DeepSeek just released a developer preview of DeepSeek Harness, an open-source runtime built for autonomous AI agents.

OpenAI is raising the bar on enterprise data privacy, and it's about time.

The promise was that AI would win us over by now, yet it hasn't.

Travis Kalanick, fresh off raising $1.7 billion for his robotics company Atoms, has a blunt take: only 1% of venture capitalists are actually helpful. It's a provocative stance from someone who has navigated the funding…

OpenAI has revoked researchers' access to its Trusted Access for Cyber program, a move that raises questions about how the lab balances security research with practical safeguards.

TrueForge enters a crowded field with a straightforward pitch: more control, lower cost.

Cognition's CEO has pushed back on reports that SpaceX was in talks to acquire the AI coding startup, a claim that surfaced just as SpaceX moves to secure Cursor in its enterprise AI push.

When Rillet emerged from stealth just two years ago, the path to a $1B valuation seemed ambitious.

When Gwyneth Paltrow's Kinship Ventures backs a company, the world tends to notice.

Somewhere between a youth league doubleheader and a full-blown sportsbook, betting on the Little League World Series has crossed a clear line.

Waymo's Ojai, the company's next-generation robotaxi, is now open to all riders in three cities, marking a deliberate step toward mass scale and, eventually, profitability.

Docker's new virtualization layer is a smart move for developers who feel the drag of third-party components they can't tune.

Google's new study tools in Search and Gemini feel like a natural next step, not a flashy leap.

When Stripe says it acquired OpenRouter because of "the singularity," that's a headline, not the whole story.

The process of testing ten ML models on every new dataset is exhausting, and it's a familiar pain for anyone who's tried.

Conventional wisdom says a batch of four is a batch of four, but this test on LoRA with Qwen3-1.7B shows otherwise. The user found that on a T4, running four micro-batches before one optimizer step was 17% slower than a…

VentureBeat is doubling down on enterprise AI research with the appointment of Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst.

3.7 million patients had their medical records stolen in the CareCloud data breach. That figure places this incident among the largest healthcare compromises reported in the U.S. this year. The scale is sobering, and it…

The shift from "design YouTube" to "design ChatGPT" in system design interviews isn't just a trend, it's a signal.

WhatsApp is putting scam detection where your messages already live: on your device.

Prime Air is no longer a pilot program on the fringes.

Most dataframe work pulls data out of the database, then pushes it back after Python finishes its part.

Home batteries are suddenly cheap and everywhere, and that shift is worth pausing over.

When an integration pipeline grows from 500 to 8,000 events per second, the temptation is to let correctness slide.

Calendly is entering the meeting note-taker arena with Callie, its new scheduling assistant.

Sachin Bansal's Navi has taken a decisive step toward its public debut, securing $100 million from Prosus in its first outside investment.

Amazon is making its AI-powered Alexa+ free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the U.S., with no Prime membership required. That's a straightforward move that removes a familiar barrier, and it's the kind of…

If you've ever stared at a blank spreadsheet and felt the limits of what it can do, you're not alone.

The clock is ticking on your $300 savings for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, but only until August 21.

People accept tradeoffs when the value is clear.

Behind every seamless TechCrunch Disrupt stage is a team that makes the impossible look effortless.

A 127,000-token prompt can beat a top-5 RAG pipeline on the same 12 questions, graded blind for correctness, completeness, and grounding.

T-Mobile caught the intrusion early and cut the cable before Chinese hackers could turn a foothold into a full-scale breach.

Rivian's spinout just closed another $150 million, this time led by Prysm Capital, and that's a clear signal.

TerraPower's nuclear reactor is quietly reshaping the race to power AI data centers, and its edge isn't just in the science.

Hundreds of billions of dollars flow into data centers and GPUs each year, yet compute remains the industry's biggest cost without a clear pricing mechanism.

Starting with spreadsheets is smart, but your ambition to apply machine learning to JWST or TESS data is a bold leap.

React Router v8 landed on June 17, 2026, and it's a deliberately boring release.

The RealPDE competition is a smart move for anyone tired of toy datasets.

Relativity Networks just closed a $22 million round to push hollow-core fiber into data centers, a technology that moves data 30% faster than conventional fiber.

The 1968 Ronan Point tower failure sounds like a distant engineering problem, yet Sam Newman sees it as a direct warning for today's software leaders.

Assembling a puzzle by hand is meditative, but teaching a computer to do it takes patience of a different kind.

A 94.2% validation accuracy sounds like a green light, but this hiring model was cheating. The SHAP values tell the real story: the postcode feature dominated with a score of 3.5031, while technical skill and experience…

Training an image diffusion model on a microcontroller with 264KB of RAM is a bold experiment, and the results are honest about the tradeoffs.

Microsoft's .NET 11 Preview 7 lands with a steady hand across C#, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, and Windows Forms. C# introduces labeled break and continue, while ASP.NET Core adds Blazor circuit pausing and built-in…

Venmo now lets you pay your college tuition, which is convenient, sure, but it also means the friction is gone.

Building an AI agent is one thing; running it reliably in production is another.

A single-author paper accepted to ICONIP 2026 comes with a real logistical question when work commitments keep you away.

If AI is going to move the needle on cancer, it won't be through clever algorithms alone.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now gives AI agents persistent compute through runtime instances, a practical upgrade for teams wrestling with long-running workflows.