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		<title>Startups don&#8217;t need to go viral to win customers</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/23/startups-dont-need-to-go-viral-to-win-customers/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 23:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, two founders and a VC discussed how to not just gain an early following but keep one. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/23/openai-says-it-will-no-longer-train-its-ai-models-on-the-live-internet-citing-significant-risks/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Fernholz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 23:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/23/hottest-toy-for-christmas-nvidia-ceo-plays-with-adorable-microduck-robots-20000-sell/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julie Bort]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 21:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>VCs, Superhuman Mail founder share red flags about product-market fit</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/23/vcs-superhuman-mail-founder-share-red-flags-about-product-market-fit/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dominic-Madori Davis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Top investors from Iconiq and Sapphire Ventures, along with Rahul Vohra, the founder of Superhuman Mail, share the do's and don'ts for building hit products.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 roundtables: Go deeper on the challenges founders are solving right now </title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/23/techcrunch-founder-summit-2026-roundtables-go-deeper-on-the-challenges-founders-are-solving-right-now/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 is coming to SoWa Power Station in Boston on November 4, bringing founders, investors, and operators together for a full day of candid conversations, practical sessions, live pitching, networking, and smaller roundtables built for deeper discussion. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Carta and NewView partner, hoping to entice more startups to let employees sell shares early</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/23/carta-and-newview-partner-hoping-to-entice-more-startups-to-let-employees-sell-shares-early/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marina Temkin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A new program wants to encourage more startups to allow workers to cash out early by making it easier to transact tender offers.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>From Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 </title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/23/from-toast-to-bessemer-who-founders-will-hear-from-at-techcrunch-founder-summit-2026/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch, developing founder leadership, and scaling companies both inside and outside traditional startup hubs.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Agent cloud startup Daytona hits $1B valuation backed by FirstMark and a who’s who of angels</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/23/agent-cloud-startup-daytona-hits-1b-valuation-backed-by-firstmark-and-a-whos-who-of-angels/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julie Bort]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Daytona is building a cloud for agents that's like giving every agent its own computer. It has attracted founders of Stripe, Perplextity, Datadog, Mercor, and others as angels, it says.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Commonwealth Fusion Systems gets $85M to build better fusion-ready semiconductors</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/23/commonwealth-fusion-systems-gets-85m-to-build-better-fusion-ready-semiconductors/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim De Chant]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Top-funded fusion startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems received an $85 million award from the federal government to advance conductors for fusion power plants.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What some of Anthropic’s backers are worth before its IPO</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/23/what-some-of-anthropics-backers-are-reportedly-worth-before-its-ipo/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marina Temkin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://techcrunch.com/?p=3181130</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Early-stage and follow-on investors in the AI lab are already sitting on major paper returns.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Lab testing giant Quest Diagnostics confirms patients&#8217; personal and health data was compromised during breach</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/23/lab-testing-giant-quest-diagnostics-confirms-patients-personal-and-health-data-was-compromised-during-breach/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zack Whittaker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[quest diagnostics]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Quest is the latest in a series of healthcare technology companies that have been hacked in recent months.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Oura sues rival Ultrahuman again, threatening its US smart ring comeback</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/oura-sues-rival-ultrahuman-again-threatening-its-u-s-smart-ring-comeback/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jagmeet Singh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 04:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Oura alleges in its newest lawsuit that Ultrahuman's Ring Pro infringes two of its patents.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Uber rival inDrive eyes 2027 robotaxi tests in Central Asia with Pony AI and Nvidia</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/uber-rival-indrive-eyes-2027-robotaxi-tests-in-central-asia-with-pony-ai-and-nvidia/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jagmeet Singh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[AI]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pony.ai]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The company plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/left-alone-with-nothing-to-do-ai-agents-started-playing/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aditya Mehta]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[AI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AI agents]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s creative plan to pay California’s proposed billionaire tax without losing control of Meta</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/mark-zuckerbergs-creative-plan-to-pay-californias-proposed-billionaire-tax-without-losing-control-of-meta/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lucas Ropek]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Government & Policy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[billionaire tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://techcrunch.com/?p=3180868</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[A newly launched stock class being offered was partially engineered to help Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pay the "billionaire's tax," should the measure be voted into law. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/ben-lamm-raises-200m-for-warhound-to-engineer-war-dogs-and-arm-them-with-anduril-gear/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dominic-Madori Davis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Warhound, the brainchild of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>As blockchain investing falls out of vogue, a16z Crypto rebrands as a16z Frontier</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/as-blockchain-investing-falls-out-of-vogue-a16z-crypto-rebrands-as-a16z-frontier/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marina Temkin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Venture]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The digital asset unit, helmed by Chris Dixon, broadens its scope.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/openai-working-on-new-30b-raise-at-1-25t-valuation-ahead-of-ipo/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julie Bort]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[AI]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://techcrunch.com/?p=3180936</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rivian buys world model startup to accelerate self-driving ambitions</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/rivian-buys-world-model-startup-to-accelerate-self-driving-ambitions/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kirsten Korosec]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Transportation]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Third Dimension's technology uses AI to match the physical world, which when combined with Rivian's reams of data could turn into a valuable simulator.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Arc browser sunsets December 22 as The Browser Company doubles down on Dia</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/arc-browser-sunsets-december-22-as-the-browser-company-doubles-down-on-dia/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aditya Mehta]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 20:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Apps]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arc browser]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Arc was fiercely beloved by a dedicated group of enthusiasts, but it never quite became the mass-market Chrome alternative its makers once envisioned.]]></description>
		
		
		
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