7IT Industry Pulse

Google is killing off Gemini’s Gems in favor of ‘skills’

As all-in-one AI agents like Meta's Muse and Instinct take off, Google is opting to end a feature which built task-specific agents.

TechCrunch

OpenAI still doesn’t seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity

On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the breadth of the incidents is alarming.

TechCrunch

Meta launches enterprise AI platform, hires MongoDB CEO to lead new initiative

Meta says it will focus on bringing its full technology stack, including Muse, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, Muse Code, and more to businesses and developers.

TechCrunch

The iPhone Duo may already have its first killer app: a virtual Walkman

The app imitates how Walkmans used to function: You can open up the Duo to pick your music and "insert" your cassette tape, then close the device shut to start listening.

TechCrunch

The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent

Hacker News: Front Page

Anthropic, Gamma, and Clay share what happens when enterprises actually deploy AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Anthropic, Clay, and Gamma on what it takes for an AI product to go beyond the demo at the AI Stage at TechCrunchDisrupt 2026. Register to join and get 50% off a second pass.

TechCrunch

Physical AI chip developer SiMa AI hits $1.45B valuation

The edge computing startup raised a $150 million Series C led by Fidelity and Amplify.

TechCrunch

MAVI bets on the AI boom creating demand for a new kind of accountant

Accounting staffing company MAVI emerges from stealth with $4million in funding.

TechCrunch

After a deepfake voice fooled her grandfather, this founder sprang into action

After her grandfather was scammed by a deepfake of his brother's voice, Tarini Padmanabhuni founded DetectifAI, a San Francisco startup building AI models small enough to run directly on smartphones…

TechCrunch

Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ Brandon Sorbom and Helion’s David Kirtley on bringing fusion to the grid at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

CFS' Brandon Sorbom and Helion's David Kirtley join the Smart Systems Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to discuss the breakthroughs moving fusion forward, the challenges that remain, and what it will…

TechCrunch

MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta

Hacker News: Front Page

FBI reportedly declares ‘cyber security incident’ after hackers steal agents’ personal data

The bureau has not yet publicly confirmed a breach, but has told its agents that their personal information and Social Security numbers were exposed.

TechCrunch

Modulate raises $25M for its voice models and analysis suite

Modulate deploys its models to detect deepfake, fraud and scam

TechCrunch

Your final chance to grab your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is October 2

The last day to book your Disrupt 2026 exhibit table is this Friday, October 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Secure your exhibit table and get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech leade…

TechCrunch

Insurtech Outmarket raises $34.5M just months after prior round

The startup uses AI to automate tedious paperwork for insurance agencies and brokers.

TechCrunch

ElevenLabs’ new v4 speech model supports more expression control and 90 languages

ElevenLabs v4 can clone voices with a 10 second clip

TechCrunch

Coding Is Not Solved

Hacker News: Front Page

Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation

Instinct has raised a $1 billion Series C, saying 'we're just getting started.' The company is now valued at $10 billion.

TechCrunch

SpaceX’s Starship rocket reaches orbit for the first time

Though not without some drama along the way.

TechCrunch

Maritime intelligence startup Quartermaster raises another $140M

The tech enables real-time awareness for what Quartermaster calls the “largest blind spot on Earth.”

TechCrunch

Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

Hacker News: Front Page

Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents

Hugging Face - Blog

Malta must focus on fast-growing industries to have sustainable quality growth - Labour MP

Labour Party backbencher and economist Clint Azzopardi Flores told The Malta Independent that for the Maltese economy to have "more quality growth" or rather, more "equality growth" Malta must tap in…

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Alpha Architect Tail Risk ETF (BATS:CAOS) Short Interest Update

Alpha Architect Tail Risk ETF (BATS:CAOS - Get Free Report) was the recipient of a large drop in short interest in September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totaling 24,577 shares, a…

defenseworld

Brandes U.S. Value ETF (BATS:BUSA) Shares Shorted: Short Interest Down 62.7% in September

Brandes U.S. Value ETF (BATS:BUSA - Get Free Report) was the recipient of a significant decline in short interest in September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totaling 9,513 shares, a…

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Innovator Premium Income 30 Barrier ETF - April (BATS:APRJ) Short Interest Update

Innovator Premium Income 30 Barrier ETF - April (BATS:APRJ - Get Free Report) was the recipient of a significant increase in short interest in September. As of September 15th, there was short interes…

defenseworld

JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Equity ETF (BATS:BBUS) Stock Short Interest Drops 54.5%

JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Equity ETF (BATS:BBUS - Get Free Report) saw a significant decline in short interest during the month of September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totaling…

defenseworld

FT Vest U.S. Equity Max Buffer ETF - August (BATS:AUGM) Stock Short Interest Falls 70.9%

FT Vest U.S. Equity Max Buffer ETF - August (BATS:AUGM - Get Free Report) saw a large drop in short interest in the month of September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totaling 14,119…

watchlistnews

Roundhill AAPL WeeklyPay ETF (BATS:AAPW) Sees Large Decline in Short Interest

Roundhill AAPL WeeklyPay ETF (BATS:AAPW - Get Free Report) was the target of a large decline in short interest in September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totaling 843 shares, a decl…

defenseworld

FT Vest Laddered Deep Buffer ETF (BATS:BUFD) Shares Shorted: Short Interest Up 105.1% in September

FT Vest Laddered Deep Buffer ETF (BATS:BUFD - Get Free Report) saw a large growth in short interest in the month of September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totaling 167,641 shares,…

defenseworld

Brookstone Value Stock ETF (BATS:BAMV) Short Interest Update

Brookstone Value Stock ETF (BATS:BAMV - Get Free Report) was the recipient of a large increase in short interest in September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totaling 10,327 shares, a…

defenseworld

Innovator Equity Defined Protection ETF - 6 Mo Apr/Oct (BATS:APOC) Short Interest Update

Innovator Equity Defined Protection ETF - 6 Mo Apr/Oct (BATS:APOC - Get Free Report) was the target of a large increase in short interest during the month of September. As of September 15th, there wa…

defenseworld

Qidi Q2 3D printer review

This fully enclosed CoreXY 3D printer features a relatively decent 270 x 270 x 256mm build volume and heated chamber that'll deal with specialist materials.

techradar_uk

India-UK CETA: What changes for importers as customs eases paperwork for lower duties

The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has clarified that importers claiming lower customs duty on UK consignments do not have to submit Form-I with every bill of entry.

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Contrasting Loomis (OTCMKTS:LOIMF) & Euronet Worldwide (NASDAQ:EEFT)

Loomis (OTCMKTS:LOIMF - Get Free Report) and Euronet Worldwide (NASDAQ:EEFT - Get Free Report) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesse…

defenseworld

Comparing Euronet Worldwide (NASDAQ:EEFT) & Loomis (OTCMKTS:LOIMF)

Loomis (OTCMKTS:LOIMF - Get Free Report) and Euronet Worldwide (NASDAQ:EEFT - Get Free Report) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companie…

americanbankingnews

Juniper Research: Embedded Finance Revenue to Reach $617 Billion Globally by 2031, as B2B Revenue Surges 390%

BASINGSTOKE, United Kingdom, Sept. 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A new study by global tech strategists Juniper Research forecasts that embedded finance revenue will reach $617 billion globally by 2...

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Meta readies pocket Muse Charm for December launch

Meta Platforms has unveiled Muse Charm, a pocket-sized device built around its new Muse artificial intelligence agent, extending the company’s push to make conversational AI available without users o…

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Ant International’s Antom Upgrades Southeast Asia Leadership Structure to Drive Regional Synergy in the AI Era

SINGAPORE--(Business Wire/Korea Newswire)--Antom, a leading merchant payment and digitisation services provider under Ant International, today announced a series of key appointments for its operation…

newswire_kr

Fintech Stocks To Research - September 26th

Rocket Companies, Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz, Netcapital, Wealthfront, DeFi Development, IDT, and UP Fintech are the seven Fintech stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener to…

defenseworld

Top Restaurant Stocks To Research - September 26th

McDonald’s, Booking, Airbnb, Starbucks, Royal Caribbean Cruises, Viking, and DoorDash are the seven Restaurant stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Restaurant stocks…

americanbankingnews

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri Meets Bipartisan US Lawmakers; Russia-Iran Act, Strategic Ties Top Agenda

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on Sunday met a bipartisan US Congressional delegation led by Representative Brian Mast, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, in New Delhi.Ministry of Exter…

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Nonstop Taxes: Burden of Taxes and Margins on Petrol’s Actual Price Increased Further

Taxes, levies and margins have pushed Pakistan’s petrol price to Rs391.30 and high-speed diesel to Rs408.53 per litre, official documents show.

urdupoint

Brookfield Deal Agreed but the Go-Shop Is Open: Could a Rival Snatch Reliance Worldwide (ASX:RWC)?

Reliance Worldwide signs an all-cash Brookfield scheme with a go-shop window to mid-October and approvals still to come.

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India’s bid to keep carbon cash home as Europe adds a new trade cost

India's exporters will encounter new carbon costs due to the European Union's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. The mechanism, effective from January 2026, targets carbon-intensive goods and impose…

economictimes_indiatimes

Why edible oil prices could stay high long after the seasonal onion surge

Commodities such as onion are experiencing a transient spike that would peak over the next few weeks and then decline as the Kharif harvest increases supply

hindustantimes

Business diary: Connecting trade across borders

Your weekly round-up of conferences, dinners, seminars and charity events

irishnews

US removes duties on certain aluminium can stock from India

The US has removed qualifying aluminium can stock from antidumping and countervailing duty orders covering India and 16 other countries

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Gold, silver prices on September 28: Check latest rates in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, other cities

Retail gold purchases in India attract a standard 3% GST on the value of the metal, plus the making charges. Import duties and local transport surcharges also influence regional price variations acro…

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WTO Sets Up Panel on EU Carbon Border Rules as Russia Challenges Restrictions

The World Trade Organization will examine Russiarsquos challenge to the European Unionrsquos Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism CBAM and an alleged export subsidy under its Emissions Trading System E…

devdiscourse

What is natural language generation (NLG)?

A few days ago, my fitness app congratulated me on a "great week of activity" with a poetic recap of where I "crushed it." I had spent most of that week visiting family, moving from the couch to the…

The Zapier Blog

HubSpot AI tools: A complete guide to Agent Hub and Breeze

My local grocery store decided to be insufferable a few weeks ago and rearrange the aisles. I used to be able to walk through that place blindfolded if I wanted to. Now, it takes me 10 minutes to fin…

The Zapier Blog

The 5 best Kanban tools in 2026

If you're managing a project that's a bit too complex for a to-do list app but not complex enough that it requires a full-on project management app, you're looking for a Kanban app. I've used Kanban…

The Zapier Blog

AI assistants now read online stores more than twice as often as Google. Most retailers can't see it

Many retailers are missing live customer queries because AI assistants now fetch product pages far more often than Google does.

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Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

Hacker News: Front Page

Travel’s AI dilemma at Skift Global Forum

At the “great recalibration”-themed travel conference, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky called AI “an existential risk” to his company and “literally the best thing to ever happen” to it in the same discussio…

Stripe Blog

Info on E-commerce: How It Works

Discover essential info on ecommerce in our comprehensive guide. Learn how e-commerce works, its benefits, and key components to succeed in the online marketplace.

smallbiztrends

When did Google get so weird?

Hacker News: Front Page

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Hacker News: Front Page

Amazon offers one inbound shipment to reach eight countries

Only 30% of Amazon sellers list in more than one country. Amazon's fix is one inbound shipment, storage up to 45% below AWD and single-submission compliance testing. The post Amazon offers one inboun…

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MarketRank Names Ryze AI the Best SEO Tool for Shopify Brands in Netherlands for 2026

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ProveedorPro Chosen as Best AliExpress Alternative for Dropshipping Sellers in 2026

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Tim McGraw's 'The Shack' Leaves Netflix, Available Only Until End of September

The Shack, the 2017 drama featuring Tim McGraw, is scheduled to leave Netflix on September 30. Viewers should stream the film before it disappears as Netflix clears its catalog. The film, which stars…

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Accelerating vision-language models with LFM2.5-VL-DSpark

Hugging Face - Blog

The 6 best AI resume builders in 2026

Searching for a job is becoming a job of its own. With so many open positions, tests, and interview stages, joining the workforce or moving up is becoming harder. And with screening software automati…

The Zapier Blog

The 9 best AI tools for social media management in 2026

Click publish, exhale. Start again. Tomorrow's post doesn't write itself. What are people discussing right now? Dive into analytics, surface trends, reply to 15 DMs. And then you go viral, your sales…

The Zapier Blog

What is an AI watermark, and what does it actually prove?

AI-generated content isn't always easy to spot, which can lead to tricky situations, to put it lightly. As a result, most of the major AI companies now automatically add watermarks to the images, vid…

The Zapier Blog

What is Claude Code?

You've probably used software built with Claude Code, maybe even already today. Companies like HubSpot and Atlassian use it to fix bugs and ship new features, and Anthropic itself reports that 80% of…

The Zapier Blog

What is Jev? TypeSafe AI's System One model

When you ask an LLM to give you a confidence score for any decision it makes, you get vibes. I've built tools where the model said it had 95% confidence in a response, and then promptly changed its t…

The Zapier Blog

Jotform vs. Typeform: Which is the best form builder? [2026]

Back when I was scrolling through my first website in the mid-'90s-I'm almost certain it was SpaceJam.com-web forms were still in their nascent stage. Websites were treated more as one-way communicat…

The Zapier Blog

Claude models: Fable vs. Opus vs. Sonnet vs. Haiku

Anthropic's Claude family has four primary models: Haiku, Sonnet, Opus, and Fable. The version numbers are inconsistent between them; as I write this, Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 just dropped, Fable 5.1…

The Zapier Blog

How to Use NVIDIA Warp and MjWarp to Accelerate Robotics Simulation and Learning Workflows

Hugging Face - Blog

Claude integrations: How to use Zapier with Claude (Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5, and more)

With every new model release, Claude tops almost every benchmark. And chatting with Claude makes it clear why: it's good at everything. But while there's power in a back-and-forth conversation, you c…

The Zapier Blog

Which AI models can you automate on Zapier? (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Moonshot AI, Z.ai, and more)

Staying up to date on the latest AI models is like trying to keep my house vacuumed in the height of my dog's shedding season (a losing battle). New AI models drop practically every week, and it's no…

The Zapier Blog

How Jocelyne Mendez-Guzman made follow-up faster

Jocelyne (Joce) Mendez-Guzman is no stranger to the Zappy Awards. In 2025, she won our Operations Automator of the Year for a workflow that processed accounts receivable tickets 69% faster. With that…

The Zapier Blog

How Ethan Schwandt helped Jobber turn AI adoption into a building culture

When companies talk about AI transformation, they often start with what they rolled out: the model, the license, the training program, or the pilot. Ethan Schwandt started somewhere more useful: the…

The Zapier Blog

How Ariel Chen built trust before she built automation

Ariel Chen coordinates People Operations at Figma, where a two-person team tracks over 100 background checks each month across 12 countries. In a role where a missed screen can delay someone's start…

The Zapier Blog

When systems won’t talk, Nicholas Francoeur builds the bridge

Nicholas Francoeur manages infrastructure technology for Compucom, a 5,000-employee company running technology deployments and on-site support across hundreds of client sites nationwide. When off-the…

The Zapier Blog

How Carlos Robledo turned a recruiting report into organizational infrastructure

When personal automation becomes organizational infrastructure Carlos Robledo is a Lead Technical Sourcer at Hims & Hers. When he got tired of spending hours every Friday building hiring reports for…

The Zapier Blog

How Ignacio Piñeiro scaled fraud control with exception-based AI review

Ignacio Piñeiro runs operations at Galgo, a fintech that lends money for motorcycles across Mexico. Every loan he approves hinges on a simple question: Did this delivery actually happen as it should?…

The Zapier Blog

How Doug Hamilton turned an AI tracker into a team of builders

Doug Hamilton built an AI Tech Stack Tracker, an automated intelligence system that helps Klaviyo’s Talent Acquisition team keep up with fast-moving AI tools and turn updates into action. Every hour,…

The Zapier Blog

Meet the 2026 Zappy Award winners: the builders who put AI to work

Most companies still measure AI by what they roll out: seats bought, licenses assigned, and pilots launched. Those numbers prove that the company has started. They don’t prove anything changed. The 2…

The Zapier Blog

How Justin Hallman made invisible phone revenue visible

Making invisible revenue visible Justin Hallman runs PPC campaigns at Youtech Agency. Every paid click has a cost. The harder number to see is what that click becomes: a qualified lead, a proposal, a…

The Zapier Blog

What is content engineering?

The first time I saw the term "content engineering" mentioned on LinkedIn, I rolled my eyes and assumed it was another AI trend designed to end the careers of content writers like me. As I dug into i…

The Zapier Blog

AI vs. automation: What's the difference?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been powering the tools we use in our everyday lives for decades now. And every time powerful advancements in AI are released, conversations around the good, the bad,…

The Zapier Blog

Claude 5.5: What you need to know about Anthropic's AI models and chatbot

I've been using Claude long enough to remember when the main selling point was that it was a nicer chatbot to talk to than the alternatives. (That's still true, for what it's worth.) But Claude no lo…

The Zapier Blog

How UK AISI and EvalEval Are Making Benchmark Results Reproducible

Hugging Face - Blog

Transformers now runs llama.cpp quants

Hugging Face - Blog

Jun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community

Hugging Face - Blog

New trends in global card fraud: How 3D Secure and regional mandates are affecting risk

We analyzed billions of transactions on Stripe from January 2022 to March 2026 to understand how card fraud patterns differ by region and country, what's driving those differences, and how businesses…

Stripe Blog