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.

TravalonTom is hitting the wall that separates pattern recognition from genuine understanding.

Bain Capital Ventures just placed a $1.6 billion bet on the AGI era, and the target is clear: early-stage founders who are building it. That means backing the people who can harness artificial general intelligence and…

Roku's latest OS update brings a new hub for experimental apps straight to the big screen, and that's worth paying attention to.

Spotify's podcast payouts have jumped by more than a third since it overhauled its video podcast creator terms in January.

A new coalition, including Google, Nvidia, Anthropic, and Emerald AI, is targeting 100 gigawatts of grid capacity for data centers.

The clock is ticking for startups eyeing Disrupt 2026.

A chocolate bar with no price tag might not seem like a gateway to statistical philosophy, but for this author, it sparks a journey from everyday intuition to the dense mathematics of a 200-year-old integral.

Even the King of England has his hesitations about AI.

Spreadsheets have long been the quiet gatekeepers of commerce, but the real bottleneck was always the payment.

Scanning a QR code to let your oven take over sounds like a clever shortcut, and Tovala is betting that convenience is worth the commitment.

Huawei is moving its Ascend 960DT launch up to Q1 2027, a clear signal it intends to close the AI computing gap with Nvidia sooner than many expected.

Pinterest is testing Restyle, a new AI-powered feature that lets you visualize furniture, decor, and lighting directly in photos of your own rooms.

Lucid's move to explore a European robotaxi future with Bolt signals a deliberate, measured step into autonomous mobility.

A single Parquet file on your laptop might not feel like a data lakehouse yet.

The application window for volunteering at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is closing soon, and if you have been weighing the decision, this is your moment to move.

MLOps gave teams a workable playbook for traditional machine learning, but operating large language models changes the game entirely.

A single formatting question can haunt a submission, especially when the official style seems to contradict itself.

A month of silence after two reviews would test anyone's patience, especially when you've already acted on the feedback.

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A single number for ambiguity that predicts correlated failure would give the field a lever it currently lacks.

TanStack Charts enters the alpha stage with a clear promise: stop forcing data into fixed chart types and start composing the visuals your project actually needs.

Marathon incidents don't end when the alert clears; they end when the system, and the people running it, can finally breathe.

GoBench puts large language models to a properly hard test: 9x9 Go against a ladder of KataGo opponents, from random to superhuman.

Most AI users let unused tokens expire at the end of the month.

Four retrieval architectures, one laptop, and a single set of documents.

Omarchy is an operating system for the AI-native era, a departure from the rigid, cell-bound spreadsheets that have anchored us to the past.

Repeated VM escapes by GPT-5.6-Cyber based agents expose a hard truth: traditional virtual machines are no longer enough. Kernel flaws allowed multiple breakouts, and even Firecracker's containment showed cracks. This…

Comp AI has closed a $34 million Series A led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures, and the message is clear: security and compliance are moving toward a continuously agentic future.

Agents are quietly becoming the developer platform, pulling context from Git, Slack, and Jira through semantic search.

The deadline for edits at ICLR 2027 is a practical concern, and it's smart to ask now.

Karmada has officially graduated from the CNCF, and that's a milestone worth noting.

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Treble, the Iceland-based voice simulation platform, just closed an $18 million round, and it's a clear signal that the demand for realistic synthetic voices is accelerating.