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On 25 August, OpenAI fully unveiled Jalapeño, the company’s debut AI accelerator chip. Jalapeño delivers up to 13.4 petaflops of 4-bit compute and accesses 232 gigabytes of the most advanced memory available, linking to it at a blazing 15.4 terabytes per second. Benchmarks cited by OpenAI show that Jalapeño can reduce end-to-end latency (the time between prompt to last token) by up to 3.6 times when compared to Nvidia’s GB300 —a chip the company currently relies on—and do so while consuming less power. Whether these figures translate into real-world gains once Jalapeño enters widespread service in OpenAI’s inference fleet remains to be seen, but performance is only half the story. The other half is how the chip was designed—a process which, as you might expect, was accelerated by OpenAI’s

Maybe you heard about the AI-controlled vending machine that stocked underwear and live fish . Or the AI manager of a San Francisco store that fired a human employee . Or the AI radio DJ that said its catchphrase , “Stay in the manifest,” 229 times per day. These incidents all emerged from experiments run by Andon Labs , an AI safety company based in San Francisco that puts AI agents in charge of real-world operations and watches what happens. These operations double as testbeds for Andon’s commercial work developing evaluations and conducting research with the leading frontier AI labs. Their spectacular and absurd failures have won the company plenty of attention. But many people don’t realize that the experiments are intended to answer a serious question: How much real-world responsibili

The Lenfest Institute is expanding its AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with a $5 million OpenAI commitment, placing AI engineers inside local newsrooms to build practical, ethical AI tools for journalism.

NASA and partners are testing generative AI models on spacecraft to enable autonomous decision‑making for deep space missions, improving flexibility where real‑time human control isn’t possible.

AI-powered cameras dot streets across the world, equipped with the power to identify faces or vehicle license plates . But a public backlash is gaining momentum . Privacy concerns abound, encompassing the lack of consent for capturing data, how that data is stored and used , and the risk of misuse . Those concerns are motivating people to fight back. The DeFlock project, for instance, maps automated license plate readers (ALPRs) to raise awareness. Some people resort to extreme measures , such as vandalizing or damaging ALPRs. Others are stitching together more creative responses, crafting “adversarial fashion” to evade surveillance cameras, like a Kickstarter project called noRecognition , presented at last month’s DEF CON hacker convention . Scrambling surveillance In 2025, cybersecurity

AI agents named Timmy, Ren and Jackie are flooding social media with spam messages that try to create accounts and promote a startup, raising privacy and trust concerns for everyday users.

Basis shows GPT‑6 Astra can complete a complex 50‑tab tax workbook in half the time of GPT‑5.6, with better intent understanding and adaptive reasoning that cuts cost and improves efficiency for accountants.

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### ZDNET’s key takeaways * Apple has released its first update to iOS 27. * The update fixes a bug that causes the 18 Pro and Pro Max to restart. * A bug-fixing update is also available for the iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro. * * * Apple has released its first update to iOS 27 to fix an intermittent but annoying problem that could cause the [iPhone 18 Pro](https://www.zdnet.com/business/iphone-18-pro-hands-on-dual-aperture-camera-burgundy-color/) and Pro Max to freeze or restart without warning. Released Monday, iOS 27.0.1 promises to resolve this freeze and restart issue, which typically occurs when Face ID fails to authenticate. As an iPhone 18 Pro owner, I’ve run into this hiccup a couple of times already. One time, my iPhone froze for several seconds but eventually recovered. Another time,

OpenAI is inviting builders to submit stories about using Codex for their projects, seeking participants for the Codex Originals program.

Industry leader Unitree soared during its Shanghai IPO, but has since plunged more than 50% from its peak [SHANGHAI] From robots for healthcare and companionship, to those used in malls and hotels, China’s humanoid robotics industry is growing rapidly – although some in the industry caution that this area is nowhere near maturity. The number of humanoid robotics companies has expanded from just a few dozen startups a few years ago to more than 150 companies currently. Significant funds are pouring into this sector, with [at least 50 upcoming artificial intelligence and robotics initial public offerings in China and Hong Kong](https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/international/global/china-robotics-firms-line-ipos-pitch-next-phase-ai) by the end of 2026. Unitree, one of the top humanoids startu

IEEE TryEngineering is dedicated to inspiring intellectual curiosity in children. The technologies shaping our world, including in the realms of artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, and ocean exploration, are evolving rapidly. Helping young learners understand the concepts is essential to preparing the next generation of problem-solvers, creators, and engineers. TryEngineering has introduced a STEM book series for youngsters ages 8 to 12 through the Lerner Publishing Group . The series, Tomorrow’s Technology With TryEngineering, Powered by IEEE, makes complex topics more approachable and engaging, with each book combining age-appropriate explanations, real-world examples, and design challenges that encourage curiosity and critical thinking. The series is based on ebooks and videos a

It’s 6 a.m. on a cold January morning in 2002 in New Delhi. It’s still dark outside, and I’m in the kitchen preparing breakfast, packing lunches, and getting my two children ready to catch the school bus when, for the third time in a week, the power goes out. No lights, no mixer to finish my daughter’s puttu —her favorite rice dish—no kettle, no toaster. The bathroom is dark, and the kids are upset. It will probably be hours before the power comes back on, so I grab a flashlight and light the candles that are set up around the house for these occasions. We’re behind schedule now. We pack the food we have, bundle up as the house turns chilly, and head outside, leaving a mess in the kitchen. We make our way to the bus stop in the dark—the streetlights are out, too—only to discover my daughte

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Meta has opened part of its Muse AI agent so hobbyists can connect it to TVs, screens, buttons and smart-home devices. It is also preparing 5,000 free USB-C adapters for subscribers, but this remains a maker project rather than an easy mass-market upgrade.

AI infrastructure firm 0G has chosen Singapore as its global headquarters and plans to invest about US$15.4 million over five years, including research into AI for badminton. The move could bring research work and new opportunities to Singapore.

Singapore aims to train 100,000 AI‑bilingual workers by 2029 through the National AI Impact Programme, expanding AI skills for accountants, lawyers and other non‑tech roles while boosting AI tool use in grants.

Malaysia plans to introduce its first dedicated AI law in early 2027, with tougher rules for riskier uses and new enforcement powers. This could give Malaysians stronger safeguards and clearer accountability when AI causes harm, while adding compliance work for businesses.

Samsung launched the Galaxy A08 in Singapore for S$278, bringing voice access to Gemini and Perplexity, visual search tools and six years of security updates to a budget phone.

Singapore’s central bank is committing SG$220 million over three years to fintech and AI infrastructure. The article says this support could help regional builders, but warns that easy access to AI tools does not make future trends easier to predict.

Thai app Kalguroo uses AI to estimate calories and nutrients from meal photos and has passed one million registered users. It makes food logging easier, but portion sizes and hidden ingredients can still lead to inaccurate results.

Singapore has launched the National Centre for Engineering Biology (NCEB) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) to support AI-guided sustainable biomanufacturing and the development of specialty chemicals from renewable feedstocks. Backed by close to S$50 million (approximately US$38.7 million) in funding over seven years under the National Research Foundation’s Research, Innovation and Enterprise 2025 plan, the centre brings together universities, polytechnics and public research institutions to strengthen the country’s engineering biology capabilities. Further details are available from the [official announcement](https://news.nus.edu.sg/nus-launches-nationalcentreforengineeringbiology/). The initiative aligns with wider national efforts to strengthen innovation infrastructure an

OpenAI's leadership is prioritizing core reasoning models and unified assistant interfaces over experimental multi-sensory tools like video generation to maximize computing resources. While the company bets on raw text intelligence, market trends show enterprises increasingly adopting specialized, application-specific tools instead.

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Japan is investing billions of dollars into state-backed chipmaker Rapidus to mass-produce advanced 2-nanometer semiconductors by 2027. Partnering with IBM, the initiative aims to rebuild Japan's domestic chip supply chain and secure a competitive foothold against global foundries.

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Sometimes, you have to dig beyond the headlines to get a better idea of how a company is performing. Endowus’ latest audited financial results are a good example of this. [Gregory Van](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregory-van/?originalSubdomain=hk), the co-founder and CEO of the Singapore-based wealthtech firm, told _Tech in Asia_ last year that it had a [“clear path to profitability”](https://www.techinasia.com/endowus-doubles-revenue-2022-losses-rose-26m) by 2025. On its face, the results suggest that the firm has its work cut out for it to hit this milestone. Endowus co-founders Samuel Rhee (left) and Gregory Van / Photo credit: Endowus In 2023, Endowus’ total losses before tax widened to S$30.6 million (US$23.7 million) – a 14% jump from last year. This came even as its revenue grew by

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In November, ASEAN leaders are scheduled to sign the Digital Economy Framework Agreement (DEFA), the first region-wide pact written specifically for the digital economy. Negotiators closed the text in Manila in May, and ASEAN’s own statement puts the prize at up to US$2 trillion in digital economy value by 2030 if the agreement is implemented […] The post Stop calling Southeast Asia an emerging market in mobile. It is where the behaviour gets invented appeared first on e27 .

For the past three years, much of the AI debate inside Southeast Asia’s engineering teams has centred on a familiar question: which model is best? Founders, CTOs and developers compared GPT-4, Claude, Codex, Cursor and open-weight models on code completion, documentation, debugging and speed. For many startups, the first wave of AI developer adoption meant […] The post Why Southeast Asia’s AI coding race is moving from models to infrastructure appeared first on e27 .

**SINGAPORE, 5 October 2026** – [Singapore’s Digital Economy grew to S$144.1 billion in 2025](https://www.imda.gov.sg/resources/press-releases-factsheets-and-speeches/sgde-ar-2026), accounting for 19.3% of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), up from 18.8% in 2024. This steady growth reflects that digital technologies continue to shape how all enterprises across various industries operate, and how workers do their jobs. * According to [IMDA’s Singapore Digital Economy (SGDE) Report 2026](https://www.imda.gov.sg/assets/8e4d9951-bc53-4612-80ba-77ee4feaa6da.pdf), non-Information & Communications (non-I&C) sectors remain the dominant growth driver, contributing to more than two-thirds of Singapore’s digital economy. The nominal value-added from digitalisation in the non-I&C sectors grew

For many large companies in Southeast Asia, the challenge with artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer access. The models are available, the cloud infrastructure is ready, and boards have approved AI experimentation. The harder problem is turning that experimentation into systems that work inside heavily regulated businesses without breaking compliance, confusing staff or creating new […] The post OneByZero raises US$20M Series A to help enterprises move AI from pilots to production appeared first on e27 .

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Dave Dugan, OpenAI’s vice president of global ad solutions, has a bold message for advertisers in Asia: Advertise directly to the platform’s 1 billion weekly active users. “We believe this is an entirely new channel for marketers,” he said in September at a virtual press briefing for media in Southeast Asia. Image credit: Ulla Dugan spent more than 12 years at Meta, helping it sell advertising to some of the world’s largest brands. OpenAI hired him in March to convince marketers to put some of those budgets into ChatGPT. The company began showing ads in the US in February to free users. Seven months later, ChatGPT ads were launched in more than 60 markets, including India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Dugan said advertisers in the six Sout

China’s Zhipu raised cloud prices for its newer GLM-5.1 service by about 8% to 17% as it seeks profit from AI that can complete longer tasks with less supervision. Developers and businesses may face higher bills as AI providers push harder to cover costly research.

Developers are adopting Jev, a fast classifier model from Vercel, which lets apps pick from predefined options quickly and cheaply, cutting costs and time compared to using large language models for simple decisions.

In the past few years, breaking the various flavors of AI models out of their [silos](https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/seizing-the-agentic-ai-advantage) and teaching them to work together has been a job mostly for the enterprise giants. [Aurora Zelia I Sam Hui](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aurorazelia/) is among the first wave of smaller entrepreneurs outside the AI industry to launch a company that combines artificial intelligence and robotics into a working venture. [BIM Engine](https://bimengine.ai/) – the company Zelia co-founded in 2025 – is already profitable and has been involved in more than 80 projects to date. Image credit: Arsal Ysfin An AI agent platform for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, BIM Engine is based in San

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OpenAI says its AI solved the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems, but independent verification is still pending. Mathematicians say rapid AI-assisted discovery is already changing research norms, costs and career pressures.

A crucial safeguard against AI agents going rogue —keeping humans in the loop to review and approve their decisions—will fail unless designers and users change their current practices, a trio of leading AI ethics researchers argue. Though most autonomous agents have systems to keep users in the loop about their actions, in practice these processes actually push humans out of the loop, the authors argue in a paper posted to ArXiv on 6 September. In other words, “the human just becomes this meat tool to give permissions without the cognitive capability to engage,” says one of the authors, Avijit Ghosh , the lead technical AI policy researcher at Hugging Face, an open-source machine learning platform. In the near term, the paper says, humans’ being out of the loop leads to agents acting in wa

OpenAI is testing clearly labelled visual ads beside images generated in ChatGPT, starting with selected US advertisers this month. The ads will not influence ChatGPT’s answers, but users may soon see more product suggestions inside the chatbot.

Researchers say many separate AI agents, apparently using Tencent-linked infrastructure, are repeatedly querying Alibaba’s Amap outside its normal access rules. No harmful activity has been found, but the case shows how automated agents can quietly place extra demands on online services.

Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, an open-weight AI model built with substantial German-language data and trained in Europe. Developers can download and adapt it, giving organisations another option beyond relying entirely on closed AI systems from US companies.

An MIT expert report says AI is weakening office hours, study groups and undergraduate research while straining trust between students and lecturers. Universities may need to protect human mentoring as students turn to AI for help.

ChatGPT users in the US will soon see display ads while the chatbot generates an image for them. The article ChatGPT's new ad format fills the image generation loading screen with product carousels appeared first on The Decoder .

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Safeworld has launched with more than US$12 million to test whether generative-AI-controlled robots can avoid people in simulated workplaces. Independent safety checks could become essential before these robots work alongside employees or children.

OpenAI's latest ad format will put images of sponsored products and services on your screen. The ads, which OpenAI will begin testing in the US later this month, will "initially" appear when you generate images with ChatGPT, according to an announcement on Monday. The company first brought ads to ChatGPT in February. Until now, ChatGPT's […]

Today, I’m talking with Senator Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California. Sen. Schiff sits on a number of committees with oversight into tech and AI: intellectual property, antitrust, privacy and technology — it’s all there. I really wanted to ask him about how we might regulate anything related to the tech industry at this moment […]

ChatGPT is getting more ads. Specifically, OpenAI is adding visual display ads to its ad product line-up so that ads will appear alongside images that users ask ChatGPT to generate. In addition, the company is expanding its ad measurement tools and partnerships, and developing new ways to determine brand suitability. The new ads will begin to appear later this month in the U.S. only for now, and will feature products and services from an initial test group of advertisers. The ads will also be clearly labeled and won’t influence the answers ChatGPT provides, the company notes. The move follows the launch of Meta’s Muse, an agentic AI app which is free to everyone and a growing competitor for leading AI chatbots, like ChatGPT. OpenAI [introduced ads](https://ads.openai.com/) earlier this yea

Public anxiety over artificial intelligence is rising globally, with many people expressing nervousness or opposing local data centres, yet personal use of chatbots and generative AI tools continues to soar. This paradox highlights a growing disconnect between how individuals feel about tech companies pushing AI and their actual willingness to use the technology in daily life.

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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 called RemoveMacAI. There used to be a single Settings toggle for disabling Apple Intelligence, but that was removed in macOS 27. Now, the models stay on your disk, and the features […]

The story begins almost 12 years ago, when Tayo Adesanya started a career working with microchips and AI processors. He mainly helped large manufacturers decide which chips to use in their hardware. Those years, he told TechCrunch, gave him early insight into where demand in the AI computing market was headed. “Starting Lola Vision Systems was a bet on where the world was headed and what I was seeing,” he said. In 2024, he launched [Lola Vision Systems](https://lolavisionsystems.com/), an AI infrastructure company that builds software and chips for running AI models on devices. Its core product is software that translates AI models into instructions a specific chip can run. Adesanya calls this software a “compiler toolchain,” and he says it is a massive bottleneck: manually setting up an A

For AI startups, choosing a model isn’t necessarily a one-time architecture decision anymore. Open models are improving. Frontier APIs keep advancing. Models can be customized for specific workloads, and some companies are building products that use multiple models rather than committing to one. That gives founders more ways to build — and more decisions about where to spend, what to own, and how much flexibility to preserve as the technology changes. At [**TechCrunch Disrupt 2026**](https://techcrunch.com/events/techcrunch-disrupt/?utm_source=tc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=disrupt2026&utm_content=agenda&promo=post_openvcclosedai_10052026&display=), four conversations approach those decisions from different points in the AI stack, from multi-model applications and customized models to inf

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Really the only negative associated with the new M6-powered Mac Mini is its high price. While the last-gen model debuted at just $599, the faster, but mostly unchanged 2026 edition starts at $899 — except for right now. You can grab the base model that has 256GB of storage, 16GB RAM, and a 12-core CPU […]

### ZDNET’s key takeaways * I shipped a Mac app without writing a single line of code. * Vibe coding took 502 directives, not one magic prompt. * App Store promo images took almost as long as the app. * * * At around noon on Sunday, Sept. 20, I came up with an idea for a Mac app. One week later, on Sunday, Sept. 27, also around noon, I submitted my completed app to Apple. Four days later, Apple accepted the tool, and [it went live on the App Store](https://cc.zdnet.com/v1/otc/00hQi47eqnEWQ6T9d4QLBUc?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.apple.com%2Fus%2Fapp%2Ficon-gallery-97%2Fid6815353426&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zdnet.com%2Finnovation%2Fclaude-code-vibe-coding-mac-app%2F). **Also: [AI completely changed how I develop iPhone apps … and I think I love it](https://www.zdnet.com/tech/apple-a-day-ai-agentic-codi

Google acknowledges that some Android apps may run poorly on its Intel-based Googlebook laptops. Buyers should not assume access to the Play Store means every app will work smoothly.

Sponsored Predictive modeling with AI can revolutionize how organizations use everyday business data. October 5, 2026 In 2026, the question for enterprise AI is no longer whether predictive models can outperform statistical forecasts—that argument is settled. The big question now is how to enable predictive systems to act on their own conclusions without drifting from business intent. The frontier has moved from prediction to autonomous decision making, and the gap between leaders and laggards is widening accordingly. “Enterprises are done with a backward-looking point of view; they want to be more forward-thinking,” says Vishal Gupta, partner at research firm Everest Group. Intelligent analytics, powered by technologies like deep learning and generative AI, are making this possible. Real-

Thousands of startups applied. Just 200 made [Startup Battlefield](https://techcrunch.com/startup-battlefield/). Only 20 will pitch on the [**Disrupt Stage**](https://techcrunch.com/events/techcrunch-disrupt/agenda/?promo=post_sb200judges_10052026&utm_campaign=disrupt2026&utm_content=sb200&utm_medium=post&utm_source=tc) across all three days.Competition goes from October 13-15 at [**TechCrunch Disrupt 2026**](https://techcrunch.com/events/techcrunch-disrupt/?utm_source=tc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=disrupt2026&utm_content=sb200&promo=post_sb200judges_10052026&display=). It all comes down to one final decision. For our [**Startup Battlefield finalist judges**](https://techcrunch.com/events/techcrunch-disrupt/agenda/?promo=post_sb200judges_10052026&utm_campaign=disrupt2026&utm_content=sb20

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Singapore’s central bank is committing SG$220 million over three years to fintech and AI infrastructure. The article says this support could help regional builders, but warns that easy access to AI tools does not make future trends easier to predict.

In the past few years, breaking the various flavors of AI models out of their [silos](https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/seizing-the-agentic-ai-advantage) and teaching them to work together has been a job mostly for the enterprise giants. [Aurora Zelia I Sam Hui](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aurorazelia/) is among the first wave of smaller entrepreneurs outside the AI industry to launch a company that combines artificial intelligence and robotics into a working venture. [BIM Engine](https://bimengine.ai/) – the company Zelia co-founded in 2025 – is already profitable and has been involved in more than 80 projects to date. Image credit: Arsal Ysfin An AI agent platform for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, BIM Engine is based in San

Developers are adopting Jev, a fast classifier model from Vercel, which lets apps pick from predefined options quickly and cheaply, cutting costs and time compared to using large language models for simple decisions.

Sometimes, you have to dig beyond the headlines to get a better idea of how a company is performing. Endowus’ latest audited financial results are a good example of this. [Gregory Van](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregory-van/?originalSubdomain=hk), the co-founder and CEO of the Singapore-based wealthtech firm, told _Tech in Asia_ last year that it had a [“clear path to profitability”](https://www.techinasia.com/endowus-doubles-revenue-2022-losses-rose-26m) by 2025. On its face, the results suggest that the firm has its work cut out for it to hit this milestone. Endowus co-founders Samuel Rhee (left) and Gregory Van / Photo credit: Endowus In 2023, Endowus’ total losses before tax widened to S$30.6 million (US$23.7 million) – a 14% jump from last year. This came even as its revenue grew by

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In November, ASEAN leaders are scheduled to sign the Digital Economy Framework Agreement (DEFA), the first region-wide pact written specifically for the digital economy. Negotiators closed the text in Manila in May, and ASEAN’s own statement puts the prize at up to US$2 trillion in digital economy value by 2030 if the agreement is implemented […] The post Stop calling Southeast Asia an emerging market in mobile. It is where the behaviour gets invented appeared first on e27 .

For the past three years, much of the AI debate inside Southeast Asia’s engineering teams has centred on a familiar question: which model is best? Founders, CTOs and developers compared GPT-4, Claude, Codex, Cursor and open-weight models on code completion, documentation, debugging and speed. For many startups, the first wave of AI developer adoption meant […] The post Why Southeast Asia’s AI coding race is moving from models to infrastructure appeared first on e27 .

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Dave Dugan, OpenAI’s vice president of global ad solutions, has a bold message for advertisers in Asia: Advertise directly to the platform’s 1 billion weekly active users. “We believe this is an entirely new channel for marketers,” he said in September at a virtual press briefing for media in Southeast Asia. Image credit: Ulla Dugan spent more than 12 years at Meta, helping it sell advertising to some of the world’s largest brands. OpenAI hired him in March to convince marketers to put some of those budgets into ChatGPT. The company began showing ads in the US in February to free users. Seven months later, ChatGPT ads were launched in more than 60 markets, including India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Dugan said advertisers in the six Sout

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**SINGAPORE, 5 October 2026** – [Singapore’s Digital Economy grew to S$144.1 billion in 2025](https://www.imda.gov.sg/resources/press-releases-factsheets-and-speeches/sgde-ar-2026), accounting for 19.3% of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), up from 18.8% in 2024. This steady growth reflects that digital technologies continue to shape how all enterprises across various industries operate, and how workers do their jobs. * According to [IMDA’s Singapore Digital Economy (SGDE) Report 2026](https://www.imda.gov.sg/assets/8e4d9951-bc53-4612-80ba-77ee4feaa6da.pdf), non-Information & Communications (non-I&C) sectors remain the dominant growth driver, contributing to more than two-thirds of Singapore’s digital economy. The nominal value-added from digitalisation in the non-I&C sectors grew

For many large companies in Southeast Asia, the challenge with artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer access. The models are available, the cloud infrastructure is ready, and boards have approved AI experimentation. The harder problem is turning that experimentation into systems that work inside heavily regulated businesses without breaking compliance, confusing staff or creating new […] The post OneByZero raises US$20M Series A to help enterprises move AI from pilots to production appeared first on e27 .

China’s Zhipu raised cloud prices for its newer GLM-5.1 service by about 8% to 17% as it seeks profit from AI that can complete longer tasks with less supervision. Developers and businesses may face higher bills as AI providers push harder to cover costly research.

Singapore aims to train 100,000 AI‑bilingual workers by 2029 through the National AI Impact Programme, expanding AI skills for accountants, lawyers and other non‑tech roles while boosting AI tool use in grants.

Thai app Kalguroo uses AI to estimate calories and nutrients from meal photos and has passed one million registered users. It makes food logging easier, but portion sizes and hidden ingredients can still lead to inaccurate results.

Singapore has launched the National Centre for Engineering Biology (NCEB) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) to [support AI-guided sustainable biomanufacturing](https://news.nus.edu.sg/nus-launches-nationalcentreforengineeringbiology/) and the development of speciality chemicals from renewable feedstocks. Backed by close to S$50 million (approximately US$38.7 million) in funding over seven years under the National Research Foundation’s Research, Innovation and Enterprise 2025 plan, the centre brings together universities, polytechnics and public research institutions to strengthen the country’s engineering biology capabilities. Further details are available from the [official announcement](https://news.nus.edu.sg/nus-launches-nationalcentreforengineeringbiology/). The initiative

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Meta and Microsoft, two of Anthropic's biggest enterprise customers, are sharply cutting their use of Claude. Microsoft slashed the monthly per-employee budget in its cloud division from $100,000 to $10,000, while Meta halved its Claude Code users to 30,000. Both companies are pushing their own AI tools instead. For Anthropic, that reliance on a few major clients is turning into a strategic risk. The article Meta and Microsoft pull back from Claude as Anthropic transforms from partner into competitor appeared first on The Decoder .

An invisible, machine-readable watermark in text output is rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex, but only for users in the European Union at first. OpenAI says its textGrain watermarking "matched or exceeded" other approaches like Google DeepMind's SynthID for text, which is also the basis for the watermarking Anthropic announced in August. Like OpenAI, Anthropic […]

Following many recent disclosures about AI agents accessing third-party websites and services, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, says that it "can confirm that we have discovered some activity" by "rogue" OpenAI agents on Wikimedia platforms. The activity includes edits to Wikimedia wikis, "unsuccessful attempts" to "exploit" the Etherpad note-taking tool that the Wikimedia Foundation […]

OpenAI is adding invisible textGrain watermarks to ChatGPT in the EU, but unlike Anthropic, it will let API customers worldwide opt out. Tests show detection rates as high as 95 percent, dropping to 17 percent when a quarter of the words are replaced. The article OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT text in the EU but makes it optional for API users worldwide appeared first on The Decoder .

For the first 10 years of my career, I worked in product management and data analytics by myself. I wrote database queries that pulled numbers out of corporate systems, built statistical models to predict what customers would buy, and shipped data pipelines that moved information between business systems. I built and scaled analytics teams at Best Buy and Target , studying how customers shop and what stores should stock. Today I lead enterprise AI transformation at Lowe’s , the Fortune 100 home improvement retailer. The goal is not to sell artificial intelligence ; it is to use it to deliver useful expertise at the moment a customer needs it. In retail and other customer-facing industries, virtual assistants can help people address everyday questions—such as how to repair a leaky faucet—wh

This past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other labs have announced breakthroughs on numerous long-standing mathematical problems, in some cases pushing well beyond what researchers expected current systems to be capable of — including resolving one of the famous Millennium Prize problems. But in classic Silicon Valley style, AI labs are [moving fast and breaking things](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/994255/openai-millennium-prize-problem-tristan-buckmaster-competition), barreling through the discipline with [all the grace of a runaway bulldozer](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1001477/openai-math-advisory-group). Results that might normally have been celebrated have instead [sparked backlash](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/992953

Reflection AI unveiled Beam, a 501‑billion‑parameter open‑weight model that matches Chinese frontier models on reasoning benchmarks while using only a third to a quarter of the compute, aimed at enterprises and governments for building custom AI factories.

An OpenAI publicist tried to change the topic of CEO Sam Altman's interview with Vanity Fair's Mark Guiducci after the editor brought up a ChatGPT user's suicide. When Guiducci confronted Altman about the incident, the publicist warned Guiducci about running out of time, saying she'd like to "move on" to another topic. The interruption came […]

Sam Altman thinks that the benefits of AI will be so great that "the world should accept some bad things happening" along the way. The OpenAI CEO pointed to hacks, scams, and "other bad things" as costs society should expect to tolerate because "people will do tremendously orders of magnitude more good stuff" with AI, […]

Instinct, the AI agent [now valued at $10 billion](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/viral-ai-agent-instinct-raises-1b-series-c-at-a-10b-valuation/) as of its latest funding round, is expanding into group chats. The startup [announced](https://x.com/noahrshinn/status/2107161132192690558) on Monday that users will be able to add the agent to chats with friends, which could be helpful in certain scenarios like travel planning, snagging event tickets, running fantasy leagues, organizing carpools, or managing who’s bringing what to Thanksgiving. Notably, the group chats with the AI agent will work even if a user’s friends haven’t joined Instinct, the company said. With the launch, Instinct moves ahead in its battle with top competitors in the space, like Meta’s Muse. The latter doesn’t yet off

Anthropic employees donated $540 million in 2025 alone, nearly five times as much as the next-largest Fortune 500 donors, thanks to a company program that tops up every stock donation with extra shares and triples contributions from early employees. The article Anthropic is quietly becoming America's biggest corporate donor ahead of its mega IPO appeared first on The Decoder .

Reka AI's Rho-1 is a 19-billion-parameter omni-model that processes and generates text, images, video, and robot control actions in a single neural network. Trained on 320 H100 GPUs in about three months, it uses a fraction of the compute today's top models need. Instead of routing tasks to specialized systems, Rho-1 runs all modalities as tokens in one shared context window. The article Reka AI's omni-model Rho-1 handles text, images, video, and robot control in a single model appeared first on The Decoder .

Google may be expanding its "Call for Me" AI feature beyond business calls so you can use it to send messages to friends and family. Android Authority reports finding a "Gemini Calling" introductory screen in an APK teardown with examples that include "Call Mom and tell her I will be 15 minutes late" and "Call […]

Although it’s only been a couple of months since Etched raised [$700 million at a $21 billion valuation](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/18/etcheds-valuation-doubles-to-21b-in-a-month/), the AI chip startup is already being plied with investment offers at double or more its value, according to people familiar with the company. Etched is reviewing incoming bids that range from $40 billion from top-tier investors to $50 billion from lesser-known backers, one person said. These fundraising talks are early, so terms of any deal, should one happen, may change. Etched declined to comment. While this may seem like a fast time-table to raise another mega round, Etched is pursuing a particularly expensive segment of the AI industry: building full AI hardware systems powered by its own proprietary ch

TikTok [announced](https://newsroom.tiktok.com/tiktok-unveils-ai-powered-updates-for-advertisers-driving-discovery-action-and-measurable-business-outcomes?lang=en) Monday that it’s launching an AI shopping assistant and a new in-app checkout feature that lets users buy directly from brands. TikTok describes its new Shopping Assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users discover and purchase products. The company says the assistant understands context and remembers users’ preferences and needs throughout the conversation. It offers real-time, AI-powered shopping guidance, such as product details, shipping information, sizing, availability, and helping complete a purchase. As for the new checkout feature, TikTok says users can buy directly from a brand from their For You feed

The Matic is our favorite robot vacuum and robo-mop, and it's also now the first to escape the FCC's Roomba ban. Well, sort of - because the Matic wasn't banned to begin with. Here's what's actually happening: On October 2nd, the FCC added the original Matic, model 4MA0001, and its charging dock model 4DK0008 to […]

For much of his life, Zain Javaid, 19, wanted to be a quant. And for a while, he was one. But he got bored. Then, in 2022, ChatGPT was released and “I felt fundamentally excited in a way that I never had been before,” he told TechCrunch. Those feelings only grew as AI technology advanced. He became particularly interested in the future of personal AI, he said. He’s predicting the need for a new class of consumer AI hardware and sees the potential for not just one company, but an entire ecosystem built around personal intelligence. “Every person on earth would eventually have a single agent that would know everything about and be able to do anything for them,” he said of the future he envisions. This agent would be an extension of ourselves, he said, “where the more it understands our habit

What happens when AI moves from helping job candidates to evaluating them? [HackerRank](https://www.hackerrank.com/), a platform used by companies to assess and hire developers, is offering a glimpse at what that future of job interviews could look like with [Chakra](https://www.hackerrank.com/chakra), an AI agent that conducts interviews, observes candidates as they work, and evaluates not just their answers but how they got there. After around six months in beta, HackerRank is making Chakra generally available to its customers on Monday. The startup says the AI interviewer has already conducted more than 500,000 interviews during testing, with companies including Snowflake, Snorkel, and Capgemini among those that tried it, while HackerRank also tested the product internally. AI has been

Samsung launched the Galaxy A08 in Singapore for S$278, bringing voice access to Gemini and Perplexity, visual search tools and six years of security updates to a budget phone.

Public anxiety over artificial intelligence is rising globally, with many people expressing nervousness or opposing local data centres, yet personal use of chatbots and generative AI tools continues to soar. This paradox highlights a growing disconnect between how individuals feel about tech companies pushing AI and their actual willingness to use the technology in daily life.

OpenAI's leadership is prioritizing core reasoning models and unified assistant interfaces over experimental multi-sensory tools like video generation to maximize computing resources. While the company bets on raw text intelligence, market trends show enterprises increasingly adopting specialized, application-specific tools instead.

Japan is investing billions of dollars into state-backed chipmaker Rapidus to mass-produce advanced 2-nanometer semiconductors by 2027. Partnering with IBM, the initiative aims to rebuild Japan's domestic chip supply chain and secure a competitive foothold against global foundries.

AI infrastructure firm 0G has chosen Singapore as its global headquarters and plans to invest about US$15.4 million over five years, including research into AI for badminton. The move could bring research work and new opportunities to Singapore.

OpenAI says its AI solved the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems, but independent verification is still pending. Mathematicians say rapid AI-assisted discovery is already changing research norms, costs and career pressures.

An MIT expert report says AI is weakening office hours, study groups and undergraduate research while straining trust between students and lecturers. Universities may need to protect human mentoring as students turn to AI for help.

Safeworld has launched with more than US$12 million to test whether generative-AI-controlled robots can avoid people in simulated workplaces. Independent safety checks could become essential before these robots work alongside employees or children.

Singapore has launched the National Centre for Engineering Biology (NCEB) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) to support AI-guided sustainable biomanufacturing and the development of specialty chemicals from renewable feedstocks. Backed by close to S$50 million (approximately US$38.7 million) in funding over seven years under the National Research Foundation’s Research, Innovation and Enterprise 2025 plan, the centre brings together universities, polytechnics and public research institutions to strengthen the country’s engineering biology capabilities. Further details are available from the [official announcement](https://news.nus.edu.sg/nus-launches-nationalcentreforengineeringbiology/). The initiative aligns with wider national efforts to strengthen innovation infrastructure an

ChatGPT users in the US will soon see display ads while the chatbot generates an image for them. The article ChatGPT's new ad format fills the image generation loading screen with product carousels appeared first on The Decoder .

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OpenAI's latest ad format will put images of sponsored products and services on your screen. The ads, which OpenAI will begin testing in the US later this month, will "initially" appear when you generate images with ChatGPT, according to an announcement on Monday. The company first brought ads to ChatGPT in February. Until now, ChatGPT's […]

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 called RemoveMacAI. There used to be a single Settings toggle for disabling Apple Intelligence, but that was removed in macOS 27. Now, the models stay on your disk, and the features […]

Researchers say many separate AI agents, apparently using Tencent-linked infrastructure, are repeatedly querying Alibaba’s Amap outside its normal access rules. No harmful activity has been found, but the case shows how automated agents can quietly place extra demands on online services.

Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, an open-weight AI model built with substantial German-language data and trained in Europe. Developers can download and adapt it, giving organisations another option beyond relying entirely on closed AI systems from US companies.

Today, I’m talking with Senator Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California. Sen. Schiff sits on a number of committees with oversight into tech and AI: intellectual property, antitrust, privacy and technology — it’s all there. I really wanted to ask him about how we might regulate anything related to the tech industry at this moment […]

[Content provenance](https://openai.com/index/advancing-content-provenance/) helps people understand where content came from, how it was created or edited, and whether it contains signals associated with our models. We’ve already made tools publicly available to identify images and audio generated by our models. Today, we’re sharing our approach to text watermarking in response to the EU AI Act, and how it fits into our broader work. The EU AI Act requires generative AI providers to make generated text identifiable in a machine-readable way. Text watermarking and detection remain early technologies with significant limitations, and views about their benefits and responsible uses are still developing. Our phased approach reflects both the EU AI Act requirements as well as the technology’s l

The story begins almost 12 years ago, when Tayo Adesanya started a career working with microchips and AI processors. He mainly helped large manufacturers decide which chips to use in their hardware. Those years, he told TechCrunch, gave him early insight into where demand in the AI computing market was headed. “Starting Lola Vision Systems was a bet on where the world was headed and what I was seeing,” he said. In 2024, he launched [Lola Vision Systems](https://lolavisionsystems.com/), an AI infrastructure company that builds software and chips for running AI models on devices. Its core product is software that translates AI models into instructions a specific chip can run. Adesanya calls this software a “compiler toolchain,” and he says it is a massive bottleneck: manually setting up an A

For AI startups, choosing a model isn’t necessarily a one-time architecture decision anymore. Open models are improving. Frontier APIs keep advancing. Models can be customized for specific workloads, and some companies are building products that use multiple models rather than committing to one. That gives founders more ways to build — and more decisions about where to spend, what to own, and how much flexibility to preserve as the technology changes. At [**TechCrunch Disrupt 2026**](https://techcrunch.com/events/techcrunch-disrupt/?utm_source=tc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=disrupt2026&utm_content=agenda&promo=post_openvcclosedai_10052026&display=), four conversations approach those decisions from different points in the AI stack, from multi-model applications and customized models to inf

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A crucial safeguard against AI agents going rogue —keeping humans in the loop to review and approve their decisions—will fail unless designers and users change their current practices, a trio of leading AI ethics researchers argue. Though most autonomous agents have systems to keep users in the loop about their actions, in practice these processes actually push humans out of the loop, the authors argue in a paper posted to ArXiv on 6 September. In other words, “the human just becomes this meat tool to give permissions without the cognitive capability to engage,” says one of the authors, Avijit Ghosh , the lead technical AI policy researcher at Hugging Face, an open-source machine learning platform. In the near term, the paper says, humans’ being out of the loop leads to agents acting in wa

Anthropic employees donated $540 million in 2025 alone, nearly five times as much as the next-largest Fortune 500 donors, thanks to a company program that tops up every stock donation with extra shares and triples contributions from early employees. The article Anthropic is quietly becoming America's biggest corporate donor ahead of its mega IPO appeared first on The Decoder .

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ChatGPT is getting more ads. Specifically, OpenAI is adding visual display ads to its ad product line-up so that ads will appear alongside images that users ask ChatGPT to generate. In addition, the company is expanding its ad measurement tools and partnerships, and developing new ways to determine brand suitability. The new ads will begin to appear later this month in the U.S. only for now, and will feature products and services from an initial test group of advertisers. The ads will also be clearly labeled and won’t influence the answers ChatGPT provides, the company notes. The move follows the launch of Meta’s Muse, an agentic AI app which is free to everyone and a growing competitor for leading AI chatbots, like ChatGPT. OpenAI [introduced ads](https://ads.openai.com/) earlier this yea

An OpenAI publicist tried to change the topic of CEO Sam Altman's interview with Vanity Fair's Mark Guiducci after the editor brought up a ChatGPT user's suicide. When Guiducci confronted Altman about the incident, the publicist warned Guiducci about running out of time, saying she'd like to "move on" to another topic. The interruption came […]

Sam Altman thinks that the benefits of AI will be so great that "the world should accept some bad things happening" along the way. The OpenAI CEO pointed to hacks, scams, and "other bad things" as costs society should expect to tolerate because "people will do tremendously orders of magnitude more good stuff" with AI, […]

What happens when AI moves from helping job candidates to evaluating them? [HackerRank](https://www.hackerrank.com/), a platform used by companies to assess and hire developers, is offering a glimpse at what that future of job interviews could look like with [Chakra](https://www.hackerrank.com/chakra), an AI agent that conducts interviews, observes candidates as they work, and evaluates not just their answers but how they got there. After around six months in beta, HackerRank is making Chakra generally available to its customers on Monday. The startup says the AI interviewer has already conducted more than 500,000 interviews during testing, with companies including Snowflake, Snorkel, and Capgemini among those that tried it, while HackerRank also tested the product internally. AI has been

Singapore has launched the National Centre for Engineering Biology (NCEB) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) to [support AI-guided sustainable biomanufacturing](https://news.nus.edu.sg/nus-launches-nationalcentreforengineeringbiology/) and the development of speciality chemicals from renewable feedstocks. Backed by close to S$50 million (approximately US$38.7 million) in funding over seven years under the National Research Foundation’s Research, Innovation and Enterprise 2025 plan, the centre brings together universities, polytechnics and public research institutions to strengthen the country’s engineering biology capabilities. Further details are available from the [official announcement](https://news.nus.edu.sg/nus-launches-nationalcentreforengineeringbiology/). The initiative

OpenAI is adding invisible textGrain watermarks to ChatGPT in the EU, but unlike Anthropic, it will let API customers worldwide opt out. Tests show detection rates as high as 95 percent, dropping to 17 percent when a quarter of the words are replaced. The article OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT text in the EU but makes it optional for API users worldwide appeared first on The Decoder .

For the first 10 years of my career, I worked in product management and data analytics by myself. I wrote database queries that pulled numbers out of corporate systems, built statistical models to predict what customers would buy, and shipped data pipelines that moved information between business systems. I built and scaled analytics teams at Best Buy and Target , studying how customers shop and what stores should stock. Today I lead enterprise AI transformation at Lowe’s , the Fortune 100 home improvement retailer. The goal is not to sell artificial intelligence ; it is to use it to deliver useful expertise at the moment a customer needs it. In retail and other customer-facing industries, virtual assistants can help people address everyday questions—such as how to repair a leaky faucet—wh

For much of his life, Zain Javaid, 19, wanted to be a quant. And for a while, he was one. But he got bored. Then, in 2022, ChatGPT was released and “I felt fundamentally excited in a way that I never had been before,” he told TechCrunch. Those feelings only grew as AI technology advanced. He became particularly interested in the future of personal AI, he said. He’s predicting the need for a new class of consumer AI hardware and sees the potential for not just one company, but an entire ecosystem built around personal intelligence. “Every person on earth would eventually have a single agent that would know everything about and be able to do anything for them,” he said of the future he envisions. This agent would be an extension of ourselves, he said, “where the more it understands our habit

Meta and Microsoft, two of Anthropic's biggest enterprise customers, are sharply cutting their use of Claude. Microsoft slashed the monthly per-employee budget in its cloud division from $100,000 to $10,000, while Meta halved its Claude Code users to 30,000. Both companies are pushing their own AI tools instead. For Anthropic, that reliance on a few major clients is turning into a strategic risk. The article Meta and Microsoft pull back from Claude as Anthropic transforms from partner into competitor appeared first on The Decoder .

An invisible, machine-readable watermark in text output is rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex, but only for users in the European Union at first. OpenAI says its textGrain watermarking "matched or exceeded" other approaches like Google DeepMind's SynthID for text, which is also the basis for the watermarking Anthropic announced in August. Like OpenAI, Anthropic […]

Instinct, the AI agent [now valued at $10 billion](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/viral-ai-agent-instinct-raises-1b-series-c-at-a-10b-valuation/) as of its latest funding round, is expanding into group chats. The startup [announced](https://x.com/noahrshinn/status/2107161132192690558) on Monday that users will be able to add the agent to chats with friends, which could be helpful in certain scenarios like travel planning, snagging event tickets, running fantasy leagues, organizing carpools, or managing who’s bringing what to Thanksgiving. Notably, the group chats with the AI agent will work even if a user’s friends haven’t joined Instinct, the company said. With the launch, Instinct moves ahead in its battle with top competitors in the space, like Meta’s Muse. The latter doesn’t yet off

Reka AI's Rho-1 is a 19-billion-parameter omni-model that processes and generates text, images, video, and robot control actions in a single neural network. Trained on 320 H100 GPUs in about three months, it uses a fraction of the compute today's top models need. Instead of routing tasks to specialized systems, Rho-1 runs all modalities as tokens in one shared context window. The article Reka AI's omni-model Rho-1 handles text, images, video, and robot control in a single model appeared first on The Decoder .

TikTok [announced](https://newsroom.tiktok.com/tiktok-unveils-ai-powered-updates-for-advertisers-driving-discovery-action-and-measurable-business-outcomes?lang=en) Monday that it’s launching an AI shopping assistant and a new in-app checkout feature that lets users buy directly from brands. TikTok describes its new Shopping Assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users discover and purchase products. The company says the assistant understands context and remembers users’ preferences and needs throughout the conversation. It offers real-time, AI-powered shopping guidance, such as product details, shipping information, sizing, availability, and helping complete a purchase. As for the new checkout feature, TikTok says users can buy directly from a brand from their For You feed

Following many recent disclosures about AI agents accessing third-party websites and services, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, says that it "can confirm that we have discovered some activity" by "rogue" OpenAI agents on Wikimedia platforms. The activity includes edits to Wikimedia wikis, "unsuccessful attempts" to "exploit" the Etherpad note-taking tool that the Wikimedia Foundation […]

This past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other labs have announced breakthroughs on numerous long-standing mathematical problems, in some cases pushing well beyond what researchers expected current systems to be capable of — including resolving one of the famous Millennium Prize problems. But in classic Silicon Valley style, AI labs are [moving fast and breaking things](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/994255/openai-millennium-prize-problem-tristan-buckmaster-competition), barreling through the discipline with [all the grace of a runaway bulldozer](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1001477/openai-math-advisory-group). Results that might normally have been celebrated have instead [sparked backlash](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/992953

Reflection AI unveiled Beam, a 501‑billion‑parameter open‑weight model that matches Chinese frontier models on reasoning benchmarks while using only a third to a quarter of the compute, aimed at enterprises and governments for building custom AI factories.

Although it’s only been a couple of months since Etched raised [$700 million at a $21 billion valuation](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/18/etcheds-valuation-doubles-to-21b-in-a-month/), the AI chip startup is already being plied with investment offers at double or more its value, according to people familiar with the company. Etched is reviewing incoming bids that range from $40 billion from top-tier investors to $50 billion from lesser-known backers, one person said. These fundraising talks are early, so terms of any deal, should one happen, may change. Etched declined to comment. While this may seem like a fast time-table to raise another mega round, Etched is pursuing a particularly expensive segment of the AI industry: building full AI hardware systems powered by its own proprietary ch

The Matic is our favorite robot vacuum and robo-mop, and it's also now the first to escape the FCC's Roomba ban. Well, sort of - because the Matic wasn't banned to begin with. Here's what's actually happening: On October 2nd, the FCC added the original Matic, model 4MA0001, and its charging dock model 4DK0008 to […]

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