TechCrunch Mobility: The hidden human cost of robotaxis
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Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining
Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It’s now bringing that experience to AI deployment.
AI agents need their own identity before they need a gateway
Enterprise AI has entered a new era. Organizations are rapidly moving beyond assistants that answer questions to autonomous agents capable of reasoning, invoking tools, accessing enterprise applications, coordinating with other agents, and completing multi-step business workflows with minimal human intervention.This shift represents a fundamental change in how software operates. Traditional applications execute predefined logic written…
Japan eShop: Switch 2 Price Jumps to ¥59,980 Sept 3 [2026]
Nintendo’s Japanese eShop refreshed its release calendar for the week of September 3, 2026, and the timing could not be more awkward for the company’s public relations team. Alongside a wave of Switch 2 and original Switch titles, Nintendo confirmed a price increase for the Japanese-language Nintendo Switch 2 hardware, moving the console from ¥49,980…
Cloudflare WAF vs AWS WAF vs Imperva: 449 Tbps Gap [2026]
Every public-facing app is now a target, and the web application firewall (WAF) market has split into three very different philosophies for stopping the attacks. As of August 30, 2026, Cloudflare, AWS, and Imperva (now part of Thales) are running three distinct plays: a flat-rate edge network bundle, a granular pay-as-you-go AWS-native tool, and a…
Intel Xeon 6+ Overshadowed: 288 Cores, INTC -6% [2026]
Intel spent months building up to the Xeon 6+ launch, its answer to AMD’s data-center CPU gains and the chip meant to prove Intel 18A could compete on Intel’s home turf: the server room. Instead, the reveal landed on the same Computex 2026 stage where Nvidia unveiled its first PC processor, and nobody outside the…
Nvidia RTX Spark Sinks Intel, AMD Stock 4.4% [2026]
Chip stocks took another leg down on Sunday, August 30, 2026, with Nvidia (NVDA) sliding 4.57%, Intel (INTC) falling 2.85%, and AMD (AMD) dropping 2.33%, according to Nvidia’s own investor materials and market data cited by Yahoo Finance. The move is the latest chapter in a selloff pattern that traces back to a single afternoon…
Recorded Future vs GTI vs ThreatConnect: 25x Gap [2026]
Three of the biggest names in cyber threat intelligence spent the past 18 months getting bought, merged into hyperscalers, or bolted onto payment networks — and the buying decision for security teams has gotten more confusing, not less. Mastercard closed its $2.65 billion purchase of Recorded Future in December 2024. Google folded Mandiant and VirusTotal…
AI agents that pass authentication can still drift, expose data, or get memory-poisoned
There is a clear repeating trend in agent deployments: The gateway is the first control teams reach for, but it is the one they are least ready to run. This is because gateways sit on top of identity and attribution layers that are mostly not there.The first layer of risk is not hypothetical. In June,…
Logitech vs Razer vs ROG Mice: 8K vs 4K Polling Gap [2026]
Three chipmakers spent the first eight months of 2026 rewriting what a wireless gaming mouse can do, and the gap between them comes down to one number most buyers never check: polling rate. Logitech’s G Pro X2 Superstrike tops out at 4,000Hz over its Lightspeed dongle. Razer’s Viper V4 Pro and ASUS ROG’s Harpe II…