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Friday, 2 October 2026

15:31
Laytr’s new app lets you save anything you find online, not just articles to read
TechCrunch · 3 min · Center
14:34
This entrepreneur treated an AI agent like a colleague. Then it started doing the work.
Business Insider · 3 min · Center
14:00
Last 24 hours: Exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and reach 10,000+ tech leaders
TechCrunch · 2 min · Center
14:00
Less than 24 hours to apply for a Side Event at Founder Summit 2026
TechCrunch · 2 min · Center
09:05
I run an AI company with a workforce of 34 AI agents. My days are powered by Diet Coke, DoorDash, and 'Claude walks' — here's my routine.
Business Insider · 3 min · Center
05:08
Shark Tank India Judge Anupam Mittal on why most business plans fail
Times of India · 3 min · Center
04:31
Andhra to hold five regional MSME conferences from October 7 ahead of CII Partnership Summit
The Hindu · 2 min · Center
03:11
DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows
Hacker News · 3 min · Center
00:03
The founder’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know
TechCrunch · 3 min · Center
00:00
Benchmarking retrieval for agents on messy real-world company knowledge
Hacker News · 4 min · Center

Friday, 2 October 2026

Laytr’s new app lets you save anything you find online, not just articles to read

This entrepreneur treated an AI agent like a colleague. Then it started doing the work.

Last 24 hours: Exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and reach 10,000+ tech leaders

Less than 24 hours to apply for a Side Event at Founder Summit 2026

I run an AI company with a workforce of 34 AI agents. My days are powered by Diet Coke, DoorDash, and 'Claude walks' — here's my routine.

Shark Tank India Judge Anupam Mittal on why most business plans fail

Andhra to hold five regional MSME conferences from October 7 ahead of CII Partnership Summit

DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows

The founder’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know

Benchmarking retrieval for agents on messy real-world company knowledge

Thursday, 1 October 2026

Aweb – Communication for AI Agents

Kevin Mandia’s new ‘agent swarm’ security startup Armadin raises $255.5M at $2.5B valuation

Show HN: Janus – Go binary that runs GGUF models via Vulkan on AMD/Intel/Nvidia

Vinod Khosla trashed a portfolio company — and the startup world has thoughts

This startup wants to turn idle user car inventory into rental revenue

This startup wants to turn idle car inventory into rental revenue

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)

11 start-ups chosen under C-CAMP climate initiative

Hearing tech startup Legato launches its AI hearing glasses

Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites

Know a rising star in robotics? We want to hear from you.

Meet Hudson Lightfoot, 16, who grew window-cleaning business to 125 clients

A serial entrepreneur raised $17 million to build a Big Law alternative. Read the pitch deck.

Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring a GTM Founder's Associate

Meta's Muse is fantastic for web scraping

Show HN: Yantra – an LALR(1) parser generator for C++

Jevotron: Multiple Jev integrations from the command line

Wednesday, 30 September 2026

A boardroom exit has two multibillion-dollar AI startups trading accusations

Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation

Factory CEO just accused his VC board advisor of spying for Cognition

Is Neko Health’s body scan worth it? Spotify billionaire’s startup has come to America

Dear User, email is here to stay

AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B

Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer

State to become first customer for 100 start-ups under ‘Government First’ initiative

Destro AI’s secret sauce is getting robots and humans on the same page

3 days left to exhibit: Turn visibility into your next opportunity at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

T-Hub launches venture studio Flashpoint to co-build startups

Two Google alumni raise $11.3M to back AI startups that enterprises will actually pay for

OpenAI seeks $30 in funding at whopping $1.4 trillion valuation after delaying IPO

Tuesday, 29 September 2026

More Ways to Disrupt: New 2026 Side Events from KOTRA, WayFounder, Enterprise Ireland, SafetyWing + Descope

Making gene-edited babies is illegal. This startup says it may be time to reconsider

Instinct founder said more than 50% of transactions on the platform are travel-related

After losing his voice to cancer, this founder is building “glasses for voice”

Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux

Meta is expanding its AI agent Muse to small businesses

Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market

Show HN: Jevstiller – Distill Jev into a local model, with a disagreement bound

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