Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

Insurance startup Corgi reportedly raised more money at $4B — its third round in eight weeks

Insurance startup Corgi has reportedly raised additional funding, reaching a valuation of approximately $4 billion.

Hardware/Chips TechCrunch

Tesla’s door handles may spur new U.S. safety rules

US safety regulators may introduce new rules regarding car door handles following safety incidents involving Tesla vehicles.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

Meta drops out of a major clean energy pact as its natural gas buildout accelerates

Meta is exiting a major clean energy pact and increasing its reliance on natural gas to power its infrastructure.

AI/ML TechCrunch

Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models

Anthropic has updated Claude's voice mode to integrate more capable models for complex tasks like scheduling and drafting.

Other The Verge

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s war on the First Amendment

The Verge reports on FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's actions, alleging attempts to undermine the First Amendment and pressure broadcasters.

AI/ML The Verge

Claude’s voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet

Anthropic extends Claude's voice mode to its more powerful Opus and Sonnet models and integrates with third-party apps like Slack and Gmail.

Open Source Hacker News

Building on ATProto

Discussion on building applications using the ATProto protocol.

Hardware/Chips Hacker News

Geekbench 7

Introduction and benchmarks for Geekbench 7, a cross-platform CPU and GPU benchmark tool.

Other Hacker News

A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements

Researchers have developed a solid-state 'atomic channel' to separate rare earth elements, potentially improving material processing.

AI/ML Hacker News

From Evaluation to Guardrails: What We Brought to ACM FAccT 2026

Research presented at ACM FAccT 2026 regarding the transition from AI evaluation to implementing active guardrails.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing

AegisAI has raised $36M in Series A funding to combat AI-driven spear phishing attacks.

Tech Business/VC The Verge

Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers

Patreon is laying off 20% of its workforce, citing structural shifts in the industry driven by AI.

Tech Business/VC Ars Technica

Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending

Google reports its first negative cash flow quarter, attributed to massive capital expenditures on AI infrastructure.

AI/ML VentureBeat

Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 capable of generating images and 20-second video with audio — but in limited release to start

Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3, a multimodal model for image, video, and audio generation, with a focus on robotic action prediction.

Cybersecurity VentureBeat

Multi-turn attacks broke AI models 88% of the time — single-turn testing missed it, Cisco AI security lead warns at VB Transform 2026

Cisco research reveals that multi-turn attacks are significantly more successful at breaking AI models than single-turn tests, highlighting a critical security gap.

Tech Business/VC VentureBeat

The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costs

A survey of 107 enterprises shows a 'compute gap' where AI infrastructure spending is accelerating faster than organizations can measure costs or utilize GPUs efficiently.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)

A discussion on Hacker News regarding the failures of software factories and why engineering alone is insufficient for success.

AI/ML Hacker News

The arguments against open source AI are bad

A Hacker News discussion debating the validity and logic of arguments against open source AI.

AI/ML Hacker News

Show HN: Claude-thermos – keeps your Claude session warm for you

A Show HN post introducing Claude-thermos, a tool to keep Claude AI sessions active.

Cybersecurity TechCrunch

US government says Iran-linked hackers are disrupting American water and energy providers

The US government warns that Iranian hackers are targeting American water and energy infrastructure.