AI labs have staked their reputations on model benchmarking — the supposedly neutral and accurate system of evaluations that are designed to measure whether one AI product is better than another. However, the methods behind these evaluations are complicated and still maturing, said Irene Solaiman, Hugging Face’s chief policy officer, during a discussion at…
A little over a month ago, Anthropic and AI infrastructure provider Nscale announced a $45 billion compute deal . Now the duo may be about to do it again.
Microsoft on Monday introduced new security features designed to protect enterprises from the growing threat of AI agents. The launch comes as Microsoft continues to warn enterprises about the dangers of AI and agents.
The US is building more fossil fuel infrastructure than it has in a decade while renewable energy growth slows down, a new report shows. Electricity demand is also climbing faster than it has in more than a decade with more data centers, factories, and electric vehicles plugging into the grid.
President Donald Trump announced this afternoon that Elon Musk’s SpaceX shares for children will be given through Trump Accounts. Musk said earlier today that he would give one of his SpaceX shares to “every kid in America” sometime next year.
My 15-year-old daughter just got her learner’s permit, so when I was pitched a new gadget tailored to teen drivers, I was intrigued. The Miles Plug is a small device that plugs into your car’s OBD-II port and monitors location, driving habits, and vehicle health, along with emergency accident response and roadside assistance.
CoreWeave had a bad week last week. Its bonds slipped into distressed territory by a common definition — when investors demand 1,000 basis points more in yield than they’d get from government bonds.
On Monday, Amazon Web Services released a tool called TorchNeuron that lets AI startups easily move their AI apps onto Amazon’s AI chip, Trainium. In doing so, Amazon is also taking a direct stab at the software advantage that has helped Nvidia become the default hardware choice for AI apps and spurred its rise as AI hardware provider of choice.
Open source Windows alternative ReactOS has reached a major milestone: The operating system can now be installed directly onto an NTFS drive partition. As reported by Phoronix , the move to NTFS clears a long-standing hurdle for the project and brings it one step closer to finally reaching beta.
The published exploit chain was part of a proof-of-concept attack that the first researcher included when submitting a bug report to Plex. The complex code completes a series of steps, including performing an unauthenticated SSRF, a loopback pivot, a security token theft, a payload delivery, and finally the execution of the payload.
01 TL;DR An investigation by NorForge into publicly exposed AI-driven penetration-testing control panels has uncovered how they are extensively used in malicious cyber operations. One of these is Cairn.
Tenstorrent, a chip startup focused on inference, has raised $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion valuation. The round comes five months after the 10-year-old Nvidia challenger reportedly received acquisition interest from Intel and Qualcomm at valuations of as much as $5 billion.
Twelve years ago today, Eugenia Kuyda stood up onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt and presented a conversational chatbot called IO that acted as a lifestyle concierge to help people book restaurants and vacations along with other tasks. IO, the first product from her startup Luka, came before the deep learning breakthroughs that would eventually lead to today’s…
Tolan , the AI companion designed to help people manage their daily lives, navigate relationships and emotions, and accomplish their goals, has just expanded its runway with another $30 million in capital. The startup’s investors in the latest round include Union Square Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and Homebrew, doubling the total amount it has raised to…
OpenCode , an open source AI coding agent that has been gaining ground among developers as an alternative to Claude Code and Cursor, said Saturday that attackers broke into an older system overnight, affecting 1.4% of users of its online platform, OpenCode Console, where some users store the API keys, or digital passwords, they use to access AI services.…
For a very limited time, Sony’s latest high-end noise-canceling earbuds are actually cheaper than their last-gen counterpart, the WF-1000XM5 . B&H Photo is selling Sony’s latest WF-1000XM6 in black for an all-time low of $238 ($92 off) at checkout.
TorchNeuron provides a new native backend for PyTorch on AWS Trainium. Transformers, Diffusers and Kernels natively support it, making it easier than ever to run models on Trainium and to share them on the HF hub.
If there’s one lesson the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident taught us, it’s that AI agents can be unpredictable. “Imagine if something like that happened in the physical world,” Howie Sun, CEO and co-founder of Laplace Intelligence , told TechCrunch.
for helping out, thanks to Fabio Ricci Ulkar Aghayeva Nick Didkovsky Massimo Farjon Pupillo ULKAR AGHAYEVA , biologist and composer: In Isaac Asimov's novella "Profession," education is a solved problem where children undergo "taping" at certain ages and have all the relevant information recorded in their brains without the need to make an active learning…
Nvidia on Thursday launched new open-weight models designed for always-on agents and edge computing. The Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is a large, 120-billion-parameter model geared for agents used by the enterprise.
Amazon has signed an agreement with X-energy and American Electric Power (AEP) to fund the building of a new nuclear energy facility in Indiana. The proposed plant , which would replace the now defunct coal-fueled Breed Generating Station in Fairbanks, Sullivan County, aims to provide up to 960 megawatts of carbon-free energy for both the regional power…
Apple has sent invites to a second product launch this month, and it’s scheduled for October 28th at 1PM ET in Los Angeles. At the event, Apple is set to announce new Macs and a refreshed iPad Mini, according to Bloomberg .