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Flox Intelligence is building AI to keep wildlife away from trains, airports, and roads

Flox's edge devices can identify animals and use species-specific sounds to drive them away from critical infrastructure.

Disney offers $20M for Character.AI’s scandal-plagued chatbot tech

Disney may acquire tech from one of the first chatbot makers linked to child suicide.

Facebook is giving users more control over their algorithm

Meta announced the launch of its new AI-powered feature, “Your Algorithm,” a feature it first launched on Instagram.

Laplace Intelligence red-teams robots and self-driving cars before they hit the real world

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 in San Francisco.

Pluto Security raises $42M as AI gives enterprise security teams a new headache

The problem with giving everyone in a company access to AI tools is that people will use them in unexpected ways. And that fact is steadily seeding fears that companies now have new, gaping security holes in their systems or, at least, will soon.

Google wants to host your personal vibe-coded apps in the Play Store

Google plans to help turn those personal AI-generated apps into wide releases.

Google Play now lets anyone build private, vibe-coded apps that run on Android

Google is making it easier to build and use personal Android apps created with AI, without having to make them available to everyone on the Play Store.

SpaceX and Google both said no. Now his software is riding a SpaceX rocket next to Google’s

Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-one iPhone-style approach.

Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay

Developers will get 50 percent discounted API rates through November.

They war-gamed dimming the Sun. It went even worse than you think.

Solar geoengineering simulation shows what happens when geopolitics takes over.

The drug disconnect between Iambic and Isomorphic

Wall Street is scratching its head over Iambic Therapeutics, an AI biotech that plans to go public this week.

Centene CEO Sarah London says Medicaid patients are the last to benefit from health care innovation. She wants AI to change that

The latest innovations and breakthroughs in health care don’t get routed to the sickest people, they usually go to the deepest pockets.