Daily Saturday, 10 October 2026
Saturday, 10 October 2026
OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"
Android Bench 2 Adds Support for Long-Horizon Tasks, Agentic Evaluation, and Continuous Scoring
Google has released Android Bench 2.0, a major update to its benchmark framework for evaluating AI models and agents on Android development…
Agents can now buy domains with the Vercel CLI
Introducing Clef-omni with full multimodality, plus a faster Clef and a cheaper Clef-flash
We are expanding the Clef decision model family with Clef-omni, natively processing audio, video, images, and text in a single pipeline. We…
Introducing on-demand CPU and memory profiling with flamegraphs for Workers and Durable Objects
On-demand CPU and memory profiling for Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects is now available. Now you can generate interactive flamegraph…
Init fireside recap: Aaron Levie on the work of bringing agents into the enterprise
Box CEO Aaron Levie at WorkOS init() on why engineering adopted agents first, what a bank must settle before an agent sends a wire, and why…
Cloudflare acquires Deno
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Gamma’s Grant Lee, Engine’s Elia Wallen, and GV’s Crystal Huang on landing your first 1,000 customers
Leaders from Gamma, Engine, and Google Ventures join TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to talk how to get your first customers. Register now to save…
Competing ARR Estimates & Fuzzy Valuation Math in the Spotlight as Markets Get Edgy
Plus, Western startups aim to challenge China on open source & Google’s AI flunks in the classroom
Amazon drops data center NDAs, and AI agents want your credit card
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earl…
Deno is joining Cloudflare
The Deno team released the first version of celld back in August - their open source implementation of the Durable Objects pattern from Clo…
Sophos cuts threat investigation time by 96% with OpenAI Daybreak
Discover how Sophos uses OpenAI’s Daybreak to cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96% and automate 52% of MDR cases while preserving hum…
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Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making
Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen
Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT
Quoting Matthew Green
Everyone is very concerned about being respectable, so I’m going to be the goofball who raises worst-case possibilities. I think there is a…
Asana cuts model costs 76x in browser tests with GPT-6.1 Sol
Using GPT-6 Astra in Codex, Asana made its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests to offer customers more capable models.
A new feature for my blog, built using my voice
I shipped a new feature for my blog today: the Newsletters page, which offers an index of all of the newsletters I've sent out, both my fre…
Impactful scheduling for GPU clusters
Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more
ttok 1.0
Release: ttok 1.0 I released ttok 0.4 , ran uv tool upgrade ttok , piped a file into the new version... and realized that it was defaulting…
Hack the World: Why hackathons are still the best place to learn to build
The barriers to building software have collapsed. Today, anyone can build. Hackathons are a great place to start learning. The post Hack th…
How Rillet ships 3× faster with AI agents on Vercel
Github Migrates Copilot Runtime to Rust with AI-Assisted Rewrite
GitHub migrated more than 800,000 lines of Copilot runtime code from TypeScript and Node.js to Rust in about 14.5 weeks using AI-assisted d…
Microsoft Decision-1 now available on AI Gateway
Presentation: Ontology‐Driven Observability: Building the E2E Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale
Prasanna Vijayanathan and Renzo Sanchez-Silva share how Netflix tackles observability across 38M events/sec. They discuss replacing reactiv…
Cloudflare K2 Builds Event Streams on R2 Object Storage, at a Second of Produce Latency
Cloudflare has launched K2 in public beta, a serverless event streaming service implementing a durable log on R2 object storage. Cloudflare…
Taking a look under your agent’s hood
Ryan is joined by Yanbing Li, Chief Product Officer at Datadog, to talk about applying observability to non-deterministic AI agents, blurri…
Unify data across Datadog BYOC with cross-cluster queries for teams and AI agents
Use cross-cluster queries in Datadog BYOC Logs to investigate incidents across regions and business units without centralizing stored logs.
Deployment Storage billing begins for existing Pro teams
New Pro teams now default to 30-day deployment retention
Liquid AI's d1 is available on AI Gateway
A Treatise on Model Oriented Programming Languages
From Activity to Intent: Generating User Journeys with LLMs
Lin Zhu | Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer; Manan Kalra | Machine Learning Engineer II; Byung Eun Jeon | Sr. Machine Learning Engineer;…
Driving pi with computer using ChatGPT sessions
How I use ChatGPT tasks to organize persistent Pi sessions, connect MCP tools, bridge gaps with computer use, and deliver work without losi…
UI freeze reports are now available in JetBrains Marketplace
A user reports that the IDE stopped responding, and your plugin is the prime suspect. You try the same steps, but everything works. Without…
Mellum2.1 Gets to Work: A Fast Open Model for Coding Agents
Trained with reinforcement learning in real environments, Mellum2.1 is built for coding agents and fast sub-agents that run on your own har…
From Friends Quest to married: Daryl and Alexa’s Duolingo love story
Spoiler: Duolingo can teach you a language *and* help you find love!
Our $445M Series D
Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B
Xona’s commercial GPS alternative is about to go live
Xona's precision timing and navigation service will enter beta testing after SpaceX launches six satellites designed by the company.
Report: Mistral and others increasingly at risk of open model ‘abliteration’
Revolut to roll out agentic shopping as AI commerce takes off
Peak XV Sells Awfis Shares Via ₹30 Cr Bulk Deal
Early backer Peak XV Partners has sold 12.2 Lakh shares of coworking space provider Awfis in a bulk deal worth…
Amazon Layoffs: At Least 100 Employees In India Hit By Latest Global Job Cuts
Ecommerce giant Amazon has reportedly laid off at least 100 employees in India as part of its latest global job…
Anthropic Bans ‘Cruel’ Behaviour Towards AI Models, Tightens Rules On AI Misuse
Anthropic has updated its usage policy to introduce restrictions on “sustained and needless abusive behaviour” towards its AI models. The…
Ex-OpenAI robotics lead’s factory startup in insolvency proceedings
Bewakoof’s FY26 Net Loss Jumps Nearly 20% To ₹87.4 Cr; Revenue Crosses ₹200 Cr Mark
After improving its bottom line performance in the fiscal year FY25, D2C fashion brand Bewakoof reversed the trend and slipped…
Inside the London startup turning veterans, Amazon alumni and an ex-VC into factory owners
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI And Energy Top A Busy Lineup Of Large Rounds
As the AI startup boom progresses, investors appear to be leaving few niches unfunded. That was apparent in this week’s lineup of large fun…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts in 4 days — lock in your pass savings of up to $100 before prices rise
Four days until TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts, when 10,000 founders, investors, and tech leaders gather in San Francisco's Moscone West on…
Why Customer Workflows Are Becoming The Moat In The AI Era
AI companies can build durable moats by embedding their products in essential customer workflows, explains tech adviser Itay Sagie, who sha…
Active Investors Kept Up The Deal Pace In Q3, Even As Funding Fell
Active startup investors largely kept up or increased their dealmaking pace in the third quarter, even as overall venture funding declined…
The maker of non-text AI model Jev valued at $7.5B just weeks after launch
What has users and large corporations so excited about Jev is TypeSafe’s claim that it works significantly faster and uses far fewer tokens…
LumenUs helps automate tedious paperwork in times of grief
"The day your loved one passes away, you also get this honorary badge of a project manager for a project you had no idea about," said found…
Beyond TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: The Side Events, Parties & Networking You Can’t Miss
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is just the beginning. From exclusive networking events and startup showcases to happy hours, dinners, and after-ho…
OTPless Ropes In Ex-BharatPe Exec Geetanshu Singla As New CTO
Identity and access management startup OTPless has roped in former BharatPe executive Geetanshu Singla as its new chief technology officer…
Govt Orders Suspension Of Internet Services in New Delhi Amid Protests
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) approved a 24-hour suspension of mobile internet services in New Delhi amid the ongoing…
LPs’ red flags
It Takes 12 Years to IPO. Then Another 2-3 for Your VCs to Get Liquid. And Founders Can Generally Only Sell About ~4% a Year.
An IPO should be Plan A. It’s the best outcome for almost everyone on the cap table. But founders, employees and even a lot of VCs treat th…
Payments Vs Lending: The Tale Of Paytm’s Two Engines
Paytm began as a digital wallet, became a payments behemoth on the back of that and then built up the…
JSW MG Motors India Announces Winners Of MG Developer Program 2026
Auto manufacturer JSW MG Motors has announced eight startups that emerged victorious in its startup engagement initiative, MG Developer Pro…
The CFO Code: MoEngage’s Narsimha Reddy On Why Finance Heads Need To Look Beyond Balance Sheets
For decades, a typical CFO job description looked like this: close the books, keep the company compliant, manage cash, and…
UK looks to ban non-competes to stop ‘drag on innovation’
How Arrowhead Is Using Voice AI To Fix The Gaps In Enterprise Sales And Support
For years, enterprises hired thousands of human executives to sell loans, answer customer queries and recover abandoned sales. Yet, even…
Exclusive: Nat Habit to kick off $15 Mn funding round led by Trident Growth Partners
Natural personal care D2C firm Nat Habit is raising Rs 142.6 crore ($15 million) in a fresh round led by Trident Growth Partners, with part…
OTPless appoints former BharatPe, Genwise exec Geetanshu Singla as CTO
Bengaluru-based identity and access management startup OTPless has appointed former BharatPe technology head and Genwise co-founder Geetans…
Indian AI Startup Funding Surges 265% YoY In Q3, Will Momentum Continue?
AI emerged as the defining theme in the Indian startup ecosystem in the July-September quarter, with startups in the segment…
NeoGrowth Raises ₹85 Cr To Expand Digital Lending Capabilities
MSME-focused lending platform NeoGrowth has secured ₹85 Cr ($8.8 Mn) in a mix of debt and equity round led by…
NABVENTURES Fund II secures Rs 450 Cr in first close
NABVENTURES, the venture capital arm of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), has secured commitments of Rs 450…
New FEMA Rules Explained: What Freelancers, Creators, And SaaS Startups Need To Know
RBI governor Sanjay Malhotra yesterday eased concerns over the new foreign exchange reporting framework, clarifying that individuals undert…
IRDAI Mulls Introducing Insurance Commission Caps From January 2027
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) may introduce its proposed insurance commission caps as early as Januar…
Menswear Brand KISAH Nets ₹35.9 Cr To Scale Retail Footprint
Omnichannel menswear brand KISAH has raised ₹35.9 Cr (about $3.7 Mn) in a Series A funding round led by Fireside…
CoreWeave Enters India, Partners AdaniConneX For 240 MW Data Centre Capacity
US-based AI cloud infrastructure provider CoreWeave has announced its entry into India, with plans to deploy 240 MW (megawatts) of…
Rajan Anandan, Saurabh Srivastava author new book on India’s startup ecosystem
India’s startup ecosystem is entering a potential golden age, driven by a growing pool of experienced founders, innovation across sec…
Lab-grown diamond brand Zinara raises pre-seed funding led by Inflection Point Ventures
Delhi NCR based lab-grown diamond jewellery brand Zinara has raised Rs 3.61 crore ($380K) in a pre-seed round led by Inflection Point Ventu…
UPI MDR Rollout May Be Deferred To January 2027 Amid Pushback By Retailers
The introduction of a merchant discount rate (MDR) on select UPI transactions may be deferred from October 15 to January…
YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops
Triple-A Minesweeper
Sorry, I'm in a meeting
US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay
No Man Is an Island
Python 3.15
Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
Decade-old RAM is making a comeback
CPU makers have noticed that the seemingly unending RAM price hikes are making it tough for a lot of us to upgrade our PCs. Their solution?…
Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs
Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide
An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to…
Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded
Showing off carrier-explode, one of my side projects that continuously archives carrier settings for all major phone brands. carrier-explod…
‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop
"Staggering." "Overwhelming." "Unprecedented." "Surreal." "Pure insanity." Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathemat…
Google teases Fitbit Edge launch next week
It looks like Google is getting ready to take the wraps off its rumored Fitbit Edge next Monday. In a post on X, Google posted a picture of…
The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is down to $950 after Prime Day
Amazon has the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra in black with 256GB of storage discounted to $949.99, a healthy discount from its usual price of $1…
Amazon’s new Kindles appear to have a light leak problem
Some users are reporting that the new Kindles have a light leak issue that is especially apparent when using dark mode. The latest base-mod…
Microsoft tries to spark new life into Windows
When Microsoft released Windows 11 five years ago, it felt like an operating system that was still being renovated, a work in progress. You…
Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone
Dissolved rock precipitated around the tools, which then decayed.
Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours
Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape
Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court
Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser
M7.6 Earthquake in Panama
'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone
Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022)
Programming Isn't Special
MXC - a sandboxed code execution system
A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad
The Hetzner Cloud network stack – history and technical overview
What should we tell our students?
Reducing undefined behavior in the C language
A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis
Stylish upcycling, with a retro flare, at Spain's Museo de Historia de la Computación.
NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations
"We’ve made it clear that NASA will never give up its presence in low Earth orbit."
What's been driving Hawaii's lava fountains?
Before the lava fountains started, the ground was expanding by half a meter a day.
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."
Ohio blogger found guilty of harassment for sending Shrek nude to senator
A jury found an Ohio political blogger guilty of telecommunications harassment after he sent an explicit image of Shrek to a Republican sta…
Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund "unethical" vaccine trial
CDC allocated $1.6M for study on alleged harms of hepatitis B vaccine.
PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023
"The current decline may be just the beginning of a new downward cycle."
AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner
New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus.
Your artwork could be featured in the next Debian release
Debian Linux has put a call out for artist submissions for its next release: Forky.
Brendan Carr says he’ll let Pete Hegseth decide whether TV networks can air the public execution
FCC chairman Brendan Carr said he will defer to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on whether TV networks can air the planned execution of c…
Starlink spectrum deal boosts Musk plan to beat AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon
Nationwide 800 MHz spectrum to help Starlink provide mobile coverage indoors.
Nikon microscopic video competition winner disqualified for using generative AI
Nikon says the video that originally won first place in its Small World in Motion contest "did not comply with the competition rules regard…