Europe is pushing back on Washington's chip war | TechCrunch — As ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet told TechCrunch in May, what China can currently buy are older-generation deep ultraviolet tools — gear first shipped about a decade ago — the same machines the MATCH Act would now put…
Spotify launches an ElevenLabs-powered audiobook creation tool | TechCrunch — Spotify is releasing new audiobook plans later this year
Neocloud Together AI raises $800M, leaps to $8.3B valuation | TechCrunch — The AI neocloud provider, which specializes in hosting open source models, last raised at a $3.3 billion valuation in early 2025.
DeepSWE blows up the AI coding leaderboard, crowns GPT-5.5, and finds Claude Opus exploiting a benchmark loophole — <p>For months, the leading AI coding benchmarks have told enterprise buyers a comforting but misleading story: the top models are all roughly the same. OpenAI'
Wirestock raises $23M to supply creative multi-modal data to AI labs | TechCrunch — Wirestock has over 700,000 creators on its platform, which supplies photos, videos and 3D content to AI labs.
TV Time co-founder launches Bingers to revive the beloved TV tracking app | TechCrunch — After TV Time’s shutdown left millions of users searching for an alternative, one of the app’s original founders is back with Bingers, a new TV and movie tracker that revives the social…
Software is becoming marketing — Four ways software products and jobs change in the age of abundance
The AI context gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a trust problem, not a retrieval problem — and most are still building the fix — <p>Across 101 enterprises, the infrastructure that feeds AI agents their business context is being built faster than it can be trusted.…
Instagram now lets you swap out the music in your old posts | TechCrunch — With the new "Replace Audio," tool, users can update the music on their post at any time while keeping the post's existing likes, comments, shares, and reach intact.
Alibaba's AI video model rises to No. 2 in global rankings, as OpenAI's Sora and ByteDance's Seedance fall away — <p><a href="https://www.alibabacloud.com/en?_p_lc=1">Alibaba Cloud</a> on Sunday released <a href="https://www.happyhorse.com/">HappyHorse 1.1</a>, a major upgrade…
OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Work, a cloud-based AI agent that manages tasks across email, Slack and calendars — <p><a href="https://openai.com/">OpenAI</a> on Thursday launched <a href="https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-your-most-ambitious-work/">ChatGPT Work</a>, a new AI…
8× faster binary search: from compiled code to mechanical sympathy — Even once you’re using compiled code, there are still opportunities for faster performance by avoiding fighting the CPU.
Morgan Stanley cut its riskiest reconciliation job in half — by making its agents less autonomous — <p>Most enterprise AI deployments so far have focused on coding assistants and customer service bots. Morgan Stanley has deployed agents in one of banking's most…
Meta's months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it | TechCrunch — A new report suggests the unit, which employs 6,500 people, is on the verge of revolt.
PostgreSQL on AWS: Size & Benchmark EC2 Instances — Size a PostgreSQL server on AWS: choose your dataset size and target throughput to find the cheapest EC2 instance that clears it — backed by real benchmarks of 26 instance types across 8 families.
Ilograph Interactive Diagrams — Create interactive, multi-perspective diagrams with Ilograph
The offline desk gadget that actually got me to sit up straight | TechCrunch — Deep Care's $350 device is pricy, but it runs offline and helps you improve your posture and movement habits
WinPE as a stateless harness for Windows driver testing and fuzzing - bednars.me — Eliminate the overhead and lack of idempotency of a full Windows system in automated testing. A practical guide to configuring WinPE and QEMU for lightning-fast boot, automating kernel debugging,…
TIL about variant sudoku puzzles, “sudoku with strange rules like thermometers, ratio dots, cages, and other t — TIL about variant sudoku puzzles, “sudoku with strange rules like thermometers, ratio dots, cages, and other things that you’re probably already confused by”.
Apple says it may remove some apps from the App Store if they don’t attract users | TechCrunch — Apple may begin removing existing apps that it considers stale, low-value, or unable to attract users.
Three Observations — Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity. Systems that start to point to AGI* are coming into view, and so we think it’s important to...
–end-of-options — The git flag I assumed was an LLM hallucination
Incident with Actions — GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Actions.
Fine Tuning a Local LLM to Categorize Questions — <p>As a fun personal project, I have been working on a chatbot for answering general questions about my household on anything from maintenance questions to doctor’s appointments. </p> <p> The general idea is that the chatbot…
The High-Protein Boxed Mac and Cheese I’m Eating on Repeat for Dinner — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//shopping/tk/2026/2026-08/goodles-twirly-mac/goodles-twirly-mac-3-horiz"> Boxed macaroni and cheese has been an easy, dependable dinner my whole…
Uber to open 2 campuses in India to support product development, operations | TechCrunch — Uber plans to open two new engineering campuses with a capacity of nearly 10,000 people in India by the end of 2027.
Why Stream ring-maker Sandbar says the future of AI wearables is voice | TechCrunch — Watch as Sandbar CEO Mina Fahmi joins Equity to discuss the future of AI wearables and what other AI hardware companies got wrong.
Social media’s next evolution: user-controlled algorithms | TechCrunch — Social media feeds are becoming more customizable as platforms like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok introduce tools that let users directly influence the algorithms powering their recommendations.
Because We Can — Twenty-five years ago, I made my first donation to an open source project and purchased a CD with an operating system as downloading a few hundred megabytes over a 14.4kbps dial-up wasn't very fun.
Cohere open-sources a coding agent that runs on a single H100 — <p>Engineering teams building agentic coding pipelines now have a concrete open-source alternative to managed models like <a href="https://venturebeat.com/technology/anthropic-brings-mythos-to-the-masses-with-claude-
Telegram Serverless — Telegram Serverless lets you run backend code for your bot and Mini App directly on Telegram's infrastructure — no servers…
The Hugging Face AI break-in, as told through an increasingly committed bear metaphor | TechCrunch — Another way to think about the whole thing is to picture a bear at a campsite. (Really, we are going there.)
JSFiddle - Code Playground — JSFiddle - Test your JavaScript, CSS, HTML or CoffeeScript online with JSFiddle.
Why people aren't buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future | TechCrunch — On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.
DOJ claims xAI’s unpermitted gas turbines are a matter of ‘national, economic, and energy security’ | TechCrunch — The Justice department says the Pentagon needs xAI to keep using its unpermitted gas turbines.
5.2 LTS — Blender — Node-powered physics, online asset libraries, and fierce new features throughout with 2 years of LTS updates.
SQLite is All You Need for Durable Workflows - Blog — DBOS recently argued that Postgres is all you need for durable execution: if you already trust your database, you do not need a separate orchestration tier. I a…
The git history command deserves more attention — Working with lots of changes in parallel on git can be painful. You end up juggling branches and commits, and running scary rebase -i commands that can leave your tree in a half-broken state if you so much as sneeze. jj, an…
GB's Fry claims historic double-double at Worlds — Great Britain's Lottie Fry becomes the first rider in the history of the FEI World Championships to retain both individual titles.
Meta is giving away 15,000 AI glasses to blind and visually impaired people in Ireland — Meta is donating 15,000 Ray-Ban Meta glasses to an Irish charity supporting people with sight loss.
Making 768 servers look like 1 — PlanetScale — How to make 768 distinct Postgres servers look like 1 to your applications.
Meta mercifully spun out VR fitness game Supernatural instead of just killing it | TechCrunch — Meta appears to have listened to the Supernatural users who protested the app's sad fate after sweeping layoffs.
Meet the eight startups pitching at Startup Battlefield Australia | TechCrunch — The applications are in, and the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield team made their decisions!
Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni reportedly knew Phia was 'cookie stuffing' for months | TechCrunch — Phia, the shopping startup co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, is once again under fire for its alleged business practices.
SpaceX SPV investors won't know their true holdings until post-IPO lock-ups lift | TechCrunch — After SpaceX makes its public debut, lower-tier SPV investors face hidden fees, lengthy payout delays, and the risk of outright fraud.
AirTag 2 gets even better with this add-on accessory - 9to5Mac — AirTag 2 improves on its predecessor in several ways, but not battery life. Fortunately, there’s an AirTag battery case that solves that.
Eventbrite and Vimeo owner Bending Spoons files to go public | TechCrunch — Bending Spoons say its app caters to a user base of over 500 million monthly active users.
Thank You For Being a Friend — It's been one of those months, and by that, I mean one of the 663 months since I was born. This won't be a long post, because I only have two things to say. First, I'm really glad we re-ordered the GMI (Guaranteed Minimum Income) rural study countie
Inforcer raises $50M to help prepare smaller businesses for a new world of AI and security risks | TechCrunch — London-based Inforcer just closed a $50 million Series C round led by Insight Partners.
Avoiding These Three Vascular Health Risk Factors in Midlife Can Help You Delay Dementia for About 13 Years, Study Suggests — High blood pressure, diabetes and smoking are three major modifiable risk factors of dementia. New research tracked more than 12,000 participants to…
Jay-Z Jumps On Beyoncé's New "Morning Dew (Donk)" Remix With His First New Verse In Two Years — Jay-Z has been out there this year, celebrating the 30th anniversary of his debut album Reasonable Doubt, the 25th anniversary of The Blueprint, and his overall superstar legacy with…
Apple's foldable iPhone could be just around the corner | TechCrunch — The iOS 27 developer beta includes code that references the fold state and screen angle of a device.
Sooryavanshi, 15, debuts in India loss to England — Teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi becomes the youngest man to play for India in England’s thrilling four-wicket win in the second T20 at Old Trafford.
Google brings agentic AI and vibe-coded widgets to Android | TechCrunch — Gemini Intelligence will also include Gboard based dictation and form filling capabilities
Stanford's DeLM cuts multi-agent task costs 50% — without a central orchestrator — <p>One of the assumptions behind today’s AI frameworks is that agents require a “boss” at the center; this orchestrator runs the show, routes requests, and makes sure the whole system doesn’t…
Zuckerberg says Meta's enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents | TechCrunch — On the company’s second-quarter earnings call Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta sees a “large enterprise opportunity” spanning AI agents, APIs, compute, and internal software.
X adds a video editor to encourage creators to post original content, not stolen reposts | TechCrunch — X is rolling out a new video editor and recorder for iOS with multilingual captions, green screen effects, and other editing tools.
The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development — Smashing Magazine — An honest perspective on building local-first web apps in 2026, written for developers who’ve been doing this long enough to be skeptical of silver bullets.
Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight | TechCrunch — Spur Intelligence has raised a $200 million round from Insight Partners for its tech that can identify legit human traffic from bots.
Joby Aviation builds out defense business with $500M acquisition | TechCrunch — Joby Aviation reached an agreement to acquire Resonant Sciences, which will kick off its new defense business.