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Friend, the AI wearable, can now talk to its users — for an enhanced price.

LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting option. It's also replacing its own AI writing feature with a proofreading tool.

British AI neocloud Nscale is buying software startup Anyscale, which helps companies scale their AI workloads across data centers and servers.

A new study estimates only 2,000 U.S. engineers have the expertise to deliver meaningful AI ROI, as enterprises race to hire forward-deployed engineers to implement AI at scale.

Cybersecurity experts told TechCrunch that one of the biggest lessons to be taken from the OpenAI hack against HuggingFace has nothing to do with AI, but traditional cybersecurity defense.

The Disrupt Stage is where many of the biggest conversations in technology happen, with a legacy that stretches back for more than a decade.

The Series A was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures’ Darren Bechtel, and Y Combinator’s Garry Tan.

When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing.

Weng previously served as the VP of AI Safety Research at OpenAI.

Another way to think about the whole thing is to picture a bear at a campsite. (Really, we are going there.)

Three terms now compete for the same line in AI engineering job descriptions. Prompt engineering is the established one. Loop engineering entered the AI vocabulary in late 2025 and dominated developer discussion through June 2026. Graph engineering followed roughly six weeks later. They get used int...

In this article, you will learn how Ollama, LM Studio, and llama.cpp differ across the dimensions that matter most to practitioners, and how to choose...

His change of position comes after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally."

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The largest grid operator in the U.S. says it will cut power to large data centers to prevent blackouts starting next year.

88% of enterprises report regular AI use. Only 7% have scaled it. Here are the five strategies separating the companies that made it work from everyone still demoing chatbots to their board.

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For as long as we’ve taught programming, the student’s code has provided a window into the students’ thinking. Errors, the code structure, the awkward working solution—all of it showed how someone reasoned and where they got stuck. It was never a clean window. Students have always copied, crammed, a...

Businesses that rely wholly on the major AI labs ultimately won't survive, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicts.

The issue appears to have originated from Claude’s “share chat” feature, which allows users to create links that enable anyone with the assigned URL view a conversation or project.

The following article originally appeared on Charity Majors’s Substack and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. A few days back I wrote a piece called “AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy.” I have notes on a whole pile of AI-related to...

Pax8 partners gain access to independent, cloud-native backup and recovery for business-critical SaaS applications Keepit, the vendor-independent SaaS data protection company, today announced its availability via Pax8, the global AI and cloud Marketplace for small and medium-sized businesses. Throug...