Artificial intelligence research, models & breakthroughs
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Google is integrating carrier-level filtering into RCS in India through a partnership with Airtel to strengthen protections against spam.
What's behind the SaaSpocalypse? It simply seems a new supreme has risen.
The American Society of Magazine Editors has named MIT Technology Review as a finalist for a 2026 National Magazine Award in the reporting category. The shortlisted story—“We did the math on AI’s ene...
Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge.
Perplexity Computer, in the company’s words, "unifies every current AI capability into a single system."
A “thought experiment” about the impacts of AI sent stocks tumbling earlier this week. It’s probably going to keep happening.
In many ways, Samsung's new phones are fairly normal upgrades. The S26 lines come with some useful new things - particularly the Privacy Display on the S26 Ultra, which looks like an extremely cool bi...
The lowest rates of the year for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 end after today. Prices go up at 11:59 p.m. PT. Don't miss connecting with 10,000 founders, investors, and operators, and key takeaways from 25...
The app reads your email inbox and your meeting calendar, then gives you a short audio summary. It can help you spend less time scrolling, but of course, there are privacy drawbacks to consider.
Burrowed in the alleys of Hongik-dong, a hushed residential neighborhood in eastern Seoul, is a faded stone-tiled building stamped “Korea Baduk Association,” the governing body for professional Go. Th...
Google’s latest image model, Nano Banana 2, is a powerful AI photo editor that punctures reality. Well, sometimes.
Microsoft is previewing a new AI system, Copilot Tasks, that it says is designed to take care of busywork for you in the background, the company announced on Thursday. The feature takes the load off y...
It's also a buttoned-down, ostensibly safer take on the OpenClaw concept.
Jack Dorsey's Block, the financial tech company that runs Square and the Cash app, is cutting its workforce by "nearly half" and axing more than 4,000 jobs. The company will shrink from more than 10,0...
The new open source project IronCurtain uses a unique method to secure and constrain AI assistant agents before they flip your digital life upside down.
Mark Zuckerberg was at Prada's fashion week event in Milan, leaving everyone to wonder if we're getting Meta AI glasses under the Prada brand.
Researchers from Stanford and Princeton found that Chinese AI models are more likely than their Western counterparts to dodge political questions or deliver inaccurate answers.
Silicon Valley built AI coding agents that can handle most of the grunt work. Now, the most valuable skill in tech is deciding what they should do.
Google's new image model replaces the previous versions immediately.
For years, Industry 4.0 transformation has centered on the convergence of intelligent technologies like AI, cloud, the internet of things, robotics, and digital twins. Industry 5.0 marks a pivotal shi...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China...
When a company claims to have created what’s essentially the holy grail of batteries, there are bound to be some questions. Interest has been swirling since Donut Lab, a Finnish company, announced las...
To most people, rocks are just rocks. To geologists, they are much, much more: crystal-filled time capsules with the power to reveal the state of the planet at the very moment they were forged. For d...
Samsung's Galaxy S26 series is available for preorder today and ships on March 11.
Listen to the session or watch below Sodium-based batteries could be a cheaper, safer alternative to lithium-ion, and the technology is finally making its way into cars—and energy storage arrays on th...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Crime issue Technology has long made crime an...
The boom of a calving glacier. The crackling rumble of a wildfire. The roar of a surging storm front. They’re the noises of the living Earth, music of this one particular sphere and clues to the true...
AMD will supply 6 gigawatts' worth of chips to buttress Meta's AI efforts.
Even in a fragile farm economy, million-dollar offers can't sway dedicated farmers.
But Asha Sharma faces scrutiny for lack of gaming experience.
LLMs memorize more training data than previously thought.
Blames "user error, not AI error" for incident in December involving its Kiro tool.
The now-deleted Harry Potter dataset was "mistakenly" marked public domain.
"AI Injury Attorneys" target the chatbot design itself.
Google says 3.1 Pro is ready for "your hardest challenges."
The viral agentic AI tool is known for being highly capable but also wildly unpredictable.
With a simple prompt, you can generate 30 seconds of something like music.
Hollywood backlash puts spotlight on ByteDance's sketchy launch of Seedance 2.0.
Hayden AI's cameras will scan for violations from 7 city vehicles.
