NEA’s Tiffany Luck says enterprises are still figuring out their AI ROI
Tokenmaxxing was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as far as it would go. Then the bill came due. Uber reportedly blew through its annual AI budget in a few months, some companies cut Claude licenses for parts of their org, and Me...
World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off.
French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight — a fear the Anthropic blackout just made real.
AI Reality Check: How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Product Differentiation
AI is collapsing traditional sources of product differentiation and shifting competitive advantage from features to intelligence. This week’s AI Reality Check explores how adaptive systems, learning velocity, and proprietary context are becoming the new moats in the AI driven economy.
Pramaana Labs raises $27M seed round from Khosla Ventures to bring formal verification to AI
Pramaana will focus on highly sensitive verticals like law, drug discovery, and tax preparation — where errors can be costly and reliability is at a premium.
Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called ‘Ask Pinterest’
Pinterest has launched 'Ask Pinterest,' an experimental AI-powered shopping app that lets users seek recommendations and inspiration through a conversational interface.
How to Build Memory-Efficient Transformers with xFormers Using Packed Sequences, GQA, ALiBi, SwiGLU, and Causal Attention
We implement xFormers, a practical toolkit for fast, memory-efficient Transformer models on GPUs. We validate memory-efficient attention against a standard implementation, then compare speed and memory across sequence lengths. We work through causal masking, packed variable-length sequences, grouped...
Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests
Anthropic's popularity with business users is growing so well that the latest beef with the government might actually boost it, data from Ramp suggests.
AI x Crypto: Two Industrial Revolutions Colliding in Real Time
AI and crypto are no longer separate narratives. Explore how AI supply chains and decentralized crypto networks are merging into a global, tokenized compute economy.
Sixty percent of U.S. consumers say ‘AI’ in brand messaging is a turnoff, survey finds
WordPress VIP’s latest survey suggests consumers are wary of AI-generated answers even as companies increasingly view AI search as an important referral channel.
Robinhood’s note on 10% layoffs shows blaming AI isn’t cutting it
Unlike many of his tech industry peers who have cut thousands of jobs citing the need to restructure to make the most of AI, Robinhood's CEO Vlad Tenev conspicuously made no mention of AI in his note about layoffs.
How to Build a Parsing Pipeline with Docling Parse for Layout-Aware Document Intelligence
In this tutorial, we build a workflow that uses Docling Parse to analyze PDF documents at a detailed structural level. We prepare a stable Python environment, handle common Colab dependency issues, and generate a custom multi-page PDF with text, columns, table-like content, vector shapes, and an emb...
Sakana AI Commercializes AB-MCTS in Sakana Marlin, an Enterprise Agent Generating Up to 100-Page Research Reports With Slides
Sakana AI's first commercial product runs autonomously for up to eight hours per task. It returns multi-page reports and slides, built on AB-MCTS and AI Scientist workflows.
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SpaceX is public: Everything you need to know post-IPO
TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't), pre-IPO deals, and what's tucked inside its S-1 registration document.