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		<title>Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/19/vals-backed-by-andreessen-horowitz-is-looking-to-become-the-gold-standard-for-ai-benchmarking/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models.  ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/india-forces-caller-id-apps-to-feed-spam-reports-to-telcos/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tilly Norwood&#8217;s press tour is going about as well as you&#8217;d expect for an AI</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/tilly-norwoods-press-tour-is-going-about-as-well-as-youd-expect-for-an-ai/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amanda Silberling]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A startup that builds other startups raised $100M and is all-in on physical AI</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/a-startup-that-builds-other-startups-raised-100m-and-is-all-in-on-physical-ai/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kirsten Korosec]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/anthropic-is-operating-a-lab-that-conducts-biology-experiments/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julie Bort]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>AI hallucination nearly triggers US military operation</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/ai-hallucination-nearly-triggers-us-military-operation/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aditya Mehta]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Anthropic&#8217;s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/anthropics-first-embedded-evaluator-is-accenture/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Fernholz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Automattic names interim CFO after exec departures</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/automattic-names-interim-cfo-after-exec-departures/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Perez]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jeremy Klaperman, the CFO of the company's WordPress VIP Enterprise business unit, will act as CFO for the time being. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Y Combinator insurance tech alum Angle Health hits $2.7B valuation</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/y-combinator-insurance-tech-alum-angle-health-hits-2-7b-valuation/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julie Bort]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Angle Health has grown to 5,000 customers and become profitable by helping small businesses get "level-funded" health insurance.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/world-model-companies-are-keeping-a-lot-of-secrets/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Russell Brandom]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually building.
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		<title>A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/a-new-kind-of-ai-model-from-a-chatgpt-inventor-is-thrilling-developers/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Fernholz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jev, a new kind of AI model, is showing developers a cheaper and faster path to software intelligence. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Disney&#8217;s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/disneys-first-cto-led-an-ai-startup-it-once-accused-of-copying-its-characters/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lucas Ropek]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to, will serve as the company's first-ever chief technology officer. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>In India, the new iPhone can arrive faster than a pizza</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/in-india-the-new-iphone-can-arrive-faster-than-a-pizza/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jagmeet Singh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Availability of Apple's iPhone 18 Pro series turned patchy within hours of its debut on India's quick-commerce apps.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Google&#8217;s new &#8216;CC&#8217; is an AI agent that helps families run their households</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/googles-new-cc-is-an-ai-agent-that-helps-families-run-their-households/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Perez]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination, letting families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI can manage calendars, fill out forms, make shopping lists, plan meals, and more.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Joby Aviation&#8217;s 3,100-mile autonomous flight signals its push beyond electric air taxis</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/joby-aviations-3100-mile-autonomous-flight-signals-its-push-beyond-electric-air-taxis/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kirsten Korosec]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An aircraft equipped with Joby Aviation's autonomy technology flew across the United States without a human pilot taking control at any point.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dario Amodei and other AI leaders want to &#8216;Pace the Frontier&#8217; but…how?</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/video/dario-amodei-and-other-ai-leaders-want-to-pace-the-frontier-buthow/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theresa Loconsolo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A week after an Anthropic researcher&#8217;s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company&#8217;s CEO Dario Amodei has&#160;outlined his plan to “pace the frontier”&#160;of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evaluators and coordination between AI labs in democratic countries, and&#160;it&#8217;s&#160;already picked up some&#160;industry support, along with some pointed&#160;pushback from Nvidia&#8217;s Jensen Huang.&#160; Watch [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Manus seeks $4B valuation in new $500M fundraise as it resumes independent ops</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/manus-seeks-4b-valuation-in-new-500m-fundraise-as-it-resumes-independent-ops/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ram Iyer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to raise $500M at a $4B valuation.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Family offices are clamoring for AI investments</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/family-offices-are-clamoring-for-ai-investments/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dominic-Madori Davis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Whether it's a permanent shift or part of a familiar cycle is worth asking, though.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>FBI, Coast Guard boarded hacked oil tankers heading toward US coast</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/fbi-coast-guard-boarded-hacked-oil-tankers-heading-towards-us-coast/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zack Whittaker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The feds are said to be investigating the compromise of the tankers' networks, which in one case interfered with one of the tanker's navigation and propulsion systems.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Open or closed AI? Nvidia&#8217;s Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes take on one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/open-or-closed-ai-nvidias-nader-khalil-and-sydney-sykes-take-on-one-of-the-decisions-shaping-next-gen-startups-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TechCrunch Events]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nvidia's Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes discuss one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups on the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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