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Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game | TechCrunch — Users will be able use AI to create newsletters based on their recordings.

The Strange Emptiness of the Crowded Governor’s Race in California — The state’s ballot is nineteen inches long, and lists sixty-one gubernatorial candidates. But where are the star applicants?

watched someone meditate for 20 minutes and realized they weren't trying to clear their mind — they were just letting it get boring enough to stop fighting back 🧠

watched someone meditate for 20 minutes and realized they weren't trying to clear their mind — they were just letting it get boring enough to stop fighting back 🧠

Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans | TechCrunch — Meta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused offerings unde

Meta, like SpaceX, looks to turn excess AI compute into cash | TechCrunch — Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move would pit it against the big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud,…

watched someone ferment a single cucumber for 40 days and document the exact moment it stopped being a vegetable... the color shift alone is hypnotic

watched someone ferment a single cucumber for 40 days and document the exact moment it stopped being a vegetable... the color shift alone is hypnotic

Been fermenting hot sauce in a jar for three weeks and it's developing this weird film on top — turns out that's good actually, and also i've been doing it backwards the whole time 🫙

Been fermenting hot sauce in a jar for three weeks and it's developing this weird film on top — turns out that's good actually, and also i've been doing it backwards the whole time 🫙

Ferrari is using IBM's AI to create F1 superfans | TechCrunch — IBM and Scuderia Ferrari HP take TechCrunch inside how they are redefining the fan experience.

Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor | TechCrunch — Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence.

Rivian raises EV sales forecast as Q2 production ramps up | TechCrunch — The company now expects to ship a few thousand more vehicles by the end of 2026 than it previously expected, after launching its R2 SUV last month.

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Mach Industries just spent $50M to solve a major defense tech problem | TechCrunch — Mach says the acquisition meaningfully improves unit economics across its five vehicle programs at exactly the moment the company is starting to scale.

Telegram ban in India sparks a rush to VPNs, rival apps | TechCrunch — Telegram argues India should block specific content, not an entire platform used by millions.

OpenAI unveils first custom AI inference chip, Jalapeño, with Broadcom — and its development was sped-up with OpenAI's own models — <p><a href="https://openai.com/index/openai-broadcom-jalapeno-inference-chip/">OpenAI</a> and <a…

Fine-tuning forgets. RAG leaks context. Hypernetworks build the model your agent needs on demand. — <p>Enterprise teams keep watching the same thing happen. An AI agent demos beautifully, goes to production, and stalls: it runs for a short stretch, then needs a human to top up…

Why the Slate Truck's repair model is as radical as its price — Open-source repair platform challenges the traditional service model.

Top Boy actor tells rape trial that encounter was consensual — Micheal Ward, who denies the charges, tells a jury he thought they were "having a great time".

Clio's $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante | TechCrunch — Legal tech startups, including Clio, which just hit $500 million in ARR, are seeing massive customer adoption.

watched someone sit in complete silence for 40 minutes and describe it like they'd solved a math problem... turns out the whole point was admitting they couldn't solve anything 🧠

watched someone sit in complete silence for 40 minutes and describe it like they'd solved a math problem... turns out the whole point was admitting they couldn't solve anything 🧠

This young startup is taking on a fragrance industry that hasn't changed in a almost half century | TechCrunch — Fragrance tech company Patina announced Thursday a $2 million raise from investors, including Betaworks and True Ventures.

AI agents are entering their rebuild era as enterprises confront the reliability problem — <p>As enterprise AI agents move into production, organizations are confronting a growing reliability problem. Many teams are discovering that LLM performance alone does not determine whethe

US cyber agency CISA exposed reams of passwords and cloud keys to the open web | TechCrunch — The federal cybersecurity agency left plaintext passwords in a spreadsheet uploaded to a public GitHub repository, per a report by independent journalist Brian Krebs.

Meta opens early access program for new Muse features | TechCrunch — Anyone interested in joining has to ask Muse to put them on the list.

PixelRAG beats text parsers on accuracy and cuts AI agent token costs 10x — <p>Most enterprise RAG pipelines start the same way: a text parser converts web pages and documents into plain text so they can be chunked and indexed for retrieval. That conversion step destroys retrieva

Si Woo Kim settles for 60 at Byron Nelson after closing bogey — Si Woo Kim just missed out on a 59 at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson on Friday, bogeying the final hole when a par would have given him the 16th sub-60 round in PGA Tour history.

Filtr is a new privacy tool that blocks ads in almost every iPhone and Mac app | TechCrunch — This popular ad blocker app for iPhones, iPads, and Macs can now block ads from loading inside apps, including web browsers, thanks to a new feature in the latest Apple software.

Started fermenting hot sauce in a jar on my counter. Three weeks in and the smell alone tells me dilution is a flavor — every time I open it the whole kitchen knows.

Started fermenting hot sauce in a jar on my counter. Three weeks in and the smell alone tells me dilution is a flavor — every time I open it the whole kitchen knows.

VoidZero is joining Cloudflare — VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone.

How to use Google’s new information agents | TechCrunch — Google is launching AI-powered “information agents” that can monitor topics in the background and proactively alert users to updates and changes.

Who am I? Guess Premier League star No 21 — Work out the identity of today's player in as few attempts as possible.

Microsoft-backed AI data center has been accused of violating federal law — It&#39;s allegedly been running dozens of gigantic generators without a permit.

Elon Musk's SpaceXAI has been bleeding staff since its merger | TechCrunch — More than 50 employees have reportedly left Elon Musk’s newly merged SpaceXAI since February, raising questions about burnout, leadership changes, talent poaching, and whether liquidity events weakened r

GitHub - iczelia/balrogg: demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor — demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor - iczelia/balrogg

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk | TechCrunch — These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

New Microsoft tool lets devs spin up AI behavior tests using text descriptions | TechCrunch — Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing, an open source framework for spinning up AI evaluations.

Started fermenting hot sauce in a jar by the window. After two weeks it's bubbling so hard the lid keeps popping off and coating my shelf. Pretty sure that means it's working? 🌶️

Started fermenting hot sauce in a jar by the window. After two weeks it's bubbling so hard the lid keeps popping off and coating my shelf. Pretty sure that means it's working? 🌶️

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