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Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation

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Flow Engineering, a startup that offers AI tools for hardware design, has raised a $50 million Series B round at a $750 million valuation from some big-name investors, the company announced on Wednesday. The round was co-led by Antonio Gracias of Valar Equity Partners (best known for its investments in Elon Musk’s companies, particularly SpaceX) and Gavin Baker of Atreides Management (a hedge fund that has also backed Musk’s companies and others like AI chipmaker Cerebras). Sequoia Capital,…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 23:07 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here

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Yesterday, I spent the morning at OpenAI’s annual DevDay, where over 2,500 nerds discussed building software and marveled at the latest artificial intelligence models. The biggest reveal of the day was Dots, the company’s new, always-on agents that proactively help complete tasks and make autonomous decisions as they scour the web. After watching the sometimes messy demos on stage and hearing CEO Sam Altman talk about his experiences using the agents, I was curious what it felt like to boss my own Dot around. I’ve spent most of September testing…

· 30 Sep 2026 · 21:30 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents

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One of the more intriguing announcements at OpenAI’s Dev Day event on Tuesday came in an aside from CEO Sam Altman, who revealed the company’s new “Decisions API.” The API apparently provides similar functionality to Jev, a model released by TypeSafe AI earlier this month that’s explicitly designed for software automation. A kind of super-powered classifier built on an LLM, developers can give Jev a set of choices that it outputs as probabilities cheaply and at high speeds. OpenAI’s Decisions API seems to be the same sort of product. At…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 21:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission

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Meta is refuting a journalist’s claim that its AI agent Muse read the user’s private messages without permission. Following an earlier report from Inc. columnist Jason Aten that detailed the issue, Meta VP of Communications Andy Stone pushed back, making it clear that the company does not believe its product did this without the user’s consent. “The Messages integration in the Muse app for Mac is entirely opt-in,” Stone wrote on X in response to the claims made by the piece. “You have to enable both Full Disk Access and…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 18:24 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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DoorDash launches an AI agent you can text to order food

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DoorDash announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a text-to-order AI agent that lets users place orders through Apple Messages. The new tool allows users to send prompts like “order my usual,” and the agent will understand that they mean their Friday night order. DoorDash says users can also ask for a specific dish and request a local recommendation. The agent will then search local spots and suggest a cart based on the prompt, and even text photos of the food it recommends. When ordering for

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 18:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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All the latest news on Meta’s cute, creepy Muse AI agent

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Meta launched a new Muse AI agent it claims can help you with everything from firing off emails to buying stuff online. Muse can be surprisingly effective at delivering on those promises — if you’re willing to trust Meta with your data and hand Muse your credit card. Since the launch, Meta’s also announced plans for a Tamagotchi-like Muse Charm device for its cuddly AI mascot. Tech YouTuber Matt Robb says that Muse gave out his home address to a total stranger this weekend, after authorizing the bot to handle…

The Verge AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 17:18 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Restate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents

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When Stephen Ewen co-founded Restate in 2022 to provide durable workflow infrastructure, he couldn’t have anticipated how valuable such an offering would become for managing AI agent processes. The Berlin-based startup had set out to build an execution engine that made multi-step workflows resilient to crashes and network interruptions — something that made it a fit for the agentic era. “It never was built for agents in the beginning, but it just happened to be a perfect match for all these problems that agents surface,” Ewen told TechCrunch. Ensuring durability…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 16:27 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch

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On Tuesday, OpenAI launched a new product called Dots, an always-on AI agent with a bubbly, blobby avatar. While the colorful avatar might evoke a smile, the biggest laugh from the launch is (we imagine) being had by Elon Musk, the former OpenAI founder who left, launched competitor Grok, and unsuccessfully sued. That’s because the domain “dot.com” belongs to Musk’s xAI, and it currently redirects to the download page for xAI’s Grok chatbot app. According to the Whois domain owner registry, that domain name was just transferred in July. It…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 00:20 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack

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A legal nonprofit sued OpenAI in a California court on Tuesday over the company’s agents escaping a testing environment and hacking the open source AI platform Hugging Face. “OpenAI’s actions straightforwardly violated California law,” the suit alleges. The suit was filed by Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) and the law firm Gerstein Harrow in California Superior Court in San Francisco, where OpenAI is headquartered. It alleges that OpenAI’s agents violated California’s Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (CDAFA) by breaching Hugging Face over the summer. The…

· 29 Sep 2026 · 21:05 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Here’s why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia’s industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents

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When Nvidia announced on Monday a new consortium of more than 100 companies dedicated to solving rogue AI agents, there was one name notably missing: OpenAI. While OpenAI wasn’t the only big tech player that didn’t sign on — Amazon, Google, and Apple haven’t joined either — it was the most obvious missing player, especially because Anthropic is a supporter. However, despite OpenAI’s lack of a public pledge to the consortium, which presumably means that each company will use and sell some version of the technology and contribute features back…

TechCrunch AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 20:35 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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AI-powered app maker Wabi pivots to a messaging experience

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Wabi, the AI startup that allowed anyone to use prompts to build apps, is undergoing a slight pivot as demand for AI agents, like Meta’s Muse and Instinct, takes off. The company announced this week that Wabi is now becoming an AI messenger of sorts — but one that’s still capable of making apps to help you get things done. The startup’s founder Eugenia Kuyda, who previously founded the AI companion startup Replika, described Wabi 2.0, as the new experience is called, as a “personal agent that does stuff for…

TechCrunch AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 19:20 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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OpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar

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At OpenAI’s Dev Day event on Tuesday, the company announced the launch of Dots, a new personal agentic assistant powered by GPT-6 Astra. The company describes Dots as “remarkably capable, always-on agents built to handle everything.” Unlike Codex or ChatGPT, Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal oversight. “Today, you can start with your primary dot, give it a name, and make it your own,” OpenAI said in an announcement post. “Over time, we envision teams…

TechCrunch AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 19:17 CESTRead story →Join free ↗