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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sweetwater uses Datadog to catch failing dbt pipelines before users notice

Sweetwater Sound, the country's largest online music gear retailer, has built a proactive data observability practice around Datadog as it scaled its dbt-based data platform, according to Daniel...

Anthropic Warns Gas Supply Squeeze Threatens Its AI Buildout

Anthropic has named reliance on private natural gas plants as one of its biggest near-term risks, warning in its IPO filing that the data center gas buildout could push prices higher in some regions...

Researchers Detail Three AI-Assisted Attacks on Japanese Organizations, Including 44-Agent Hacking Platform

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered three attacks on Japanese organizations in which artificial intelligence played a central role - sometimes driving the operation, sometimes assisting a human....

DoorDash Took Merchant Analytics From Prototype to Thousands of Users in Weeks

DoorDash scaled a merchant-facing analytics product from a new use case to thousands of users within a few weeks, according to Harsha Reddy, a senior engineering leader who heads Data End-User...

AWS and dbt Labs show how a governed semantic layer stopped an AI agent's $3.5M revenue error

An AI agent querying production data on its own can produce answers that look right and are badly wrong. At dbt Summit 2026, AWS solutions architects Neela Kulkarni and Venkatesh Aravamudan walked...

VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more

Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.