CALWIRE Tech Report (Saturday, October 24, 2026)

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Today's top story: Instacart reportedly discussed selling itself with DoorDash and Uber. This roundup covers 12 stories from TechCrunch, TC AI, and Ars AI.

Instacart reportedly discussed selling itself with DoorDash and Uber
Instacart might sell itself to a larger competitor. — TechCrunch

Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human
Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max — TC AI

PHP-ocalypse: How two critical web bugs almost broke the internet
Two critical bugs in the PHP web programming language, used by the majority of the internet, threatened to upend the internet — an... — TechCrunch

Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.
A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI m... — TC AI

These clever apps show off the iPhone Duo’s potential
From retro cassette players and virtual notebooks to flight trackers and even a digital toaster, developers are finding creative w... — TechCrunch

The Boox Palma 2 Pro finally got me to stop reading on my phone
The $400 Boox Palma 2 Pro is a smartphone-sized e-reader designed for people who want to read books, articles, and documents on a... — TechCrunch

Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed fo... — TC AI

Startups don’t need to go viral to win customers
At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, two founders and a VC discussed how to not just gain an early following but keep one. — TechCrunch

OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”
OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work. — TC AI

Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell
The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice c... — TC AI

VCs, Superhuman Mail founder share red flags about product-market fit
Top investors from Iconiq and Sapphire Ventures, along with Rahul Vohra, the founder of Superhuman Mail, share the do's and don'ts... — TechCrunch

Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising

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