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Tesla starts testing Cybercab without pedals or a steering wheel in Austin
Tesla has begun testing a production version of its Cybercab that has two seats, but no steering wheel or pedals, in Austin, Texas. For now, the testing is being done with a safety monitor in the right passenger seat, according to a video posted on X, the social media...
X now offers an MCP server to make its platform easier for AI tools to use
X is making it easier for AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, Grok Build, and other MCP-compatible apps to connect directly to the platform through a new hosted MCP server. On Monday, the Elon Musk-owned social network unveiled a hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP)...
Arcturus could halve the grid’s electrical losses using its nano-infused copper
The world uses a lot of copper, but thanks to the energy transition and data centers, it’ll need a lot more. Between now and 2050, we’ll have to produce more copper than has been mined throughout all of human history, according to one study. A lot of that copper ends...
Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game
Video and podcast recording tool maker Riverside is giving its users a new way to reach their audiences: newsletters. Riverside isn’t aiming to directly take on established newsletter platforms like Mailchimp, Substack, Beehiiv, or Ghost, however. Instead, recognizing...
Lumo, Proton’s privacy-focused AI chatbot, gets an upgrade
Proton, the privacy-focused productivity app company, released a public AI chatbot, Lumo, last year. On Tuesday, the chatbot received an upgrade. Lumo 2.0 gives the chatbot a variety of newfound powers including image recognition and image generation capabilities....
Your brand deserves its own stage — Side Events at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The countdown is on. In just a few months, over 10,000 innovators, founders, investors, and industry leaders will descend on San Francisco for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. And here’s your insider opportunity: From October 10-16, host a Side Event and command the room. Why...
AI agents need context everywhere they run, even where the cloud can’t follow
The competitive edge in enterprise AI is shifting to context: which platform can give an agent the right memory, the right retrieval and the right data at the moment of decision.Couchbase on Tuesday announced its AI Data Plane, combining persistent agent memory,...
Crypto exchange OKX wants AI agents to hire and pay each other
When AI agents begin working for people — and increasingly for one another — they will need a way to find jobs, pay for services, and build trust. Crypto exchange OKX is betting that future is closer than many expect, launching a marketplace where AI agents can hire...
Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that’s been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips
A few hours ago, Chinese delivery app company Meituan officially unveiled LongCat-2.0 on GitHub, Hugging Face, and its native platform, unmasking the model as the computational engine behind "Owl Alpha," the anonymous stealth model that has spent the last two months...
Coders are refusing to work without AI — and that could come back to bite them
In 2026, you cannot pry AI coding tools out of developers’ vise grip, researchers have discovered. But while AI is undoubtedly helping coders produce code faster, it may not be producing better code, other researchers warn. And that could cause problems down the...
MeMo’s memory model lets teams upgrade their LLM without retraining it — and performance jumps 26%
Enabling LLMs to acquire new knowledge after training remains a major hurdle for enterprise AI — current solutions are either too expensive, too slow, or constrained by context window limits.MeMo, a framework from researchers at multiple universities, encodes new...
Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation
After a security researcher published a series of unpatched bugs in Microsoft products, along with code to exploit them, the company is now threatening to take legal action and call the cops on them. Microsoft’s veiled threat reignites a long-running argument over...
Pinterest cut AI costs 90% by gutting a frontier model’s vision layer
At 620 million monthly users, calling a frontier model for every image recommendation isn't a strategy — it's a bill. Pinterest CTO Matt Madrigal solved it by gutting Qwen3-VL's vision layer and rebuilding it with proprietary embeddings, cutting costs 90% and boosting...
Cognition’s Scott Wu says AI coding agents shouldn’t replace humans
Cognition CEO Scott Wu made headlines again this week when his two-year-old AI coding agent startup raised $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation. Cognition is the maker of Devin, one of the first and, arguably, most successful AI coding agents. Devin, the CEO says,...
AI agents are entering their rebuild era as enterprises confront the reliability problem
As enterprise AI agents move into production, organizations are confronting a growing reliability problem. Many teams are discovering that LLM performance alone does not determine whether agents succeed in production. Long-running AI workflows must survive crashes,...
Today is the last day to apply to speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 returns October 13–15 to Moscone West in San Francisco — and applications to speak are open for just a few more hours. We’re inviting founders, investors, operators, and technology experts to apply for a chance to take the stage at one of the...
Final 24 hours to save up to $410 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket
This is it. The countdown is almost over. You now have until tonight at 11:59 p.m. PT to lock in Early Bird savings of up to $410 for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 before prices increase. If Disrupt has been on your must-attend list, this is your final chance to secure the...
Kiwibit’s AI-powered bird feeder is my new backyard buddy
Earlier this month, I got my hands on the Kiwibit Bird Feeder Pro 4K AI Camera, and it has become my favorite backyard accessory. Setting it up is pretty straightforward. Multiple mounting options allow you to place the feeder on a pole, window ledge, or tree. Its...
This chip startup just raised $135M on a bet that AI’s biggest bottleneck isn’t compute — it’s memory
Every time you ask ChatGPT a question, your request triggers a data relay race. Information leaves memory, passes through a CPU for preprocessing, travels to a GPU for heavy computation, and then makes its way back — and that entire journey repeats for every single...
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket explodes during testing in Florida
Blue Origin’s New Glenn mega-rocket just exploded during testing at a launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida, according to live streams from NASASpaceFlight.com and SpaceFlight Now. Blue Origin later confirmed the explosion. Jeff Bezos’ space company was performing a...
Glean’s top line crosses $300M as AI budget-cutting becomes its major selling point
Glean, a company often described as the Google for enterprise, said it has reached $300 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), a three-fold increase from the $100 million milestone it reached just 15 months ago. While many AI startups are growing at a blistering...
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The EU is stepping up its game in the race to roll out 5G
With a recent press release announcing that the European Union is ready to join forces with Japan in the name of research, it seems that it’s taking additional steps to position itself as a major player in the race to implement 5G technology. Signing agreements like...
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