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Exclusive: Homeward Raises $120M To Help Homeowners Buy And Sell More Quickly As Housing Market Stalls
Homeward, a startup that helps homeowners buy before selling their existing homes or get cash offers for their properties, has raised a $120 million Series D round, Crunchbase News reports exclusively.
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The founder’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is built around one question: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era? Our programming and speaker lineup reflect that.
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Kevin Mandia’s new ‘agent swarm’ security startup Armadin raises $255.5M at $2.5B valuation
Kevin Mandia, best known as the founder of Mandiant, has a new startup that is using agent swarms to test and protect enterprises.
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Nuclear Startup Funding Is Up, But The Sector’s Public Markets Take A Bearish Turn
So far in 2026, investors have poured more than $6 billion into companies focused on developing both fission and fusion nuclear energy technology and infrastructure, per Crunchbase data. That’s far ahead of any comparable period, including last year, the prior record-setter.
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Lyft is paying $272.5M to settle lawsuit over how it classified drivers
Today, gig economy drivers are classified as contractors. This settlement clears up a lingering lawsuit from 2020 when that was still an unanswered issue.
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ChatGPT can now virtually try on clothes for you
OpenAI is rolling out new shopping features for ChatGPT that let users virtually try on clothing and accessories using their own photos and save products they like to a Favorites library.
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International tech
AIsphere Launches PixVerse R2, a Real-Time World Model That Remembers What Happens in a Session
AIsphere's PixVerse R2 generates explorable audiovisual worlds in real time, taking text, image, audio and keyboard input mid-stream and keeping state across a session.
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Horizon Robotics Releases HSD V2.1 With End-to-End Reversing, iCAR V27 First in Line for OTA
Horizon Robotics' HSD V2.1 adds end-to-end reversing in all scenarios, with 43% more miles per intervention and 255% better interactive lane changes. iCAR V27 OTA starts October 8.
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Niyo FY26: Revenue Zooms 80% YoY to ₹158 Cr, Loss Narrows 58%
Fintech soonicorn Niyo’s parent, Finnew Solutions Pvt Ltd, slashed its consolidated net loss by 58.1% to ₹32.6 Cr in the…
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Huawei Launches Grid-Interactive AIDC 1.0, Linking AI Data-Center Power, Cooling and Ascend Servers
Huawei Digital Power's grid-interactive AIDC 1.0 pairs grid-forming storage, new UPS lines and an Ascend-aware liquid-cooling controller; a SenseTime site got 18 MW of power in 45 days.
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Awkward: Saudi Arabia’s new EV brand takes on the U.S. rival it already controls
The Saudi wealth fund’s new EV will compete with Chinese rivals and with Lucid, the U.S. carmaker the fund controls.
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Seeds Fincap Raises ₹100 Cr To Scale Lending Tech Capabilities
Delhi NCR-based NBFC Seeds Fincap raised more than ₹100 Cr ($10.4 Mn) in a Series B funding round led by…
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The Download: AI “mind-reading” and creative uses for small batteries
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by …
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OpenAI Ousts Three Safety Researchers for Allegedly Mishandling ‘Sensitive Information’
They're accused of “breaking the trust essential to our work,” according to a company spokesperson.
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Why Pickles Light Up When You Electrocute Them
This common science demonstration has been an enduring mystery. Now, this electrical engineer has started to figure it out.
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Drum Machina Go! as a New Music Tool for the Game Boy
The Nintendo Game Boy is quite possibly the most popular console in the international chiptune community. You might have seen musicians cranking out tunes with LSDJ or Nanoloop, but now …read more
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How DoorDash Built a Toolbox for AI Agents
In this article, we will look at how the DoorDash engineering team built this gateway and the decisions they made.
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Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/technology/meta-ai-data-centers-taxes.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49921118 Points: 245 # Comments: 233
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Vacuum Drying and Making Stuff Hot in a Vacuum
After previously exploring the impact of vapor pressure on the drying of desiccant and more, the conclusion was essentially that in order to drive moisture that’s not directly on a …read more
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A Mechanical Radio, Sort Of
[The Mike Stuff] has an interesting proposition. He asserts that ancient people like the Greeks could have built a form of radio that was purely mechanical. We aren’t sure we …read more
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RIP, vector database
Article URL: https://turbopuffer.com/blog/rip-vector-database Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923466 Points: 264 # Comments: 76
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Why Do LLMs Lie?
In this article, we will look at why this problem of hallucinations happens with LLMs and the techniques that can help make LLMs more dependable for answering.
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Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/cops-can-bypass-iphone-automatic-inactivity-reboot-graykey/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922278 Points: 243 # Comments: 196
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Archiving The World’s Oldest Webcam Feed
FogCam is the oldest webcam feed that’s still up and running. Installed at San Francisco State University, it’s been slowly uploading a new image to the web every 20 to …read more
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