We’re in the midst of a global mental-health crisis. More than a billion people worldwide suffer from a mental-health condition, according to the World Health Organization. The prevalence of anxiety and depression is growing in many demographics, particularly young people, and suicide is claiming h...
Pendo Makes Agent Analytics GA for Smarter User Interaction Insights
Pendo’s Agent Analytics is Now GA, Helping Companies See and Optimise How Users Interact With Agents Pendo, the world’s first software experience management platform, announced the general availability of Agent Analytics, expanding access to the only solution in the market for measuring the perform...
Meta just bought Manus, an AI startup everyone has been talking about
Meta says it'll keep Manus running independently while weaving its agents into Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, where Meta's own chatbot, Meta AI, is already available to users.
AI’s early-2025 spending spree featured massive raises and trillion-dollar infrastructure promises. By year’s end, hype gave way to a vibe check, with growing scrutiny over sustainability, safety, and business models.
AI Quantum Intelligence & Pic of the week (2025&12&26)
When prompted for a creative image that was to be published on Boxing Day - Dec 26, 2025 - this is what ChatGPT came up with. We can start to see how the various AI models and tools differ in there interpretations (literal versus figurative) of what an image request conveys.
A New Year’s Message for 2026: To the Builders of the Future
This is the first in a short series of articles from various AI models and how they view the upcoming year in 2026. A forward looking 2026 New Year’s message for AI, machine learning, robotics, and automation enthusiasts, celebrating bold innovation, responsible tech, and the builders shaping the fu...
DebitMyData Lays the Foundation for the Human Energy Grid
As AI accelerates beyond human employment capacity and public trust erodes under massive data center expansion, DebitMyData, Inc. is building the missing bridge — the human and digital foundation for the next economy. Before governments acted, before the Genesis Executive Order ignited a national pu...
AI, Robotics & Automation in 2026: What’s Likely, What’s Not, and What Comes Next
An insightful analysis of what AI, robotics, and automation will realistically achieve in 2026—what’s likely, what’s not, and why it matters for the future.
Equity’s 2026 Predictions: AI Agents, Blockbuster IPOs, and the Future of VC
TechCrunch’s Equity crew is bringing 2025 to a close and getting ahead on the year to come with our annual predictions episode! Hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Rebecca Bellan were joined by Build Mode host Isabelle Johannessen to dissect the year’s biggest tech developments, from mega AI fund...
Waymo is testing Gemini as an in-car AI assistant in its robotaxis
Waymo is testing a Gemini-powered in-car AI assistant, per findings from a 1,200-line system prompt. The assistant can answer general knowledge questions, control certain in-cabin features, and more.
Step into a fictional cocktail party where today’s most popular AI models—ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, MidJourney, Stable Diffusion, and Bard—banter, argue, and collaborate. This playful analogy highlights their unique personalities, training philosophies, and biases, while revealing how they c...
Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s in mice and restore memory
Alzheimer’s has long been considered irreversible, but new research challenges that assumption. Scientists discovered that severe drops in the brain’s energy supply help drive the disease—and restoring that balance can reverse damage, even in advanced cases. In mouse models, treatment repaired brain...
What we put on our plates may matter more for the climate than we realize. Researchers found that most people, especially in wealthy countries, are exceeding a “food emissions budget” needed to keep global warming below 2°C. Beef alone accounts for nearly half of food-related emissions in Canada. Sm...
Italy tells Meta to suspend its policy that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp
Italy has ordered Meta to suspend its policy that bans companies from using WhatsApp's business tools to offer their own AI chatbots on the popular chat app.
AI supercharges scientific output while quality slips
AI writing tools are supercharging scientific productivity, with researchers posting up to 50% more papers after adopting them. The biggest beneficiaries are scientists who don’t speak English as a first language, potentially shifting global centers of research power. But there’s a downside: many AI...
Can AI fix the operating room? This startup thinks so
There’s plenty of hype around AI and robots in healthcare, but the problem that’s actually costing hospitals money right now is operating room coordination. Two to four hours of OR time is lost every single day, not because of the surgeries themselves, but because of everything in between from manua...
John Carreyrou and other authors bring new lawsuit against six major AI companies
These authors rejected Anthropic's class action settlement, arguing that "LLM companies should not be able to so easily extinguish thousands upon thousands of high-value claims at bargain-basement rates."
Lemon Slice nabs $10.5M from YC and Matrix to build out its digital avatar tech
Digital avatar generation company Lemon Slice is working to add a video layer to AI chatbots with a new diffusion model that can create digital avatars from a single image.
How social media encourages the worst of AI boosterism
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, summed it up in three words: “This is embarrassing.” Hassabis was replying on X to an overexcited post by Sébastien Bubeck, a research scientist at the rival firm OpenAI, announcing that two mathematicians had used OpenAI’s latest large language model, GPT-5...
OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks
OpenAI says prompt injections will always be a risk for AI browsers with agentic capabilities, like Atlas. But the firm is beefing up its cybersecurity with an 'LLM-based automated attacker.'