Day: September 29, 2026
America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch | TechCrunch
The U.S. government on Tuesday launched its very own AI chatbot — or do we have to call...
The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch | TechCrunch
On Tuesday, OpenAI launched a new product called Dots, an always-on AI agent with a bubbly, blobby avatar....
a16z-backed EliseAI raises $350M, doubles valuation to $4B | TechCrunch
AI startup EliseAI announced on Tuesday that it has raised $350 million at a $4 billion valuation, double...
Final Countdown for Large Hadron Collider Activation, Prepare Your Escape Pods
Worried about the Large Hadron Collider destroying the Solar System in a big ball of fire and Z...
Scientists Dated the Catastrophic Pompeii Eruption Using Only Rocks. Here’s How Close They Got
According to Pliny the Younger, Mount Vesuvius erupted on August 24th, 79 CE. That date is now helping...
Spammer Keeps Whining About Large Hadron Collider Assploding
Dear Moron Physicist Who Can’t Write Proper English,https://gizmodo.com/cern-to-morons-large-hadron-collider-wont-destroy-eart-374066I hope you are right about CERN’s Large Hadron Collider exploding...
OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model | TechCrunch
The focus of OpenAI’s Dev Day on Tuesday may have been on its agentic assistants known as Dots,...
Humans Didn’t Evolve From a Single Ancestral Population
In the 1980s, scientists learned that all humans living today are descended from a woman, dubbed “Mitochondrial Eve,”...
Nazi Germany Couldn’t Have Built a Working Reactor, Let Alone a Bomb, Study Finds
Contrary to historical documents, Nazi Germany’s nuclear program was far from achieving criticality.
OpenAI repotedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation | TechCrunch
OpenAI is in talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in a pre-IPO funding round at...
