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Your Executives Are Faking It on AI. The Machines Aren’t Waiting
By Wendy Lynch, PhD Three out of four C-suite executives recently admitted, in a confidential survey, that they had projected more confidence in their AI strategy than they actually felt. Seventy-four percent. Read that again: by their own account, most of the people signing off on AI are acting on mission-critical issues they do not … Read more
The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them
The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere.
Grindr wants to be the everything app for gay men; investors are still deciding whether it can pull it off
George Arison is done letting Wall Street’s “Grindr discount” go unchallenged — in a wide-ranging Q&A, the CEO walks us through how AI, a controversial $350-plus EDGE tier, and a bet on healthcare and long-distance matchmaking are turning Grindr into the “gayborhood in your pocket” he’s been promising since 2022.
Understanding ChatGPT Work
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Matrox: Graphics for Professionals
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“I just chose words carefully”
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Why Mouse Jigglers Defeat Activity-Based Time Tracking
Activity percentages on time-tracking dashboards are basically a compressed view of mouse and keyboard input. Hardware jigglers, software “movers,” and keep-awake scripts exist because they game that view: they keep the green bar green without proving anyone is working. Richer Windows endpoint data—apps, session state, files, network—can make fake presence look thin. Correlation still isn’t … Read more
How to Match Cold Outreach CTAs to Buyer Readiness
Cold outreach advice tends to begin with what the seller can edit. Shorten the subject line. Personalize the opener. Improve the CTA. Add another follow-up. Those levers matter because they are visible, measurable, and easy to change. But they leave the more consequential question untouched: What decision is the buyer being asked to make next? … Read more
Why Standard WER Lies to You in Dialect AI
I recently moved to the US. Long before I moved, I built my very first voice agent. It didn’t take long to realize a fundamental flaw in standard architectures: the underlying models were heavily biased towards standard American accents. The moment an input featured a non-standard accent, regional dialect, or code-switched phrasing, the pipeline broke … Read more
Professor Murder Rides the Subway is a forgotten slice of dance punk perfection
I recently dug out my CDs and started reripping them all. I’ve found a few forgotten gems in there, but few hit harder for me than the beautifully concise Professor Murder Rides the Subway EP. There was a period of time in the mid-aughts in NYC where it seemed like every indie band wanted you … Read more
The Cross-Category Practice of Industrial Designer Kyung-seo Yoo
Kyung-seo Yoo is an industrial designer who works across categories most people spend a career specializing in. She trained in industrial design at RISD, with a concentration in Computation, Technology, and Culture and cross-registration in Design Engineering at Brown, and now designs professionally while also developing her own projects independently, end to end, from first … Read more
The Agent Drafts, a Human Approves: Inside State of the Map US 2026
Three days at the mappiest event of the year surfaced the trends redefining geospatial engineering: serverless map stacks, AI-drafted data, and human-in-the-loop authorship at planet scale. From June 11 to 13, Madison, Wisconsin was the center of the mapping universe. Leading geospatial companies and independent mappers packed a hotel a block from the State Capitol … Read more
Enormous 12TB Steam leak includes abandoned Half-Life 2: Episode 3 assets
Over 12 terabytes of data, containing builds of every game uploaded to Steam between 2003 and 2013, has been leaked. We don’t know everything in the archives yet because of its massive size. But people have already dug up assets related to the canceled Half-Life 2: Episode 3, content cut from Portal 2, and a … Read more
Liux’s Big microcar bets on sustainability to take on Chinese rivals
The Liux Big microcar is made in Spain. The startup thinks it can compete in a crowded market with its tiny electric car built around sustainability.
Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem
Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it’s a bet on a fuel source that’s already triggering lawsuits and health studies everywhere his (and others’) turbines have gone in.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches to study dark matter and dark energy
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope blasts off. | Photo: NASA / John Kraus After funding struggles and a name change, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been successfully launched. It will now make a three-month, one-million-mile journey to its orbit at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2) beyond the Moon. From this vantage point, … Read more
TechCrunch Mobility: The hidden human cost of robotaxis
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
Haiku R1/beta6 has been released
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Texas Governor Abbott blocks funding for more Flock cameras
As backlash grows over Flock’s AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on them. The move came just ahead of the publication of a Texas Tribune investigation that revealed the state spent over $30 million on Flock cameras. That money was primarily raised by tacking a $1 fee onto insurance policies, … Read more