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Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users

Tech Crunch AI

Affected users told TechCrunch they were using Grok Lite, and noticed the issues as early as Wednesday morning.

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The investor’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know 

Tech Crunch Venture

Year after year, investors who've explored the Expo Halls, met founders, and learned from peers have proven why you need to be on the ground at Disrupt this year.

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A third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds

Tech Crunch AI

ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.

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From: today

Early Cerebras investor Adit Singh joins Mayfield as infrastructure partner

Tech Crunch Venture

At Mayfield, Singh will focus on semiconductor, cybersecurity, and physical AI investments.

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From: today

Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router

Tech Crunch AI

Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models via an API.

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From: today

Senators demand answers from TikTok over experiment that disabled safeguards

Tech Crunch Apps

The safeguard was designed to prevent users from being overwhelmed by harmful content, but TikTok wanted to determine whether it made the app less engaging.

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Meta brings Pocket, an app that lets you vibe-code and share games, to US users

Tech Crunch AI

Meta is bringing Pocket, its experimental AI-powered app for creating and sharing interactive games, to users across the U.S. after quietly testing it in Brazil.

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From: today

Inertia Enterprises finds a way to make its fusion fuel fast

Tech Crunch AI

Fusion power startup Inertia Enterprises reduced the fuel filling process from a week to just a few hours. It's one of 10 hurdles the company must overcome to make a profitable power plant.

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Patreon launches 30 new creator features, including short-form Clips and revamped discovery

Tech Crunch Apps

Patreon is overhauling how creators get discovered, adding short-form Clips, topic-based communities, and a revamped recommendation system designed to give smaller creators more visibility.

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From: today

The 2026 Startup Battlefield 200 is here — see who made the cut

Tech Crunch Startups

We’re thrilled to unveil the 2026 Startup Battlefield 200, our annual handpicked list of the 200 most promising early-stage startups from around the world.

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There are less than 48 hours to save up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket 

Tech Crunch Startups

If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the startup community gathering in San Francisco from October 13-1...

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From: today

Apollo Atomics wants to make nuclear power cheaper by shrinking an overlooked part

Tech Crunch Climate

Y Combinator alumnus Apollo Atomics is shrinking a key nuclear reactor part, which promises to slash the cost of electricity below natural gas.

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From: today

AI data giant Alation confirms cyberattack

Tech Crunch Security

The data search and AI giant confirmed unauthorized access to its systems during an incident on Tuesday, and said it was investigating the breach.

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For a16z, AI gives foreign founders an advantage

Tech Crunch Venture

a16z’s Borderless Founder network initiative supports immigrant and international founders. "Having one foot in your home country, and one foot in Silicon Valley" is an advantage, the firm believes....

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US says hackers are targeting vulnerable water systems with the help of AI

Tech Crunch Security

Hackers are targeting internet-connected Siemens controllers used in water facilities around the United States.

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From: today

Meta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps

Tech Crunch AI

The company said that the dictation feature works across all apps, just like other tools such as Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue.

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From: today

Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users

Tech Crunch Crypto

Binance's Agent OS works with tools including ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor.

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From: yesterday

Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’

Tech Crunch AI

What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it's really for a far more real and powerful reason.

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From: yesterday

Waymo’s cheaper, next-gen robotaxi is now open to all riders in these three cities

Tech Crunch Transportation

The next-generation robotaxi, called the Waymo Ojai, is central to the company's push towards mass scale, and eventually, profitability.

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From: yesterday

OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections

Tech Crunch AI

A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.

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From: yesterday

Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup

Tech Crunch AI

SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.

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Travis Kalanick kicks off another round of VC bashing: ‘1% are helpful’

Tech Crunch Venture

After raising $1.7 billion for his new robotics company Atoms, Travis Kalanick is introspective about the role VCs have played in his career.

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Rillet raises $100M Series C at $1B valuation — 2 years after emerging from stealth

Tech Crunch Startups

AI-native account startup Rillet became a unicorn, led by Iconiq, after it doubled its ARR in the past three months, it said.

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From: yesterday

Gwyneth Paltrow allegedly set to throw dinner in honor of Sam Altman

Tech Crunch Media & Entertainment

The actress' firm Kinship Ventures is an investor in the company.

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