Mixture-of-Experts models hold real promise, but their size has kept them off most local devices.

Open-weight AI companies are turning into the Valley's hottest acquisition targets, and it's easy to see why.

Ten benchmarks.

Lambda just borrowed $1 billion to buy more Nvidia chips, leasing them to Microsoft.

Chinese automakers are now chasing the same prize as Tesla: humanoid robots.

Brave's latest move gives Chrome users a reason to look twice.

Watching a movie on a pair of sunglasses sounds like a futuristic leap, but XREAL's smart glasses make it feel surprisingly practical.

Reviewing every AI action is a luxury most teams can't afford.

We've all felt the pull toward endless AI-assisted shortcuts, but relying on them blindly can dull your edge.

Most document parsers force enterprises to choose between accuracy and affordability.

Most of us start with a single agent, a helpful assistant that handles one task at a time.

Connecting a LangGraph AI agent to Postgres doesn't have to be a headache.

Meta executive Sandhya Devanathan is leaving for OpenAI, where she will oversee operations across Southeast Asia and Australia.

Autonomous agents that can reason and act on their own introduce a category of risk that application-level controls were never built to contain.

Uber's GitFarm takes a different route to managing monorepos: it centralizes Git operations as a service, removing the need for local clones across thousands of repositories.

Apple TV is raising its subscription price again, moving to $14.99 per month from $12.99. It's a modest bump, but one that signals how streaming costs keep climbing across the board. For viewers already juggling…

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration illegally labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk, and that's a meaningful win for accountability.

a16z is putting $1.1 billion behind a simple bet: the next wave of AI runs on more than software. The firm, long associated with code-first startups, is now funding the physical infrastructure that keeps pace with model…

Every parameter in your model costs money, and too many of them mean your inference bill climbs with every prompt.

If you've leaned on Claude for coding, you've likely noticed its time estimates can miss the mark.

Americans are pushing back against police license plate cameras, and the message is clear: surveillance without trust breeds resentment.

Sweden's startup scene keeps surprising, and Sophia Bendz, general partner at Cherry Ventures, stopped by Equity to explain why.

Choosing the right local AI stack shouldn't feel like guesswork.

Retro, a photo-sharing app built by former Instagram employees, just closed over $21 million in Series A funding.

Meta researchers have shown that smaller AI models can punch far above their weight class.

Azure Kubernetes Service users juggling node consolidation with application uptime now have clearer guardrails.

Electric two-wheelers are finding their footing, and Belgian startup Any is betting that cargo space will set them apart.

If you're debugging Bluetooth multipoint disconnects, the last thing you expect to find is a silent audio fingerprinting operation.

The threat of Harvest Now, Decrypt Later is already here, and Pankaj Sharma's piece on post-quantum cryptography in Spring Boot cuts through the noise with four concrete patterns you can ship this sprint.

Meta's move to build MTIA 300, its first in-house accelerator for ranking and recommendation models, signals a deliberate step beyond compute and into networking.

Netflix didn't become a global streaming giant by accident, and Kasia Trapszo's talk digs into the messy, deliberate work behind that evolution.

A boutique StrictlyVC evening returns to New York's West Village on September 10, and the lineup reads like a masterclass in modern ambition.

Amazon's latest move lets creators tag products directly in YouTube videos, turning recommendations into a steady commission stream.

The sigmoid function is everywhere in modern AI, yet its roots trace back to a simple letter: *e*.

Bluesky's new algorithmic opt-out feature gives users a quieter path forward, letting them post without chasing virality.

Tucked inside Meta's $18 billion settlement with 29 states sits a clause that deserves a closer look: a legal pass allowing the company to keep certain data from children under 13, specifically to train and test its…

The AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is shaping up to be a defining moment, with Anthropic and OpenAI taking the spotlight.

Claire McDonough is stepping down as Rivian's CFO on October 30 to chase a new challenge, according to a Thursday filing.

Barret Zoph's path just took another sharp turn.

Astro's new Sätteri processor is worth paying attention to if you've felt the drag of slower builds.

Google's AI Mode is stepping up its travel game, now tracking flight prices and helping book hotels directly.

A $26 million Series A is a strong signal that the industry is ready to move past outdated workflows.

Former Twitter trademark counsel Stephen Coates sees something familiar in the newest social platform, and his perspective carries weight.

Sleep tracking gets a playful upgrade.

Managing a database shouldn't require a specialist on call for every hiccup.

Ben Linders shows that sustainable testing isn't about doing less work for its own sake.

The real risk in enterprise AI isn't a rogue agent.

Hard braking.

The ATF's declaration of a "major incident" is a sobering reminder that no agency is beyond reach, especially when a ransomware gang claims the hack.

Plaud's new $249 earbuds pair with an eSIM-enabled charging case, letting you talk directly to AI agents wherever you are.