”
Can it be Mini LED without a FALD backlight?
Who gets to decide if AI is safe? Africa wants a say
African companies race to adopt American and Chinese AI, with little attention paid to safety.