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Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role.

Google has released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model that ships as two separate endpoints rather than one. The streaming endpoint delivers sub-second transcription but drops speaker diarization and word timestamps. The batch endpoint keeps both, at half the cost. Google reports 4.0% wor...

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.

Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.

Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off a new generation of cyber threats.

Every agent that writes code needs somewhere to run it, and no two vendors quote the same units. This comparison measures burst cold start across E2B, Daytona, Modal, Cloudflare, and Vercel, normalizes per-second rates to cost per 1,000 executions, and maps filesystem persistence, idle billing, and ...

Discover why enterprises aggressively collect your data — not for convenience, but for AI power, margin capture, and market dominance in the new digital economy.

In this tutorial, we analyze Anthropic’s 1,440 AI-designed protein binder dataset to benchmark 10 leading structure predictors. Discover how target identity, expression titers, and consensus scoring impact experimental success and learn best practices for rigorous cross-validation in protein design ...

Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less memory.

OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.

The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns.

Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips.

Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.

Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?

The report, which spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises, is the most complete accounting of the incident to date.

The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released today. The hack, which a group of agents undertook to find solutions for a cybersecurity test that they were...

We look at Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, Alibaba's open-weight multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture. We break down where the 180B parameters actually sit: a 125B backbone, a 51B N-gram embedding table, and a 4B multi-token prediction module, with only 6B active pe...

The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into the arms of eyewear frames.

It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The temperature is in the mid-80s, and the sky is incapable of being any more blue. The view from the Gates Ventures conference room overlooks the Carillon Point Marina, where a flotilla ...

Before Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting line away from President Greg Brockman and putting Vice President Sachin Katti in charge of the group.

Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects, preferences, and other context.

Ask most people what makes content valuable to AI right now, and you’ll get some version of the same answer: write more, write well, write…Continue reading on Chatbots Life »

TechCrunch talks agents, UX, and reporting to Greg Brockman with OpenAI's head of product.

The AI hedge fund went from "the talk of Wall Street" to "subject of federal subpoenas" faster than you can say "diversify your portfolio."