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Vivo’s forthcoming flagship smartphones are poised to arrive in Europe with sharp price increases, with the top-end Vivo X500 Pro Max expected to start at €1,799. Pricing, storage options, and color variants for the international rollout were revealed by WinFuture editor Roland Quandt ahead of the company’s scheduled European launch on October 27. According to

Hollywood is turning a sharp critical lens on Silicon Valley, releasing a slate of feature films and documentaries that challenge the influence and actions of prominent tech executives. Rather than celebrating tech innovators, recent projects depict industry leaders as destabilizing figures while examining the societal fallout of their platforms. Among the releases is Aaron Sorkin’s

Bluesky has expanded the capabilities of its Attie AI tool, allowing users to build and publish interactive mini-apps, casual games, and polls using basic text prompts. Originally introduced earlier this year to assist users in building custom feeds, Attie now generates lightweight web applications deployed directly to custom links on the attie.site domain. Each generated

Bluesky is expanding its experimental Attie platform to let everyday users create custom websites, games, polls, quizzes, and other interactive experiences using artificial intelligence. Announced Thursday at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the new capabilities build upon Attie’s initial release, which focused solely on generating custom social feeds. Creators using the expanded service can utilize open-weight models

Early registration discounts providing up to $200 in savings for the TechCrunch Founder Summit are scheduled to end on Friday, October 16. The event is slated to bring together 1,000 startup founders and investors at the SoWa Power Station in Boston on November 4. Before the pricing window closes, Founder Passes are priced at $199

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 opened its third and final day at San Francisco’s Moscone West, drawing an audience of more than 10,000 founders, investors, and technology executives for presentations focused heavily on artificial intelligence and business scaling. The closing schedule was highlighted by the Startup Battlefield final competition, where judges selected the event’s overall winner following

Figma has introduced Figma Specs, a Markdown-based editor engineered to help teams outline their design language, incorporate code libraries, and set parameters for artificial intelligence agents. Unveiled at the company’s inaugural Config conference in India, the tool acts as a structured reference system to ensure that both internal and third-party AI agents conform to brand

Flock founder and CEO Garrett Langley mounted a defense of his company’s widespread surveillance systems on Wednesday, arguing that the public must accept privacy trade-offs to ensure criminal accountability and reduce crime. Speaking on stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 conference in San Francisco, Langley asserted that society “shouldn’t pause progress” despite escalating backlash that

Colossal Biosciences has launched GenoMorph, an artificial intelligence system engineered to identify viable gene-editing targets for extinct animals with severely limited surviving DNA, starting with the dodo. The platform combines comparative genomics, developmental biology, and 3D morphology to predict the genetic sequences responsible for distinctive physical characteristics. While Colossal has secured roughly 100 genomes for

Federal authorities have arrested an OpenAI engineer accused of planting a covert audio recording bug inside an executive conference room to intercept private discussions regarding the company’s super intelligence systems. According to a Department of Justice complaint, 35-year-old Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan concealed the spy hardware behind a conference room television using toilet paper in