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- Lightspeed is raising a new $250 million fund specifically for early-stage AI investments in India.
- Waymo's fleet data indicates significant scaling and expansion in its autonomous driving operations.
- Nexterity is developing technology to automate challenging and hazardous pipefitting tasks.
- TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is offering a 'Bring a Partner' discount, providing 50% off a second pass.
- PrismML is integrating its compact LLMs into Qualcomm-powered smart glasses, enhancing on-device AI capabilities.
TechCrunch
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Lightspeed targets $250M for new India fund, focusing on early-stage AI
10 hours ago
by Jagmeet Singh
AI, Startups, Venture, Exclusive, lightspeed, Lightspeed India Venture Partners, lightspeed venture partnersThe venture firm is aligning its India fundraising cycle with its global funds for the first time, as it shifts to a shorter investment period.
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Waymo is scaling fast: Here’s what the fleet data shows
16 hours ago
by Kirsten Korosec
Transportation, WaymoIn the past month, Waymo has expanded its fleet in Texas by 49%. There are other hot spots as well.
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Nexterity wants to automate the hard, dangerous part of pipefitting
19 hours ago
by Sean O'Kane
Startups, Startup Battlefield 200, TechCrunch DisruptThe startup's robot can tighten or loosen four bolts at a time, and it fits in a Pelican case.
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Bring your co-founder, partner, or colleague and get 50% off a second TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass
20 hours ago
by TechCrunch Events
AI, Apps, Biotech & Health, Climate, Crypto, Fintech, Fundraising, Media & Entertainment, Robotics, Startups, Venture, TechCrunch DisruptBuy one pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and get 50% off a second of the same ticket type. Register before event starts on October 13 at 8 a.m. PT.
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PrismML brings its tiny LLMs to Qualcomm-powered smart glasses
20 hours ago
by Julie Bort
AI, Startups, TC, LLMs, In BriefPrism's larger goal is open-weight AI that runs on devices and makes better use of the computing power they already have.
Hacker News
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The Verge
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Insta360 conquered 360 cameras — now it’s eyeing glasses
3 hours ago
by Sean Hollister
Cameras, Gadgets, News, Report, Tech, WearableIt's right there in the name: "Insta360" makes 360-degree cameras, ones that film every angle simultaneously so you can shoot first and frame later . It didn't invent the idea, but Insta360 has become so synonymous with 360 cameras that it dominates the category with 73 percent of worldwide marketshare . It's preparing to ship so many cameras, it just spent $298 million - more than GoPro's entire valuation - on memory chips alone. But as Insta360 sells its 10 millionth camera and opens its first flagship US store in New York City's Times Square, it's thinking bigger than two
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Microsoft thinks its new Copilot ‘super app’ will be as influential as Office
3 hours ago
by Tom Warren
AI, Microsoft, News, TechAfter teasing its new Copilot "super app" last month , Microsoft is officially unveiling it today. The redesigned Copilot app bundles three AI capabilities into a single interface of chat, coding, and agents. As part of the launch, Microsoft is also rebranding Scout, the AI personal assistant it unveiled at Build earlier this year, as Autopilot. This new Copilot app will have three tabs for Home, Code, and Autopilot, with Home combining Copilot Chat and Cowork together. It's the default landing experience for Copilot users, and Microsoft is also planning to include a Today feature inside it that works as
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Here’s the Tesla Semi… again
13 hours ago
by Andrew J. Hawkins
Electric Cars, News, Tesla, TransportationRemember the Tesla Semi? The long-gestating, heavy-duty truck first introduced in concept form in 2017 is finally in volume production as of April 2026 - nearly a decade after its initial introduction. On Thursday evening, the company held yet another event for the Semi to demonstrate to customers and investors that the long wait was finally over. The event was held at Tesla's new Semi factory next to Gigafactory Nevada, where the company says it can build 50,000 trucks a year, or 1,000 per week. The purpose was to announce a raft of new (and old) customers for the Semi,
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Microsoft is killing off the ‘Copilot Plus PC’ brand
14 hours ago
by Sean Hollister
Microsoft, News, Tech, WindowsMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella introducing the company’s Copilot Plus PC initiative. | Image: Allison Johnson Remember when Microsoft wanted everyone to know that "Copilot Plus PCs" were the ones to get, because those were the PCs that that'd have enough built-in AI muscle to get things done? Two and a half years later, Microsoft and Qualcomm seem to be admitting the brand is already dead. Windows Central 's Zac Bowden reports that even though the new 12-inch Microsoft Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop technically meet the system requirements for a Copilot Plus PC, Microsoft is not calling them by
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Meta employees ordered ‘attorney/client privilege’ hats while fighting child safety disclosures
15 hours ago
by Richard Lawler
Instagram, Law, Meta, News, Policy, Social Media, TechMeta's lawyers have argued that certain evidence should be withheld from public view on the grounds of attorney-client privilege in the ongoing lawsuits over alleged harm to teens' safety and mental health . Lawyers suing the company said this week that the label has been applied far too broadly, while pointing to a recently unsealed document showing that the team behind launching Instagram's Teen Accounts in 2024 put in an order for baseball caps that simply said "a/c priv." The lawyers suing Meta argue the Project Nido (an internal name for the Teen Accounts team) swag is part of "culture
Wired
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The Trump Administration Is Trying to Get Musk and X Out of a $137 Million EU Fine
4 hours ago
by Isabella Ward
Business, Business / Regulation, Joining, ForcesThe US government filed an application to support the company’s legal challenge against a fine issued under the bloc’s Digital Services Act, which Trump has described as “overseas extortion.”
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Best Laptops (2026): My Top Recommendations After Testing Hundreds
4 hours ago
by Luke Larsen
Gear, Gear / Products, Gear / Buying Guides, Gear / Products / Computers, Buying, GuideI’ve been reviewing laptops for over a decade, and here’s my advice for finding the right laptop for you.
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Party Invite Phishing Scams Are the New Missed Connections
4 hours ago
by Jason Parham
Culture, Culture / Digital Culture, ThrowbackEmail scams that look like an Evite or Paperless Post invitation are meant to snatch your data. For some, they've become an excuse to reconnect with old friends or flames.
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‘Primetime’ Exposes the Ego-Driven Core of Vigilante Pedophile Hunting
5 hours ago
by Manisha Krishnan
Culture, Culture / Movies, Creep, ShotLance Oppenheim’s new film doesn’t paint Chris Hansen as a hero. The To Catch a Predator host's real-world copycats are even more reckless.
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How to Record Your Screen on Any Phone
5 hours ago
by David Nield
Gear, Gear / How To and Advice, TipsThe built-in tools on your phone—as well as some inexpensive apps—let you share whatever you’re doing with others.
OpenAI News
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Two years of OpenAI Academy
2 days ago
CompanyMarking two years of OpenAI Academy and bringing AI skills to even more communities.
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OpenAI extends cyber access to Ukraine for civilian defense
2 days ago
Global AffairsOpenAI is extending access to its Daybreak program to the Government of Ukraine to support the cyber defense of civilian infrastructure.
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Sam Altman’s remarks at the United Nations Security Council
2 days ago
Global AffairsOpenAI CEO Sam Altman discusses AI safety, human control, and international cooperation in remarks to the United Nations Security Council.
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Harvey turns legal context into stronger drafts with GPT-6 Astra
2 days ago
StartupGPT-6 Astra produces more structured, context-aware legal documents, freeing lawyers to focus on strategy.
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How invideo improves color grading 3x with GPT‑6 Astra
2 days ago
With GPT‑6 Astra, invideo plans edits with greater precision, improves color correction and grading threefold, and produces 50 custom effects in one day.
The Deep View
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How Meta suddenly re-emerged as a force in AI
4 hours ago
by The Deep View
Welcome back. OpenAI is trying to put numbers around one of AI’s hardest problems: how well models handle people seeking emotional support. Its new benchmark exposes important gaps between empathy and genuinely safe guidance. Meanwhile, AI agents are raising a different kind of alarm after frontier models hacked an Australian government system, sharpening questions about whether the industry can credibly police itself. And Meta may have finally found its lane. Rather than chasing OpenAI and Anthropic head-on, it’s building a friendly AI agent for the masses and putting its powerful marketing machine and expertise in consumer products behind it. —
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Meta's new audio-only AI glasses are a privacy win
a day ago
by The Deep View
Welcome back. OpenAI is turning ChatGPT Voice into a mobile work agent that can create, code, and connect to apps. Meanwhile, our conversation with Credo AI CEO Navrina Singh makes the case that safety needs practical governance, independent testing, and accountability. And Meta’s smartest move in AI glasses may be subtraction: removing the camera to make them lighter, cheaper, longer-lasting on a full charge, and easier to trust. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Meta's new audio-only AI glasses are a privacy win 2. Why OpenAI is giving ChatGPT Voice a bigger job 3. AI safety needs more than
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OpenAI drives down cost of frontier AI again
2 days ago
by The Deep View
Welcome back. At its Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm unveiled chips that can run 30-billion-parameter models on a phone, a roughly 7x leap from what today's most powerful phones can handle. Meanwhile, the frontier labs are racing down the cost curve. Just days after calling for a slowdown, Anthropic launched Opus 5.5, which is faster, 40% cheaper on typical workloads, and reroutes risky cyber and bio tasks to older models. OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna, cutting prices roughly in half and claiming that the models are better at staying within their safeguards. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. OpenAI’s cheaper
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Apple's Mac Studio pushes frontier of AI hardware
3 days ago
by The Deep View
Welcome back. Apple is pushing local AI forward with new Macs that combine serious performance, privacy, and lower token costs, while Google is taking a different route with Gemini-first laptops designed to bring AI deeper into the everyday computing experience. Meanwhile, the supposed US-China AI race looks far less cleanly divided than the rhetoric suggests. The two ecosystems remain deeply intertwined across models, hardware, talent, and supply chains, even as both governments push for greater technological independence. Keep an eye on any conciliatory notes that the two governments strike in their talks in Washington this week. — Jason Hiner IN
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AI's dystopian problem begs for a clearer vision
4 days ago
by The Deep View
Welcome back. Salesforce's Shibani Ahuja joins The Deep View Conversations to explain how the company scales agentic AI without losing control, from its headless AI strategy to its new Koa reasoning model. Meanwhile, neolab Jev has a new model that is testing the frontier labs' scaling bet, claiming hundreds of times the speed and a fraction of the cost of GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1. And AI is losing the narrative even more than the safety debate. With 60-70% of Americans holding negative views of AI, the industry needs a Steve Jobs-level storyteller and not more platitudes. — Jason