The Byte Surge

Live News

14.4°C
  • London
October 30, 2026
Follow Us:

Day: October 27, 2026

render of a data breach with computer folders over blue, green and purple spilling data squares
Security

Japan internet giant GMO says hackers posted stolen customer data | TechCrunch

Japanese internet company GMO Internet is investigating a data leak after suspected unauthorized access to its Onamae cloud...

The General Compute team.
AI

General Compute raises $100 million Series A, countering the neocloud disaster narrative | TechCrunch

CoreWeave, a publicly traded neocloud that rents out computing power for AI, has seen its stock price fall...

AI Chatbot Assistants, Artificial Intelligence Technology Concept. Digitally generated image.
AI

Opera introduces a new web standard to let users deploy AI locally in their browser | TechCrunch

Browser maker Opera has introduced a new web standard that lets users to run AI models directly in...

Palmer Luckey
Startups

Billionaire Palmer Luckey isn’t leaving California over the wealth tax | TechCrunch

Palmer Luckey has been a California billionaire since he was 21 years old, when he sold his first...

Startups

Anduril, Qualcomm launch BlueChip, a new kind of US-made laptop | TechCrunch

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey is vowing to bring computer manufacturing back to the U.S. And by that, he...

Simplismart co-founders Amritanshu Jain and Devansh Ghatak
AI

Nvidia backs Indian startup helping companies run AI models with fewer GPUs | TechCrunch

As the AI boom strains computing capacity, Nvidia has backed Indian startup Simplismart in a $14 million funding...

Apps

X is nudging users to promote their posts with a pointing hand, and people are confused | TechCrunch

Some interface changes and nudges, like bright buttons urging you to subscribe in apps, are mildly annoying but...

OpenAI enterprise product lead Alexander Embiricos talks about dots, the company's AI personal assistant, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
AI

How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant | TechCrunch

The always-on AI personal assistant, which keeps working in the background even when you aren’t asking it to,...

AI

Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing | TechCrunch

Canadian AI company Cohere said on Monday that it found one of Alibaba’s newest AI models, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, trying...