TechCrunch Mobility: Lyft has entered the robotaxi chat
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Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting
Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter saying it was time to “pace the frontier” and slow down AI development. OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk both agreed, publicly voicing their support on X. Even Alphabet’s Demis Hassabis offered tentative support for Amodei’s proposal. Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, however,…
Apple is reportedly working on iPhone game controllers
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Apple is developing two game controllers for the iPhone and will likely sell them under the Beats brand. Rumors that Apple might enter the game controller business have circulated for some time. But last week, MacRumors reported finding two references in macOS 26.7’s code to two game controllers identified as first-party…
The Units’ Digital Stimulation is synthpunk perfection
The Units are a band I discovered in part thanks to No Dogs in Space. During their miniseries on The Screamers (another incredible band worth checking out), they mention synthpunk.org as one of their sources. And there’s no better way to get my attention than to combine two of my favorite things – punk rock…
Waymo pulls over, calls cops on riders with a ghost gun
Two people were arrested in San Fransico while riding around in a Waymo robotaxi after the cab pulled over and called the cops on them. The riders were juveniles in possession of a loaded AR-style ghost gun and were taken to a juvenile hall. While the police report did not specify who was operating the…
Insight Partners’ Deven Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic
Insight Partners’ Devin Parekh opens up about losing Legora to General Catalyst, why he’s fine holding stakes in rival AI labs, and why — even as everyone else piles into OpenAI and Anthropic — his $90 billion firm is deliberately staying diversified.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says AI Industry Needs to Give Safety Measures Time to Catch Up
Dario Amodei warned that within six to 12 months AI could be capable of leading a swarm of agents that could take over the entire internet. The post Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says AI Industry Needs to Give Safety Measures Time to Catch Up appeared first on SecurityWeek.
PC Emulator Netplay Setup: 3 Emulators in 12 Steps [2026]
Local co-op died with the living room. Most retro sessions today happen with a friend three states away, and screen-sharing tools like Parsec add a full frame of lag on top of whatever the emulator itself costs you. Netplay skips that tax by syncing inputs, not video, which is why Dolphin, RetroArch, and PCSX2 all…
Prophet vs Dropzone vs Radiant: $37M AI SOC Fight [2026]
Security operations centers spent 2025 experimenting with AI copilots. By September 2026, the experiment is over and a new product category has hardened: the AI SOC analyst platform, software that does not just summarize an alert but plans an investigation, queries the SIEM and EDR itself, and returns a verdict with cited evidence. Three vendors…
Groq vs Grok 4.6: 1,000 TPS Chip vs 500K Context [2026]
Type “Groq vs Grok” into a search bar and you’ll find two camps of confused people: developers trying to figure out why their inference bill looks nothing like the pricing page they read, and casual AI users wondering if the chatbot on X and the blazing-fast chip startup are somehow the same company. They are…