Naveed Ahmad 
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 hits Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27 to 29, bringing collectively 10,000+ startup and VC leaders for 3 days of daring concepts, groundbreaking tech, and future-shaping conversations. One of the extremely anticipated classes occurring on one of many two AI Phases will highlight the place AI {hardware} is heading subsequent, … Read more
Anthropic reported a service outage impacting APIs, Console, and Claude earlier this afternoon. Customers on GitHub and Hacker News famous points with Claude at round 12:20 p.m. ET, with Anthropic releasing a status update eight minutes later, noting that its APIs, Console, and Claude AI had been down. At press time, the corporate mentioned it … Read more
Meta is introducing a number of new options for its crowdsourced fact-checking program, Group Notes, launched within the U.S. earlier this 12 months. Now customers shall be notified after they’ve interacted with a put up on Fb, Instagram, or Threads that receives a Group Be aware. Plus, anybody can now request a be aware or … Read more
OpenAI has simply launched a major upgrade to ChatGPT’s developer mode by adding full support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools. Till now, MCP integrations inside ChatGPT have been restricted to look and fetch operations—primarily read-only. With this replace, MCP connectors can carry out write actions, which suggests builders can now instantly replace methods, set … Read more
In case you’ve heard of Arc Boats, the Los Angeles startup based in 2021 by former SpaceX staff, it’s possible since you’ve seen its modern sport boats. However the firm’s additionally been pushing into the far much less glamorous world of tugboats and now has its first huge order — price $160 million. The corporate … Read more
Why was a brand new multilingual encoder wanted? XLM-RoBERTa (XLM-R) has dominated multilingual NLP for greater than 5 years, an unusually lengthy reign in AI analysis. Whereas encoder-only fashions like BERT and RoBERTa had been central to early progress, most analysis power shifted towards decoder-based generative fashions. Encoders, nonetheless, stay extra environment friendly and sometimes … Read more
We just lately unveiled the Going Public Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — a brand new vacation spot for founders navigating the complexities of firm constructing, from early traction to IPO and past. Immediately, we’re excited to announce new agenda additions that convey much more perception and firepower to the stage, proven solely on the … Read more
The California State Meeting took a giant step towards regulating AI on Wednesday evening, passing SB 243 — a invoice that regulate AI companion chatbots with a purpose to shield minors and weak customers. The laws handed with bipartisan help and now heads to the state Senate for a closing vote Friday. If Governor Gavin … Read more
Perplexity, the AI-powered search startup that compete with Google by offering conversational solutions to person queries, has secured $200 million in new capital at a $20 billion valuation, The Information reported. The recent funding comes simply two months after the corporate raised $100 million at an $18 billion valuation, in line with Bloomberg’s July report. … Read more
YouTube announced on Wednesday that its multi-language audio characteristic has formally launched after a two-year-long pilot. Now, hundreds of thousands of YouTubers can add dubbing to their movies in numerous languages, serving to them attain a wider international viewers. The rollout is anticipated to occur over the approaching weeks. The characteristic initially launched as a … Read more