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In Brief Posted: 1:35 PM PDT · October 20, 2026 Image Credits:FotografiaBasica (opens in a new window) / Getty Images OpenAI on Tuesday acquired a four-year-old AI biotech software startup called Orchestra Bio, the company ...
Google is making the Gemini AI assistant that’s already in millions of cars, trucks, and SUVs a lot more personal — a move that could push consumers even deeper into the company’s ecosystem of products. ...
In Brief Posted: 12:32 PM PDT · October 20, 2026 Image Credits:JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP / Getty Images GM is closing a battery assembly plant south of Detroit, a spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch. The Brownstown Battery Assembly ...
On Tuesday, Google announced that TorchTPU, its long-awaited version of PyTorch, is now available as an open-source project. With this, Google joins Amazon in trying to break Nvidia’s stranglehold on the AI industry, where most ...
OpenAI announced on Tuesday that users can now lock ChatGPT conversations to keep sensitive chats private when others may have access to their screen or device. Users can secure their locked chats with a four-digit ...
In Brief Posted: 10:55 AM PDT · October 20, 2026 Image Credits:Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg / Getty Images Eric Schmidt’s fortune is about to get even bigger. The former Google CEO is reported to own about ...
Meta’s AI companion, Muse, is now one of only a dozen mobile apps to have reached 10 million U.S. downloads in its first 40 days on the market. According to new data from market intelligence ...
It’s the moment everyone is waiting for — the ChatGPT moment for robotics, Amulya Vishwanath explained to TechCrunch’s Equity. She is the founder and managing partner of Techable Ventures, a VC firm focused on physical ...
JustWatch, a company offering a search engine and guide for streaming movies and TV shows, is now moving directly into the streaming business itself. On Tuesday, the company behind the popular guide that’s used by ...
Justin Mast’s life was changed by a cyborg plant. A few years ago, Mast was reading through some scientific literature when he stumbled upon research about a houseplant wired to a motorized stand. When the ...
İsmail Arı, a reporter for the BirGün newspaper, was detained today following a complaint filed by Ebubekir Şahin, former chair of the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), the country’s broadcasting regulator. Arı faces accusations ...
Two children from a Kurdish family traveling from Iraq’s Kurdistan region to Germany have died after their boat capsized in the Meriç River along the Turkey-Greece border. A third child remains missing as search operations ...
2026-10-20T15:11:48+00:00 Shafaq News- Erbil Iran’s opposition Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) will not surrender its weapons under any circumstances but is ready to leave the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) if its presence places pressure on ...
TikTok was repeatedly warned by employees about the risks the social media platform posed to children, according to court records obtained by NPR. The documents say employees were frustrated with how executives responded to their ...
Police yesterday detained at least 39 people, including medical professionals, in an investigation into an alleged network that arranged for women to sell their eggs at fertility clinics abroad, Justice Minister Akın Gürlek announced. The ...
Despite Figma co-founder Dylan Field’s concerns about MCP (model context protocol), which standardizes how AI agents connect to external data sources and tools, the company is expanding its support for the open source standard. At ...
Reliable Robotics has been working for nearly a decade to commercialize autonomous flying technology that can be installed on existing aircraft. Now, with a $115 million funding boost, the Mountain View, California-based startup has a ...
The U.S. has ordered federal civilian agencies to stop purchasing services and products developed by Chinese AI startup DeepSeek and remove them from government IT systems over national security concerns tied to the Chinese AI ...
Robots still aren’t that good at picking things up, despite billions of dollars of investment and endless videos fed into deep learning models. That may be about to change, thanks to a manipulation architecture built ...
Azerbaijan has issued arrest warrants and ordered an international search for seven people living in Turkey over allegations that they called for the violent overthrow of its government during protests against restrictions on religious clothing ...
