Daily Monday, 5 October 2026
Monday, 5 October 2026
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OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo Sottiaux
Listen now (37 mins) | Tibo Sottiaux on why Dots is OpenAI’s biggest bet, why agents will dominate internet traffic, and what builders are…
Is Apple Pay’s India Entry Too Late?
The past fortnight has brought several developments around Apple in India. The iPhone 18 Pro and Apple’s foldable iPhone Duo…
Snapdeal Makes It To D-Street, But Where’s The Moat?
One of India’s earliest ecommerce marketplaces has finally trotted onto D-Street. After a relatively muted 4.93X subscription to its IPO,…
TechCrunch Mobility: Reining in robotaxis
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
Nykaa expects around 30% GMV growth in Q2 FY27
FSN E-Commerce Ventures, the parent company of beauty and fashion retailer Nykaa, expects its consolidated GMV to grow close to 30% year-on…
Bhavish Aggarwal pledges 4.32% Ola Electric stake to fund rights issue
Ola Electric promoter Bhavish Aggarwal has pledged a 4.32% stake in the electric two-wheeler maker to fund his participation in the company…
Astra 6 Replaced a Core Engine of SaaStr Connect With Two Words, “DO IT,” Twice in Under an Hour. Then It Said “I Did Not Make That Edit.”
On Monday afternoon, one of the two core engines behind SaaStr Connect was deleted twice in about 30 minutes. And I had to catch it myself.…
Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
The new Fitbit Edge leaks
We don't know a ton about the Fitbit Edge, but it appears to be a successor to the midrange Charge line. It had leaked previously, but we c…
An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat
StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude O…
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Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS
In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults
Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
I heard from a friend of the family that Bob passed away in his sleep early Saturday. Very sad news. Bob, who's real name was Mark Stevens,…
Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast
Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening
Why don't more developers “use the platform”?
The AirPods Pro 3 are a fantastic deal at $179
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a good discount on the Apple AirPods Pro 3, but like the latest iPad Mini and the M5 MacBook Airs, a gre…
The iPad Mini is slightly cheaper again during Prime Day
Apple bumped up prices on several of its devices in June, and we haven’t seen a good discount on the iPad Mini since. Just ahead of Amazon’…
The MacBook Air M5 is $200 off for the first time in months
Amazon’s October Prime Day has effectively chopped off Apple’s June price increases. Usually $1,299, the 13-inch MacBook Air with the M5 ch…
The forgotten Chromebook that started it all
Google didn't even call the first Chromebook a "Chromebook." The Cr-48 had no interesting design and no bright logos - it wasn't even desig…
Rejection Sensitivity in Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Children
VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here's what's next
Prick’s theatrical industrial punk is perfect for spooky season
While deep in the recording process for The Downward Spiral, Trent Reznor lent some of his production talents to old friend Kevin McMahon,…
NJ’s former Lt Gov is using AI to say he’s innocent of sexual harassment
New Jersey's lieutenant governor Dale Caldwell was forced to resign on September 25th after an investigation found he had sexually harassed…
Lions and cheetahs and chimps, oh my: a spotlight on Africa's diverse wildlife
Wunmi Mosaku ( Sinners, Loki ) narrates NatGeo's new documentary Africa: Earth's Wild Home
This toolless modular lever-action wallet is the coolest I’ve stuck to my phone
This toolless modular lever-action wallet is the coolest I've stuck to my phone. Remember when I tested the ultra-thin and convenient OhSna…
All hail electrification. But let’s talk about the hard part.
The IEA and climate negotiators want to set a target for shifting the economy to run on electricity.