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7 days until TechCrunch Founder Summit: Save up to $100 on your pass before doors open

In just 7 days, TechCrunch Founder Summit takes over Boston’s SoWa Power Station on November 4. Your chance to save up to $100 on tickets is running out, and the opportunity to learn and connect directly with experienced founders, investors, and startup leaders is almost here.

The Download: dead startups fueling AI and interspecies communication

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup, he didn’t think its data was worth much. But he’s…

Voters in Texas agree: They hate data centers

Ask Texas NAACP president Gary Bledsoe what it's been like to see data center developers descend upon Austin and its surrounding suburbs and he can rattle off project after project facing opposition from locals. There's the fight in Taylor over plans to build a data center at a site that's supposed to be a park.

Pairing industrial AI autonomy and human control

Why native PC ports of console games are suddenly everywhere

With dozens of titles unofficially ported to PC over the past few months, the big questions are: why is this now possible, and what changed?

Meta quietly launched an ‘AI pet journal’ app

Meta has launched a "tamagotchi-style" pet game called Waddle World, with virtual creatures that chat with users and create doodles to illustrate conversations. According to its Apple and Play Store listings, the "16-bit pet care game" is not really a game, but "a daily journal disguised as a pet." Users should talk, not type, with

With AI writing the code, entrepreneurial thinking is now what counts most for newcomers at Anthropic

Anthropic manager Felix Rieseberg says the classic coding interview is dead because Claude now solves small programming tasks better than job candidates do. He'd rather see prototypes that show taste, empathy, and principled thinking, since in his words, "hunger beats tenure." That sounds empowering, but it pushes the bar for newcomers toward entrepreneurial thinking and assumes a hustle mentality not everyone…

AI agents hacked Anthropic, maker of arguably the most capable AI models for cyberdefense

Cybersecurity startup Cathedral used AI agents to break into Anthropic's internal systems through third-party software as part of a bug bounty program. Anthropic confirmed access to sales, HR, and IT data but disputes how deep the breach went. The incident shows how vulnerable even leading AI labs are through their external software dependencies. The article AI agents hacked Anthropic, maker of arguably the most…

Macmillan Staff Say the Publisher Threw a Party for a Workplace AI Assistant That Was Later Killed

Workers tell WIRED that NOA—or “No Ordinary Assistant”—was unhelpful. Bestselling authors also say AI is ruining their relationships with Big Five publishers.

The future of the firm

How AI might enter the org chart—beneath, beside, and between us.

Legora is building the agentic operating system for legal work

See how Legora uses OpenAI models, ChatGPT, and Codex to accelerate legal workflows, expand contract analysis, and free lawyers to focus on higher-value work.

AI Emergency Alerts Are Coming. Humans Might Not Be Ready

Human beings struggle with emergency communication. Chatbots can help—if people take them seriously.

Polymathic AI and Princeton Researchers Release FlashMap, a Flow Map Drafter for 6.14x Faster LLM Decoding

FlashMap is a speculative decoding drafter from Polymathic AI, Princeton and USC ISI researchers. It drafts 16 tokens jointly in one pass and reaches up to 6.14x lossless speedup on Qwen3-8B.

Meet Google DeepMind’s Genie 4: Real-Time World Model With Native Audio

Google DeepMind released Genie 4 as a research preview. The real-time world model adds native audio, live dialogue and text steering, with Gemini 3.8 Flash planning events inside the simulation loop.

Should AI Decide Your Court Case? This Judge Says Yes

One of England’s top judges, Geoffrey Vos, believes that AI could adjudicate plenty of civil cases. The question, he says, is where the line should be drawn.

Making machines that can listen

Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.

VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more

Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.

Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication

A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.

The data center boom has an upside: innovation for the US grid

As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sorts of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders say.

Meet LEANN: An Open-Source Vector Index that Shrinks a 60M-Chunk RAG Index from 201 GB to 6 GB

UC Berkeley’s LEANN vector index stores a pruned graph and recomputes embeddings at query time. It matches HNSW accuracy at 90% recall using 4 GB instead of 188 GB, at the cost of seconds-level search.

"No human at the helm": Delaware plan would let AI agents run entire businesses

Owners of AI-run firms would evade liability for "reckless" AI, US Rep. Comer says.

Bank of America kindly asks that you don’t share your banking password with your AI assistant

The banking giant reminds customers that "you're responsible for activity" resulting from your AI agents' access.

Who’s really in charge at Anthropic after the IPO?

Here's a clear explanation of Anthropic's incredibly complex governance structure.

Anthropic IPO warns its AI could blackmail people, become sentient, end humanity

Seven potential AI nightmares pulled from Anthropic's 93-page "Risk Factor" tome.