Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear

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View this email online in your browser  October 23, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear: Warhound, the brainchild of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement. Read More Rivian buys world model startup to accelerate self-driving ambitions: Third Dimension's technology uses AI to match the physical world, which when combined with Rivian's reams of data could turn into a valuable simulator. Read More Oura sues rival Ultrahuman again, threatening its U.S. smart ring comeback: Oura alleges in its newest lawsuit that Ultrahuman's Ring Pro infringes two of its patents. Read More A message from North.cloud North.cloud brings automation to cloud, data, and AI spend at scale.  North.cloud unifies spend intelligence and enables full automation across cloud, AI, and data providers. Finance and engineering can now understand, optimize, and automate infrastructure spend. Understand every dollar, manage AI usage, and forecast with confidence. We just raised a $60M Series B to help every team spend smarter. Start saving.  Learn more  Go Beyond the Bay Area, Join Us at Founder Summit At TechCrunch Founder Summit on November 4 in Boston, you can deepen your expertise on hiring, product market fit, pitching, founder leadership, and much more in a dynamic, intimate environment. Get ahead of the competition and show the world what the East Coast can build with a 25% discount using the code Daily25. Register Now Morning Must-Reads Uber rival inDrive eyes 2027 robotaxi tests in Central Asia with Pony.ai and Nvidia: inDrive plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027. Read More Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing: MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs. Read More Mark Zuckerberg's creative plan to pay California’s proposed billionaire tax without losing control of Meta: A newly launched stock class being offered was partially engineered to help Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pay the "billionaire's tax," should the measure be voted into law. Read More As blockchain investing falls out of vogue, a16z Crypto rebrands as a16z Frontier: The digital asset unit, helmed by Chris Dixon, broadens its scope. Read More 1Password launches a way for AI agents to log in on your behalf without seeing your password: The new feature allows agents to log into a customer's personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials that secure those accounts. Read More Last but Not Least Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’: Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Microsoft’s system itself. Read More Check out some of our other newsletters: StrictlyVC TechCrunch Events TechCrunch Mobility Want to adjust your daily newsletter schedule? You can do it right here Got a tip? Get in touch securely. Want to advertise on TechCrunch? advertise@techcrunch.com Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. Unsubscribe Member Center Privacy Policy Copyright © 2026 TechCrunch Media LLC 501 2nd Street, Suite 650, San Francisco, CA 94107