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This Ratepayer Protection Act will make data centers pay for grid upgrades made in their name. However, it still has to go through the senate and the White House, before being considered by individual state regulators for adoption.

TechCrunch announced that Robinhood VP of Product Management Abhishek Fatehpuria will speak at Disrupt 2026 (Oct 13–15, San Francisco) about how Robinhood is expanding from commission-free trading into a full financial platform spanning banking, credit, crypto, retirement, prediction markets, and AI-powered trading. Robinhood reported 28.6 million funded customers and $384 billion in platform assets as of August 2026, with its banking product attracting over $3 billion in deposits.

Tesla Malaysia opened its 7th Experience Centre at Mid Valley Megamall, joining locations in Cyberjaya, Pavilion Damansara Heights, Penang, Johor, and Sarawak. Tesla also disclosed 21 Supercharging stations (92 stalls) and 18 Destination Charging locations (78 AC points) nationwide, with six more stations expected by end of 2026 across KL, Selangor, Perak, Seremban, and Penang.

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NOR Flash and SLC NAND are the latest products to be impacted by the ongoing AI buildout, with capacities tightening and production being routed to more lucrative chips.

The Creative Spirit of Who Framed Roger Rabbit I love Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the 1988 movie by Robert Zemeckis. I haven't watched it in quite a few years, and Cypress Frankenfeld just pointed out this sequence from early in the movie: It's a pelican riding a bicycle! Look closely and you'll note that the pelican is animated while the bicycle is a real bicycle. Apparently they filled the wheels with water to add stability, then set it running and guided it with a cable. Cypress gathered more details on the scene. What a delight. Via @cypressf.bsky.social Tags: animation, film, pelican-riding-a-bicycle

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Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson has launched Inertia, a fusion energy company that raised a $450M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners in February 2026. The company opened a 50,000 sq ft HQ in Livermore, California in July, focusing on laser systems and fusion fuel target manufacturing, and Lawson will discuss the transition from software to deep tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in October.

In an appearance on CNBC's "Squawk Box," Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said he supports congressional hearings on AI, but wasn't keen on additional regulations.

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A three-person team at startup Hacktron AI used Anthropic's Claude (Opus 5) to chain two critical vulnerabilities and access multiple OpenAI employee ChatGPT accounts, earning a $6,500 bug bounty. The entry point was a mundane HEIF/HEIC image upload flaw in Discourse, the third-party software powering OpenAI's community forum, discovered on July 25. OpenAI says the issues are resolved.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 exhibit table bookings close September 18 at 11:59 p.m. PT. The $12,500 package includes a 6′ x 30″ table for all 3 days (Oct 13–15 at Moscone West, SF), 10 team passes, lead generation via the Disrupt app, VC access, and press-list access. The event expects 10,000+ founders, investors, and operators.

The article title announces new experts joining Google's AI & Economy research team, but the provided text contains only site navigation boilerplate and no substantive content about who joined, what they will work on, or what the team's research priorities are.

Ning Xu of Tsinghua University captured tiny cilia beating in airways of a child with rare respiratory disorder.

Hackers reportedly breached OpenAI by leveraging Claude tools, gaining access to employee accounts and OpenAI's internal codebase. As proof of the intrusion, the attackers submitted a 'harmless' pull request within the company's repositories.

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An AI developer used vibe coding to port NVIDIA's DLSS 5 neural rendering onto Intel Arc 140T integrated graphics, achieving 360p at 10 frames per second. The result is a proof-of-concept far below playable performance, but notable as an AI-assisted coding experiment on non-NVIDIA hardware.

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Control Resonant's warped Manhattan cityscape pushes graphics cards to the max thanks to path-traced lighting effects and full support for Nvidia's DLSS 4.5 technologies. We put it to the test to see how it performs on 28 graphics cards from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel.

U.S. companies and Washington accuse Chinese AI labs of using 'distillation'—training models on the outputs of more advanced, expensive models—to close the AI gap, calling it theft. But Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez and other analysts push back, arguing China's progress isn't solely from distillation and that restricted access to key technology has driven genuine innovation.

Prusa Research makes its large CORE One a tiny bit better in a very important way.

Google announced a collaboration tied to New York Fashion Week involving a product or initiative called 'Google Flow,' but the article body is almost entirely site navigation boilerplate with no substantive technical detail, feature list, pricing, or API information.

OpenAI and Anthropic are both pushing ahead with IPOs despite internal safety warnings, with Anthropic potentially going public later this year. Recent resignations, including former employee Jacob Coxon, underscore growing concerns about AI risks, while investors remain divided on whether going public helps or hinders safety oversight.

The EU has proposed the 'KIDS Act' imposing strict age limits on minors' access to social media, games, and AI assistants, banning design patterns like endless scrolling, midnight notifications, and AI 'friendships.' 15-year-olds could create social media accounts independently, while 13- and 14-year-olds would require parental consent. The proposal aims to force platforms to be safe-by-design before children use them.

Legal briefs filed in the NYT lawsuit against AI companies reveal that a Microsoft director internally called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history,' while an OpenAI head described ChatGPT as an 'existential threat' to publishers. These are admissions from inside the companies building the tools, not outside critics.