AI
Anthropic launched Claude Duet on 21 October, a standalone agent app for professionals and small businesses, as a waitlisted research preview for US Pro and Max subscribers.
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Sources The Verge · Reuters via The Star · Anthropic
AI
Recursive released Flint, a free Apache 2.0 coding model small enough for a laptop, saying its Eureka Machine research system touched nearly every stage of development and that a small team built it from scratch in under four months.
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Sources TechCrunch
Technology
PHP released 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 on 21 October to fix two critical memory-safety bugs in its core engine that allow unauthenticated remote code execution, tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619.
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Sources Wiz Research · PHP.net · TechCrunch
AI
Walmart launched an Agent Gateway, an MCP server that lets approved AI agents search its inventory and buy on a shopper's behalf at Walmart and Sam's Club, alongside Agent Profiles arriving next month that keep an agent's purchases separate from the customer's own.
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Sources TechCrunch
AI
Flapping Airplanes, a year-old lab trying to train large models on far less data, raised a $1 billion Series A co-led by Index and Lux at a reported $6 billion valuation, quadrupling the $1.5 billion from its $180 million seed round in January.
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Sources TechCrunch
AI
Legora raised a $550 million Series E led by Atreides Management, with Baron Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, General Catalyst and Menlo participating, at an $8.8 billion valuation.
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Sources TechCrunch
Technology
Tesla began building production-quality Optimus humanoid robots at its Fremont factory in space once used for electric vehicles, with Elon Musk calling the ramp slow and bumpy and targeting 20,000 units a week by the end of 2027 while conceding the design and the robot's AI still need work.
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Sources TechCrunch
Technology
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion to the state after a two-week trial in which a jury found 43 million violations of consumer protection law, each carrying a $5,000 penalty.
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Sources TechCrunch
Technology
Waymo started carrying customers to and from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, using dedicated autonomous vehicle zones at Terminals 1 and 3. It is the sixth major airport on the company's map after Phoenix Sky Harbor, Nashville, San Antonio, San Francisco and San Jose, and rides will be limited to a few passengers at first before opening to all users.
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Sources TechCrunch
Economy / Markets
US indexes rose on 21 October as space and semiconductor shares rallied: the Dow added 360.21 points, or 0.7%, to 52,856.09, the Nasdaq Composite climbed 278.04 points, or 1.05%, to 26,702.86 and the S&P 500 gained 44.60 points, or 0.6%, to 7,757.17.
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Sources GoodReturns
Economy / Markets
Meta reported third-quarter revenue of $64 billion, up 26% from a year earlier and ahead of expectations, while costs and expenses rose 68%. On the call chief financial officer Susan Li confirmed plans for a new class of non-voting stock distributed to existing holders through a stock dividend, usable for raising capital, employee compensation and acquisitions while preserving current Class A and B voting power.
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Sources TechCrunch · TechCrunch
Economy / Markets
Blackstone's AI chief Jas Khaira said recent stress in AI infrastructure credit reflects rising rates, hotter inflation and wider spreads rather than fragile lenders, arguing most data-centre debt sits behind hyperscalers with investment-grade balance sheets.
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Sources TechCrunch
Football
Declan Rice equalised in the 82nd minute to earn Arsenal a 2-2 draw at Bayern Munich in the Champions League. Eberechi Eze, on after Bukayo Saka went off injured inside 10 minutes, opened the scoring from Martin Odegaard's pass, Alphonso Davies levelled from Harry Kane's through-ball before the break, and Kane converted a 61st-minute penalty after Jurrien Timber handled.
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Sources Sky Sports · The Guardian · ESPN
Football
Real Madrid made it three wins from three in the Champions League by beating RB Leipzig 4-1, with Bernardo Silva opening the scoring from close range late in a tight first half and Arda Guler doubling the lead soon after the interval.
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Sources The Guardian
Football
Lask came from behind at the Estadio Jose Alvalade to beat Sporting 3-2 and claim their first Champions League win of the season. Luis Suarez put the hosts ahead from the penalty spot after five minutes, Christoph Lang equalised 10 minutes later, and Sasa Kalajdzic and Krystof Danek struck to send the Austrian champions 3-1 up.
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Sources The Guardian