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OpenAI hands its data centre and compute operation to a former xAI executive
Uday Ruddarraju was the unnamed compute CTO behind August's data centre shake-up. Europe is barely in the portfolio he has just taken over.
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Oct 14, 2026
Colossal Biosciences announces new AI platform to help accelerate de-extinction efforts
Colossal announced a new AI platform to help accelerate its de-extinction efforts and Peter Diamandis has launched a new fund to back startups who use it.
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Oct 14, 2026
Apple’s first AI features reach China in December, after a two-year wait
Beijing extracted a filter letting the government approve model updates, and got a date. Siri AI reaches neither China nor the EU
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Oct 14, 2026
TimeTeller puts our internal clocks at the center of personalized medicine
German startup TimeTeller has developed a saliva test kit to help anyone understand their circadian rhythm; it aims to reduce side effects from cancer treatments.
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Oct 14, 2026
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says he would cut off customers who build unsafe AI
He called it a hypothetical, said the worry is overdone, and prescribed accelerating the containment technology his company is now hiring to build
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Oct 14, 2026
Hiyd is a health tracker that attaches to the watch you already wear
Former Apple engineers figured out how to get a biometric sensor to attach to your watch without any magnets or adhesives.
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Oct 14, 2026
Salience Labs raises $125M for optical AI switches, then expands in California
The research is from Oxford and Munster, some of the money is British state money, and a British rival is already deployed on a third of the capital
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Oct 14, 2026
Apate sends AI agents undercover to get scammed so they can gather fraud intelligence
Most companies use AI agents to ship products faster or speed up workflows. Apate.ai sends them undercover to get scammed.
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Oct 14, 2026
Squarespace and Titan partner to offer $3 professional email for entrepreneurs
Squarespace partners with Titan to offer professional business email starting at $3/month. Includes inbox, calendar, and contacts for entrepreneurs.
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Oct 14, 2026
Airport drop-off charges to be reviewed after sharp increase
Confirming the review, the government said it was "vital to ensure travel remains accessible and that passengers are treated fairly".
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Oct 14, 2026
Mosqitter Raises $5 Million to Scale AI-Powered Mosquito Surveillance Network
Mosqitter, a Pennsylvania startup, is raising $5M to scale its AI-powered mosquito surveillance network. Over 5,000 devices deployed across five continents.
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Oct 14, 2026
Kyndryl will run AI agents inside Toyota Finance’s live IT operations
The claim is production scale, which is the step almost 90% of Amazon's own agent prototypes never reached
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Oct 14, 2026
Netflix Lays Off 1,000 Employees as Streaming Competition Intensifies
Netflix will lay off 1,000 employees globally, about 6% of its workforce, as it faces competition from platforms like YouTube and TikTok and shifts focus…
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Oct 14, 2026
EV sales rebound to their highest level in a year, and stay 40% below 2025
The American figures are quarterly, and Europe registered more electric cars in July alone than the US sold in three months
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Oct 14, 2026
Americans juggle jobs and cut costs as inflation bites
Rising living costs force Americans to take on multiple jobs, cut discretionary spending, and prioritize essentials like food and gasoline.
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Oct 14, 2026
Prismm helps banks keep inherited money in-house
With Prismm, account holders can give designated family members access to their accounts and documents ahead of time.
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Oct 14, 2026
A London startup is putting AI cameras into Polish operating theatres
Vetro logs surgical stages and flags delays, and the EU rules that would classify worker-monitoring systems do not bite until December 2027
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Oct 14, 2026
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Get 50% discount on the last two days of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Oct. 14-25, in San Francisco's Moscone West. Register now and join the rest of Disrupt.
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Oct 14, 2026
Humanly acquires CareerArc, adding recruitment marketing to its AI hiring tools
It is the fifth acquisition in two years, no price was disclosed, and the category is one European law treats as high-risk
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Oct 14, 2026
America has passed 80,000 public fast-charging ports for the first time
The EU counted 212,439 public DC points in April, and both sides are chasing the power a Finnish maker says matters least
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Oct 14, 2026
Floqer’s AI agents research sales prospects so teams don’t have to
Floqer is an autonomous customer knowledge platform that provides business-to-business sales and marketing teams with an AI-powered database designed to
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Oct 14, 2026
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Oct 14, 2026
OpenAI’s CFO says firms using Chinese AI models are risking security
She said it in Dublin, hours after Anthropic said the same, and the firm OpenAI's models hacked defended itself with a Chinese model
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Oct 14, 2026
NTangible bets it can predict how athletes will perform under pressure
NTangible is building an analytics platform for collegiate sports organizations and other clubs to measure an athlete's "clutch" factor.
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Oct 14, 2026