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Brian Chesky on making Airbnb agent-friendly, the state of consumer AI, and why the world needs an AI-native operating system.

The glasses stem from the startup’s goal of making hearing care more accessible by addressing the cost, comfort, and stigma associated with traditional hearing aids.

Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-one iPhone-style approach.

Perplexity Research and turbopuffer have released pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview, a contextual embedding model for RAG pipelines. Each chunk is embedded with the full document in view. The real change is the training signal. The model learns to retrieve the answer along with the context needed to ...

Gemini 4 Argon tops GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 on most benchmarks, but access remains gated today. The post Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini 4 Argon with 1M Output Tokens for Coding, Knowledge Work and Cyber Defense appeared first on MarkTechPost.

The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.

There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gunshy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough.

Instinct is rolling out human-curated product and travel recommendations, but some users aren’t happy about getting suggestions they never asked for.

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Cerebras Systems CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman will explore the growing demand for compute, energy, and infrastructure, how Cerebras is approaching those constraints differently, and what comes next if today’s AI hardware reaches its limits.

Three days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Book by October 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT to showcase your startup to 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders.

Airbnb is also launching new services such as meal delivery and laundry in select locations

Perplexity has released Photon, an in-house retrieval and ranking engine written in Rust. It replaces an open-source engine Perplexity had forked for its AI-native search stack. Photon now handles retrieval and ranking for all production traffic. It also powers a new Fast Search mode in the Perplexi...

For the sake of national security, it's a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it's penning lengthy poetry.

The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut.

The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut.

OpenAI isn't a public supporter of Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform, but it is privately working with Nvidia, TechCrunch has learned.

Nebius and NVIDIA are running the 2026 Physical AI Awards for startups with products in the field. Five category winners each get $150,000 in compute credits, joint promotion, executive mentorship, and seats at an executive dinner. Applications close October 25. The post Nebius Opens 2026 Physical A...

OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol delivers significant improvements over GPT-6 Sol across complex professional tasks, including code writing and debugging, document understanding, and executing multi-step business workflows.

Nebius and NVIDIA are running the 2026 Physical AI Awards for startups with products in the field. Five category winners each get $150,000 in compute credits, joint promotion, executive mentorship, and seats at an executive dinner. Applications close October 25. The post Nebius Opens 2026 Physical A...

In its prospectus, Anthropic just told investors it's losing tens of billions of dollars a year, but also growing like crazy, and — oh yeah — its own AI might pose an existential risk to humanity.

Thirteen of the 18 startups in Peak XV’s latest Surge cohort are targeting global markets, while more than half are based in India.

A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for following orders.

The new financing is expected to more than triples the AI infrastructure startup's valuation from just four months ago.

On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the breath of the incidents s alarming.