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As part of the settlement, GM must get drivers’ express consent before it collects or shares their driving and location data. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/gm-reaches-220m-settlement-over-selling-drivers-private-data/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The piece explains building generative UI applications with A2UI and CopilotKit agents.
Source: Google Developers
https://developers.googleblog.com/build-generative-ui-apps-with-a2ui-copilotkit-agents/
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Archive of Our Own, the popular online home of fan fiction readers and writers, has bad news for its community. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/fan-fiction-site-archive-of-our-own-could-be-offline-for-up-to-4-weeks/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

As AI transforms how people find information online, Reddit is rethinking its open-web roots to protect its audience and business. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/as-search-traffic-dries-up-reddit-announces-its-shifting-to-a-logged-in-experience/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Rivian doesn't disclose if the value of its $5.8 billion joint venture will expand as a result. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/rivian-expands-joint-venture-with-vw-to-include-ai-assistant/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Rivian is seeing strong enough sales of the new EV that it improved its guidance to Wall Street for the second time this year. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/the-r2-suv-is-already-rivians-best-selling-vehicle/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings is buying ADT in a $15.3 billion deal, with plans to bring AI to the home security business. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/openai-backed-thrive-holdings-acquires-adt/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Airbnb’s nonprofit held its inaugural gala on Wednesday in Los Angeles, and the internet had one reaction — the *what* gala?  https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/where-was-my-invite-to-the-wait-what-airbnb-had-a-gala/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The app connects to Instagram to build a virtual closet from photos you’ve already shared, or lets you add items manually by snapping a photo, recording a quick video, or uploading images from your camera roll. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/meta-quietly-launches-an-ai-fashion-app-called-style-sketch/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

OpenAI released an updated Model Spec that outlines five core values to guide more capable AI toward sound judgment, human agency, and faithfulness to human intent.
Source: OpenAI
https://openai.com/index/updated-model-spec
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Uno reverse! After Wispr added meeting notes to its dictation app, Granola is adding dictation to its meeting notetaker. The voice AI wars are getting interesting. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/granola-crunches-up-a-dictation-feature-to-compete-with-wispr/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Mistral says its new model can afford organizations a kind of control over its cyber defenses that closed models can't. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/mistral-releases-weights-for-its-trillion-parameter-ai-model-targeting-cybersecurity/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Debugging now consumes 44% of verification effort and is becoming harder as designs grow to millions of gates.
Source: Semiconductor Engineering
https://semiengineering.com/scaling-autonomous-root-cause-analysis-for-regression-triage/
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A top executive of a Singapore AI cloud company that was accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China could also have been a Chinese spy, sources have told the New York Times. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/u-s-investigated-chinese-spy-plot-aimed-at-nvidia-ceo/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

rained on 100 million square feet of building permits, dream wants to disrupt Autodesk with AI. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/ex-palantir-execs-launch-dream-with-17m-from-a16z-to-build-ai-world-models-for-construction/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

SuperMe just raised $20 million to let you pester AI clones of Silicon Valley’s savviest people about your career. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/superme-raises-20m-for-its-network-of-ai-expert-profiles/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

China's record-high clean-energy technology exports are projected to avert about 24 % of global carbon emissions, roughly 450 million metric tons per year, according to a Finland-based analysis.
Source: Fortune
https://fortune.com/2026/10/29/china-clean-energy-export-24-global-co2-emissions/

Cisco open sourced Project Quarry, a rule language for detecting AI agent attacks that only emerge across sequences of benign actions.
Source: SecurityWeek
https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-open-sources-quarry-to-catch-ai-agent-attacks-hidden-in-harmless-steps/
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Orange Cyberdefense joined Mistral's design partner programme for Large 4, becoming the first European managed security services provider to do so.
Source: The Next Web
https://thenextweb.com/news/orange-cyberdefense-mistral-large-4-design-partner
#Tech #Mistral

Mintive was founded by two engineers who have been working on AI for decades through Google Brain, Coursera. It's platform promises to help IT easily control enterprise agents https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/agent-identity-startup-mintive-lands-cowboy-ventures-coatue-angels-jeff-dean-andrej-karpathy/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon