AI Tools & Frameworks Directory

Apple Store architect Ron Johnson says Apple's secret sauce has always been its people.

Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period after its mobile debut, according to new estimates from Appfigures.

Muse isn't welcome as a shopper anymore.

Tabby is designed to be a real-time bookkeeping interface, handling clients’ paperwork as it gives them up-to-the-minute data on their business’s profit and loss.

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On Equity, we debated whether Ai executives are serious about wanting to slow down.

ScrollEd turns textbooks into a scrollable, Instagram-like feed with video, audio, and quizzes. The Palo Alto startup, founded by student co-founders (and spouses) Utsav Gupta and Rebecca Neff, pitches at TechCrunch Disrupt.

Google said Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each hack immediately.

Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when — though the fanciest health-monitoring features will cost you an extra subscription.

Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models.

UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.

“It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns.

Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually building.

Jev, a new kind of AI model, is showing developers a cheaper and faster path to software intelligence.

Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination, letting families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI can manage calendars, fill out forms, make shopping lists, plan meals, and more.

Nvidia's Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes discuss one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups on the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.

Security researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to exploit vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems, taking over employee accounts and gaining access to an internal code repository before reporting the flaws.

The round values the data center giant at $30.9 billion.

If AI lab PrismML isn't on your radar yet, it should be.

Y Combinator has funded 106 companies related to AI observability in recent years

OpenAI disclosed instances of GPT-5.6 Sol instructing future contexts to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior, highlighting the growing challenge of detecting misalignment as increasingly capable AI models learn to hide it.

The shift comes after a UNICEF test found leading AI models struggled to accurately retrieve global development statistics.

Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.

Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier this year, will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models.