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Leif Abraham, Public's co-CEO, told Business Insider he wants vintage wines and fancy Levi's jeans. Meta's Muse AI agent buys them for him.
Source: Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-muse-shopping-fewer-amazon-purchases-shopify-win-startup-ceo-2026-10
#Tech #Meta #Amazon

Cisco N9000 support for ORv3 enables data centers to standardize and prepare for high-density AI with flexible power, cooling, and network integration.
Source: Cisco
https://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/powering-ai-ready-data-centers-with-n9000-support-for-orv3
#AI

OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/openai-will-start-watermarking-chatgpts-text-in-the-eu/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Just a couple of months after its last big raise, the AI chip startup is already being plied with investment offers at double or more its current value, sources tell TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/etched-fields-funding-offers-at-40b-valuation-sources-say/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Cisco's RunOn eliminates multi-cloud fragmentation by unifying data with organizational context.
Source: Cisco
https://blogs.cisco.com/innovation/why-cisco-continues-to-invest-in-ai-native-runon-bringing-context-visibility-and-ai-to-multi-cloud
#AI

AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic have announced breakthroughs on long-standing mathematical problems, even resolving one of the Millennium Prize problems.
Source: The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1004933/ai-math-openai-breakthrough-solution
#MachineLearning #OpenAI #Anthropic

Menlo Ventures is backing Factory, which offers a platform that automates planning, code review, testing, security and documentation, tasks that consume most of an engineer's time.
Source: The Economic Times
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/startups/menlo-ventures-backs-factory-in-bid-to-automate-the-entire-software-lifecycle/articleshow/134715894.cms
#Startups

Days after Vinod Khosla called Factory a struggling also-ran, Menlo has shown up with a check and a glowing blog post. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/after-factorys-public-spat-with-khosla-menlo-proudly-invests/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Reflection AI, a New York startup, is releasing its first open-source model called Beam.
Source: Semafor
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/05/2026/reflection-ai-unveils-an-open-source-answer-to-chinese-labs
#AI

Nvidia and Broadcom are shielded as an AI power crunch impacts the chip supply chain, according to Morgan Stanley.
Source: The Economic Times
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/nvidia-broadcom-shielded-as-ai-power-crunch-hits-chip-supply-chain-says-morgan-stanley/articleshow/134716053.cms
#AI #Nvidia #Broadcom

Nvidia-backed Reflection AI unveils Beam, its first open-weight model, which it says rivals GLM-5.2 on reasoning with far less inference compute. Weights are due this month. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/reflection-debuts-beam-a-open-weight-ai-model-to-rival-chinese-models-at-lower-compute-cost/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Amazon has hired Pedram Rezaei, the former chief technology officer of Microsoft's Copilot, as a distinguished engineer.
Source: Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-hires-former-microsoft-copilot-cto-ai-agent-push-2026-10
#AIAgents #Amazon #Microsoft

Instinct is launching group chats that let friends use its AI agent together for tasks like planning trips, organizing carpools, and coordinating events. The company says personal accounts remain separate, with permission required before personal agents share information or take action. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/instinct-brings-its-ai-agent-to-group-chats-even-for-friends-without-an-account/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

King's funding for Andrew is not for legal action against police
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9ly0l028d1go?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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TikTok describes its new Shopping Assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users discover and purchase products. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/tiktok-rolls-out-an-ai-shopping-assistant-and-one-click-checkout/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Meta and Microsoft are working to cut their employees' use of Anthropic's Claude. Microsoft has reduced its planned internal spend on Anthropic's technology by more than a third.
Source: The Information
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-microsoft-work-wean-staff-anthropics-claude
#EnterpriseAI #Meta #Microsoft

Ghost announced Monday its official emergence from stealth and an $11 billion seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/at-19-ghost-founder-raises-11-million-to-build-a-3499-computer-for-your-personal-ai/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Founded by two sisters, Hot Girl Hotline uses AI to give young women personalized dating and relationship advice, with an emphasis on safety and avoiding emotional dependency. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/hot-girl-hotline-is-like-dear-abby-for-the-ai-era/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

TechCrunch attended Pear’s latest demo day and discovered which startups generated the most buzz, from spatial models to chips for local AI. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/5-startups-that-caught-vcs-attention-at-the-latest-pearx-demo-day/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

HackerRank’s AI interviewer has already conducted more than 500,000 interviews, with Snowflake, Snorkel, and Capgemini among its early testers. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/hackerranks-ai-interviewer-offers-a-glimpse-into-what-job-interviews-could-become/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon