Saturday, November 7, 2026
Submit your startupModels, tools and the companies building them.
AI / The Verge ·
inMusic, the parent company of Akai, Moog, Native Instruments, and more, has decided to embrace the modding community. In an interview with The Verge, inMusic CEO Jack O'Donnell said, "We're going to provide a toolbox to the community, we're going to provide the inner workings of, say, an MPC or…
AI / The Decoder ·
Anthropic is introducing a new feature in Claude called Personal Finance, which allows users to connect their bank and card accounts and ask questions about their finances. The article Anthropic adds bank account access to Claude so users can track their spending appeared first on The Decoder.
AI / MIT Technology Review ·
I’m not the sort of person who typically pays for a house cleaner. I’m too frugal, and I kind of enjoy putting on a podcast and going to town on my tub with a Magic Eraser. But when I saw an X post about a new humanoid-robot cleaning service in San Francisco, I immediately signed…
AI / The Verge ·
Amazon is adding a new feature to Alexa for Shopping that allows customers to purchase items by texting the AI shopping assistant. Users can describe the products they're looking to buy and/or provide a photograph of the item, and Alexa for Shopping will search for matching results in Amazon…
AI / The Verge ·
Protesters have broken into a construction site of a new Microsoft data center in Amsterdam this morning. Members of the Geef Tegengas group helped organize the protest against the construction of three 85-meter data center towers in the outskirts of Amsterdam. Reuters reports that around 100 people…
AI / TechCrunch ·
Clutch, backed by Lightspeed and SignalFire, was last valued at $85 million, according to a source.
AI / TechCrunch ·
Airbnb says its upcoming AI agent will help travelers plan trips, compare options, manage bookings, and get assistance throughout their stay.
AI / The Decoder ·
With GPT-6 Cyber, OpenAI is introducing an AI model built to find security vulnerabilities in software, develop exploits, and suggest patches. According to OpenAI, it has already found 81 previously unknown vulnerabilities in Firefox and developed 948 working exploits in the Linux kernel,…
AI / TechCrunch ·
Meta's AI agent can now take calls as a customizable animated avatar, ahead of the launch of a Tamagotchi-like wearable designed to bring Muse to life.
AI / The Verge ·
Following this week's midterms where voters resoundingly voiced their opposition to data center expansion, OpenAI today announced new commitments to communities where it is working on data center projects, including that it won't use non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) with public officials. Many…
AI / TechCrunch ·
Meta warns that growing political opposition to data centers could threaten future AI investments, as communities push back against massive infrastructure projects.
AI / The Verge ·
Airbnb plans to roll out an AI agent in the first half of 2027 that will help users plan and book travel, the company said in its Q3 2026 earnings shareholder letter released today. "Today's AI agents are good at simple, routine tasks, like making a restaurant reservation or scheduling an…
AI / TechCrunch ·
OpenAI's newest cybersecurity model comes out as AI labs face scrutiny of their work to protect digital infrastructure.
AI / The Decoder ·
Google Deepmind is making Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available. The video-generation model now creates clips up to 15 seconds long, can be edited step by step via conversation, and costs just $0.07 per second at 720p, 30 percent less than its predecessor. Users who draft in low resolution and…
AI / TechCrunch ·
OpenAI President Greg Brockman says the company could be ready to go public in 2027, pointing to accelerating enterprise revenue and a turnaround in its business.
AI / TechCrunch ·
With Personal Finance in Claude, users can connect their bank and card accounts through Plaid and ask questions about their finances.
AI / The Decoder ·
Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: a 280-billion-parameter MoE model pre-trained on 33.5 trillion tokens, shipped deliberately without fine-tuning, so developers can take it wherever they want. The article Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280 billion parameters as an open-source foundation…
AI / The Verge ·
Perplexity is taking on OpenAI and Anthropic with its own work-focused AI agents. The startup's new always-on "Teammates" can take on multiple roles within a workspace, while pulling existing projects, skills, and memory from the Perplexity tools you already use. Teammates integrate with…
AI / The Decoder ·
SemiAnalysis is putting AI agents through simulated knowledge work in its new GDPx benchmark, covering everything from chip design to quant trading. No model breaks 12 percent. Claude Opus 5.5 leads narrowly over Gemini 4 Carbon. Critics point to the small number of tasks per domain and uneven…
AI / TechCrunch ·
As AI floods math with unchecked proofs, Axiom Math is betting on verification. The startup’s AI agents just formally verified the Stacks Project, one of the field’s biggest libraries.
AI / The Decoder ·
Tencent has unveiled Hy4, its first multimodal language model that understands images and can operate software on its own. On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, it scores 35 points, solid but behind Kimi K3.1 Pro. On hard math and complex image analysis, Hy4 still trails the best commercial…
AI / TechCrunch ·
The deal is expected to support the development of DBX Agent Cloud, a new storage platform aimed at developers building AI models and agents.
AI / The Decoder ·
Meta is acquiring AI coding startup Conductor, which lets developers control multiple AI coding agents at once. On the same day, OpenAI announced plans to acquire Pierre Computer, and Anthropic already bought Stainless back in May. The deals follow a pattern: AI models are becoming…
AI / TechCrunch ·
Aina's ring can also take calls and help you dictate notes on your Mac.