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In this comprehensive coding guide, we explore Google Research's Kauldron—a JAX training library optimized for research velocity and modularity. Learn how konfig turns experiments into plain dictionaries, kontext wires components via string paths, and ktyping enforces runtime shape checks. The post ...

President Trump reportedly asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro.

Google launched its first advanced chip into orbit to pave the way for space data centers.

OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says.

Opus 5.5’s biggest tell is the word “dependable,” which pops up 23 times more often than in human samples.

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.

An on-demand session on how enterprises are modernizing HPC for the AI era, with insights from NVIDIA and WEKA leaders

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

AI can now generate a surprising amount of frontend code from a short description. A developer can ask for a form, a table, a modal, a settings page, or a dashboard view and get something that looks usable almost immediately. It may compile, render, and even arrive with a few tests. That is useful, ...

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.

I’ve known Jesse Vincent for more than 20 years, since the days when I was still editing and publishing Perl books and organizing the Perl Conference and he was the chief maintainer of Perl 5 and the project manager for Perl 6. We’d lost touch, but he rocketed back into my consciousness last October...