My phone’s Downloads folder has 379 files in it. I know that only because I asked. Finding anything in there used to mean the same routine: open a file manager, sort, scroll, squint. Now I just ask. The app doing this is Gotcha, the open-source Android copilot we build at Samosa AI. It is not … Read more
Elon Musk claims Ukraine violated Starlink’s terms of service before the recent slowdown, as reported earlier by Ars Technica. According to Musk, “Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week,” however Ukrainian officials have denied that happened, or that it … Read more
Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.
In its latest gift to oil and gas companies, the Trump administration is expected to announce plans today to weaken rules that guard against methane leaks. Methane is a smog-forming pollutant and a powerful greenhouse gas that’s up to 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide on a 20-year horizon. It’s the primary component of … Read more
In Marvel’s VisionQuest, a superpowered robot tries to better understand humanity by getting lost in elaborate, digital daydreams in which he and other artificial intelligence-powered beings live together in a home. The series is deeply fantastical, yet it plays with some of the ideas that have come to dominate the conversation about real-world generative artificial … Read more
TechCrunch spoke to the MIT computer scientist charged with explaining OpenAI’s latest mind-bending discovery
A company called Arctic Fox Technologies has announced a new multifunction mouse that forgoes a myriad of customizable shortcut buttons peppered across its surface for a compact touchscreen sitting beneath your hand. The Super Mouse may not prioritize ergonomics with its boxy design, but it can replace other peripherals on your desk, like a trackpad, … Read more
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Anthropic cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Anthropic wants to have it both ways. With its impending IPO, it wants to tap the vast riches of the public markets and insists it doesn’t want to compromise its core mission of developing AI safely and for the benefit of humanity. But greater … Read more
When attorneys general from across the US announced a $17 billion settlement with Meta this summer, the sum was unprecedented. But a ruling last week by a New Mexico judge blew that number out of the water. The judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion to resolve claims that Meta misled users around the 2018 … Read more
Google DeepMind released Genie 4, a world model with real-time audio, more realistic simulations, and mid-simulation text prompts, in research preview for trusted testers.
Mozilla is updating Smart Window – Firefox’s AI-powered browsing experience – with a new feature that can help you fill out online forms based on your open tabs. As an example, Mozilla says Smart Window can pull information from your online portfolio or LinkedIn page to paste your work history into a job application. You … Read more
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Fans cheer during game two of the 2026 World Series between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays | Getty Images On October 2nd, just as Major League Baseball’s Division Series was kicking off, the main MLB Instagram and TikTok accounts posted a video hyping up the teams still in the running for the … Read more
Hey Hackers! One reason we love digging through our Tech Company Database is the sheer variety of companies it showcases. Industry heavyweights, ambitious startups, and just about everything in between. Different ideas, different problems to solve, and a wealth of valuable insights that don’t always get the attention they deserve. That’s exactly what our Company of … Read more
Google announced today its Genie 4 world model for generating interactive experiences using AI. The company says the model has four main updates: It allows for more realistic worlds, lets users update an experience in real time with a natural language prompt, can generate audio, and uses Gemini 3.8 Flash under the hood to help … Read more
SuperPlane is an open source software factory for engineering teams. It takes coding agents from ticket to verified, merged PR, with shared standards and full visibility. Every engineer on your team now has a coding agent. But nothing happens until someone opens a session. Everyone’s setup is different. Most agent tools today are built for … Read more
The supply of new accountants in the United States fell by a third in five years, with first-time CPA exam candidates dropping from 48,004 in 2016 to 32,188 in 2021 according to The CPA Journal. Gartner expects finance headcount growth to slow from 6% in 2025 to 2% in 2026 while 88% of CFOs rank … Read more
The industry spent two years debating whether models are safe. Meanwhile, enterprises wrapped ungovernable systems around safe models. Safety is a property of the system, not the model. Here’s a question the model safety debate never wants to answer. Your model passed every safety benchmark. It’s aligned, red-teamed, tuned within an inch of its life. … Read more
Rohit Patel is departing Meta after eight years working on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. His startup, Ndoc, aims to take on Microsoft Office Suite.
Ford is rolling out two new chargers capable of powering a home or the grid — so-called V2X capability.
The U.S. government cyber agency warns that hackers have figured out a way to exploit the popular PHP software, used in 70% of the web’s software.
The new MacBook Pro comes with 24 hours of battery life, and now features support for Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 connectivity.