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Lab testing giant Quest Diagnostics confirms patients' personal and health data was compromised during breach

Quest is the latest in a series of healthcare technology companies that have been hacked in recent months.

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Oct 23 • 11:00 AM EDT • Health • techcrunch.com
Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing

MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.

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Oct 22 • 8:45 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
1Password launches a way for AI agents to log in on your behalf without seeing your password

The new feature allows agents to log into a customer's personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials that secure those accounts.

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Oct 22 • 3:07 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up

OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev?

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Oct 22 • 3:00 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Canva releases its first image generation model

Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.

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Oct 22 • 3:00 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’

Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Microsoft’s system itself.

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Oct 22 • 2:43 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Former OpenAI science lead launches Warp Science to automate wet labs with robots

The new startup raised a $215 million round led by Lightspeed.

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Oct 22 • 2:38 PM EDT • Science • techcrunch.com
See what businesses are new and coming soon to the Georgetown area

Several new businesses have opened or announced plans to open in the Georgetown area, including Project LeanNation, Crunch Fitness and The Junction.

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Oct 22 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • communityimpact.com
SpaceX's AI business is beating expectations

SpaceX's data centers and Grok agents have been more profitable than investors expected in second quarter of the year, as the company leaves its roots as

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Oct 20 • 4:40 PM EDT • Business • techcrunch.com
OpenAI acquires startup Orchestra Bio⁠ to beef up its biotech business

OpenAI says it's adding Orchestra's team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a harness that aims to help researchers plan experiments and analyze results.

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Oct 20 • 4:35 PM EDT • Business • techcrunch.com
Google is bringing a more personal version of its Gemini AI assistant to your car

Google is bringing Gemini's Personal Intelligence feature to cars, allowing its AI assistant to draw on information from Gmail, Calendar, Maps, YouTube, and other Google services to deliver more personalized responses while driving.

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Oct 20 • 4:00 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
ChatGPT now lets you lock your chats

The company says the feature is designed for situations where users might be discussing something personal or planning a surprise and want to keep those conversations private when handing their device to friends or family to show them something in another chat.

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Oct 20 • 2:36 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Spotify launches paid podcast memberships with perks beyond bonus content

Spotify's new paid memberships let podcasters offer fans exclusive perks, including ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content, while keeping 90% of the revenue.

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Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Should Kings Trade for Magic 4th-Year G Anthony Black?

With contract talks stalled in Orlando, Sacramento could capitalize on the Magic’s cap crunch to land a defensive cornerstone and the perfect backcourt partner for Darius Acuff.

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Oct 19 • 7:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again

Fed up with ads, tracking and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.

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Oct 19 • 12:13 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Khosla Ventures doubles down on Even Healthcare to challenge India's hospital economics

Even Healthcare reaches a $300 million valuation in a Khosla Ventures-led round as it plans to expand its hospital network in India.

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Oct 19 • 3:30 AM EDT • Health • techcrunch.com
NBAA-BACE Flight Deck Launches Bizav Expert Sessions

Panels tackle cyberthreats, the MRO crunch, and the C-band auction

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Oct 18 • 6:44 PM EDT • Business • ainonline.com
PS6 Memory Components Alone Could Cost More Than $700

The speculated price tags on the next generation of consoles already has fans sweating as the AI-driven crunch shows no end in sight

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Oct 18 • 12:14 PM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
PS6 RAM and Storage Alone Reportedly Cost Sony Over $680, Claims Leaker

The memory crunch looks like it is hitting the PlayStation 6 harder than expected. Hardware leaker KeplerL2 claims on NeoGAF that the RAM and NAND flash storage in Sony's next console alone cost over $680. He posted it as a reply to a forum member who floated $680 as a possible subsidized retail...

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Oct 17 • 7:33 PM EDT • Technology • techpowerup.com
Amazon devices chief Panos Panay sees a future where AI devices replace the need to use apps

Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay described a future where ambient AI devices work in the background, anticipating users' needs instead of waiting for commands.

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Oct 15 • 3:55 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Amazon's Bee launches two new personal AI devices, starting at $75

Amazon-owned Bee has launched its first new AI devices since its acquisition, including an updated wearable and a credit-card-sized recorder that attaches to smartphones. The devices can summarize conversations, create to-do lists, and integrate with Alexa and Amazon shopping, with prices starting at $74.99.

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Oct 15 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Hiyd is a health tracker that attaches to the watch you already wear

Former Apple engineers figured out how to get a biometric sensor to attach to your watch without any magnets or adhesives.

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Oct 14 • 3:00 PM EDT • Health • techcrunch.com
YouTube Music launches new labels as AI-generated music floods streaming platforms

The label will appear on the player page and include songs entirely generated by AI or partially, such as involved in composition and vocals.

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Oct 14 • 2:23 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Science Corporation implants its vision-restoring chip in its first Stargardt disease patient

Max Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, detailed on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt how his company's work with PRIMA is part of its path toward a novel brain-computer interface (BCI).

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Oct 13 • 7:13 PM EDT • Science • techcrunch.com
Google Play now supports private, vibe-coded apps built just for you

Google is making it easier to build and use personal Android apps created with AI, without having to make them available to everyone on the Play Store.

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Oct 13 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Liquidity under pressure: 4 cash flow moves for Chicago mid-market businesses

Many organizations, especially mid-market organizations, face a spate of pressures that impact liquidity, from interest rate pressure to trade volatility. Without careful planning, these conditions can create a cash crunch, just when companies could benefit from liquidity the most.

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Oct 13 • 12:01 PM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com
Apple refreshes its Homepod mini with a new chip and $149 price tag

The new $149 HomePod mini with Siri AI and a 'SoundGlow' visual feature will be available starting October 30.

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Oct 13 • 9:38 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Apple's new smart home line-up includes a smart lock, thermostat and video doorbells

The new devices work with HomeView, the company's new smart home hub which can be used to control accessories and interact with apps.

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Oct 13 • 9:37 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Apple launches a new Apple TV 4K with Siri AI and remote-free voice commands

The new Apple TV 4K costs $299, comes with Siri AI, and will be available on November 13.

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Oct 13 • 9:16 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
He says Amazon nearly wrecked his business; he still shops on it

The Bed Scrunchie company made $4.5 million before Amazon deactivated its seller account. But one of the founders still can't quit shopping there.

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Oct 12 • 2:47 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Fitbit Edge is Google’s middle ground between Fitbit Air and Pixel Watch

Google’s newest wearable costs $179.99 and has a sleek feel like the Fitbit Air but with an OLED display.

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Oct 12 • 11:11 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Former Plaud exec raises $26M for AI app that listens to you in the background

Ambi is releasing apps for iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch that enables ambient capture

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Oct 12 • 8:47 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Ryan Seacrest’s Six-Pack Did Not Come Easily: ‘500 Crunches a Day’ and a ‘Perfectly Calculated’ Diet
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Oct 12 • 8:18 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Social Reckoning’ is off to a weak start

What does this mean for a fall full of movies starring villainous tech CEOs?

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Oct 11 • 4:51 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
These execs think voice AI hasn't reached its ChatGPT moment yet

Voice AI's often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to break

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Oct 11 • 10:00 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Apple discloses deal to hire team and license tech from personalized podcast startup Huxe

Is Apple hoping to get into the AI-generated podcast business?

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Oct 10 • 3:50 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Crunch roughed up by Amerks

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) – The Syracuse Crunch dropped its second straight road game, falling at Rochester 7-1. Matteo Costantini, and Carson Meyer both scored late in the first period, giving the Amerks a 2-0 lead after the first period. 28 seconds into the second period, Jason Polin scored on the power play, pushing Rochester’s lead […]

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Oct 10 • 12:57 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Anime News, Top Stories & In-Depth Anime Insights

Stay on top of anime news and updates straight out of Japan with Crunchyroll News. From breaking stories to evergreen content, get all your anime and manga news updates in one place. You heard it here first!

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Oct 9 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • crunchyroll.com
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President Trump awards big tech donors with nation's highest science prizes

On Thursday, President Trump awarded Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sergey Brin, and AMD’s Lisa Su the National Medal of Science, the nation’s top science prize.

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Oct 8 • 6:33 PM EDT • Science • techcrunch.com
Pretend you're sitting at Elizabeth Holmes' desk on this weirdly detailed website

With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to rifle through the Theranos founder's desk.

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Oct 8 • 5:00 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses

Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems. The agent can delegate work to subagents, use multiple AI models, and even gets its own workplace identity, complete with an email address.

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Oct 8 • 2:18 PM EDT • Business • techcrunch.com
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Natura’s $99 smart ring puts AI agents on your finger

Natura’s $99 Interface smart ring lets you summon AI agents with the press of a finger to complete tasks, capture thoughts, and control devices — while doubling as a health tracker.

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Oct 8 • 12:00 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Cal AI's 19-year-old founder just raised $10M for his new AI startup

Zach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of popular Cal AI calorie tracking app, has launched a new personal AI agent startup that competes with Instinct, Muse and Bee.

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Oct 8 • 10:00 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Google releases a new local-first Granola competitor

Google’s new AI Edge Foresight app takes on Granola with an offline meeting note-taker that can transcribe conversations, generate notes, and answer questions using on-device AI.

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Oct 8 • 9:28 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Crunchyroll dedicated hub announced for PS5

Sony Interactive Entertainment and Crunchyroll will release a dedicated anime hub for the PlayStation 5 home screen in spring 2027, the companies announced.

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Oct 7 • 5:48 PM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
PS5 to Integrate Anime into Main Menu as Sony Tightens Ties with Crunchyroll

"Anime and gaming have overlapping communities"

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Oct 7 • 5:45 PM EDT • Technology • pushsquare.com
PlayStation's PS5 to Launch New Crunchyroll Anime Hub

Sony's PlayStation will launch a new Crunchyroll anime hub within its PlayStation 5 gaming console's home screen next year.

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Oct 7 • 5:30 PM EDT • Technology • variety.com
Microsoft releases new Nvidia-chip AI PCs with revamped Windows 11

Microsoft revealed the specs and price for its Surface Laptop Ultra, AI PCs that run on Nvidia chips that are designed to run AI models and agents.

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Oct 7 • 4:22 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
ChatGPT for Teens keeps teens talking, even during mental health crises

ChatGPT’s teen safeguards are meant to protect vulnerable users, but new testing found the chatbot continues encouraging engagement during crises and potentially encourages unhealthy relationships with the AI itself.

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Oct 7 • 2:15 PM EDT • Health • techcrunch.com
Sony Pictures Entertainment Launches Crunchyroll Storyworks, Aiming To Boost Japanese Anime

Sony Pictures Entertainment has unveiled a new division of its Crunchryroll subsidiary, Crunchyroll Storyworks, which will look to boost Japanese anime.

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Oct 7 • 1:49 PM EDT • Entertainment • deadline.com
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Tony Fadell on why the first wave of AI gadgets failed — and what comes next

The “father of the iPod” says the first generation of AI gadgets failed to solve real problems — and the next wave will need to earn consumers’ trust.

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Oct 7 • 10:41 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Google experiments with an AI-powered gaming platform

Google Labs is working on a new AI-powered game-creation platform called Playground for users to build browser-based games using simple text prompts.

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Oct 7 • 10:36 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Ring's first smart lock can be hand-cranked when its battery dies

Amazon-owned Ring is entering the smart lock market with a device designed to tackle a common concern: getting locked out when the battery dies

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Oct 7 • 10:00 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Google's new SynthID website can identify AI-generated media

Google on Tuesday launched a new site that lets anyone verify whether a piece of media, be it an image, a video or an audio clip, is generated using AI.

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Oct 7 • 10:00 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Another personal AI assistant has launched — Meet Tab, which emerged from stealth with a $300M valuation

A new personal AI assistant has arrived. Meet Tab, which announced Tuesday that it had officially emerged from stealth.

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Oct 7 • 9:45 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
This week in Santa Cruz County business: Mixed courtroom results for Joby Aviation; digging into summer tourism numbers

In her weekly look at Santa Cruz County business, Jessica M. Pasko relays how Joby Aviation has fared in the courtroom lately, crunches local summer tourism data and spotlights more names, numbers and dates to know.

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Oct 7 • 6:30 AM EDT • Business • lookout.co
Apple is reportedly partnering with LG to launch a smart lock, thermostat, and doorbell

Apple appears poised to push into the smart home market with a slate of new devices and a key partner.

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Oct 6 • 6:53 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
YouTube And Google.org Commit $2.5 Million To Expand Free Class CrunchLabs Science Curriculum

YouTube and Google.org have committed a $2.5 million grant to Class CrunchLabs, providing additional funding to expand the free STEM curriculum founded by Mark Rober.

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Oct 6 • 2:55 PM EDT • Science • pulse2.com
YouTube and Google.org Commit $2.5 Million to Expand Class CrunchLabs' Free Science Curriculum

YouTube and Google.org deepen support for free, standards-aligned science education with a $2.5M grant to Class CrunchLabs

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Oct 6 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • businesswire.com
At 19, Ghost founder raises $11 million to build a $3,499 computer for your personal AI

Ghost announced Monday its official emergence from stealth and an $11 billion seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

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Oct 5 • 2:00 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Jobs in health care. Jobs for women. The US labour market is segmenting. Chernobyl’s radiation and Lenin’s love of literature.

Thank you for opening your Chartbook email. Elmer Bischoff, Two Figures at the Seashore, 1957 The only really dynamic job-creator in the US economy is health care: The largest crunch has come in Federal government, which has shed 2.7 m jobs. Source: tchouvkov on Twitter Tech is struggling. [ Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈@JosephPolitano The US tech sector continues bleeding jobs in official data released today—overall, employment decreased by 17k last month and is down 69k over the last year That's nearly as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, and much worse than the 2022 boom or even pre-2020 norms 12:42 PM · Oct 2, 2026 · 15.2K Views 15 Replies · 47 Reposts · 390 Likes ](https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/2106001807847940232?s=20) The new jobs are all for women. [ Justin Wolfers@JustinWolfers I'm not sure who saw this coming, but so far nearly all the jobs created during the second Trump administration have gone to women. 1:09 PM · Oct 2, 2026 · 33K Views 70 Replies · 146 Reposts · 644 Likes ](https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/2106008723533533601?s=20) Meanwhile, real wages are being eaten up by modest over-target inflation. [ Heather Long@byHeatherLong The financial pain is real: Wage growth fell to 3% (y/y) in September. That's the lowest in 5 years. Wage growth: 3% Inflation: ~3.4% Inflation has eaten up all wage gains for the average worker since April. Many people are having to make hard choices about what to buy and what … 1:24 PM · Oct 2, 2026 · 37K Views 24 Replies · 275 Reposts · 533 Likes ](https://x.com/byHeatherLong/status/2106012367712620728?s=20) HEY READERS, THANK YOU for opening the Chartbook email. I hope it brightens your day. I enjoy putting out the newsletter, but tbh, what keeps this flow going is the generosity of those readers who clicked the subscription button. If you are persuaded to click, please consider the annual subscription of $60. It is both better value for you and a much better deal for me, as it involves only one credit card charge. Why feed the payments companies if we don’t have to. Subscribe Elmer Bischoff, Bathers, 1960 Americans are disillusioned with higher ed. For contributing subscribers only. Subscribe Where the Chernobyl radiation went. h/t Simon Kuestenmacher aka simongerman600 How Lenin’s love of literature shaped the Russian Revolution - Tariq Ali This, then, was the intellectual atmosphere in which Lenin came of age. His father, a highly cultured conservative, was the chief inspector of schools in his region and much respected as an educationalist. At home, Shakespeare, Goethe and Pushkin, among others, were read aloud on Sunday afternoons. It was impossible for the Ulyanov family – “Lenin” was a pseudonym adopted to outwit the tsarist secret police – to escape high culture. At high school, Lenin fell in love with Latin. His headteacher had high hopes that he might become a philologist and Latin scholar. History willed otherwise, but Lenin’s passion for Latin, and taste for the classics, never left him. He read Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Juvenal in the original, as well as Roman senatorial orations. He devoured Goethe during his two decades in exile, reading and rereading Faust many times. Lenin put his knowledge of the classics to good use in the time leading up to the October revolution of 1917. In April of that year, he broke with Russian social-democratic orthodoxy and, in a set of radical theses, called for a socialist revolution in Russia. A number of his own close comrades denounced him. In a sharp riposte, Lenin quoted Mephistopheles from Goethe’s masterwork: “Theory, my friend, is grey, but green is the eternal tree of life.” Source: The Guardian Elmer Bischoff, The River, 1953 If you’ve scrolled this far, you know you want to click: Subscribe

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Oct 5 • 6:47 AM EDT • Health • adamtooze.substack.com
Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a 'significant rise' in AI submissions

AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.

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Oct 4 • 4:31 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Syracuse Crunch drop first game of the season to Laval

LAVAL, QUEBEC (WSYR) – On Saturday, the Syracuse Crunch dropped their first game of the season in a 6-1 loss to the Laval Rocket. It was a promising start for Syracuse as the Crunch scored the first goal of the game on a Crunch power play. Tomas Kralovic would get his first AHL point on […]

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Oct 3 • 7:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Spotify billionaire’s body scan startup has come to America

Farooq Abbasi, an investor in Neko Health, talked to Equity about the hot health tech company and what's next for it.

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Oct 3 • 10:00 AM EDT • Health • techcrunch.com
Grizzlies Face Roster Crunch With Three Cuts Needed Before Season

The Memphis Grizzlies have 18 players on standard contracts and need to trade or waive three before the regular season begins.

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Oct 2 • 8:57 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Meta wants you to build your own Muse gadget

Meta wants Muse in your TV and your toaster, so it's giving the code away for free.

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Oct 2 • 8:45 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Apple says it's tightening macOS 'Full Disk Access' controls due to new risks from AI agents

Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier.

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Oct 2 • 2:11 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch

Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950, nearly 75% above its launch price

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Bruins Solved One Roster Problem, But Another Is Coming

The Boston Bruins may have a complex roster crunch coming once Matthew Poitras returns to action for the club. The post Bruins Solved One Roster Problem, But Another Is Coming appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 2 • 1:49 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Health Brief: Drugmakers unscathed by Trump’s drug price plan

Plus: Governors warn of a Medicaid work requirements crunch

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Oct 1 • 5:37 PM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
ChatGPT can now virtually try on clothes for you

OpenAI is rolling out new shopping features for ChatGPT that let users virtually try on clothing and accessories using their own photos and save products they like to a Favorites library.

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Oct 1 • 3:21 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Opus 5.5 loves to tell you 'this matters' (and other AI writing tells)

Opus 5.5’s biggest tell is the word “dependable,” which pops up 23 times more often than in human samples.

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Oct 1 • 1:50 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Hearing tech startup Legato launches its AI hearing glasses

The glasses stem from the startup’s goal of making hearing care more accessible by addressing the cost, comfort, and stigma associated with traditional hearing aids.

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Oct 1 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Audible's new features let you explore book worlds — and use AI to talk to characters

Audible is rolling out new features that help listeners keep track of characters, explore places and imagery mentioned in books, and even interact with characters using generative AI.

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Oct 1 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Instagram rolls out an AI video assistant for creators

This conversational AI assistant is intended to provide personalized feedback to creators, rather than generic advice.

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Sep 30 • 10:30 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
WhatsApp adds new parental controls for teen accounts

Parents can limit how teens use channels, whose Status they can see, who can see their Status updates, and control who can add teens to groups.

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Sep 30 • 9:50 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
OpenAI's latest features take direct aim at the app store model

OpenAI is building out the pieces of an alternative to the traditional app store model, turning ChatGPT into a place where software can be discovered and used by people and AI agents alike.

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Sep 29 • 4:15 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT's own office suite

OpenAI's newly announced suite of office features puts it into mor direct competition with more traditional software companies.

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Sep 29 • 1:45 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
OpenAI gives Codex reusable cloud environments that work across devices

OpenAI is expanding Codex with reusable cloud development environments, a revamped CLI with voice controls, new code review tools and a security-focused product for scanning repositories and preparing fixes.

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Sep 29 • 1:15 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
OpenAI expands ChatGPT's plugins with app-like interfaces and automations

OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT plugins with dedicated sidebar homes, interactive panels, file viewers, improved discovery, and support for automations.

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Sep 29 • 1:15 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Meta is expanding its AI agent Muse to small businesses

The tech giant says the agent can help owners run their business and find new customers.

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Sep 29 • 9:47 AM EDT • Business • techcrunch.com
Still running iOS 26? Update your iPhones, iPads and Macs for this urgent security fix

Apple says the bug was used to attack "specific targeted individuals" running iOS 26, which the majority of Apple customers are still using.

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Sep 29 • 9:25 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Mark Rober’s mission to support science classrooms

Former NASA engineer and YouTube creator Mark Rober shares how Class CrunchLabs delivers free, hands-on physics and engineering lessons designed to help educators engage students.

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Sep 29 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • blog.youtube
Tiny Health Raises $33M To Explore What Gut Data Can Reveal About Future Health

Austin-based Tiny Health has raised $33 million in a Series B funding round led by B Capital to help it meet growing demand for its at-home microbiome tests.

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Sep 29 • 8:30 AM EDT • Health • news.crunchbase.com
The Beclowning of Scott Bessent

One iron law of current politics is that nobody who associates themselves with Donald Trump emerges with a shred of credibility. For some, that’s not a big loss — it’s not as if anyone respected Pete Hegseth even before he decided that the key to military success in an age of drones and AI was more testosterone. For others, however, the costs are real. I’m old enough to remember when Marco Rubio was widely considered a reasonable, thoughtful politician. Right now, however, my candidate for the biggest loser is Scott Bessent, the Secretary of the Treasury. Bessent started out with significant reputation to lose: When Trump selected him, this was the headline in the Financial Times: Jason Furman, Barack Obama’s chief economist, described him as a “credible Treasury secretary who has a real understanding of the global economy”. But Bessent has now transformed himself into the Baghdad Bob of bonds. Three weeks ago, after intervening (for reasons that remain somewhat unclear) to support the Japanese yen, Bessent boasted about his ability to move markets and dared investors to bet against his, declaring “I am the house now.” He then tried to push long-term interest rates down, buying 30-year U.S. Treasuries in a move some have compared to paying down part of your mortgage by running up your credit card balance. Here’s how that’s going so far: To get some perspective on how high interest rates have gone, here’s a longer-term perspective: We haven’t seen interest rates this high since the fading days of the dotcom bubble. Why are interest rates hitting new records? The backdrop, as I argued in last Sunday’s primer, is the huge AI-driven investment boom; more on that next week. But the immediate cause of the latest interest rate spike was Trump’s rejection of an Iranian proposal to end the war. This rejection sent crude oil prices, which for a while had fallen considerably, shooting back up: It’s notable, by the way, that oil prices remain high even though a significant amount of oil is now being shuttled through the Strait of Hormuz by night, on smaller vessels. That’s an interesting story, which has a lot to do with the fact that oil from the Hormuz shuttle runs must be transferred to larger vessels before being shipped to markets in Europe and Asia; around 15 percent of the world’s large crude carriers are now parked off the coast of Oman, waiting to be tanked up. This is creating a shipping crunch: But that’s a topic for another day. For now, the point is that with oil still high and refined products, especially diesel, still close to record levels, inflation will remain elevated. And this in turn means that the Federal Reserve will keep short-term interest rates high, an expectation that is feeding into longer-term rates. Hence Bessent’s bond-market humiliation. The truth is that Bessent might not have been able to get interest rates down even in the best of circumstances. But he certainly won’t get anywhere as long as Trump keeps believing that he can somehow convert his Iran debacle into a triumphant victory. And Trump will keep believing that as long as he is surrounded by sycophants who tell him what he wants to hear. Sycophants like, for example, Scott Bessent, who is predicting the imminent collapse of the Iranian economy, possibly within two weeks. Bessent is right to say that the embargo on Iranian oil exports is placing the country under great economic strain. But his implicit prediction that this will quickly produce a deal that Trump can call victory looks no more plausible than his boasts about the bond market. The big question now is, why would anyone with a reputation to lose work for Donald Trump? As the beclowning of Bessent shows, joining the Trump team won’t just damage your reputation; it will utterly destroy it.

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