Garp https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html About Contact Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation Next five VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 contenders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 OpenAI’s AI agents exploited a Google security education game to scrape UN trade data OpenAI still doesn’t seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5.5 nearly matches Opus 5.5 on benchmarks while costing up to 30 percent less per task Watch the winning trailer from the Future Vision XPRIZE, The Gifted. Nvidia may sell more chips in China as Jensen Huang’s influence over Trump grows Ocean surveillance startup Quartermaster raises another $140M Raise Robotics to discuss scaling field robots at RoboBusiness Maritime intelligenc startup Quartermaster raises another $140M Nvidia wants to keep AI agents on a short leash with a watchdog built into its chips Anthropic, Gamma, and Clay share what happens when enterprises actually deploy AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, which it calls a significantly cheaper, faster work partner A Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Charlie Kemp Modulate raises $25M for its voice models and analysis suite Meta launches enterprise AI platform, hires MongoDB CEO to lead new initiative OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents Gecko Robotics works with NVIDIA to add AI agent security and control Nvidia launches new platform for reining in rogue AI agents OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype  Apple releases iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27 with Siri AI and Liquid Glass refinements AI Agents now have a place to snitch Roundtables: Could AI really kill us all? How we made the first comprehensive map of deaths along the US border’s “virtual wall” 4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall” The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die? Morphotonics raises €40M to expand its display tech into data centers She died at the San Diego border. A surveillance camera was in plain sight Tens of thousands of security probes show OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident was just the beginning Some Anthropic veterans are reportedly buying remote land in case “AI goes awry” OpenAI says 80 to 90 percent of its research already targets GPT 7 and beyond Anthropic’s Dario Amodei gets the SNL treatment Anthropic’s CEO is about to have dinner with President Trump Researchers plug GPT-6 Astra directly into a robot and let it clean up an unfamiliar kitchen Asimov’s laws are not enough to keep robotics and AI safe AI agents do more of the work in model development, but humans still make the decisions Singapore’s Nexstrom wants to bring 2D semiconductors to chip fabs Nvidia drops a free 100M-parameter model that identifies up to eight speakers in real time Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall Five AI safety sessions every founder should have on their TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 agenda The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now? Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms The Emerging M&A Map For AI Agent Security AI agents flood the Internet with slop-infused spam YouTube releases new AI features for creators within its Studio app ChatGPT mobile app gets voice-based agentic features What must happen for AI’s trillion-dollar gamble to pay off