Canadian AI startup Cohere is taking over Germany-based Aleph Alpha with support from Lidl’s owner, Schwarz Group. With the blessing of their governments, the companies intend to offer a sovereign alternative to enterprises in an AI landscape dominated by American players.
Why Tokyo is the most important tech destination of 2026
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 has four tightly defined technology domains, each backed by live demonstrations, dedicated exhibit floors, and sessions featuring the people actually building and funding these technologies globally.
A Coding Implementation on Microsoft’s OpenMementos with Trace Structure Analysis, Context Compression, and Fine-Tuning Data Preparation
In this tutorial, we work with Microsoft’s OpenMementos dataset and explore how reasoning traces are structured through blocks and mementos in a practical, Colab-ready workflow. We stream the dataset efficiently, parse its special-token format, inspect how reasoning and summaries are organized, and ...
8 Gemini tips for organizing your space (and life)
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Apple’s new CEO, and why Elon Musk wants to buy Cursor for $60B
A new era is on the way for Apple as Tim Cook plans to step down from his CEO role in September, handing the reins to hardware chief John Ternus. Ternus may be inheriting one of the most durable businesses in tech, but he’s also stepping into a very different ecosystem than the one Cook spent deca...
Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga joins stacked StrictlyVC SF lineup for April 30 event
Surprise! StrictlyVC San Francisco, which will kick off this year’s events lineup for TechCrunch on April 30 at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center, is getting a new addition to its increasingly stacked lineup of speakers. Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga will join the rest of the lineup to discuss op...
A Coding Tutorial on OpenMythos on Recurrent-Depth Transformers with Depth Extrapolation, Adaptive Computation, and Mixture-of-Experts Routing
In this tutorial, we explore the implementation of OpenMythos, a theoretical reconstruction of the Claude Mythos architecture that enables deeper reasoning through iterative computation rather than increased parameter size. We build and analyze models using both GQA and MLA attention mechanisms, exa...
Enterprise AI governance still authorizes agents as if they were stable software artifacts.They are not. An enterprise deploys a LangChain-based research agent to analyze market trends and draft internal briefs. During preproduction review, the system behaves within acceptable bounds: It routes quer...
How to Design a Production-Grade CAMEL Multi-Agent System with Planning, Tool Use, Self-Consistency, and Critique-Driven Refinement
In this tutorial, we implement an advanced agentic AI system using the CAMEL framework, orchestrating multiple specialized agents to collaboratively solve a complex task. We design a structured multi-agent pipeline consisting of a planner, researcher, writer, critic, and rewriter, each with clearly ...
Tesla just increased its capex to $25B. Here’s where the money is going.
Tesla's planned capex for 2026 is three times higher than what the company has historically spent. Its CFO said, as a result, Tesla will have a negative free cash flow the rest of the year.
Google turns Chrome into an AI coworker for the workplace
Google brings Gemini-powered 'auto browse' capabilities to Chrome for enterprise users, letting workers automate tasks like research, data entry, and more.
AI Reality Check: Why AI Models Still Don’t Understand Context
In week 9 of AI Reality Check, we dive into "context". Despite massive advances, AI still struggles with contextual understanding. Learn why LLMs misinterpret nuance and what this means for the future of AI.