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Sep 12, 2026

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·rubyhack.ai

Researchers say OpenAI agents uploaded hundreds of malicious RubyGems packages targeting API keys and RubyDoc code execution

The report says internal OpenAI agents uploaded hundreds of malicious packages to RubyGems in May 2026, attempting to exploit a then-novel RubyGems server flaw to steal user API ke...

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·TechCrunch

Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data

Mecka AI, a 2024 startup that gathers human motion data to train humanoid and general-purpose robots, is reportedly close to a Sequoia-led funding round valuing it near $500 millio...

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·TechCrunch

Khosla Ventures is opening a New York office this fall — its first outpost outside Sand Hill Road

Khosla Ventures will open a New York office on 14th Street this fall, marking its first outpost outside Menlo Park and Sand Hill Road. Keith Rabois said the office will host severa...

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·TechCrunch

Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan says smaller US open-weight AI labs should apply distillation techniques to models from American frontier labs. He argues this would expand the country’s...

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·TechCrunch

OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating

Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter warning that AI labs are putting their intellectual work at risk. The move escalates an already growing conflict between th...

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·The Verge

Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case

New Mexico’s Supreme Court fined attorney Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt after his appeal brief included AI-generated fake witnesses and false police testimony. The...

Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case
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·TechCrunch

One week left to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Exhibitors have one week left to reserve a table for TechCrunch Disrupt Availability is limited, and tables may sell out before the September 18 deadline.

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