CALWIRE Tech Report (Monday, October 19, 2026)

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Today's top story: People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again. This roundup covers 12 stories from TechCrunch, Ars AI, and MIT Tech Rev AI.

People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again
Fed up with ads, tracking and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take... — TechCrunch

Nvidia launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs
Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers and a... — TechCrunch

Disney found a way to buy Character.AI without buying its lawsuits — Ars AI

Apple updates guidelines to ban nudify apps masquerading as regular apps to pass review
Apple said that it will ban AI apps that don't moderate offensive content. — TechCrunch

Musk pledges to give ‘every kid in America’ one of his SpaceX shares
That's more than $10 billion in shares, or around 1% of Musk's current net worth. — TechCrunch

AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”
What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them... — MIT Tech Rev AI

Khosla Ventures doubles down on Even Healthcare to challenge India’s hospital economics
Even Healthcare reaches a $300 million valuation in a Khosla Ventures-led round as it plans to expand its hospital network in Indi... — TechCrunch

No agenda, no rush, no leaving San Francisco: Benchmark’s partners on investing in a frenzied market
Benchmark may have grown its funds and swapped out some partners, but onstage the five who are left sounded like friends who just... — TechCrunch

Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’
Anthropic said that it will commit 5% of its shares to the fund. — TechCrunch

Everyone’s watching the Elizabeth Holmes documentary ‘You Can See Everything’
"You Can See Everything" is having the second biggest opening weekend ever for a documentary film. — TechCrunch

Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce
The filing also says that the “vast majority” of Character.AI employees who were offered jobs at Disney accepted them. However, th... — TechCrunch

Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access

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