GLM-5.3 has landed on Z.ai's API at the same $1.40/$4.40 per-million-token rate as its predecessor, and that's a bold move. Developers get the new model's stronger coding and agent performance without paying a posted…

Claude's watermarks are not one-size-fits-all.

The DOJ's probe into Andreessen Horowitz's board seats has VCs scratching their heads, and honestly, the confusion is fair.

Block is open-sourcing Berd, a desktop workspace built to give teams one consistent surface for working with AI agents.

Cursor knows frustration when it sees it.

TikTok is quietly testing peer-to-peer payments through its DMs, leaning on the TikTok Pay infrastructure already live in Southeast Asia.

A $100M+ company runs on its spreadsheets, and when I built an agent system to handle those workflows, I learned trust isn't a feature, it's the foundation.

Jane Street was impressed enough by Etched's first shipped AI cluster system to lead another massive funding round, pushing the startup's valuation to $21 billion in just a month.

Peacock is raising prices across every one of its streaming plans, a move the company says will let it keep creating the best experience for viewers.

Netflix has open-sourced an agentic workflow for Observational Causal Inference that cuts through the usual grind of causal analysis.

Fairphone is bringing its repairable design to the US with the Fairphone 6+, a midrange Android device that challenges the throwaway culture of consumer tech.

Enterprises are discovering that one model for every task is a costly mismatch, simple queries often trigger the most expensive model, driving up both spend and latency.

The recent Hugging Face breach has put the spotlight on how AI models are overseen, and OpenAI is responding with a sharper focus on the development pipeline.

Enterprise AI investment in commerce is at an all-time high, yet outcomes remain wildly inconsistent.

Perplexity's free AI offer brought in millions of new users across India, yet the real story is what happened next.

Comcast is adding motion sensing to millions of its newer routers, a feature that can detect movement inside your home without traditional sensors.

Enterprises that have watched an AI agent pass its evals and then fail in front of customers aren't retreating from automation, they're moving faster toward removing humans from deployment decisions.

Apple's leaked camera-equipped AirPods are drawing familiar privacy fears, but the design may sidestep the worst of it.

Cloudflare's WriteGuard, now in private beta, takes a meaningful step toward safer AI agents by giving MCP servers fine-grained control over which tools can modify data or trigger actions.

Terminal agents are powerful, but watching them work can feel like staring at a wall of code.

OpenAI's new ChatGPT for teens is a long-overdue step toward responsibility, acknowledging that young users have been quietly navigating this technology for years.

Nelly Health, the body-scanning and bloodwork startup co-founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, is bringing its health checkups to New York City, with its first US office set to open in about a month.

More connections don't automatically mean better outcomes.

Great engineering usually stops at the code, but Brad Grantham argues it shouldn't end there.

The gap between chip fabrication and the models that actually process data is where the real pressure builds.

A video tucked inside a macOS Tahoe release candidate shows a user wearing AirPods, glancing at a book, and talking to Siri.

Building AI software shouldn't require a dedicated infrastructure team.

Apple's latest EU fee overhaul trades the per-install charge for a flat 5% commission on apps outside its storefront, while easing the path for alternative marketplaces.

A single number tripped up every major hallucination detector, and the reason is hiding in plain sight: ten is not a hundred.

Taking an AI agent from prototype to production is where the real test begins.

Three commands.

The early-bird window for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 closes August 21, and it's the moment to secure your spot before prices climb.

Bluesky is under fire again, as the platform confirms another distributed denial-of-service attack caused its latest outage.

Anthro Energy just broke ground on a Louisville factory dedicated to producing electrolytes, including the kind that could make solid-state batteries a practical reality.

Grounded, a Detroit startup, just raised $5 million to customize electric and gas-powered vans.

Einride is putting 500 Tesla Semis to work, with those electric trucks built for Amazon and other customers.

.NET 11 Preview 7 brings a meaningful step forward for .NET MAUI, with cross-platform passkey support and a rebuilt incremental XAML Hot Reload that should make daily development feel noticeably smoother. Shell route…

GitHub's announcement that Stacked Pull Requests are now in public preview is a welcome step for teams wrestling with unwieldy code reviews.

Vibe coding is getting real attention, and for good reason: it lets you build something functional without wrestling syntax.

Ever wondered how ChatGPT and Gemini pull off PDFs and PowerPoints when an LLM is all they have?

Reach Capital has closed an oversubscribed $265M Fund V, backing AI founders who are building tools to expand what people can actually do.

The EU AI Act's watermarking mandate lands on August 2, 2026, and it's already reshaping how vendors build.

Building a RAG system that actually works in production takes more than stitching together a vector database.

Formatting rules exist for a reason, but they shouldn't feel like a trap.

If you're weighing whether to trust a new code host with your team's source code, Monday offered a pointed reason to pay attention.

Higgsfield just closed a $400M Series B that quadruples its valuation to $5.4B in only eight months. That kind of momentum says something about where AI-driven creation is heading. Founded by former Snap exec Alex…

Spotify's new Playlist Notes put a human voice back into the mix.

SpaceXAI's Grok Bot is a bold step toward making autonomous agents a practical reality.

When a startup founder says their team is joining Google's Chrome group, it's worth paying attention.

The scale of Apple's latest spyware alert is striking, even for seasoned investigators.