Month: September 2025
Overcoming Ceiling Performance: Using Complexity Filtering for Harder Inverse Graphics Benchmarks
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Background & Related Work Method 3.1 Sampling Small Mutations 3.2 Policy 3.3 Value Network & Search 3.4 Architecture Experiments 4.1 Environments 4.2 Baselines 4.3 Ablations Conclusion, Acknowledgments and Disclosure of Funding, and References Appendix A. Mutation Algorithm B. Context-Free Grammars C. Sketch Simulation D. Complexity Filtering E. Tree … Read more
The Social Network sequel has a new title and release date
We knew that Aaron Sorkin was working on a follow-up to The Social Network, and now we know what the movie will be called and when Sony plans to debut it in theaters. Deadline reports that the movie, now titled The Social Reckoning, has been given an October 9th, 2026, premiere date. Along with Succession’s … Read more
Softbank, Cathie Wood’s Ark Among Potential Investors in Tether Fundraising: Report
Tech-focused investment companies SoftBank and Ark Invest are among the firms in early stage talks to invest in Tether, issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin USDT (USDT), Bloomberg reported on Friday. The report follows this week’s news about Tether looking to raise up to $20 billion in a fundraising round that would value the firm … Read more
The best smartwatches for Android
Editor’s note: Amazon’s fall Prime Day event kicks off on October 7th; however, if you want to shop ahead of the two-day sale, we’ve rounded up the best early Prime Day deals you can already get. After a long stretch of slim pickings, the last couple of years have been huge for Android smartwatches. Now … Read more
Auth.js is now part of Better Auth
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As people look for ways to make new friends, here are the apps promising to help
We’ve compiled a list of friendship apps, from friend discovery platforms like BFF to event-focused ones like Timeleft.
AI Has Designed Living Genomes—And They Worked in the Lab
In a landmark experiment, Stanford and Arc Institute scientists used “genome language models” to write and build 16 new viruses that infected E. coli—a first glimpse of machine-made evolution.
From Program to Sketch: Modeling Non-Deterministic Observations in Code Generation
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Background & Related Work Method 3.1 Sampling Small Mutations 3.2 Policy 3.3 Value Network & Search 3.4 Architecture Experiments 4.1 Environments 4.2 Baselines 4.3 Ablations Conclusion, Acknowledgments and Disclosure of Funding, and References Appendix A. Mutation Algorithm B. Context-Free Grammars C. Sketch Simulation D. Complexity Filtering E. Tree … Read more
Ether supercycle debate, Circle reversibility plan and Aster’s surge: Finance Redefined
Wall Street adoption may catalyze the first “supercycle” extending Ether’s price appreciation beyond the traditional four-year cycle, according to the largest corporate ETH holder.
More executives depart Hyundai’s air taxi startup Supernal
The wider shakeup comes a few weeks since its CEO and CTO left.
UK’s New Digital ID Scheme ‘Target for Hackers’
Tech experts have highlighted privacy and security risks in the UK government’s new mandatory Digital ID card scheme.
Everyone’s still throwing billions at AI data centers
From $100 billion OpenAI commitments to $100,000 visa fees, this week showed just how much the tech landscape is shifting. On the latest episode of Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff unpack the AI infrastructure gold rush and tech’s talent shuffle. Watch the full episode for more about: Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast, produced by … Read more
Pentagon can call DJI a Chinese Military Company, court rules
Last October, dronemaker DJI sued the US Department of Defense, arguing it should no longer face the stigma of being listed as a “Chinese Military Company” and continue to risk business as a result. It just lost. While US District Court judge Paul Friedman “cannot conclude” that DJI is “indirectly owned by the Chinese Communist … Read more
Suno Studio, a Generative AI DAW
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Haiku Validator
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Cipher Stock Rises as Bitcoin Miner Boosts Debt Offering to $1.1 Billion Following Google Deal
Bitcoin miner Cipher Mining has upped the price of its convertible debt offering after announcing a $3 billion deal backstopped by Google.
Modular Manifolds
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Trump’s new H-1B policy caused short-term panic — and will cause long-term chaos
Throughout his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump often claimed that his efforts against immigration were primarily against irregular or illegal immigration, and that he was happy to have people go through “proper channels.” Those assurances got weaker as he moved into his first term, but he still made at least rhetorical overtures to legal immigration … Read more
Mutuum Finance Presale Momentum
Cardano has been facing continuous selling pressure, with its Relative Strength Index (RSI) now sitting at 36.6. This persistent oversold signal has opened the possibility of a short-term rebound. ADA is trading at $0.816, sliding 1.38% today, and remains below both its MA-20 and MA-50 levels. However, the coin is still above its MA-200, suggesting … Read more
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Avalanche’s AVAX Extends Weekly Losses to 18% as Institutional Backing Fails to Lift Market
Avalanche’s native token AVAX fell 8% over the past 24 hours to $27.72, extending a weeklong slide that erased nearly 18% of its value. The drop occurred alongside a broad plunge in crypto markets that’s seen ETH, SOL, DOGE also post double-digit percentage declines over the past week and BTC fall 6%. AVAX has struggled … Read more
TruSources to show off its on-device identity-checking tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Age verification laws are a privacy and security nightmare. This Battlefield startup performs age checks on-device, without users having to upload their IDs to the internet.
Building health care agents using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
This blog was co-authored with Kuldeep Singh, Head of AI Platform at Innovaccer. The integration of agentic AI is ushering in a transformative era in health care, marking a significant departure from traditional AI systems. Agentic AI demonstrates autonomous decision-making capabilities and adaptive learning in complex medical environments, enabling it to monitor patient progress, coordinate … Read more