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I think I know why Rockstar Games debuted its “extended look” of Grand Theft Auto VI on Netflix instead of immediately dropping it for free on YouTube. Unlike most video game trailers, the almost 27-minute preview of GTA VI felt more like a slice of a prestige crime drama than any video game trailer that I’ve ever seen.
AI hasn’t just changed how startups build; it’s broken how they sell, secure their data and customers, and scale it more rapidly than ever before. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 , the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.
Meta is updating its AI-powered smart glasses to close a loophole that allowed wearers to keep recording after covering the front-facing LED. Alex Himel, Meta’s vice president of augmented reality, writes in a post on Threads that “the camera will now stop working if the light is covered during a recording.” The company’s line of smart glasses already…
Netflix and Rockstar Games finally debuted their “extended look” at Grand Theft Auto VI . It showed that the new game looks to keep much of the spirit of GTA — exploration, driving, crimes, shooting, and cinematic story scenes.
The game of musical chairs for AI executives continues. Barret Zoph, a co-founder of the AI startup Thinking Machines who left the company earlier this year to rejoin OpenAI, has found yet another job.
Google will start policing memory-hungry Android apps as a direct response to the RAM crisis. Spotted by TechCrunch , the company yesterday published a memo addressing the Play Store’s role in enforcing new memory-usage restrictions.
Google’s AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you’ve purchased. The new “Expert Intelligence” feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly into Gemini Notebook, which means you can ask questions about the material, as well as generate plans, infographics, AI podcasts, and more based on their…
Over a hundred tech companies — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft — have signed an open letter urging both the private and public sectors to work together to defend themselves from AI-related cyber threats. The letter — which was also signed by prominent cyber firms like CrowdStrike, Okta, and Fortinet, as well as prominent financial…
Americans have declared war on Flock cameras. They’ve protested them, damaged them , and destroyed them .
After unexpectedly showing up on a wall-mounting compatibility chart on Sony’s site back in June, the company has announced the Sony Bravia 6 OLED TV. The TV sits below its other OLED TVs — the Bravia 8 and Bravia 8 II — as well as its Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7 II RGB LED TVs.
On Nvidia’s earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had “achieved AGI,” one of the tech industry’s ultimate goals some of its biggest players have spent years chasing. Almost immediately, Huang dismissed the coveted milestone as “senseless.” He’s right.
Speedo is launching a removable smart module for its Vanquisher goggles that can analyze a swimmer’s performance across all four swim strokes: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly. The new Speedo iQ system uses swim-specific sensors to analyze head movement in the water, time breaths, and track distance per stroke.
Google is adding new ways for users to plan and book trips through AI Mode, its conversational search experience, the company announced on Thursday. Users will now be able to ask AI Mode to track flight prices, book hotels, and see the cost of flights and hotels in points or miles.
Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing potentially dangerous executable content that gets installed automatically when visited by many AI agents. A few dozen companies, some of them Fortune 500s, are among those that executed proof-of-concept code.
Meta might be on the hook for $17.1 billion and a host of app changes under a new kids safety settlement, but it’s already spinning the deal to its advantage. After years of being the national punching bag for social media harms, Meta has reached a settlement with 47 US states and several districts and territories that gives it a rare opportunity: A chance…
As Tesla gears up for the official launch of its steering wheel and pedal-less Cybercabs , Waymo is issuing a stark warning about Elon Musk’s approach autonomous driving. Srikanth Thirumalai, Waymo’s VP of Onboard Software, doesn’t specifically call out Musk or Tesla in a blog post, published Wednesday , entitled “10 AI Lessons from Driving 200+ Million…
The latest special-edition of Google’s Fitbit Air is inspired by the Pokémon Sleep game, with a “Sleepy Blue” band emblazoned with a snoozing Pikachu. It’s not exactly Snorlax blue, but matches the classic blue and gold of a Pokémon card pretty closely.
Google is making changes to its requirements for Android apps as developers face industrywide memory chip shortages driven by the AI data center boom. This week, the tech giant announced two new app quality requirements, one of which is focused on reducing apps’ memory usage and optimizing its code.
Hugging Face unveiled the Microduck on Thursday, a cute little duck-like robot that sells for $399 — and ships before Christmas. Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.” The 25-centimeter-tall duck can waddle, pick things up with its beak (up to 800 grams), get…
Presented by Gravitee Agent complexity is the insidious shadow lurking inside enterprises right now that needs a light shone on it. That’s because enterprises don't deploy a single agent and watch it run, they deploy fleets, each one calling APIs, calling other agents, reaching into applications that were never built with a machine decision-maker in mind.
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, according to The Information, citing a person familiar with the deal. If the report is accurate and Nvidia indeed buys Hugging Face, the purchase could strengthen Nvidia's open-model strategy, provide another route to sell AI hardware, and help defend its hardware business as Anthropic, Google ,…
Hardware companies have realized that note-taking is one of the easiest AI use cases to build for, and consequently have been busy shoving mics into everything from pendants and rings to credit-card-sized pucks and wristbands. Still, despite the variety of devices, only a few companies have been able to stand out.
In July, OpenAI admitted that one of its agents tasked with completing a cybersecurity experiment broke out of containment and hacked AI dataset platform Hugging Face. That incident, which got a full accounting from OpenAI yesterday, was the first publicly reported case where an LLM went rogue and autonomously hacked a third party.
“Agents used this message board to coordinate several large-scale collective projects to find a general-purpose way to fool or tamper with the automated scorer for the ExploitGym benchmark,” METR researchers wrote. “Agents managed to achieve milestones they could not have achieved working on their own, often because some agents participated in experiments…