October 25, 2026

Startups don't need to go viral to win customers: At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, two founders and a VC discussed how to not just gain an early following but keep one. Read More

Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell: The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command. Read More

The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn't make it: From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations. Read More

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Block's new voice model sounds eerily human: Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max Read More

The hottest AI wearables and gadgets you should know about: We compiled a list of all the hottest AI wearables, including Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more. Read More

Instacart reportedly discussed selling itself with DoorDash and Uber: Instacart might sell itself to a larger competitor. Read More

Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats. : A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races. Read More

PHP-ocalypse: How two critical web bugs almost broke the internet: Two critical bugs in the PHP web programming language, used by the majority of the internet, threatened to upend the internet — and it's unlikely to be the last major software scare. Read More

OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”: OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work. Read More

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