October 23, 2026

Carta and NewView partner, hoping to entice more startups to let employees sell shares early: A new program wants to encourage more startups to allow workers to cash out early by making it easier to transact tender offers. Read More

VCs, Superhuman Mail founder share red flags about product-market fit: Top investors from Iconiq and Sapphire Ventures, along with Rahul Vohra, the founder of Superhuman Mail, share the do's and don'ts for building hit products. Read More

What some of Anthropic’s backers are reportedly worth before its IPO: Early-stage and follow-on investors in the AI lab are already sitting on major paper returns. Read More

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At TechCrunch Founder Summit on November 4 in Boston, you can deepen your expertise on hiring, product market fit, pitching, founder leadership, and much more in a dynamic, intimate environment. Get ahead of the competition and show the world what the East Coast can build with a 25% discount using the code Daily25.

Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear: Warhound, the brainchild of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement. Read More

TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 roundtables: Go deeper on the challenges founders are solving right now : TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 is coming to SoWa Power Station in Boston on November 4, bringing founders, investors, and operators together for a full day of candid conversations, practical sessions, live pitching, networking, and smaller roundtables built for deeper discussion.  Read More

Lab testing giant Quest Diagnostics confirms patients' personal and health data was compromised during breach: Quest is the latest in a series of healthcare technology companies that have been hacked in recent months. Read More

Oura sues rival Ultrahuman again, threatening its US smart ring comeback: Oura alleges in its newest lawsuit that Ultrahuman's Ring Pro infringes two of its patents. Read More

Uber rival inDrive eyes 2027 robotaxi tests in Central Asia with Pony AI and Nvidia: The company plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027. Read More

Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing: MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs. Read More

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October 23, 2026

Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear: Warhound, the brainchild of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement. Read More

Oura sues rival Ultrahuman again, threatening its U.S. smart ring comeback: Oura alleges in its newest lawsuit that Ultrahuman's Ring Pro infringes two of its patents. Read More

Rivian buys world model startup to accelerate self-driving ambitions: Third Dimension's technology uses AI to match the physical world, which when combined with Rivian's reams of data could turn into a valuable simulator. Read More

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At TechCrunch Founder Summit on November 4 in Boston, you can deepen your expertise on hiring, product market fit, pitching, founder leadership, and much more in a dynamic, intimate environment. Get ahead of the competition and show the world what the East Coast can build with a 25% discount using the code Daily25.

Uber rival inDrive eyes 2027 robotaxi tests in Central Asia with Pony.ai and Nvidia: inDrive plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027. Read More

Mark Zuckerberg's creative plan to pay California’s proposed billionaire tax without losing control of Meta: A newly launched stock class being offered was partially engineered to help Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pay the "billionaire's tax," should the measure be voted into law. Read More

Canva releases its first image generation model: Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs. Read More

Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing: MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs. Read More

Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’: Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Microsoft’s system itself. Read More

1Password launches a way for AI agents to log in on your behalf without seeing your password: The new feature allows agents to log into a customer's personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials that secure those accounts. Read More

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