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Gudea, which calls itself a storm tracker for the internet, pitched its AI platform at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, saying it can show organizations how a damaging story is spreading while there is still time to respond. The startup reports nearly 40 clients and about $15 million in total funding.
Samsung Semiconductor engineer Siamak Tavallaei says open specifications can shorten hyperscaler hardware integration from 9-12 months to 3-6 months, as AI data centers shift attention from single chips to whole-system interoperability.
Denver’s Intero Biosystems sells lab-grown human intestinal organoids to drug and chemical companies as an alternative to animal testing.
SpaceXSI launches Grok Voice 3.0, ranked first on a speech-to-speech index ahead of OpenAI and Google.
Epic released a Preview build of its game launcher, saying AI-assisted “vibe coding” made it faster and more responsive.
McKinsey will test a 10-minute AI client simulation with some entry-level candidates this fall, The Verge reported, citing The Wall Street Journal. Human interviewers, not the AI, will assess candidates.
Super Micro says AI factory speed, not GPU count, is the key metric as data pipelines and storage shape deployment.
iBuyPower introduced a $3,999 AMD-based compact AI workstation with 128GB RAM, a 55 TOPS NPU and dual 10Gb Ethernet, due in Q4 2026.
Munich-based CedarDB announced limited availability of CedarDB Cloud at TechCrunch Disrupt, pitching one database for both transaction processing and analytics as agentic AI raises new demands.
Oracle, AI cloud stocks fall as viral chart sparks CoreWeave debt concerns.
Microsoft principal architect Samir Rajadnya says the company is exploring composable memory that can be pooled across Azure and assigned to AI workloads on demand, as memory shortages leave GPUs idle and raise pressure on data-center design.
U.S. consumer prices rose at the fastest pace in five months in September, lifting fears of more aggressive Fed rate hikes. Stocks fell as chipmakers led declines, Bank of America trading missed estimates, and Anthropic held a pre-IPO investor day.
Colossal Biosciences unveiled GenoMorph, an AI platform to identify gene-editing targets for de-extinction, starting with the dodo.
Dell is pitching 18th-generation PowerEdge servers as agentic AI lifts demand for CPUs and general-purpose compute, saying AMD-powered systems can replace 13 older servers with one and improve rack density.
Apple detailed how iPad Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max supported 'From Earth to Sky,' a Turkish fashion show.
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco, Flock CEO Garrett Langley said the company has not ended contracts with any police departments over abuse of its license plate reader systems, while also saying its gunshot-detection microphones listen only for gunshots, despite broader capabilities listed on Flock's website.
Modal Labs raised $750M at a $15.75B valuation, more than triple its May mark, as annualized revenue topped $1B.
U.S. prosecutors say Abdulrahman Alfozan, charged with planting a recording device at OpenAI, booked a one-way flight to Saudi Arabia before his arrest. He remains detained.
Microsoft said it worked with Japan's National Police Agency to take down YAM Store, a marketplace for scammers, and two phishing kits that together enabled more than one billion malicious messages since January 2026.
German startup TimeTeller sells a saliva test that maps a person's circadian rhythm and is working with insurer Techniker Krankenkasse to time cancer treatment to patients' internal clocks, CEO Angela Relógio said at TechCrunch Disrupt.
Dell fell 11%, leading data center stocks lower after Barclays cut Dell, HPE and NetApp on enterprise AI concerns.
Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in China in December via iOS 27.3, excluding Siri AI and some features, Bloomberg reports.
OpenAI’s London staff received an average of £2.3m each in salary and equity in 2025, as the company expands its UK research hub and aims for a $1tn stock market listing. The pay was 58 times the UK median and reflects an intensifying AI talent war.
The FBI arrested Abdulrahman Alfozan, an OpenAI engineer, after a recording device hidden in toilet paper was found in a restricted executive conference room. The FBI alleges he tried to spy on OpenAI and risked leaking trade secrets that threatened national security.