CALWIRE Tech Report (Monday, November 2, 2026)

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Today's top story: 42AI comes out of stealth with $62.5M and a world model that can ‘predict human behavior’. This roundup covers 12 stories from TechCrunch, OpenAI, and MIT Tech Rev AI.

42AI comes out of stealth with $62.5M and a world model that can ‘predict human behavior’
Here's a question straight out of sci-fi: What if AI could predict what you were going to do before you decided to, even in a comp... — TechCrunch

Elon Musk throttles Grok Bot limits due to ‘unsustainably high’ costs
Musk recently referred to Grok Bot as having "the fastest growth of a product that I've ever seen in my life." — TechCrunch

Omen AI adds liquid know-how in $16 million Aquatic Labs acquisition
Two startups tackling the data center water problem are joining forces in a $16 million deal. — TechCrunch

Introducing the Grid Protectors Program
OpenAI’s Grid Protectors Program will work with utilities to help future compute campuses support grid reliability and protect con... — OpenAI

Ninja’s first-ever microwave just replaced two of my kitchen appliances at once
The Ninja Crispi Microwave stands out for its FusionCrisp technology, which combines the speed of a microwave with the crispy resu... — TechCrunch

Northwood Space raises $375M Series C at a $2B valuation from a16z and DFJ Growth
Space infrastructure company Northwood Space on Monday said it had raised $375 million in a Series C round co-led by Andreessen Ho... — TechCrunch

A fresh wave of cyberattacks has hit Europe’s supermarket refrigerators, destroying food across countries
This is the second wave of cyberattacks to hit supermarket refrigerators in a month, spoiling food and disrupting supplies. — TechCrunch

2 days till TechCrunch Founder Summit: Boston founders don’t need a Silicon Valley address to build something big
TechCrunch Founder Summit happens on November 4 in Boston for a founder-focused agenda and impactful connections. Save up to $100... — TechCrunch

OpenAI is finally merging ChatGPT’s chat and Work tabs
OpenAI said that ChatGPT and Codex will draw usage from the same allocation pool after this change. — TechCrunch

Stop counting tokens, start counting what ships
When a developer gives an AI agent a coding task, the agent does more than answer once. It plans, generates code, runs tests, and... — MIT Tech Rev AI

Ford launches a ‘privacy promise’ and explains how and why it uses customer data
Ford said it's making an "explicit commitment" to its customers that "their vehicle data is safe" with the company. — TechCrunch

The agentic web is here
In 2001, a decade after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee articulated a new vision. Together with two colleagues, he...

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