Oct 12, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Apple has confirmed a Welcome home event for October 13. The launch is expected to focus on smart home hardware, including a long-rumored HomePad smart display. A new Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini 2 are also anticipated. Apple may preview second-party HomeKit accessories made with LG. View more
Oct 11, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Zach Yadegari, the 19-year-old co-founder of Cal AI, has raised $10 million for Persona, a new AI agent startup. Persona combines a personal AI assistant with a $179 wearable band that activates by button or wrist flick. The company is testing a free beta through iMessage and plans to ship the band in December. It also faces the challenge of balancing an ad-supported business model with promises of privacy and unbiased recommendations. View more
Oct 11, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Ghost, a startup founded by 19-year-old Zain Javaid, has exited stealth with an $11 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Its first product, Core, is a $3,499 personal computer built to run AI agents locally and continuously. The device bundles an Nvidia RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell GPU, preinstalled models, and a software layer designed for privacy and autonomy. Preorders opened Monday, with shipping planned for late October. View more
Oct 11, 2026Twila Rosenbaum The 2026 Startup Battlefield 200 has been revealed, featuring 200 early-stage companies selected from thousands of applications. The cohort spans AI, climate, health, fintech, robotics, consumer, and more. They will exhibit at Disrupt 2026 from October 13-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco. The top 20 finalists will be announced live on Day 1, competing for $100,000 equity-free and the Disrupt Cup. View more
Oct 10, 2026Twila Rosenbaum The IT and security field guide to AI adoption has been withdrawn. The guide warned that many security and IT teams are seeing the opposite of promised AI benefits. It offered a framework for evaluating tools beyond the demo, pressure-testing vendors, and keeping humans in the loop. It also cited examples from teams at Udemy, Canva, Jamf, and Vimeo. View more
Oct 10, 2026Twila Rosenbaum When finance leaders ask security teams to hold the line or cut 12%, the instinct to trim every line item equally can create dangerous gaps. A better approach is to categorize each expense by whether it protects something the business values, was never operationalized, duplicates another team's tool, or exists mainly for compliance theater. The same discipline that removes waste can also strengthen the case for spending tied to risk and revenue. View more
Oct 10, 2026Twila Rosenbaum As AI agents become more autonomous, security leaders are focusing on what data models were trained on. But a more important question is how to maintain authority and integrity over that data. Least privilege, session-based RBAC, and human-in-the-loop controls remain essential. Meanwhile, AI has eroded the skill gap between attackers and defenders, forcing teams to do more with the same staff and rethink hiring. View more
Oct 10, 2026Twila Rosenbaum AI coding tools are increasing the volume of code and security patches that open-source maintainers must review. Many projects lack stable funding even as their software underpins phones, cars, cloud systems and AI platforms. Researchers and policy experts warn that faster fixes can also accelerate attacks, and that most applications still lack a software bill of materials. The result is a growing governance and maintenance burden that reaches every organization running open-source components. View more
Oct 09, 2026Twila Rosenbaum The evolution of AI in software development has moved from simple code completion to autonomous coding agents that can plan, write, test, and debug. In four days, a major technology conference will convene founders, investors, and engineers to examine what comes next. Sessions will cover AI agents, generative AI, developer tools, enterprise software, and security. The event runs October 13-15 in San Francisco with more than 200 sessions and 250 speakers. View more
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