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Sep 19, 2026

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·TechCrunch

A startup that builds other startups raised $100M, and is all-in on physical AI

Vantora, formerly UP.Labs, raised $100 million from Silversmith Capital Partners and is narrowing its model to build startups primarily for corporate partners. The firm says those...

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·TechCrunch

Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments

Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments, reflecting the AI industry’s push to apply models to drug discovery and disease research. The effort sits alongside...

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·TechCrunch

AI hallucination nearly triggers US military operation

A GovAI research scholar says an AI hallucination nearly triggered a US military operation, underscoring how unreliable outputs can become dangerous in high-stakes settings. The wa...

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·spectrum.ieee.org

OpenAI says its LLMs helped design the Jalapeño AI chip, cutting development time for an HBM4-based accelerator

OpenAI used its own large language models to help design Jalapeño, an AI accelerator that pairs a compute die with six HBM4 memory stacks and an I/O chiplet. The company says AI as...

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·TechCrunch

Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?

Anthropic says staff from Faculty, Accenture’s AI division, will work inside the company to red-team models, assess alignment, and test safeguards. The two companies expect to inve...

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·The Verge

OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web

Newly unsealed documents in The New York Times’ lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft show internal warnings that AI training practices could harm the web’s economic model. The fili...

OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web
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·code.claude.com

Claude Code 2.1.277 adds AGENTS.md fallback support, new gateway proxy options, and fixes CLI session hangs

Claude Code 2.1.277 now reads AGENTS.md when a project lacks CLAUDE.md, with the setting configurable under Project instructions in /config. The release also adds gateway proxy con...

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