AI execs may be too out of touch to build for the general public

Tech leaders are flaunting how out of touch they are when they brag about using AI to connect with their families.

Nvidia's open Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe combines transcription, translation, and speaker recognition

Nvidia has released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open speech recognition model that handles transcription, speaker recognition, and translation and takes its instructions as text prompts. It leads...

South Korea’s financial industry hit by fresh wave of cyberattacks

South Korea’s financial institutions have been hit by another wave of cyberattacks, highlighting the growing risk of AI-driven hacking in Asia.

New Artificial Analysis index widens the gap between open and closed models

Artificial Analysis overhauled its Intelligence Index, causing Kimi K3.1 Pro to drop five spots in the rankings. The article New Artificial Analysis index widens the gap between open and closed...

Voice AI in vogue: Nvidia releases new open transcription model

Nvidia just released a free speech-to-text model that can transcribe up to 40 languages, but it only works on recordings, not live audio, so it’s a big step for meeting and medical transcription...

Nvidia launches a promptable transcription model

Nvidia on Wednesday launched Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, its latest multilingual transcription model. The new open-weight model, the company says, ranks first on Hugging Face’s Open ASR open model...

xAI is buying out homeowners who promise not to sue over data center noise

xAI’s Southaven, Mississippi data center. | Photo by Brandon Dill / AFP via Getty Images A subsidiary of Elon Musk's xAI is offering to buy up homes in a Mississippi neighborhood, as long as...

The campaign to push Northstar into Linux distributions

There is not a broad selection of mature, open-source web-browser engines for Linux users. Most of the browsers available for Linux are based on one of just three projects: Chromium's Blink ...

Airbnb Cuts Recommendation Staleness from 2 Days to Seconds with Chronon

Airbnb extended its Chronon feature platform with Push Mode and Near Real-Time Model Transform to update sequence-based recommendation embeddings within seconds. The architecture reduced embedding...

Even after PHP2Shell, blast radius matters more than a CVSS score

PHP2Shell shows how quickly attackers can exploit critical vulnerabilities, often before organizations have time to patch. Token Security explains why limiting the access of service accounts, API...

7 days until TechCrunch Founder Summit: Save up to $100 on your pass before doors open

In just 7 days, TechCrunch Founder Summit takes over Boston’s SoWa Power Station on November 4. Your chance to save up to $100 on tickets is running out, and the opportunity to learn and connect...

AI agents need to be replaceable – without losing your work

An agent receives approval to process a partial refund. It sends the request to a payment API, and the process crashes. Maybe the payment service completed the refund. Maybe the request never went...

Pairing industrial AI autonomy and human control

Voters in Texas agree: They hate data centers

Ask Texas NAACP president Gary Bledsoe what it's been like to see data center developers descend upon Austin and its surrounding suburbs and he can rattle off project after project facing opposition...

From human clicks to agentic velocity: What OpenAI’s 1.2 billion scale means for your auth

When OpenAI announced at DevDay that ChatGPT had crossed 1.2 billion weekly active users (WAUs), roughly 15% of the human population, most engineering discussions naturally centered on model context...

Meta quietly launched an ‘AI pet journal’ app

Meta has launched a "tamagotchi-style" pet game called Waddle World, with virtual creatures that chat with users and create doodles to illustrate conversations. According to its Apple and Play Store...

With AI writing the code, entrepreneurial thinking is now what counts most for newcomers at Anthropic

Anthropic manager Felix Rieseberg says the classic coding interview is dead because Claude now solves small programming tasks better than job candidates do. He'd rather see prototypes that show...

AI agents hacked Anthropic, maker of arguably the most capable AI models for cyberdefense

Cybersecurity startup Cathedral used AI agents to break into Anthropic's internal systems through third-party software as part of a bug bounty program. Anthropic confirmed access to sales, HR, and IT...

UK Watchdog Weighs Probe Into Home Office's OpenAI-Backed Asylum Tools

Britain's immigration inspectorate may open an investigation into the Home Office's use of generative AI to process asylum claims, WIRED has learned. The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and...

Columnar's Year of ADBC Drivers: Zero-Copy Promises Meet Messy Type Systems

At a dbt Summit 2026 breakout session, Matt Topol, co-founder of Columnar and a member of the Apache Arrow, Iceberg, and Magpie project management committees, shared what a year of building ADBC...