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Revolut attackers threaten daily customer data leaks
Attackers reportedly published identity documents and selfies belonging to Revolut customers and threatened to release more data each day until the fintech pays.
Crypto’s biggest week ever? Swarm fears prompt AI slowdown: Hodler’s Digest
Crypto’s moment of CLARITY finally arrives with a key Senate vote on Tuesday. AI swarm fears prompt development slowdown, with some predicting big falls in AI stock prices.
The Contagion of Fear
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Building Isolyne (Part 5): How the Offline Fallback Parser Handles LLM Outages
What happens when an LLM call fails on flaky Wi-Fi? How we engineered a deterministic fallback engine that keeps our mobile app 100% functional offline. The dirty secret of many modern “AI-native” mobile apps is that they are completely bricked the moment the phone loses internet connectivity. If an app routes every single user tap … Read more
Week 5 of Building Pocketflow for Shipaton 2026: Paywalls, Timeline Audits, and Launch!
This final week brought Pocketflow across the finish line – from UI refinement and activity auditing to native monetization and our official public release. Over the last 5 weeks, we’ve taken Pocketflow from an abstract design concept to a native, gesture-controlled collaborative node editor running AI image, video, and audio pipelines across iOS and Android. 1. Onboarding Screen Layout … Read more
Insight Partners’ Devin Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic
Insight Partners’ Devin Parekh opens up about losing Legora to General Catalyst, why he’s fine holding stakes in rival AI labs, and why — even as everyone else piles into OpenAI and Anthropic — his $90 billion firm is deliberately staying diversified.
Larry Ellison cancels $7.5 billion sale of Oracle stock
Oracle had previously disclosed that Ellison planned to sell 50 million shares worth around $7.5 billion.
The U.S. Space Academy Is More of a Workforce Bet Than an Astronaut School
TL;DR: The proposed U.S. Space Academy is not an operating school yet. It is a 120-day attempt to decide whether the United States needs a dedicated pipeline for the engineers, operators, civil servants, military personnel and commercial leaders who would run a far busier space economy. The strongest case for the academy is not astronaut … Read more
AI Can Write a Perfectly Reasonable Scientific Sentence, and That’s the Problem
AI Writing: When a Perfectly Reasonable Scientific Sentence Goes One Step Too Far A while ago, I was working on a chemistry manuscript about Ce³⁺-doped perovskite microlasers, and one AI-generated continuation caught my attention. The manuscript had reached this sentence: “Ce³⁺ may regulate the energy-level arrangement.” It was trying to explain a specific experimental observation: … Read more
The 9 buzziest startups from Y Combinator’s latest Demo Day, according to VCs
From floating reactors to brain chips: VCs picked their favorite YC startups from the summer batch.
How I Use Claude and ChatGPT to Make Better AI Images
Making an image with ChatGPT is easy. Making the image you actually had in your head is a different job. I worked that out fairly quickly. Type something like “create a professional image of a programmer working at a computer,” and you will get an image. It probably will not be a good one. The … Read more
Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting
Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter saying it was time to “pace the frontier” and slow down AI development. OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk both agreed, publicly voicing their support on X. Even Alphabet’s Demis Hassabis offered tentative support for Amodei’s proposal. Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, however, … Read more
What’s behind the AI industry’s latest warnings of doom?
On Equity, we discussed the AI industry’s latest debate about whether it poses an existential threat to humanity.
Apple is reportedly working on iPhone game controllers
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Apple is developing two game controllers for the iPhone and will likely sell them under the Beats brand. Rumors that Apple might enter the game controller business have circulated for some time. But last week, MacRumors reported finding two references in macOS 26.7’s code to two game controllers identified as first-party … Read more
The Units’ Digital Stimulation is synthpunk perfection
The Units are a band I discovered in part thanks to No Dogs in Space. During their miniseries on The Screamers (another incredible band worth checking out), they mention synthpunk.org as one of their sources. And there’s no better way to get my attention than to combine two of my favorite things – punk rock … Read more
Quantum-proof blockchain: why math, not machines, holds the key
lockchains don’t need quantum computers to be quantum-safe, argues Optimum co-founder and MIT professor Muriel Médard. Classic math already gives us the tools.
Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards
Obama recently said that Democrats need to make artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” and “have a very clear plan” to address concerns around the technology’s economic impact and safety.
TechCrunch Mobility: Lyft has entered the robotaxi chat
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation, and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
YouTube’s AI Slop Crackdown Can’t Tell a Directed AI Film From a Bot Farm
In January 2026, YouTube terminated 16 channels that had racked up a combined 4.7 billion lifetime views and roughly $10 million a year in ad revenue. The platform called it a crackdown on “AI slop.” What YouTube actually enforces is narrower and blunter than that headline suggests: its systems lean on whether a human face … Read more