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Jul 30, 2026 70

Friend re-launches its AI pendant with a speaker that talks to you, for twice the price

Do you remember Friend? The Friend that launched an AI pendant, spent $1.8 million of its $2.5 million to acquire friend.com, and plaster...

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Jul 30, 2026 44

Okta buys AI security startup Permiso; source says for about $200M

The deal gives Okta identity threat detection capabilities as enterprises seek to secure AI agents and other non-human identities across ...

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Jul 30, 2026 66

Meta says AI is making it easier to build new apps — and more are coming

Meta says AI is making it dramatically easier to build and launch new consumer apps, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg telling investors the compa...

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Jul 30, 2026 64

Nscale buys Anyscale as it seeks to own more of the AI compute stack

British AI neocloud Nscale is buying software startup Anyscale, which helps companies scale their AI workloads across data centers and se...

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Jul 30, 2026 60

Forward-deployed engineers are the AI industry’s latest talent obsession

A new study estimates only 2,000 U.S. engineers have the expertise to deliver meaningful AI ROI, as enterprises race to hire forward-depl...

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Jul 30, 2026 63

In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI’s hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable

Cybersecurity experts told TechCrunch that one of the biggest lessons to be taken from the OpenAI hack against Hugging Face has nothing t...

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Jul 30, 2026 50

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s biggest stage features leaders from Amazon, Replit, Tether, with much more to come 

The Disrupt Stage is where many of the biggest conversations in technology happen, with a legacy that stretches back for more than a decade.

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Jul 30, 2026 197

Dili raises $21.7M to bring AI compliance to the infrastructure boom

The Series A was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures’ Darren Bechtel, and Y Co...

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Jul 30, 2026 93

Zuckerberg details Meta’s personal AI superintelligence strategy

Mark Zuckerberg has published a WSJ op-ed that argues superintelligence must reach individuals, not just a handful of institutions. The M...

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Jul 30, 2026 81

How AI is Changing Linux VPS Security for Businesses

Cybersecurity wasn’t really something small and mid-sized businesses worried about too much a few years back. That’s changed ...

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Jul 30, 2026 135

A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack

It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of resea...

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Jul 30, 2026 68

Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever

Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street it plans for con...