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Last updated: 07 November 2026, 05:30 IST

AI & Automation

TechCrunch AIOct 21, 2026

Hugging Face CEO warns that Netflix’s OpenAI hack documentary isn’t accurate

Before you share the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue," take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face's co-founder who is featured in the film, says it went "full doomer…

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TechCrunch AIOct 21, 2026

Anthropic’s cloud partnerships are getting messy

Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons…

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TechCrunch AIOct 21, 2026

SpaceX’s AI business is beating expectations

SpaceX hit profitability in the third quarter, with net income of $4.4 billion. AI was the engine.

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TechCrunch AIOct 21, 2026

OpenAI acquires startup Orchestra Bio⁠ to beef up its biotech business

OpenAI says it's adding Orchestra's team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a…

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TechCrunch AIOct 21, 2026

Google has joined Amazon in attacking Nvidia’s stronghold with AI app developers

Google has joined Amazon in releasing a developer tool that makes it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs.

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TechCrunch AIOct 21, 2026

ChatGPT now lets you lock your chats

The company says the feature is designed for situations where users might be discussing something personal or planning a surprise and want to keep those conversations…

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TechCrunch AIOct 20, 2026

Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about half as much of Anthropic as CEO Dario Amodei

Eric Schmidt’s fortune is about to get even bigger.

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TechCrunch AIOct 20, 2026

Meta’s Muse hits 10M US downloads in 40 days, a milestone reached by only 11 other apps

New data also shows Muse is retaining users at higher rates than its AI rivals.

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TechCrunch AIOct 20, 2026

Ex-Nvidia-turned-VC Amulya Vishwanath: ‘Physical AI is in its LEGO era’

It’s the moment everyone is waiting for — the ChatGPT moment for robotics, Amulya Vishwanath explained to TechCrunch’s Equity.

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TechCrunch AIOct 20, 2026

Plants can speak using electricity, so this startup built an AI model to decipher their language

Electric Plant has built an AI-powered translator to help humans listen to what plants are saying with the subtle electricity coursing through their stems.

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TechCrunch AIOct 20, 2026

Figma co-founder Dylan Field thinks MCP is not a perfect protocol

Figma said it plans to support as many standards as possible without exposing all of its data.

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TechCrunch AIOct 20, 2026

US orders federal agencies to remove China’s DeepSeek AI from their systems

The US has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built using its technology, citing national security concerns.

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TechCrunch AIOct 20, 2026

Eka is worth $1.45B thanks to a physical AI model that has experts raving

Eka Robotics may be the first robotic arm that is actually good at picking a wide range of objects up, and it is so smooth and human-like, it is wowing the industry.

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TechCrunch AIOct 20, 2026

Otter.ai raises $320 million from General Catalyst’s growth fund for its meeting tool

Meeting note-taking tool Otter.ai announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), which provides capital to…

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