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Today’s highlights
- Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry — 2026-08-09
- The AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets.
- No Dogs in Space is a music history podcast for true obsessives — 2026-08-09
- Sadly, there hasn’t been a new episode of No Dogs in Space since July of 2024. Part four of the podcast’s series on Can wrapped up an abbreviated season three, which focused on experimental rock. Don’t get me wrong, I lo
- Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default — 2026-08-09
- Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight.
- Zuckerberg’s yacht was closer, but someone else saved a stranded boat — 2026-08-09
- Earlier this week, the Alaskan cruise ship Wilderness Legacy rescued a small skiff stranded near Farragut Bay after running out of fuel. But, according to tracking data reviewed by the Alaska Beacon and Halifax Shipping
- TechCrunch Mobility: Zoox prepares for launch and Uber’s AV empire — 2026-08-09
- Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
- 49ers coach says his Tesla was on Autopilot when he crashed — 2026-08-09
- Four weeks ago, San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan was involved in an accident near downtown Palo Alto. At the time Shanahan said only that the accident was his fault. But during a recent press conference he shared
- Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy — 2026-08-09
- On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about “government by machines” and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.
- The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk — 2026-08-09
- AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards and regulation can keep pace with increasingly powerful