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Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic capabilities, lower pricing, and improved safety, positioning the model as a cheaper alternative to Opus, GPT-5.5, and Gemini Pro.

Acti is betting the smartphone keyboard is the next home for AI assistants. The startup's new keyboard for iOS and Android works across apps and lets users create custom AI-powered shortcuts using natural language.

The updates include translations, new tools for hosts, and more.

Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them from the need to bounce between databases, pipelines, and tools.

But the company is still claiming that New Glenn will return to flight this year.

The company may finally be ready to try to deliver on Elon Musk's years-long promise of launching a robotaxi network of its own.

X has launched a hosted MCP server, making it easier for developers to connect AI applications with the company’s API.

Stealthy startup Arcturus uses lasers to infuse carbon nanomaterials into copper, dramatically improving its ability to conduct electricity.

Users will be able use AI to create newsletters based on their recordings.

Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.

From October 10-16, host a Side Event and command the room during the week of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.

Proton's Lumo 2.0 is dropping this week, giving users a broader variety of capabilities.

OKX is bringing together payments, identity, and reputation into a marketplace for AI agents.

A new report finds "high-intensity AI adopters” saw headcount increase 10.2%. Among those companies, entry-level headcount rose by 12%, countering the rhetoric that AI kills junior jobs.

Wix-owned vibe-coding platform Base44 has started rolling out its own AI model — with hopes that it will eventually outperform frontier models.

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