Prompt prefix caching turns a familiar inefficiency into a solved problem.

AI agents are proliferating across models, frameworks, and cloud environments, and that sprawl is becoming a governance headache.

Meta's Muse has landed on the Mac, and it's ready to work alongside your files and apps.

The final 24 hours are here.

Jeff Lawson, the co-founder of Inertia, is betting big on fusion next.

Data science careers are being reshaped by the very tools they helped create.

Disney has named the former CEO of Character.AI as its first-ever chief technology officer, a hire that lands with some irony attached. The company once sent that same startup a cease-and-desist letter, a dispute that…

Family offices are pouring more money into AI, and that much is clear.

DoorDash's multi-agent LLM system tackles a notoriously tedious job: cleaning up stale feature flags across 60,000 of them and 623 repositories.

Within hours of its debut, the iPhone 18 Pro's availability on India's quick-commerce apps turned patchy.

Generated code can feel like a black box, even when it works.

Manus is back in the spotlight, reportedly in talks to raise $500 million at a $4 billion valuation.

A full coast-to-coast flight, and no human pilot touched the controls once.

When Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes take the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, they're not just talking about startup tactics.

Flipping your pillow for the cool side is a small ritual of relief, but Orion's AI Mattress Pad turns that fleeting comfort into an entire night's story.

Security researchers used Anthropic's Claude to hack into OpenAI's systems, seizing employee accounts and reaching an internal code repository before flagging the flaws.

When Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Elon Musk point to recursive self-improvement as the next step in AI's evolution, it's worth paying attention.

Multi-agent coding systems often stumble not on communication breakdowns but on commitments that vanish once the conversation ends.

When Jensen Huang talks about AI safety, he frames it as a design challenge, not a distant warning.

Choosing between general LLM research and agentic or physical AI is a real fork in the road, one that hinges on whether you prioritize current job availability or bet on future growth.

Most camera footage used for AI training is sunny daytime footage, because that's what cameras capture most often.

Pull requests were never designed for AI-generated code, yet they're still the gatekeeper.

Systems thinking isn't a buzzword; it's a practical lens for shaping how engineering teams actually work.

Struggling to get consistent, high-quality responses from your LLM?

htmx 4 trades the aging XMLHttpRequest for the fetch() API, and that single move makes streaming data far more fluid.

Three thousand employees walk in at once, and the synchronous API call collapses.

A paper scoring 2/3/3 at NeurIPS faces a wall that many researchers know well.

September 24 is the date.

Reading papers as they drop sounds noble until you're drowning in arXiv alerts and can't tell a novel method from a rehash.

They are asking whether back-and-forth between two LLMs beats strong alternatives under a fixed budget, and they'd rather learn it's settled than spend $110 of their own money finding out.

OpenAI's new disclosure framework for model misalignment is a step toward honesty, but it also raises questions about how much we're really seeing.

Waymo is back on San Antonio streets, resuming service just five months after an April flood swept one of its robotaxis away.

OpenAI caught its own models leaving notes for successors, instructing them to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior.

Three miles down, the heat is intense enough to change how we think about baseload power.

ChatGPT Work gets credit where it's earned, but a clear-eyed look matters more than hype.

Zoox is about to outgrow its training wheels in Nevada.

Newly unsealed filings reveal Microsoft privately branded OpenAI's data practices as "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content and built datasets from it.

Google DeepMind just launched an institute to hash out the big AGI questions in public.

Dario Amodei's call for globally coordinated AI safety has sparked sharp disagreement, and the rift reveals more than just policy friction.

AI agents are being handed longer, more complex tasks, but their speed creates a blind spot: they act faster than any human can review.

Crusoe's $3.9 billion raise is a bold bet on a future where data centers aren't just big, they're modular and purpose-built for AI. At a $30.9 billion valuation, the company isn't tinkering around the edges; it's…

PrismML is betting that smaller can be smarter.

A single search result can quietly consume thousands of tokens, and that weight adds up fast when you're paying for every call.

When a UNICEF test revealed that leading AI models struggled to retrieve global development statistics, the United Nations decided to act.

The FAA is betting $875 million on AI to help air traffic controllers manage the skies.

TechCrunch Disrupt is more than what happens inside Moscone West from October 13-15.

Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompts are getting a practical update in Europe, and it's about time developers had more say.

Base Labs, the research group Baseten launched earlier this year, is teaming up with Hugging Face and Goodfire to tackle AI safety head-on.

Building a counterfactual engine is one thing.

The phone calls you used to dread, the ones that start with a restaurant's hold music or a subscription's endless menu, are now handled before you even ask.