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A newly launched stock class being offered was partially engineered to help Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pay the "billionaire's tax," should the measure be voted into law. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/mark-zuckerbergs-creative-plan-to-pay-californias-proposed-billionaire-tax-without-losing-control-of-meta/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

AI assistant startup Town raised a $108M Series B, reaching a billion-dollar valuation four months after its public launch.
Source: CB Insights
https://www.cbinsights.com/research/newsletter-october-22-2026/
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Warhound, the brain child of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/ben-lamm-raises-200m-for-warhound-to-engineer-war-dogs-and-arm-them-with-anduril-gear/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The Claude Platform is now fully available on Google Cloud, allowing users to run Claude models with Google Cloud authentication, billing, and commitment retirement.
Source: Claude Blog
https://claude.com/resources/articles/claude-models-on-google-cloud-anthropic-managed
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The digital asset unit, helmed by Chris Dixon, broadens its scope. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/as-blockchain-investing-falls-out-of-vogue-a16z-crypto-rebrands-as-a16z-frontier/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Railway warned developers to rotate their secrets after detecting suspicious activity on the systems that store customer environment variables.
Source: BleepingComputer
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/railway-warns-devs-to-rotate-secrets-after-potential-breach/

Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the mostly highly valued private company ever. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/openai-working-on-new-30b-raise-at-1-25t-valuation-ahead-of-ipo/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Capcom confirmed that hackers breached its CAPCOM ID service, exposing more than 11.7 million customer email addresses and associated information.
Source: BleepingComputer
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/capcom-confirms-data-breach-affecting-117-million-accounts/

Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/rivian-buys-world-model-startup-to-accelerate-self-driving-ambitions/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Arc was fiercely beloved by a dedicated group of enthusiasts, but it never quite became the mass-market Chrome alternative its makers once envisioned. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/arc-browser-sunsets-december-22-as-the-browser-company-doubles-down-on-dia/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

At this year’s Disrupt, Lovable GTM lead Luke Arno, Polska’s Ben Broca, and Theory Ventures’ Tomasz Tunguz gave founders some tips on how to achieve true sales success in the first 90 days. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/the-secret-to-fast-startup-growth-isnt-early-sales-top-names-in-tech-say/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Claire Smilow helped BoxGroup earn about a $1 billion return on the AI coding startup Cursor after scouting the founder at MIT.
Source: Fortune
https://fortune.com/2026/10/22/claire-smilow-boxgroup-make-1-billion-return-on-cursor-now-scouting-college-campuses-next-generation-workers/
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OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev? https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/openai-makes-its-jev-competitor-widely-available-as-decision-model-competition-heats-up/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The new feature allows agents to log into a customer's personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials that secure those accounts. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/1password-launches-a-way-for-ai-agents-to-log-in-on-your-behalf-without-seeing-your-password/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/canva-releases-its-first-image-generation-model/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/microsofts-mustafa-suleyman-says-its-ai-outperforms-doctors-on-hard-cases-as-he-chases-medical-superintelligence/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The new startup raised a $215 million round led by Lightspeed. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/former-openai-science-lead-launches-warp-science-to-automate-wet-labs-with-robots/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Arista Networks released security updates to patch a zero-day vulnerability in VeloCloud Orchestrator that was being actively exploited.
Source: BleepingComputer
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/arista-patches-new-velocloud-orchestrator-zero-day-exploited-in-attacks/

Visa is in talks to acquire Israeli fintech company Fireblocks. Fireblocks says it denies the report.
Source: Globes
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-1001560586#utm_source=RSS

Uber is extending its use of ChatGPT Work to all 30,000 employees after a smaller pilot.
Source: TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/uber-puts-all-30000-employees-on-chatgpt-work/
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