by News Feed Editor | May 10, 2026 | Technology
How will work setups change if we spend more and more time talking to our computers? A recent feature in the Wall Street Journal looks at the rising popularity of dictation apps like Wispr, especially now that they can be connected to vibe coding tools, and what that...
by News Feed Editor | May 10, 2026 | Technology
Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic. Last year, the company said that during pre-release tests involving a fictional company, Claude Opus 4 would often try to blackmail engineers to avoid being...
by News Feed Editor | May 10, 2026 | Technology
For years, Uber talked about becoming a super app. Then Waymo started picking up passengers in San Francisco, and the conversation grew more urgent. The company has been trying to embed itself inside the AV industry — as a data provider, an investor, and a...
by News Feed Editor | May 10, 2026 | Technology
AI agents choose tools from shared registries by matching natural-language descriptions. But no human is verifying whether those descriptions are true. I discovered this gap when I filed Issue #141 in the CoSAI secure-ai-tooling repository. I assumed it would be...
by News Feed Editor | May 10, 2026 | Technology
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! After years of hints and preparation, the Uber-backed...
by News Feed Editor | May 10, 2026 | Technology
Anthropic and xAI announced a big partnership this week, with Anthropic buying all the compute capacity at xAI’s Colossus 1 data center in Tennessee. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed what the deal...
