On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. today previewed the most powerful artificial intelligence model in its Qwen family, Qwen3.8, and claimed the system trails only Anthropic PBC’s Claude Fable 5 among the world’s frontier models.
AI involvement disclosure: This essay was written in extended collaboration with two Claude models (Anthropic), and it involved heavier collaboration than my first two essays.
Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers.
The AI developer will protect existing users, add compute and separate its coding plan from its general-purpose membership.
Experts believe it’s at least possible. We urgently need a plan to navigate the ethical implications In January, the AI company Anthropic published a new constitution for Claude, its most advanced large language model (LLM), which contained the comment: “We are caught in a difficult position where we neither want...
A newly discovered Gemini bug lets anyone bypass your Android PIN to send SMS and WhatsApp messages from a locked phone.
Google Deepmind's GenCeption repurposes a video generator for classic vision tasks such as depth estimation and segmentation, matching state-of-the-art systems with far less training data.
Moonshot's Kimi K3 is the first Chinese model to top the Code Arena: Frontend rankings, beating Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol by a wide margin.
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In Rewriting Bun in Rust Jarred Sumner made the following claim: Claude Code v2.1.181 (released June 17th) and later use the Rust port of Bun.
The former PyTorch leader is valued at $17.5 billion on a bet that companies will customize their models while outsourcing the machinery underneath.
The EU orders Google to open Android to AI rivals, Gemini slips a third time, and Oracle cuts 30,000 jobs for Stargate. 16 AI stories for July 20, 2026.
We build an end-to-end NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel workflow in Google Colab using a single GPU.
AI development is driving larger data transfers and higher GPU efficiency demands, pushing memory toward customization and prompting South Korean industry watchers to call for a shift to a "memory foundry" model.
This matchup turned on delivery, not diction. The two models were even on tricky pronunciation, but Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview pulled ahead where performance mattered most: believable news reading and more convincing whisper dynamics.
The EU has ordered Google to open Gemini's exclusive Android access to rival AI apps by 2027. For Android users, the real payoff might not be more choices, but cheaper ones.
Now that Google has changed how its usage quotas are tallied, you might not get as many AI responses as you did before.
Humans First, a conservative-led nonprofit, organized nationwide protests against AI data centers on Saturday.
Netflix revealed that it paid $587 million in cash for InterPositive, a startup co-founded by Ben Affleck.
I would never go so far as to say there's no place for AI in music (I'm a fan of Holly Herndon, after all). But I generally find music made with generative AI to be offensively boring, especially the outputs of Suno. So I'm having a bit of a tough time processing the fact that […]
NVIDIA DeepStream 9.1 introduces 13 agentic skills that let coding agents like Claude Code and Codex build multi-camera video analytics pipelines from natural-language prompts.
My post on leaving Google DeepMind tells a story. In contrast, this Framework is a question of mechanism design and negotiation posture.
ZTE showcased the NaviX Ultra at the World AI Conference in Shanghai this week, calling it the world’s first agentic AI smartphone.
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.
Birdfy has kicked off a midyear sale, taking up to 40 percent off a range of its smart bird feeders. One of the best deals is on Netvue’s Birdfy Feeder AI-Powered Smart Bird Feeder with Camera, which has dropped to $149.99 at Birdfy and is its second-best price to date. The bundle, which includes a […]
"Everybody knows the Greeks are inside."
Current AI, a non-profit building AI that leaves no one culture behind, has made remarkable progress across devices, AI chat and more.
This was a thin matchup on paper, but Kimi K3 still comes out ahead on the numbers. The catch: the only judged task showed enough order sensitivity that this result reads as a lean, not a rout.
Key Takeaways On July 16, 2026, the European Commission issued binding specification decisions ordering Google to give competing AI assistants the same access to Android's microphone, camera, screen contents, and background automation capabilities that Google currently reserves for its own Gemini as...
More adoption of artificial intelligence will lead to more calls to cut fees
The results revive Anthropic's distillation claims, though the test cannot establish who generated the outputs or whether they were used for training.
The Trump administration is now dictating which companies and entities get access to frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI, CNBC reported on Friday, citing two people familiar with the matter.
The 3GB GDDR7 chips that the RTX 50 Super GPUs will use reportedly cost twice to thrice as much as the 2GB chips found on vanilla RTX 50-series graphics cards. This would likely push the retail price of these GPUs way beyond Nvidia's target MSRP.
‘The Jensen Jacket’ achieved a hammer price of $960,000 this weekend.
Alibaba’s chip design unit T-Head announced at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Saturday that it is open-sourcing SAIL, the full software stack for its Zhenwu series of AI chips.
SJF Ventures led the Series A for Luyen Chou and Dirk Liebich's assessment startup, which is already grading culinary and clinical training work.
Gal Tal-Hochberg's new company wants to fix the raw telemetry problem before security teams hand more work to AI agents.
Hamza Mostafa decided he needed to be in San Francisco to make it in tech. When he landed an OpenAI internship, he felt that decision paid off.
The "Shark Tank" investor who is developing AI data center projects argued that modern data centers use far less water than many people believe.
One of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s signature black Tom Ford leather jackets sold at Sotheby’s on Friday for $960,000 after 65 bids from 45 collectors.
Meta Platforms is in early talks to lease computing power to Anthropic in a potential arrangement worth up to $10 billion over two years, a deal structure that would signal a significant shift in how large AI infrastructure owners monetise compute capacity.
On August 2, 1959, Pelé scored what he called the greatest goal of his career: three consecutive sombreros over defenders, a knee flick past the goalkeeper, and a header into the net, all without the ball ever touching the ground.
Architects are reimagining AI data centers with public parks, reused heat, and new designs that give host communities more in return.
Google Cloud's generative-ai repository ships the Always-On Memory Agent, a reference implementation that treats memory as a running process.
Anthropic will include Claude Fable 5 in Max and Team Premium plans starting July 20, but at just 50 percent of regular limits, which themselves drop by a third that same day.
Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism."
Built on specialized SambaNova chips, the company’s air-cooled infrastructure deploys in weeks and runs AI inference up to 16x faster than standard GPU clouds SAN FRANCISCO, CA — General Compute, the world’s fastest inference neocloud, today announced a committed debt facility of up to $400 million from Upper90...
Table of contents What is NeMo Automodel? Supported diffusion models What this collaboration unlocks A look at the fine-tuning workflow 1.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., and SUNNYVALE, Calif – Intel and Google Cloud today announced an expansion of their previously announced multi-year strategic collaboration, which would accelerate Intel’s enterprise-wide digital evolution through the deployment of Gemini Enterprise and Google Cloud.
AI development is moving so quickly that companies and regulators worldwide have far less time to adapt, Anthropic said at the 2026 AWS Summit Taipei. For global readers, the shift could shape how businesses deploy automation, compete, and manage risk across finance, healthcare, and other regulated sectors.
Robert Scoble cited an unnamed investor and said the deal had not closed; neither side has announced a transaction.
Gemini 3.5 Pro slips again as Alphabet drops 4%, Kimi K3 tops the coding arena, and Apple passes Nvidia. The 18 biggest AI stories for July 18, 2026.
Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenaAI, introduces a practical AI scorecard to measure ROI through useful work, cost per successful task, dependability, and return on compute.
Google and Apple have a big leg up in the AI race: their control of billions of smartphones around the world.
Anthropic PBC is reportedly seeking to lease some of Meta Platforms Inc.’s data center capacity.
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around.
Apple is suing OpenAI. The complaint is readable and intense, as these things often are, though many experts seem to think many of the allegations are just the ways things are done. So what does Apple really want here, and why is it picking such a public fight with OpenAI? On this episode of The […]
Apple is reportedly piloting a new “Live Notes” system at some of its retail locations. This system uses AI to record and transcribe Genius Bar sessions with customers, according to a new report.
Feyn Labs has released SQRL, a family of text-to-SQL models that inspect a database with read-only probes before committing to a query.
Alibaba's Qwen team previewed Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, a 2.4 trillion-parameter multimodal MoE model it calls "second only to Fable 5." The preview is live on Token Plan, Qoder, and QoderWork at 10% of standard pricing.
Many of the content creator fellows at plzdontkillus found my thoughts useful when I visited two weeks ago, so I’m now sharing a write-up here.
The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.
It’s not just you: AI startups are taking in a huge amount of seed funding, and in the process making things harder for anyone looking for funding even at a pre-seed stage. We’ve covered the trend in detail, and at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt event, we want to help pre-seed founders now being held to seed-stage […]
InterPositive built models around a production's own footage, giving Netflix technology designed for post-production rather than synthetic performances.
Canada’s advantage lies in combining engineering research, AI strength, materials science, medical technology and strong university-industry pathways.
The essential question, then, is not whether machines can imitate people. Turing asked a brilliant question for the early age of computing.
CEO Ayah Bdeir is applying her littleBits playbook to a nonprofit coalition backed by more than EUR400 million in commitments.
The fear of becoming obsolete is a rising source of anxiety as artificial intelligence emerges in the workplace.
Plus: Russian cyberspies turn to infrastructure hacking, DHS repeatedly fails to realize it’d been hacked, a breach exposes an AI music generator’s scraping ways, and more.
Google used live stadium capture, and combined it with archival material to bring Pele's legendary goal to life. The Veo video engine, Gemini Omni, and Nano Banana Pro AI tools tagged alongside in the journey to revive a lost marvel.
Introduction This tutorial starts where most agent demos stop: giving the agent persistent memory, operational context, and a place to write back what happened.
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around.
Gemini Omni and personal avatars in Google Vids make video creation easier than ever.
Fund managers in London, New York, and Tokyo have added a new step to their morning routine: checking South Korean stocks.
Victoria’s premier Jacinta Allan announced on Sunday that the state would propose laws granting the Victorian civil and administrative tribunal power to order social media and AI platforms to reveal the identities of anonymous account holders accused of online vilification.
Researchers from three French and Italian universities found that access to AI advice collapsed people’s willingness to say “I don’t know” from 44% to 3%.
A class action lawsuit alleges an AI risk-assessment tool used in Ontario jails disproportionately places Black prisoners in maximum security.
Google CEO Demis Hassabis offered us a first rate second rate essay, A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age.
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said that prices for memory chips are "abnormally high" and that the industry must take steps to increase production and reduce prices.