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The White House rebranded AI as "super intelligence." President Donald Trump signed an executive order to that effect.
Source: TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/video/its-not-ai-anymore-its-super-intelligence-according-to-the-white-house/
#TechPolicy #WhiteHouse

The White House gathered major tech CEOs to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called morally binding.
Source: TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/podcast/call-it-ai-call-it-super-intelligence-only-2-of-consumers-are-buying-it/
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This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intelligence,” and meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are putting friendlier faces on their AI products,…

Allen Institute for AI announced Olmo-core 3, a framework that improves training efficiency for mixture-of-experts large language models.
Source: SiliconANGLE
https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/02/ai2-releases-olmo-core-3-to-make-developing-large-mixture-of-experts-llms-more-efficient/
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With all the talk about how AI might one day ill us all, it's easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people, psychologically. Circuit Breaker Labs has created "crash test dummies" to solve that. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/02/circuit-breaker-labs-hopes-to-make-ai-safer-for-your-kids-and-you/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is developing a roadmap for its semiconductor ecosystem. It aims to find a niche in the ASEAN semiconductor supply chain.
Source: ANTARA News
https://en.antaranews.com/news/433969/seeking-niche-in-asean-semiconductor-supply-chain
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Debt financing for data centers and related infrastructure has grown rapidly enough to become its own category, with credit analysts separating AI-linked from non-AI debt.
Source: The Information
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-data-center-debt-showing-everywhere
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Meta will start charging businesses using the official WhatsApp Business Platform in October 2026.
Source: Technext
https://technext24.com/reviews/chatpaddi-adebo-david-alternative-whatsapp/
#Tech #Meta

The roughly $110 billion deal is expected to close October 6. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/02/paramount-and-warner-bros-discovery-to-become-skydance/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others," the pope wrote. "Algorithms lack the spark of humanity." https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/02/pope-leo-xiv-is-not-a-fan-of-ai-generated-art/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman warned that a moratorium on data centers could have lasting effects.
Source: Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-aws-ceo-data-center-moratoriums-blog-post-warning-2026-10
#TechPolicy #Amazon

Laytr lets you save articles, recipes, screenshots, videos, PDFs and more for later, while keeping your archive private and synced across your Apple devices. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/02/laytrs-new-app-lets-you-save-anything-you-find-online-not-just-articles-to-read/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The Karnataka government's Innoverse programme has selected seven startups for a deep-tech scale-up initiative.
Source: The Economic Times
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/startups/karnataka-govts-innoverse-identifies-seven-startups-for-deeptech-scale-up-programme/articleshow/134641803.cms
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Rogo ships agent-written code to production in five minutes on Vercel.
Source: Vercel
https://vercel.com/blog/how-rogo-ships-agent-written-code-to-production-in-5-minutes-on-vercel
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Blackstone's Jas Khaira will take the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on building next-gen AI. Register for your pass and get 50% off a second. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/02/techcrunch-disrupt-2026-blackstones-jas-khaira-on-building-the-next-generation-of-ai-giants/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The .si domain name is seeing unprecedented demand after President Trump's super intelligence executive order. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/02/slovenias-si-domain-sees-a-surge-in-registrations-after-trumps-super-intelligence-order/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Clay Co-founder and CEO Kareem Amin joins the AI Stage to discuss the rise of GTM engineer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register for your ticket and get a second pass at 50% off. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/02/techcrunch-disrupt-2026-clays-kareem-amin-on-the-rise-of-the-gtm-engineer/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Today is the very last day to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. On October 13–15, 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders will arrive at San Francisco’s Moscone West looking for companies, products, ideas, and people worth knowing. The question is: will they find your startup? https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/02/last-24-hours-exhibit-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2026-and-reach-10000-tech-leaders/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The clock is almost out. You have less than 24 hours left to apply to host a Side Event during TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026. Applications close tonight at midnight PT. Connect with the Boston startup ecosystem through November 1–7 by hosting your own Side Event. Bring your community, start an…

Cloudflare is launching eight major updates that combine logs, traces, analytics, alerts, dashboards and exporting into a single observability platform with a unified pricing model.
Source: Cloudflare
https://blog.cloudflare.com/one-observability-platform/
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