Why trust is a big question at the Elon Musk-OpenAI trial

by News Feed Editor | May 17, 2026 | Technology

Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI made their closing arguments this week, and now it’s up to jurors to decide whether OpenAI did anything wrong as it’s transformed into a slightly-more-for-profit organization.  But as Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I noted on the...

Architectural patterns for graph-enhanced RAG: Moving beyond vector search in production

by News Feed Editor | May 17, 2026 | Technology

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become the de facto standard for grounding large language models (LLMs) in private data. The standard architecture — chunking documents, embedding them into a vector database, and retrieving top-k results via cosine similarity...

If you’re giving a commencement speech in 2026, maybe don’t mention AI

by News Feed Editor | May 17, 2026 | Technology

Commencement season has come around again — and this year, at least a couple speakers have discovered that it’s tough to get graduating students excited about a future shaped by artificial intelligence. Last week, Gloria Caulfield, an executive at real estate firm...

TechCrunch Mobility: The AI skills arms race is coming for automotive

by News Feed Editor | May 17, 2026 | Technology

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! There is a bit of a theme emerging in transportation — and really every...

For Eclipse, the $2.5B Cerebras win is just the start of realizing its physical-world thesis

by News Feed Editor | May 17, 2026 | Technology

When Lior Susan started Eclipse Ventures in 2015, the firm’s thesis of digitizing the physical world wasn’t particularly popular in Silicon Valley. “It was the era of enterprise software and SaaS, and it felt fairly lonely the first couple of years,” Susan said on...

The enterprise risk nobody is modeling: AI is replacing the very experts it needs to learn from

by News Feed Editor | May 16, 2026 | Technology

For AI systems to keep improving in knowledge work, they need either a reliable mechanism for autonomous self-improvement or human evaluators capable of catching errors and generating high-quality feedback. The industry has invested enormously in the first. It’s...