Flipkart has expanded access to its food-delivery service to thousands of employees ahead of its public launch. spr.ly/6019BHT1tS

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday night that New Yorkers must resist the narrative that an AI takeover is inevitable and demand regulations that protect the public and put power back in their hands. spr.ly/6012BHT8YY

In August, Nscale and Anthropic announced a $45 billion compute deal. The two companies are reportedly discussing yet another deal of the same magnitude. spr.ly/6015BHr29P

AI labs have staked their reputations on model benchmarking — the supposedly neutral and accurate system of evaluations that are designed to measure whether one AI product is better than another. However, the methods behind these evaluations are spr.ly/6015BHrx7S

Microsoft wants enterprises to closely watch the agents employees use with systems not controlled by AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. spr.ly/6012BHrQyk

Amazon wants to break Nvidia’s hold on PyTorch, the free toolkit used to build most AI apps, so that more developers run their apps on alternative chips like its own. spr.ly/6010BHrcny

OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some users’ API keys, and the AI tools it turned to for help kept refusing to look at the spr.ly/6014BHren0

AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after attracting more than 250,000 active users. spr.ly/6012BHrbdj

Eugenia Kuyda's newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi offers a personal AI assistant with a twist, free and downloadable to anyone today. spr.ly/6014BHrwnr

After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent. spr.ly/6011BHrkQc

AI assistant startup Town nabbed a unicorn valuation on Monday, announcing a $108 million Series B round co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures. spr.ly/6013BHrp6c

University of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving vehicles before deployment. The profitable startup is competing in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt, October 13-15 spr.ly/6011BHrT9L

His vision will culminate with the R4 vehicle. spr.ly/6015BHrRLv

Amazon and X-energy have inked another deal to deploy nuclear power to the grid. This one will generate nearly 1 gigawatt of electricity. spr.ly/6019BHrMp3

Fed up with ads, tracking and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs. spr.ly/6012BHrHJa

Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers and also trying to make on-device, private AI agents a thing. spr.ly/6016BHr816

Apple said that it will ban AI apps that don't moderate offensive content. spr.ly/6014BHRs6A

That's more than $10 billion in shares, or around 1% of Musk's current net worth. spr.ly/6015BHRUhW

Even Healthcare reaches a $300 million valuation in a Khosla Ventures-led round as it plans to expand its hospital network in India. spr.ly/6017BHRuJt

Benchmark may have grown its funds and swapped out some partners, but onstage the five who are left sounded like friends who just happen to be running one of the Valley’s most storied firms spr.ly/6016BHucWY