WIREDOct 31, 2026
Backup by Biolite Review: A Cool Idea
Backup by BioLite is designed to power your fridge when the grid goes down. It works, but protecting your ice cream doesn’t come cheap.
IT
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WIREDOct 31, 2026
Meta’s Muse Could Upend All Kinds of Businesses. It Hasn’t Yet
Companies have spent the past several weeks trying to reassure investors that Muse and other AI agents pose more of an opportunity than a threat.
AIMarketing
WIREDOct 31, 2026
An AI Agent Injected Drugs Into a Live Mouse’s Brain
A biotech startup let an agent choose a gene therapy and successfully inject the treatment, offering a startling glimpse of the future of research labs.
AIBusiness Consulting
WIREDOct 31, 2026
Keurig Alta Brewer Review: Brand-New Tech, Classically Good Coffee
This multifaceted home coffee brewer and its new AltaRounds will make you rethink everything you know about Keurig machines.
Branding
TechCrunchOct 30, 2026
Pile-ins, payouts, and pacing pressure: the investors behind the VCs open up
The money behind the money is thrilled, mostly.
Business Consulting
Source: TechCrunch · Connie Loizos
TechCrunchOct 30, 2026
Nvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia
When investors get nervous about AI spending, it helps to have the chipmaker that sells the chips offer to cosign the loan.
AIIT
Source: TechCrunch · Aditya Mehta
TechCrunchOct 30, 2026
Salesforce’s M&A spree continues with a reported $375M deal for defense tech startup Rune
The AI logistics startup will bolster the CRM giant's Missionforce defense platform.
Business ConsultingAI
Source: TechCrunch · Marina Temkin
TechCrunchOct 30, 2026
Ollie, a privacy-focused AI assistant, is shutting down
As an increasing number of AI assistants flood the market, the founder of Ollie, an assistant that respected its users' privacy, says it will be shutting down in a week.
AICybersecurity
Source: TechCrunch · Lucas Ropek
TechCrunchOct 30, 2026
Intel’s stock crashes, knocking $12B from government’s stake
Intel is being hurt by PC sales as the AI industry gobbles memory and other components causing PC prices to rise.
ITAI
Source: TechCrunch · Julie Bort
TechCrunchOct 30, 2026
Anthropic expected to receive high ‘junk’ rating from credit agencies following IPO, FT report says
Blackstone's forecast is just a prediction, but naturally, a high junk rating would make it more difficult and costlier for Anthropic to raise the money to keep funding its massive spending that has undergirded its business.
AIBusiness Consulting
Source: TechCrunch · Lucas Ropek
TechCrunchOct 30, 2026
Applebee’s exposed customers’ personal data after leaving database password in app
EXCLUSIVE: A security researcher discovered the hardcoded credential in Applebee's app, allowing unrestricted access to customers' personal data.
Cybersecurity
Source: TechCrunch · Zack Whittaker
Ars TechnicaOct 30, 2026
Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
Boom’s airliner may be delayed, and its data center power business lost a customer.
AIIT
Source: Ars Technica · Jeremy Hsu