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The report suggests that greater exposure will not resolve the unease around the technology, nor reduce public support for AI regulation.

Computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist will collaborate with the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing to advance AI and scientific discovery.

YouTube is adding new features to generate ideas and monitor the performance of thumbnails.

Spotify is rolling out Taste Profile to Premium users in the U.S., letting listeners see how the streamer understands their tastes and use natural language to reshape their recommendations

In this article, you will learn the mechanical difference between retrieval-augmented generation and fine-tuning, when each technique is the right tool, and how to decide...

Ema has raised $140 million to date and has more than 50 enterprise customers, including Google and Microsoft.

Most leaders on a trade mission stick to the pitch, but when I interviewed Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis this week, he also admitted that no government is ready for what AI is about to do.

The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.

The following article originally appeared on Venkatesh Rao’s Substack, Contraptions, and is being republished here with the author’s permission. The sole athletic achievement of my life came in 1993: winning the IIT Bombay freshman 50m freestyle race with a time of 41s. That got me into the college ...

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, five sessions across the AI Stage and Real World AI Stage cover AI safety, featuring leaders from Anthropic, NVIDIA, AWS, Waabi, and more. Register now to save up to $200 before Sept 25.

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Inside two years of fraught AI data center debates in Pennsylvania.

The British AI data center developer depends on tech giants Microsoft and Anthropic for most of its revenue.

The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research.

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Google’s AI-native Googlebook ties Gemini to the cursor, dictation, widgets and other parts of the desktop experience.

Meet the next wave of VCs judging the Startup Battlefield 200 contenders on the main stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register by Sept 25, 11:59 p.m. PT, to save up to $200 and to get a front-row seat to one of the most intense startup pitch competition.

This is the third post in a four-part series about post-training. If you missed them, read part 1 and part 2. The final post, on implementing your own pipeline, will be coming October 7. Now that you understand the gist of reinforcement learning and supervised fine-tuning, it’s time to explore what ...

We cloned one 10-second voice on 7 platforms and ranked them on reference audio, consent, licensing, and cost. The post Best Voice Cloning APIs in 2026: Speaker Similarity, Consent Checks, and Price per 1M Characters appeared first on MarkTechPost.

StepFun has released Step 5 Preview, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 600B total parameters and 27B active per token. It supports a 1M-token context window and accepts text, image, and video input. The model targets long-horizon agentic work in software engineering, professional knowledge work...

Vocci's lightweight ring costs $249, and might pose some privacy questions

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Without buyouts, Flock would "almost certainly" need to lay off staff.