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Oct 05, 2026 8

Open or closed AI? How founders are choosing what to build on at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Learn how founders are choosing between building on open or closed AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register now to save up to $100 and get...

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Oct 05, 2026 12

Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI ‘agent fleet’

Independent researchers discovered an agent swarm that seems to be running on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's map servic...

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Oct 05, 2026 8

Sen. Adam Schiff on AI regulation, free speech, and impeaching Trump one more time

Today, I’m talking with Senator Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California. Sen. Schiff sits on a number of committees with oversight into t...

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Oct 05, 2026 9

Meet the Startup Battlefield 200 judges who’ll decide the winner at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Meet the final five Startup Battlefield judges who'll decide who wins the pitch competition at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Get your pass now...

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Oct 05, 2026 7

The final Disrupt Stage lineup: Three days of conversations you won’t hear anywhere outside of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

The full TechCrunch Disrupt Stage lineup revealed, featuring Max Hodak, Mark Wahlberg, Benchmark partners, and more. Register now to save...

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Oct 05, 2026 8

An open-source tool lets you delete 12GB of Apple Intelligence data on macOS

Getting some extra storage space on your Mac could be as easy as deleting Apple's AI features with a new open-source command line tool ca...

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Oct 05, 2026 14

Bringing predictive analytics to the agentic AI era 

In 2026, the question for enterprise AI is no longer whether predictive models can outperform statistical forecasts—that argument is sett...

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Oct 05, 2026 21

OpenAI is sticking more ads in ChatGPT

OpenAI's latest ad format will put images of sponsored products and services on your screen. The ads, which OpenAI will begin testing in ...

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Oct 05, 2026 14

Can Safeworld convince people that gen AI robots won’t hurt them?

Safeworld is building digital humans to make sure robots don't hurt the real ones.

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Oct 05, 2026 12

Explaining Hall-effect, TMR, and other new types of "mechanical" switches

Ars Technica's guide to new keyboard sensing technologies.

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Oct 05, 2026 24

Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI

Norbert Wiener, godfather of cybernetics, once said, "The thought of every age is reflected in its technique." For the past century, our ...

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Oct 05, 2026 42

People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?

Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of respons...