Professor, bettor charged with accessing private horse info — Marshall Gramm, a college professor and noted bettor, has been charged with accessing confidential horse health information. He faces a lifetime ban.
Bayer Earnings Beat Estimates on Crop Science Strength — Bayer AG posted better-than-expected profit in the second quarter, helped by a strong performance in its crop science business.
ytr: YouTube radio for Emacs — I've been a happy ready-player user for some time now. I consider the Emacs package fairly feature-complete, for my needs anyway. Well almost. While I...
SIMD for Collision — In a previous post SIMD Matters I discussed the big wins I got from graph coloring to make the contact solver faster. That same approach exists in Box3D. I like to call this approach “wide SIMD”. The idea is to process multiple work units at the same time.…
Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years | TechCrunch — As Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agents, Zuckerberg is working to convince investors that the payoff will be worth the price.
Japan’s LNG Stocks Seen to Benefit from Middle East Supply Risk — Japanese liquefied natural gas-related stocks stand to benefit from rebuilding war-damaged energy infrastructure in the Persian Gulf and the construction of new facilities elsewhere to diversify away from the…
Smart glasses maker Even Realities hits $1B valuation with $150M funding led by Meituan, Tencent | TechCrunch — Even Realities, an ex-Apple team building camera-free smart glasses, raised $150M from Meituan and Tencent at a $1B valuation.
cua/blog/gpu-passthrough-macos-vms.md at main · trycua/cua — Scale computer-use 2.0 with open-source drivers, cross-OS fleets, and benchmarks for training, evaluation, and data generation. - trycua/cua
Spotify takes on Google's NotebookLM with its new app | TechCrunch — Spotify is releasing the new desktop app as a research preview in more than 20 markets
This humanoid robotics company is going public, but its CEO isn't promising a robot in your home anytime soon | TechCrunch — While other humanoid startups chase sky-high valuations, Agility Robotics is betting its future on execution — and a SPAC.
Publishers will be able to opt out of AI Search, thanks to new regulation | TechCrunch — U.K. regulators are requiring Google offer a tool allowing website publishers to opt-out of generative AI search features. The option will be tested in the U.K. then rolled out globally.
Anthropic brings Mythos to the masses with Claude Fable 5, its most powerful generally available model ever — <p>Anthropic today <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5">launched two new AI models </a>— Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — marking the comp
thunderbolt-ibverbs: We have InfiniBand at home — Linux kernel experiments implementing IB verbs over consumer Thunderbolt/USB4 hardware to give cheap mini-PCs high-performance RDMA suitable for cluster inference.
The Pulse: is GitHub still best for AI-native development? — Availability has dropped to one nine (~90% – !!), partly due to not being able to handle increased traffic from AI coding agents. There’s also no CEO and an apparent lack of direction.
GitHub - AlmanacCode/codealmanac: A codebase wiki for AI coding agents. Captures what the code can't say: decisions, flows, invariants, gotchas. — A codebase wiki for AI coding agents. Captures what the code can't say: decisions, flows, invariants, gotchas. -…
Prompt injection is exploiting enterprise AI's biggest design flaws by targeting agents, RAG pipelines and model routers — <p>In the past two years, businesses have been trying to fit large language models (LLMs) into support, analytics, development, and internal automation…
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Feds demand autonomous vehicle companies stop interfering with first responders | TechCrunch — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said emergency scenes are not "edge cases."
These two founders left Goldman and Meta to build voice AI for markets everyone else overlooked | TechCrunch — The startup's own stack for Africa and Middle East is now handling more than 17,000 calls per day.
GitHub - malisper/pgrust: Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests — Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests - malisper/pgrust
GitHub - viggy28/streambed: Stream Postgres to Apache Iceberg on S3 via logical replication, queryable over the Postgres wire protocol. — Stream Postgres to Apache Iceberg on S3 via logical replication, queryable over the Postgres wire protocol. - viggy28/streambed
Microsoft AI chief says company was “set free” from OpenAI to pursue superintelligence — <p>For three years, Microsoft's artificial intelligence story has been inseparable from OpenAI. The partnership — cemented by a cumulative investment exceeding $13 billion — gave Microso
Commerce AI has a measurement problem no one is talking about — <p><i>Presented by Rezolve Ai</i></p><hr/><p>Most brands know something is shifting in how consumers find and choose products. What most don't know is how much of that shift has already taken place, where…
Apple TV reveals Silo season 3’s split-timeline plot, here’s the trailer - 9to5Mac — Apple TV just unveiled the trailer for Silo season 3, which premieres next month, and it reveals the split-timeline plot that’s coming.
Elixir/Phoenix Liveview was a mistake — I made an expensive technical decision on Phoenix Liveview for the Smol Talk webapp about a year ago that I now regret, and am jotting down some notes to self for why.
Bumble teases a swipe-free future as it doubles down on IRL meetups | TechCrunch — Bumble says it’s moving beyond swiping and deeper into real-world social experiences as it courts Gen Z users.
Search privately and without ads — Uruky — Search privately and without ads using Uruky, the private search engine.
TikTok launches TikTok Pro Events, an app for cultural moments like the FIFA World Cup | TechCrunch — The app allows users to engage with other fans, explore trending videos, and access curated creator feeds.
GitHub - alibaba/open-code-review: Battle-tested at Alibaba's scale. Hybrid architecture code review tool: deterministic pipelines + LLM Agent, precise line-level comments, built-in fine-tuned ruleset (NPE, thread-safety, XSS, SQL injection), OpenAI & Anthropic compatible.
A SpaceX vet raised $65M to pull wire harnesses out of the Cold War era | TechCrunch — Someone has to bundle all the wires that go into rockets, missiles, and satellites.
The pope’s AI encyclical isn’t really about AI | TechCrunch — Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical uses AI as a lens to diagnose older problems: concentrated power, eroding democracy, and a tech elite that shapes the world to its own advantage.
85% of IT teams claim every AI agent is under control. Only 42% actually know who owns them. — <p>Organizational leaders are <a href="https://www.ivanti.com/resources/research-reports/scaling-ai-it-operations">nearly twice as likely to hide their AI use</a> compared to all other
Sarvam becomes India's newest AI unicorn with $234 million funding round led by HCLTech | TechCrunch — Indian IT services company HCLTech is investing $150 million in the Bengaluru startup.
Why enterprise AI will be a major focus at VivaTech 2026 | TechCrunch — While Silicon Valley continues pushing aggressively into large language models and consumer-facing AI products, many European companies are focused on applying AI to complex systems already embedded into ever
Your agent didn’t hallucinate; it exceeded its authority — <p>Content filters can block unsafe output. They cannot tell you whether an agent was authorized to issue that refund, touch that production system, or commit the company to an external action. Those are different…
Wall Street is debating the AI buildout. Enterprises just answered: 86% say their GPUs run at half capacity or less — <p>Enterprise companies are running AI agents ahead of the controls needed to manage them — and they deployed that way knowingly. That is the central finding…
OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6 | TechCrunch — OpenAI's latest family of models promise improvements across a range of areas, including cybersecurity.
Google’s Prompt API | CSS-Tricks — Mat Marquis on Google pulling the web standards equivalent of U2 album marketing:
'I'm speechless' - Kane reacts to England's victory over Mexico — A very hoarse sounding England captain Harry Kane gives his reaction to England's 3-2 victory over Mexico and praises the fans support.
Rivian sues the US government for 'full refund' of Trump tariffs | TechCrunch — The carmaker has said it's owed a refund in the "tens of millions of dollars."
Finnish phone-maker HMD bundles Indian AI chatbot onto new smartphone in push to reach local market | TechCrunch — HMD is pre-loading Sarvam's Indus chatbot app, which supports 22 Indic languages
Beauty booking startup Fresha hits $1 billion valuation with KKR backing | TechCrunch — Beauty and wellness booking marketplace Fresha says it has raised $80 million investment from KKR’s Next Generation Technology Growth fund, KKR's growth equity arm.
Meta rolls out Muse, a new AI image generator | TechCrunch — The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising, decorating and creator-based opportunities.
My favorite Fire TV app has nothing to do with streaming — Get the benefits of a media server without having to set up a media server.
Ozlo's Sleepbuds 2 build on Bose's sleep earbud legacy | TechCrunch — Ozlo’s first major update to its sleep earbuds introduces longer battery life, improved connectivity, enhanced audio, and new sleep features as the startup continues the product line once abandoned by Bose.
X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort | TechCrunch — X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally.
advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/benchmarking-opus-5-on-slop-code-bench.md at main · humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents — Contribute to humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub - deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness — Contribute to deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness development by creating an account on GitHub.
Apple says Epic lawsuit shouldn’t reshape App Store rules for all developers | TechCrunch — Apple is asking the Supreme Court to narrow the App Store injunction won by Epic Games and overturn the court’s contempt ruling over external payment fees.
Trump's ‘Golden Age’ Pitch Meets Affordability Frustration — President Donald Trump is touting a “golden age” for the US economy, but Bloomberg News White House Correspondent Catherine Lucey is on Bloomberg This Weekend and says persistent concerns over gas, food and housing…
Xiaomi MiMo, Explore and Love — MiMo, in collaboration with TileRT, releases the UltraSpeed mode of Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro — breaking 1000 tokens/s generation speed on a 1T-parameter model for the first time on commodity GPUs through extreme model-system codesign.
Your backstage pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is waiting | TechCrunch — Volunteer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and get a behind-the-scenes look at how one of the world's biggest startup conferences gets built.
Meta enters the AI coding wars with Muse Spark 1.2 and Muse Code with persistent async background agents — <p>Meta today <a href="https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-code-and-muse-spark-1-2?utm_source=ai_meta_site&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=hp_research_muse-1…
The Best Airbnbs in Tokyo for a Stylish Stay in Japan's Capital City — Whether you want to be near nightlife, temples, or shopping, these properties will elevate your trip.
Pixar's Coco is finally getting a sequel with Coco 2 — Coco 2 will star a teenage Miguel and feature the return of Ernesto de la Cruz.
Daniel Ek's body-scanning startup Neko Health raises another $700M | TechCrunch — Neko Health has developed proprietary body-scanning technology, which it couples with bloodwork, to assess a person's health.
Gemini Spark, Google's agentic assistant, is now available on Mac | TechCrunch — Google's 24/7 agentic assistant, Gemini Spark, comes to Mac alongside other improvements, like real-time tracking and support for more apps.
Android 17 launches with new multitasking tools as Google expands Gemini features | TechCrunch — Google has released Android 17 and Wear OS 7, introducing new multitasking features, parental controls, security tools, and smartwatch upgrades. The launch is also accompanied by a…
GitHub - grafana/ai-sdk: Grafana AI SDK for Go — streaming, tool-calling AI backends that speak fluent @ai-sdk/react — Grafana AI SDK for Go — streaming, tool-calling AI backends that speak fluent @ai-sdk/react - grafana/ai-sdk
Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains. | TechCrunch — A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could…