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OpenAI now trains its frontier AI models with no internet access
OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents. In a blo...
Xbox’s first chief operating officer is out after just a few mont...
Xbox's first chief operating officer (COO) is leaving after the new role was created just a few months ago. Helen Chiang is leavin...
Data farmers: Ag-tech startup Aigen grows AI-generated weeds to t...
With diesel prices up sharply and digital plants speeding up training, the Redmond, Wash., startup is taking on new crops and new ...
Icertis veterans reunite as AI startup HumanTronik acquires tech ...
HumanTronik, an AI startup co-founded this year by Icertis co-founder Monish Darda, has acquired tech consultancy CloudMoyo, which...
Watching fruit ripen pays off: Seattle ag-tech startup Strella la...
Seattle startup Strella raised $4.25 million to expand its technology that tracks how fruit is ripening as it moves from growers t...
New facility at Washington national lab will give researchers fre...
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is building a facility where automated instruments will grow and study microbes, taki...
The Garage never should have existed: Why Microsoft’s grassroots ...
Microsoft Garage co-founder Quinn Hawkins explains how the employee innovation program outlasted bigger, better-funded efforts ins...
2026.43: A New Era
The best Stratechery content from the week of October 19, 2026, including the best iPad but worst phone, SS Sarandos in a storm, a...
Behind the Blog: Brute Forces
This week, we discuss reverse engineering and some wild court docs.
Podcast: ‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the Next Wave of AI Slop
How people are removing surveillance ads from their TVs; a big AI shakeup at Accenture; and the Character.ai bankruptcy.
OpenAI plans to restrict internet access for its frontier models ...
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI plans to restrict internet access for its frontier models during training until adequate alignme...
Sources: Instacart, currently valued at $12B, is in talks to sell...
The Information: Sources: Instacart, currently valued at $12B, is in talks to sell itself and held preliminary conversations wit...
Mave, which is developing an AI-driven tool to automate security ...
Meir Orbach / CTech: Mave, which is developing an AI-driven tool to automate security investigations, raised a $28M Series A led...
Memo: Helen Chiang, Xbox's first COO, is leaving Microsoft on Oct...
Tom Warren / The Verge: Memo: Helen Chiang, Xbox's first COO, is leaving Microsoft on October 23, just months after the role was...
Utopai, an AI film studio that says it has more than 20 projects ...
Rocket Drew / The Information: Utopai, an AI film studio that says it has more than 20 projects in the works, raised $60M at a $...
From Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch...
Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the...
Carta and NewView partner, hoping to entice more startups to let ...
A new program wants to encourage more startups to allow workers to cash out early by making it easier to transact tender offers.
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 roundtables: Go deeper on the chal...
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 is coming to SoWa Power Station in Boston on November 4, bringing founders, investors, and operator...
VCs, Superhuman Mail founder share red flags about product-market...
Top investors from Iconiq and Sapphire Ventures, along with Rahul Vohra, the founder of Superhuman Mail, share the do's and don'ts...
Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microdu...
The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice c...
