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In a first, US will allow some private firms to carry out cyberattacks
The U.S. government will for the first time allow vetted private companies to launch offensive cyber operations against international criminal gangs and hackers, the White House said on Wednesday. In a newly published presidential memorandum, the Trump administration said the move will allow the federal government to use “innovative capabilities of the private sector” to […]
Aug 23, 2026
Silkroad Innovation Hub’s Road to Battlefield competition continues
The Road to Battlefield competition, organized by Silkroad Innovation Hub in partnership with TechCrunch, Freedom Holding, Astana Hub, IT Park Uzbekistan, is now in its second year. Its purpose hasn’t changed since it launched: Give founders across Central Eurasia a direct route to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 during this year’s Disrupt from October 13 – […]
Aug 23, 2026
Google takes on AirTag with the new $29 Pixel Tag
Alongside its announcement of a new lineup of Pixel 11 smartphones, Google on Wednesday introduced its answer to Apple’s AirTag. At its Made by Google 2026 event, the company unveiled a new product designed for keeping track of your valuable items: the $29 Google Pixel Tag. Similar to how Apple’s AirTag leverages its network of […]
Aug 23, 2026
Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry
Situational Awareness may have had to sell off the majority of its public portfolio last month, but the AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets. This week, the fund invested $400 million into Source Foundry, a startup founded by Stanford researchers aiming to make chip manufacturing faster and cheaper, according to The Wall […]
Aug 23, 2026
Meta’s ‘open’ AI, and a $250M deal gone very wrong
Listen onApple PodcastsListen onSpotify Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside a letter from Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of […]
Aug 23, 2026
Poolside drops Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model that beats rivals 10x its size
Credit: VentureBeat made with Midjourney Poolside, the San Francisco AI lab that has spent most of its three-year existence quietly selling coding models to governments and defense agencies, released its most capable model to date on Tuesday — and made an unusually aggressive bet that radical transparency, not raw scale, is how a smaller lab […]
Aug 23, 2026
Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store
After trying and failing to delay the matter, Apple on Thursday submitted its proposal for the commissions it wants to charge on purchases made using external links inside apps on its iOS devices. In a new filing in the U.S. District Court of Northern California, Apple proposed new commissions of 15% for standard apps, with […]
Aug 23, 2026
Microsoft AI models cut GPU costs by 89% | VentureBeat
Credit: VentureBeat made with Midjourney Microsoft AI released two new in-house models into public preview on Wednesday — MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, its highest-fidelity image generator to date, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, a speech model built for high-volume enterprise workloads — while publishing production data that amounts to the company’s most aggressive argument yet that it can power its own […]
Aug 23, 2026
Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.
What happens when you pit AI agents against each other? According to Anthropic’s testing, things get messy fast. On Thursday, Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team published new research examining how groups of AI agents behave when they encounter each other in the wild. The findings provide a glimpse into potential risks that could develop as companies […]
Aug 23, 2026
Bright Machines’ Hybrid BRC boosts AI server yield | VentureBeat
Credit: VentureBeat made with Midjourney Bright Machines wants to solve one of the least glamorous but most consequential problems in the AI buildout: what happens to quality data when a human being has to touch the production line. The San Francisco-based manufacturer announced today the Hybrid BRC (Bright Robotic Cell), an expansion of its Bright […]
Aug 23, 2026