CALWIRE Tech Report (Saturday, September 19, 2026)

Today's top story: Petlibro’s new AI-powered feeder is a game changer for multi-cat homes. This roundup covers 12 stories from TechCrunch and Ars AI.

AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable
This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction. — TechCrunch

Prices go up in 7 days. Get your Disrupt ticket now.
Current ticket pricing ends Sept. 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Join 10,000+ founders, investors and tech leaders at Disrupt and save up to... — TechCrunch

Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking
Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models. — TechCrunch

India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos
Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators. — TechCrunch

Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI
In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese. — TechCrunch

A startup that builds other startups raised $100M and is all-in on physical AI
UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations. — TechCrunch

Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments
AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI mi... — TechCrunch

AI hallucination nearly triggers US military operation
“It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns. — TechCrunch

Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?
Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever. — TechCrunch

Automattic names interim CFO after exec departures
Jeremy Klaperman, the CFO of the company's WordPress VIP Enterprise business unit, will act as CFO for the time being.

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