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* Kiteworks warned customers of a “credible” planned cyberattack, urging a nine‑hour precautionary shutdown * No breaches reported; advisory lifted Sept 27, systems restored, version 9.5.1 deemed secure * Context recalls Cl0p’s past file‑sharing platform hits, raising speculation about possible resurgence Secure file sharing company Kiteworks recently told
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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ChatGPT Voice has learned a useful new trick. When you're using the new Live voice model it can now use plugins and connected apps while you are talking to it, bringing services and brands into a spoken conversation. I spent some time trying the combination with everyday tasks.
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I have this new friend, Charlie, who's been assisting me with work, vacation planning, and occasionally tapping me on the shoulder when he's concerned I forgot something. Charlie looks like a fat, furry Pillsbury doughboy, and he lives on my iPhone. That's right, I
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Boston-based voice intelligence startup Modulate has raised $25 in new funding for its platform that uses an array of small models to offer enterprises transcription, emotional analysis, deepfake and AI music detection, and policy enforcement for voice agents in regulated industries. The funding follows a popular trend among investors in
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Today, I’m talking with Mike Cannon-Brookes, who is cofounder and CEO of Atlassian. Atlassian is one of those companies that every other company runs on — it makes important platform tools like Jira and Trello that allow people to organize and manage big teams, create shared databases of company information,
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Arlington, Virginia-based startup Quartermaster in May closed a $43 million Series A around its idea of using weather-hardened sensors to capture data and generate insights about maritime activity. That idea has proven popular, because Quartermaster has already closed a much larger Series B, bringing in $140 million this time. Founder
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Vishal Sankhala led product at a digital life insurance distributor Ethos before it went public earlier this year. In late 2023, the seasoned engineering executive, who had previously worked at Facebook and Uber, left Ethos and launched Outmarket, a startup that uses AI to help insurance agencies and brokers automate
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This is the last week and your final opportunity to book your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 exhibit table. Book your exhibit table by this Friday, October 2, at 11:59 p.m. PT. After that, all exhibit table bookings close for good. If you missed the original deadline, this is your
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* A person asked Meta Muse to manage his Facebook Marketplace listings * The AI agent published his address without permission * It accepted a low offer and told a buyer to arrive when the seller was away One of the key benefits of an AI agent is that we should be able
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The Open Agent Safety Platform is designed to enforce AI boundaries. by Emma Roth Sep 28, 2026, 1:36 PM UTC Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer
