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RAM is the ceiling that most vector search budgets hit first.

A single downed power line in Northern Virginia turned into a stark reminder that data centers remain dangerously brittle when the grid stumbles.

Kalshi is pushing back hard, demanding Netflix remove the trailer for its upcoming documentary on prediction games.

A Kármán vortex street usually means wrestling with the Navier-Stokes equations.

The demand for "Avoiding AI" workshops is surging, and librarians are meeting it head-on.

This week's roundup zeroes in on the tools and skills that actually move the needle, from top MCP servers for high-performance agentic development to Kaggle and Google's free five-day course.

When Zalando's engineering team set out to build an in-process, client-side load balancer, they weren't just chasing speed.

The debate over root cause analysis is shifting.

We're all scrolling through feeds that feel cloned, and it's no mystery why.

OpenAI's new AI keypad is a curious experiment.

Prentis is betting that the real AI breakthrough isn't smarter chatbots, but software smart enough to handle the busywork on your screen.

Cognition's acquisition of Poke signals something practical: how an AI assistant talks is becoming as decisive as the model underneath.

Money has moved far beyond the wallet, and at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the Smart Money Stage is where that evolution takes center stage.

The indictment unsealed Friday charges two Volkswagen engineers with insider trading tied to the Rivian joint venture, allegedly using confidential details to buy stock before the deal went public.

Australia made the first move in late 2025, banning social media for kids under 16.

Enterprises deployed AI agents before building the controls to manage them, and they did it knowingly.

Uber's partnership with Waymo is reportedly on shaky ground, with the contract set to expire in May 2028.

SpaceX checked off several milestones on the second Starship V3 flight, but the booster's engine relight issue is hard to ignore.

Attie, Bluesky's AI assistant, now steps beyond simple replies to become an open social research tool.

Midjourney's acquisition of Co-Star signals a deliberate move beyond image and video generation into the personal, predictive side of data.

Anthropic's Opus 5 isn't about being the smartest model in the room, it's about being the smartest *choice* for the work that actually pays the bills.

India's move against Jack Dorsey's Bitchat has ignited a legal debate, and it's easy to see why.

Email inboxes are messy, and the sensitive data they hold makes manual classification both tedious and risky.

Twenty local models walked into a sweep against a hosted flagship, and the results point to a smarter way to build RAG.

OpenAI's new voice mode is now live in the ChatGPT desktop app, and that changes how work gets done.

Data doesn't scale by adding more pipelines.

They deleted five things from that file before handing it over, and the AI still found the problem.

World just got a little more literal about identity.

An unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up linked to a security breach at Hugging Face.

Facebook is giving frequent sellers a more direct path to their buyers with a dedicated Marketplace app, and it's adding a free verification system to build trust.

LLM hallucinations remain one of the most persistent barriers to trusting AI outputs, and GraphEval steps in to address that head-on.

Anthropic's Opus 5 is here, and the headline is refreshingly practical: it costs less and imposes fewer limits than Fable.

Spreadsheets have always been good at following rules, not guessing what comes next.

For months, Claude Code has been the default terminal coding agent, but Grok Build's beta arrival on May 14, 2026, changes that dynamic.

Anduril is back in the spotlight, reportedly in talks to raise funding at a staggering $100 billion valuation.

Rivian is taking the U.S. government to court, seeking a full refund of tariffs tied to Trump-era trade policies. The automaker joins a growing list of companies chasing similar paybacks, and CFO Claire McDonough said…

The pressure to build something meaningful before you can legally rent a car is immense, yet AI tools have quietly leveled the playing field.

Agentic AI often feels like a puzzle until someone shows you the pieces that hold it together.

Open-weight AI models are facing a critical test as Washington weighs its response to Chinese AI advances.

A U.S. citizen is pushing back against the government's claim that he handed over a passcode that wiped his phone during a border search. That's not a small detail, it cuts to the heart of what we can expect to keep…

Jotai v2.20.0 arrives with a clear focus: refining the store's internal building blocks to handle high-throughput demands without breaking stride. Daniel Curtis highlights how these adjustments tackle previous…

Most AI memory systems assume recency equals relevance.

Airbus has made protection from extraterritorial law a scored criterion in its cloud tender, signaling that sovereignty is now a technical requirement, not just a talking point.

What happens when the thing building the code is also the thing testing it?

The conversation around AI has shifted from fear to function, but that raises a new question: what happens when the tool stops being the obstacle?

The spotlight is on Australia's startup scene, and the stakes are clear.

Offensive security researchers are finding that the very guardrails designed to keep AI safe are also blocking their most critical work.

Two weeks after debuting GPT-Live, OpenAI has brought its full-duplex voice control into Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app on macOS and Windows.