Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever | TechCrunch — Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street it plans for continued growth.
Pimco Fund Beating 97% of Peers Cuts ‘Mag Seven’ to Bet on Asia — A top-performing fund manager at Pacific Investment Management Co. is betting the next winners of the AI boom will be found outside of crowded US Big Tech firms, turning instead to Asian equipment suppliers,…
GitHub - houslast3/85.30-GFLOPS-Single-Core-FP32-Matrix-Multiplication-on-AMD-Zen-3 — Contribute to houslast3/85.30-GFLOPS-Single-Core-FP32-Matrix-Multiplication-on-AMD-Zen-3 development by creating an account on GitHub.
UAE Oil Exports Surge to 85% of Pre-War Levels, IEA Says — Oil exports from the United Arab Emirates in early June recovered to nearly 85% of the country’s pre-Iran war levels — rebounding even before Washington and Tehran inked an interim peace deal as the Gulf nation…
The Math Is Haunted — overreacted — A taste of Lean.
GitHub - halcyon-video/halcyon-video: Your Jellyfin library as a walkable 1990s video rental store — three.js, first-person, self-hosted — Your Jellyfin library as a walkable 1990s video rental store — three.js, first-person, self-hosted - halcyon-video/halcyon-video
Chrystia Freeland negotiated with Trump. Now she's watching a trade war unfold — Chrystia Freeland understands the U.S.-Canada relationship from her time at the negotiating table. Here's what she sees now.
Codex Tool Reference — A complete reference to the tools and full skill definitions available in this Codex Work session.
Cursor launches Origin code hosting platform as GitHub outage exposes opening in AI coding race — <p><a href="https://cursor.com/">Cursor</a> began rolling out <a href="https://cursor.com/changelog/origin-code-hosting">Origin</a>, its own code hosting platform, to paid users on…
Context compression finally works in production: new research cuts LLM input 16x without the accuracy hit — <p>Context windows are becoming a computational bottleneck. The longer an agent runs, the more tokens accumulate from retrieved documents, reasoning traces and conversation
Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it. | TechCrunch — If physical AI is going to match the accomplishments of LLMs, there's a data problem that needs to be solved.
Microsoft and Chevron plan one of the largest gas-powered data center projects in US | TechCrunch — Microsoft inked a 20-year power purchase agreement with Chevron, locking in decades of carbon emissions from a new natural gas power plant.
Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time | TechCrunch — If you want to manufacture in space—and bring the products back again—there's a limited set of options: Wait to go to the International Space Station, or
Meta rolls out a new AI creator assistant on Facebook | TechCrunch — Creators often have to parse through charts and dashboards to understand their performance, but with the new AI assistant, they can get quick answers to questions like "When should I post?" and "What are people
BGP hijack infecting networks caused by a comedy of errors that’s not funny at all — What can we learn from a BGP hijacking that poisoned production software? Plenty.
Learn to code with Scrimba — Scrimba is the fast way of learning to code! Our interactive courses and tutorials will teach you React, Vue, Angular, Web Development, Node.JS, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and more.
Structural Backpressure Beats Smarter Agents — Formal verification gates for AI coding loops, in the language you're already shipping.
Alphabet plans to raise $80B to pay for AI buildout | TechCrunch — "The company is experiencing strong demand for its AI solutions and services from enterprises and consumers, at levels that are exceeding the company’s available supply," Alphabet said in its statement.
Is Reddit down? Why Reddit is not showing images, saying ‘0o internet connection’ — Reddit services were disrupted Monday. Here's what Reddit is saying.
GitHub - FractalFir/crustc: Entirety of `rustc`, translated to C. — Entirety of `rustc`, translated to C. . Contribute to FractalFir/crustc development by creating an account on GitHub.
Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation without Heuristics — We present Elevator, the first binary translator that statically translates entire x86-64 executables to AArch64 without debug information, source code, or assumptions about code layout. Unlike existing syst
Granola launches an Apple Watch app | TechCrunch — Granola debutes an Apple Watch app for in-person notetaking
SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO | TechCrunch — The deal is supposed to help SpaceX's struggling AI division. The company told IPO investors it sees a $26 trillion addressable market in AI.
Oh Shit, Git!?! — Fix your Git mistakes.
The Power Of Legacy: What Will Your Story Be? | Julian Elphick-Smith | TEDxGosport — The present eclipses the past in so much of our modern world. We are the lesser for it. Our stories and those handed down to us have the power to transcend the prevailing NOW. Recent…
Medicare's new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea | TechCrunch — There is no governmental mechanism to pay for an AI agent that monitors a patient between visits, calls to check in, coordinates a housing referral, or makes sure someone picks up
Structured AI data pipelines score 10.9 points below free-form code — DataFlow-Harness closes the gap — <p>If you ask an AI coding agent to write a standalone Python script to parse a single JSON file, it will likely give you a perfect answer in seconds. But the same agent…
ClickHouse triples anualized revenue to $250M, charting a path toward an IPO | TechCrunch — The database provider is eyeing a public debut within the next few years.
Anthropic's Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT | TechCrunch — Despite ChatGPT's commanding market lead, consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic's Claude, data shows.
AI coding startup Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-money valuation | TechCrunch — As Cognition reaches $492 million in annualized revenue run rate, it more than doubled its valuation in eight months, it says.
Best Labor Day Ryobi cordless tool deals 2026: Shop deals for under $50 at Home Depot — Consider this your sign to finally start that fence repair.
Pentagon says Alibaba, Baidu, BYD and Unitree support China's military | TechCrunch — The Trump administration released the updated version of the list four months ago and then quickly pulled it without explaining why
‘This is fine’ artist KC Green reaches agreement with AI startup Artisan | TechCrunch — The startup has apparently taken down the ads using KC Green's "This is fine" meme.
Apple's WWDC AI demos looked more real after $250M false ad settlement | TechCrunch — The vibe of Apple's 2026 WWDC keynote felt like a spouse proudly listing all the honey-do-list items tackled. One subtle example: the many AI demos of someone standing, phone in hand.
Spatial languages: writing code in 2D — Writing code in 2D: a spatial programming language with vertical operands, quantum uncomputation puzzles, and a 3-bit adder in a single 2D expression.
Andreessen Horowitz is shaping AI policy — while investing in a bleak vision of the future - Model Republic — The firm’s investment portfolio is full of companies that have exploited legal loopholes, created disturbing products, and broken the law.
OpenAI's Codex update lets agents build interactive enterprise workspaces via Sites and role-specific plugins — <p>Agentic AI is moving rapidly from the developer terminal to the corporate world.</p><p>On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a major update of its agentic AI platform Codex,
Cutting inference cold starts by 40x with LP, FUSE, C/R, and cuda-checkpoint — A deep dive on Modal's deep tech for fast boots.
At Waymo, an AI project isn't ready until its evals are — not when the model performs well — <p>Few companies face higher stakes when deploying AI than <a href="https://waymo.com/">Waymo</a>, the self-driving car company under Alphabet that spun out of Google. Its models do not…
For Summertime Cruising, Few Cars Top My ’73 Riviera — This 1973 Buick Riviera GS is the beautiful queen of my driveway. My dad owned it before me, but before that, all I know of its history comes from a faded pink bill of sale I found in the glovebox. It is from Ken Logan…
Google Play adds Venmo as a payment option | TechCrunch — The ability to add Venmo to Google Play comes as people are spending more money on apps and games.
How a simple lighter has become the backbone of life in Gaza — In Gaza the struggle to find lighters can mean the difference between cooking a meal or going to bed hungry.
eBay reaches $56M settlement with e-commerce newsletter writers it terrorized in 2019 | TechCrunch — The long tail of the eBay cyberstalking scandal has resulted in a nearly $56 million payout.
Kroger Cuts Sales Forecast, Oracle Gains | Stock Movers — On this episode of Stock Movers: - Kroger (KR) is moving as it trimmed its annual sales guidance due to fierce competition for grocery spending. - Oracle (ORCL) shares are higher as the software company’s results…
Texans won't negotiate with Stroud during season, GM says — The Texans have set a Week 1 deadline for agreeing to a contract extension with quarterback C.J. Stroud this year, general manager Nick Caserio said.
After Apple, India's smartphone manufacturing boom enters new phase with Vivo JV | TechCrunch — Vivo's joint venture could become a template for Chinese smartphone makers in India.
Hollywood celebs are getting into microdrama apps | TechCrunch — Several Hollywood celebs are ditching the massive eight-figure checks and exotic movie sets for a rising format: microdramas.
Enterprise AI agents are only as reliable as the messiest documents behind them — <p>Enterprise AI has largely been built around context engineering. Teams connect enterprise systems, generate chunks and embeddings, build retrieval pipelines, and assemble the context needed by…
No weekend game for Manchester derby VAR officials — The video assistant referee for the Manchester derby, Matt Donohue, and his assistant VAR, Blake Antrobus, are not appointed for this weekend's Premier League games.
Arga is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents | TechCrunch — Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel.
Instagram is alerting users who were targeted by hackers during AI chatbot attacks | TechCrunch — Hackers appeared to take over victims’ accounts even after Meta said it fixed its AI-powered support chatbot, which granted hackers access to victims’ accounts.
Sound-powered fire protection startup gets $15M to snuff out fires before they turn catastrophic | TechCrunch — Sonic Fire Tech raised its new funding to help get its sound-powered fire protection system into everything from commercial kitchens to apartment buildings.
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.
4 excellent Paramount+ shows to watch and finish in one sitting — Pressed for time? These Paramount+ shows can be completed in one day.
Why Apple's camera-equipped AirPods may not be the 'pervert pods' consumers fear | TechCrunch — Apple’s leaked camera-equipped AirPods might avoid the privacy pitfalls of other AI wearables by preventing users from recording photos and videos.
After $18B IPO, Bending Spoons founder says success comes from minimizing luck | TechCrunch — The co-founders of Bending Spoons, the Italian company quietly buying beloved, ailing Internet brands, learned big lessons from their own startup's failure.
Disney+ is considering a free streaming tier, report says | TechCrunch — The launch of free content would allow Disney+ to better compete with free services like YouTube and Tubi, which are capturing a growing share of consumers’ viewing time.
Introducing the Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare — Cloudflare has launched a new Billable Usage API for accounts, giving developers and FinOps teams single-endpoint programmatic visibility into cost and usage across all self-serve products. Built…
DuckLabs to Join AWS, Projects to Remain Open Source — DuckLabs provides services around the DuckDB in-process OLAP data management system directly from its main developers.
A secret new Elizabeth Holmes documentary stuns Telluride | TechCrunch — Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's secret Elizabeth Holmes documentary, "You Can See Everything," stunned Telluride audiences Sunday night with its generous access to the Theranos founder.