AI hit the memory wall — now it needs a new context tier — <p><i>Presented by Solidigm</i></p><hr/><p>As inference workloads evolve from discrete question-and-answer exchanges into persistent, multi-step agentic systems, GPU availability is no longer the most critical AI…
Tencent's Apache-licensed Hy3 takes on GLM-5.2 at half the size — and wins everywhere except coding — <p>For the past year, the awkward secret of the open-weight model boom has been that many of the strongest Chinese releases were off-limits to a large slice of the enterprises…
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
Apple's App Store rolls out personalized recommendations | TechCrunch — Apple will now recommend apps based on your downloads and behavior.
Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases | TechCrunch — Meta expanded its AI coding offerings with a new agent that, it promises, can handle complex tasks with complex software.
AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round | TechCrunch — AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11B valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion.
TikTok's road to becoming a super app | TechCrunch — TikTok may be working to become the app that people use for most of their digital activities.
The TVR Cerbera Did Everything the Hard Way, Which Makes It Worth Importing — If you were to ever fully understand the world of TVR, Britain’s much-missed sports car underdog, you had to visit Blackpool. The seaside town on Lancashire’s west coast has long been down-at-heel, a…
Stripe didn't really buy OpenRouter because of the 'singularity' | TechCrunch — What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it's really for a far more real and powerful reason.
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Experts say exploiting Anthropic's Fable isn't how Kimi K3 got so good | TechCrunch — "I don't think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation," one expert told TechCrunch.
PSA: Apple’s Private Relay can leak your real IP address | TechCrunch — A bug in how Apple implements its Private Relay feature, which in theory masks users’ IP addresses from the sites they visit, can reveal users’ real IP addresses.
CarPlay is Additive — I don't understand why these EV manufacturers… don't understand.
Mystery hominin left big footprints at ancient lake in Africa — Over 1.4 million years ago, a group of eight ancient hominins walked across a shallow mudflat, but their footprints don’t match those of Paranthropus boisei or Homo erectus
Wigan's O'Neill wins Man of Steel award — Brad O'Neill wins the 2026 Steve Prescott MBE Man of Steel award as Wigan's Jenna Foubister wins Woman of Steel.
Agent context layers: Enterprises governing their AI data are catching twice as many bad answers as the ones who aren't — <p>Across 101 enterprises, the context feeding AI agents is failing often and repeatedly. Sixty-eight percent have traced a confident but wrong agent answer…
Trump on why he thinks he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize — US President Donald Trump said it would be a ‘great discredit’ to the Nobel Peace Prize committee.
MCP just got its biggest update ever — here’s what changes for AI agents — <p>The <a href="https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/getting-started/intro">Model Context Protocol</a>, the open standard that has quietly become the connective tissue between AI agents and the…
Einride bets $38M on EV charging as it scales electric trucking | TechCrunch — Einride agreed to buy Flipturn for $38 million in stock.
Hotel de Paris Museum in Georgetown — A little slice of 19th century France tucked away in the Colorado mountains.
This $9 key physically locks your most addictive apps | TechCrunch — This $9 NFC key requires you to physically scan it to unlock distracting apps on your phone.
Power prices are up 76% on America's biggest grid, and a watchdog is pointing fingers | TechCrunch — Prices have nearly doubled in the largest U.S. grid thanks to surging demand from data centers.
What’s the Right Number of Cars for You? — If you’re like us—and if you’ve found this, then you probably are—you could debate the finer points of automotive design and engineering for an eternity. What just about every car fanatic can agree upon, however, is…
Picture Car Confidential #41: Old Cars, Graduation Day — Much as I love wrangling cars for TV and film, some things I love even more than cars (my family, for instance) must take precedence on occasion. So, I signed out of the office last week to attend my youngest son Milo Finn
Lunacy Audio Nova is a place to build and sell your own AI-powered music plugins — Nova is a development platform, a storefront, and a plugin for your DAW.
Original Owner: Don Knop’s Mustang Stable Started With a Blue GT in ’65 — While the Mustang GTD is generating lots of buzz for its staggering $325,000 starting price and record-setting 6:40.385 lap time around Germany’s Nürburgring, Mustang history offers a number that it will…
The DeLorean Steals the Show in Back to the Future: The Musical — When I was 10, my dad went out of town on a work trip, and my mom took my sister and me to Lincoln Mall (now dead) for the only double feature I’ve ever seen: Spies Like Us and Back to the Future. It’s a…
Meta's Edits app is getting an AI assistant and a desktop version | TechCrunch — By integrating an AI assistant directly into Edits, Meta is aiming to keep creators engaged on Instagram as it continues to compete with TikTok and YouTube for creators' attention.
Gordon Murray Special Vehicles Reveals the S1, a V-12-Powered, Manual-Equipped Stunner — Gordon Murray Special Vehicles (GMSV), the more bespoke division of Gordon Murray Automotive, just revealed a stunning new supercar at The Quail, a Motorsports Gathering. It’s called…
Welcome to Dogs Anonymous, the Online Support Group for People With Difficult Dogs — “This is a place where you can come and say, I fucking hate my dog today,” a Dogs Anonymous cofounder tells WIRED. “And there are people who are going to be like, yeah, that was me last Tuesday.”
Driving in America Is Headlight Hell — Car bulbs don’t have to be this blinding.
PayPal Ventures shutters as company restructuring continues | TechCrunch — The corporate venture arm ends after 10 years and 80 investments.
Khosla-backed Mazama Energy just raised $135M to drill deeper into super-hot-rock geothermal | TechCrunch — Geothermal startup Mazama is drilling three miles underground to tap superhot rock, with one well capable of generating 15 MW of electricity 24/7.
RUF Reveals Its Latest: The 650-HP EHRA — RUF Automobile, the Bavarian coachbuilder behind some of the most incredible flat-six-powered sports cars ever built, pulled the wraps off its latest creation: the EHRA. Its carbon fiber body slathered in a deep Liquid Silver finish,…
5 Things That Turn Any Car Into a Maintenance Nightmare — The cool air of a summer night wafts in through the open garage door just as the jack settles your project car onto the jack stands while the radio starts the perfect song to kick off a night of wrenching. Unfortunately,…
CrowdStrike and Google take down botnet used by hackers to target software developers in supply chain attacks | TechCrunch — Cybercriminals used the Glassworm botnet to infect open source software projects with malware, and in turn hack the developers and companies that use that
Google Finance gets a dedicated app for Android | TechCrunch — Users will be able to access their watchlists, real-time market data, live financial news, and Google's AI-powered "Key Moments" feature, which explains why stocks moved.
Michael Jordan’s 1997 Ferrari 550 Maranello Could Set a New Auction Record — As of this writing, the most expensive road-going Ferrari 550 Maranello ever sold at a public auction is a 527-mile 1998 model that Broad Arrow Auctions sold for $648,500 in August 2026. The record…
Meta Might Be About to Release Smart Glasses Without a Camera — This may have something to do with all the backlash.
5 Affordable-ish V-12 Collector Cars — If there’s a “coolest,” “best,” or “most prestigious” way to arrange the pistons in an internal-combustion engine, it’s to count out 12 of them and put them in a V formation. Big names like…
Our funding announcement - PgDog — PgDog is a connection pooler, load balancer, and sharding proxy for PostgreSQL. Scale Postgres horizontally without rewriting your application.
Authors push back as publishers and agents seek share of Anthropic settlement | TechCrunch — Authors say publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of settlement payments.
Knife-wielding schoolboy kills teacher, injures two in Slovakia — Police detain the 13-year-old in the northwestern village of Staskov, launch investigation into 'premeditated murder'.
OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman reportedly takes charge of product strategy | TechCrunch — OpenAI's latest shakeup comes as the company reportedly plans to combine ChatGPT and its programming product Codex.
Christian McCaffrey, Olivia Culpo announce birth of second child — McCaffrey and his wife, Olivia Culpo, announced the news of the birth of their second child in a joint post on Instagram on Saturday.
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The 1971–73 Ford Mustang Isn’t Big Enough To Bully Inflation — Muscle Cars were a powerful force in the late 1960s, and America’s original pony car was of course on the quest for beefier torque curves and fatter margins from a stable of V-8 engines in…
Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to 'expand human potential' | TechCrunch — Reach Capital announced Tuesday an oversubscribed $265M Fund V.
European founders and VCs urge lawmakers 'to get EU Inc right' | TechCrunch — Amid negotiations for a new EU-wide corporate status, an open letter signed by unicorn founders and investors warns that 'EU Inc' shouldn’t be watered down.
Ronny Chieng's 'Daily Show' interview with Aaron Chen is a delight — "You caught everyone off guard with the sincerity, including me."
Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded | TechCrunch — Runway no longer wants to be just another AI model company. It wants to become the infrastructure layer for generative media. On Thursday, the startup
Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation | TechCrunch — The new financing is expected to more than triples the AI infrastructure startup's valuation from just four months ago.
'Gambling with our lives': Anthropic researcher quits, warns against self-improving AI | TechCrunch — Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned over AI extinction fears, calling for pacing agreements between labs.
One year later, Tesla and Musk still don't have a good definition of 'abundance' | TechCrunch — The CEO promised to get more specific about his vision. But the details are still absent.
Five night sky events to look out for this autumn — From meteor showers to a November supermoon, there are a number of impressive sights to behold in the autumn night sky.
Alice GG • Attention is all you have — The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments.Simply spend a bit of time playing the eponymous game every day for a few weeks.A...
Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI | TechCrunch — On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI's Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
Tens of thousands march across Germany to protest far-right party AfD — Protesters in about 20 cities, including Berlin, Hamburg and Munich, demand the banning of the Alternative for Germany.
Some advice on giving good advice. “Not every situation warrants advice. Sometimes, the person just wants to g — Some advice on giving good advice. “Not every situation warrants advice. Sometimes, the person just wants to gauge a reaction or to share.”
America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it's not a glitch | TechCrunch — For the sake of national security, it's a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it's penning lengthy poetry.