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Robotaxis drive miles just to get cleaned and charged; this new startup wants to fix that
Take a stroll around San Francisco and it won’t take long to spot an empty autonomous vehicle cruising the city’s streets, waiting to be hailed by a rider or heading off to a distant depot to be charged and cleaned. These deadhead miles — an industry term for miles...
Most companies think they’re building a software factory. They’re actually just shipping bugs faster.
Industrialized factories changed how the world produced physical goods: more output, lower costs, faster than anything that came before. Now a similar shift is happening with software. LLMs have lowered the barrier to writing code, increased individual output, and...
The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns
OpenAI’s release of its newest model, GPT 5.6, reportedly won’t be like its previous releases. Instead of distributing it to the public, the company plans to share it only with a select group of close partners because the Trump administration told it to, reports The...
Liquid AI’s smallest model yet LFM2.5-230M beats models 4X its size at data extraction, can run ‘anywhere’
Liquid AI, founded by former MIT computer scientists, today released its smallest AI language model yet, LFM2.5-230M, and enterprises would do well to consider it for their uses in data extraction and local deployment on smartphones, laptops and robotics.This is a...
YouTube Shorts are getting even shorter with an update that lets you double the playback speed
YouTube is rolling out a series of changes to Shorts, including a new method that lets users shrink the duration of short form videos. The Google-owned platform announced Thursday that Shorts now comes with a setting that allows users to double their playback speed....
Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents
AI agents are becoming more sophisticated. They are evolving from answering questions to autonomously executing multi-step complex tasks. But before these agents can be trusted to book trips or conduct financial analysis on behalf of users, model providers and the...
Polymarket says hackers stole users’ funds
Prediction market giant Polymarket confirmed that hackers stole funds from an unspecified number of users after a third-party breach. In an X post on Thursday, Polymarket said that a compromise at a third-party vendor allowed hackers to inject malicious code into its...
Xbox follows Apple with price increases
Just a few hours after Apple announced price increases across its hardware lineup, Microsoft revealed that Xbox game consoles are also getting more expensive. In addition, the company announced that it’s discontinuing its 2TB model. Starting August 1, Xbox console...
Notion Mail shuts down amid agent takeover
Productivity company Notion is shutting down its email product, Notion Mail, on September 22. The company said it is discontinuing its email inbox in favor of its AI agent offering. It noted that users were increasingly handing over the reins of their email to the...
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7-Eleven data breach affects over 185,000 people’s personal data
Data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned says a data breach at convenience store chain 7-Eleven affects over 185,000 people, including their names, dates of birth, and physical addresses. The data breach, reported in April, also included phone numbers and...
Amazon fulfillment competitor Stord raises $250M at $3B valuation
E-commerce logistics company Stord has raised a $250 million round at a $3 billion valuation, it announced Tuesday. This doubles its valuation from a year-ago round. The new funding was led by Strike Capital with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund,...
Why prompt debt, retrieval debt, and evaluation debt are quietly reshaping enterprise AI risk
Over the past two decades, technical debt meant outdated architecture, messy code, and poorly maintained documentation. That definition is no longer sufficient in the AI era, where failure modes are more subtle and often non-linear. AI systems are introducing new...
What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work
AI’s biggest champions have argued for some time that the technology will usher in an era of unprecedented productivity gains, richly rewarding workers who harness it while displacing those who don’t. Zeb Evans, CEO of the collaboration software startup ClickUp,...
The pope’s AI encyclical isn’t really about AI
Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical on Monday, dubbed Magnifica Humanitas, on “safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence.” And while AI is the hook, the problems Leo focuses on are older and more pervasive: inequality, war, the...
The pitch trick that helped an eSports startup raise $20M when VCs only wanted AI
Earlier this year, Lucra Sports founder and CEO Dylan Robbins did something that no one else has ever done. He landed famed public investor Cathie Wood and her ARK Invest Venture Fund as a lead in a startup fundraising round. Lucra announced last month that it raised...
Startup Battlefield 200 applications close in days: Apply before May 27
The deadline to apply or nominate for Startup Battlefield 200 is Friday, May 27. This program is your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100,000 in equity-free funding. If you’re building a breakout startup — or know a founder who is — now...
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Everyone is navigating AI security in real time — even Google
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Francis de Souza, COO of Google Cloud, backstage at an event in Los Angeles. Amid the din around us, de Souza, who speaks in the calm, measured manner of a university professor, offered useful advice for companies...
Xreal, Google’s smartglasses partner, thinks it has finally mastered this notoriously tricky industry
The smart glasses industry has long been a tortured dream of Silicon Valley. The premise is appealing enough: What if, to enjoy the benefits of mobile computing, people didn’t have to stare at their phones all day long and could, instead, simply wear a lightweight...
AI agents are quietly generating chaos engineering failures enterprises don’t track yet
There is a category of production incident that engineering teams are not tracking yet — because it doesn't fit any existing postmortem template. The agent initiated an action. The action was technically correct given the agent's context. The context was incomplete....
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SEO Agencies are without a doubt one of the best ways that any web developer can get ahead of the game and increase their web trafficking majorly within a short span of time. This begs the question; what are the benefits of utilizing the tools that are provided hiring...
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When stocking up your tool kit for projects, there are some items will almost always come in handy. For professional craftsmen and hobby craftsmen alike, an oscillating multi-tool is definitely one of the modern market's must haves if you're looking for a combination...
Secure Your Cell Phone From Hackers
Cell phones have become extensions of ourselves. For many of us, they house more personal information then our home computers. Hackers and ne'er-do-wells have become a real concern as they are now targeting cell phones and farming our most personal devices and...