Since moving to South Carolina’s Lowcountry, I’ve been spellbound by the myriad of beautiful birds that share the coast with us – ospreys raising their babies in towering nests beside the road to my daughter’s school, roseate spoonbills wading in the marsh on my morning walks, eagles circling over my son’s tennis matches, and a […]
Robinhood is opening its trading platform to AI agents. In an announcement on Wednesday, Robinhood says traders can now create a separate account for an AI agent and add a specific amount of money, allowing the agent to buy and sell stocks across the market. The company pitches the feature as a way for traders […]
By the time that the Democratic primary for New York’s 12th congressional district wraps up in June, Anthropic and OpenAI will have spent millions on their battle over the political future of AI: who gets to regulate it, or who will be punished for trying to regulate it. But the real winner of their feud […]
China’s AI boom is producing world-class talent, and Beijing is increasingly reluctant to let them go elsewhere.
There are only 3 days left to save up to $410 on your ticket to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Early Bird pricing ends May 29 at 11:59 p.m. PT, and once the deadline passes, ticket prices increase. If you plan to attend one of the most influential gatherings in tech this year, now is the time to lock in your pass before rates go up again.
SOND introduced its debut product: Dreambuds, a closed-loop, in-ear system that captures 12 physiological signals from the wearer, then acts on them in real time to help consumers get better sleep.
ElevenLabs’ new model will let users regenerate a section of a song without affecting the rest of the track.
Today is the final day to apply or nominate a startup for Startup Battlefield 200. Once the clock strikes 11:59 p.m. PT, the window closes on your chance to compete for $100,000 in equity-free funding, gain global visibility, connect directly with investors, and launch on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage.
As Cognition reaches $492 million in annualized revenue run rate, it more than doubled its valuation in eight months, it says.
Meta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused offerings under its broader “Meta One” subscription brand.
Google I/O made it official: AI-generated answers are now front and center in search, and most brands have almost no visibility into how AI is describing them to their customers. For anyone who has spent years building a strategy around 10 blue links, the rules just changed in a pretty significant way. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca […]
Payroll service provider Remote recently surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and became cash-flow positive, thanks to a 50% increase in revenue per employee resulting from AI adoption.
Snowflake has signed a new, enormous five-year deal with Amazon to secure chips for AI usage. Nvidia is once again being put on notice.
The technology opens the door for smaller, well-funded challengers to take market share from the Big Four and others
Local police forces are modernising the country’s ageing infrastructure with more powerful tracking systems
Firm looks to partner or invest in start-ups that could otherwise threaten its business model
Stability AI has released Stable Audio 3, a family of latent diffusion models for instrumental music and sound effects generation. The release includes open weights for the small and medium variants. Small runs on a MacBook Pro M4 CPU. Medium fits on consumer GPUs with 8 GB of VRAM. Both generate stereo audio at 44.1 kHz using a three-stage training pipeline: flow matching, distillation warmup, and adversarial post-training. On the BBC Sound Effects benchmark at 5 seconds, SA3 medium scores FAD 0.369 — lower than every open-weight baseline evaluated in the paper.
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In this tutorial, we use zeroentropy/zerank-2-reranker, a 4B Qwen3-based cross-encoder reranker, to improve retrieval quality. We start by setting up the runtime, loading the reranker, and understanding how it scores query-document pairs. Then, we move from simple pairwise scoring to a practical two-stage retrieve-and-rerank pipeline, where a fast bi-encoder first retrieves candidates and zerank-2 reranks […]
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Researchers from NUS, MIT, and A*STAR propose MEMO, a modular framework that encodes corpus knowledge into a separate trainable MEMORY model.
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The EAGLE team, vLLM, and TorchSpec jointly release EAGLE 3.1 to fix speculative decoding instability in production.
The post Meet EAGLE 3.1: The Speculative Decoding Algorithm That Fixes Attention Drift in LLM Inference appeared first on MarkTechPost.
The Holy Father referenced The Lord of the Rings in his encyclical about AI—an expert (if unintentional) troll of tech billionaires who keep misinterpreting the series.
It’s possible that AI was used to write parts of Pope Leo XIV’s latest encyclical about AI’s impact on humanity. An analysis by Linch Zhang posted on the forum LessWrong found certain paragraphs of Magnifica Humanitas to be between 40 percent and 100 percent written by AI, according to the popular AI detector Pangram. The […]
Google overhauled Search at I/O 2026, replacing blue links with AI agents. The backlash has been swift. DuckDuckGo app installs spiked 30% as users seek a way out.
The AI and Big Data programme on day two of TechEx North America referred at least once to the “AI graveyard,” meaning the large number of pilots that never become durable systems. That phrase set the tone. The question was proof. The Enterprise AI Implementation, ROI and Adoption track dealt with the hard middle of […]
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Autonomous AI systems are beginning to move beyond software environments and into warehouses, delivery networks, and public spaces. The development is drawing attention to whether current AI rules cover systems that operate in physical environments. Most existing AI governance frameworks have focused on online harms and model outputs, including bias, misinformation, and harmful content. Embodied […]
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TikTok owner issues shares tied to AI business unit as China’s tech talent war heats up
Central bank warns that investors could be exposed to losses if the technology does not meet its potential
New Stanford-led study finds candidates that fail AI-hiring tests face ‘systemic rejection’ across companies
Judge Mark Mullen warns lawyers against outsourcing legal research or reasoning
Roundhill Memory ETF, known as DRAM, surges 87% within 50 days of April launch
Seed rounds are larger than ever, with some startups now raising $8 million to $10 million deals once associated with later stages. But the path forward has also become tougher.
New data shows diverging entry-level employee experiences with long-term leadership implications.
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However, the futures of each are more complicated, especially for younger workers.
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Researcher Brené Brown says HR’s most consequential moment is now. Here’s what she thinks great CHROs do differently.
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