OpenAI's Astra model is stepping outside the lines of sequential reasoning, and safety experts are paying close attention.

Meta is pricing Muse Voice Transcribe at $0.18 an hour, and that changes the conversation around real-time speech-to-text. It is not the absolute cheapest option, but folding 20-plus-speaker diarization into the same…

Palo Alto Networks' $500 million acquisition of Thrive-backed Console signals a clear verdict: consolidation is here, and scale matters.

Google sidestepped a breakup of its ad business, but the judge's ruling makes one thing clear: the status quo is over.

Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash isn't just another update, it's a deliberate push into agentic work, with a standard model built for complex reasoning and a Cyber variant that hunts vulnerabilities. The latter's 86.2% on…

Nvidia is putting robots on our new Real World AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and we're bringing extinct animals along for the ride.

The Builders Stage returns to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and it's a direct response to the questions we hear most: how do you actually scale without losing your edge?

Six days.

Enterprise buyers are no longer treating Nvidia as the only accelerator worth evaluating.

More than 150 million driver's license photos have reportedly been stolen from an ID verification service.

Delivery Hero's board has backed Uber's $15 billion takeover bid, a move that could reshape the food delivery landscape.

Swigby's in-house predicted lifetime value model leans on more than 350 pre-order features and a multi-task MLP to serve both Food and Instamart.

AI detection is becoming a whole new kind of hard, and Max Spero from Pangram is digging into why it's so much trickier than a simple "Real or Fake" call.

The US government has made its position clear: it backs OpenAI in the dispute over training AI on copyrighted material.

Wonderful just closed a $550 million Series C that more than doubles its valuation to $5B in under six months.

Session-cookie theft is not a login-page attack, and it will not be stopped by another layer of MFA.

Graph neural networks can feel like a black box, but they don't have to.

HiddenLayer just locked in $100 million in funding, and the timing says everything about where enterprise security is heading.

Mukesh Ambani's Jio is betting that an aging computer doesn't need a trip to the junkyard.

CABiNet, a 2021 architecture that went quiet after ICRA, is back, and it's beating a 2026 generalist model on aerial segmentation.

Adobe is putting its creative tools directly into Slack, with Express, Premiere, and Acrobat set to arrive in the workspace.

OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Anthropic just split, and the way forward is clearer than you might think.

5.94 billion TikTok videos. 3.23 billion profiles. In three weeks. That's the scale of what one developer just uploaded to Hugging Face, free for anyone to explore. It's a bold move, and a practical one. The data is…

Norway is moving to regulate camera-enabled wearable headsets, citing the privacy risks they pose.

A confident wrong answer is a bug, but a bare "no answer" with no justification is barely better.

Google just signed a 400 MW deal with Fervo for enhanced geothermal power, with room to grow to a full gigawatt.

Amazon's Alexa for Shopping now flags suspicious messages before they trick you.

Adobe's acquisition of Indian market intelligence startup Rilo signals more than a portfolio update, it's a deliberate bet on data agility.

Forward-deployed engineering is where enterprise AI actually learns.

X Money is stepping in to handle U.S. creator payouts, a move that quietly retires Stripe from that role. It's a practical consolidation, folding payments into X's own service rather than leaning on a third party. We…

OpenAI is facing 30 new lawsuits tied to the Tumbler Ridge shooting, with Edelson PC escalating claims to aiding and abetting and naming Chris Lehane.

OpenAI's engineering deep dive into GPT-Live reveals a thoughtful separation of concerns: the live path handles media and inference, while application logic runs behind an asynchronous RPC boundary.

Jasper Research just released a cookbook that walks through building a text-to-image model from scratch, and it's refreshingly honest about the messy middle.

Triton shines when the bottleneck is memory-bound rather than compute-bound.

Backpropagation has dominated deep learning for decades, but Deepity makes a compelling case that it's not the only path forward.

If you've ever watched a pandas script crawl through a DataFrame, you know the frustration.

A single click stream from a 35-year-old male in Seattle reveals almost nothing about his intent.

Finding quality chord-recognition datasets for jazz, soul, and film harmony is a genuine hurdle.

Uber is cutting about 3,300 jobs, or 10% of its global workforce, to streamline management and pour more resources into ridesharing, delivery, and robotaxis.

The matcher was supposed to finish what normalization started, but testing against real data proved otherwise: no version of it could be made safe.

We ran six open-source AI detectors through the same protocol, and the results are sobering.

TontaubeV1 takes a character-level approach to text-to-speech, and that decision is worth pausing on.

Hidden Markov Models still earn their place in unsupervised exploration, especially when your dataset's structure isn't neatly labeled.

Asking a question shouldn't feel like a hurdle.

If you've got a project, a product, or a service that deserves attention, this is the place to share it.

Depth-trained YOLO26 weights transfer to deraining, and that's the story.

Agentic AI is moving from theory into production, and it earns its keep exactly in SRE, finance, legal, migration, and security workflows.

A second-year PhD candidate is staring down their first AAMAS submission with a familiar dread: the experiments only half-worked, and the theory that emerged feels like it was built backward.

Searching for "POP viola with female vocalist" usually returns pop songs with female vocals, because those are common in your library.

Self-modifying agents are risky.