The tech backlash is now in theaters
Though movies about disruptive tech founders are nothing new, 2026 has been unusually stacked with features that take a much more critical look at how Silicon Valley is reshaping our reality. Aaron...
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Vinci targets faster chip design and simulation with physics-driven AI
Simulation is a hardware engineer’s best friend, adept at finding issues in product designs and avoiding a disastrous deployment. Yet the process of orchestrating simulations has required specialized...
Trump posts AI-edited photo to brag about White House restoration work
President Donald Trump posted a series of photos on Truth Social showing off renovations to the White House - but one of them appears to be modified with AI. The picture, which compares an old White...
Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs
Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.
Amazon devices chief Panos Panay sees a future where AI devices replace the need to use apps
Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay described a future where ambient AI devices work in the background, anticipating users' needs instead of waiting for commands.
Threat Roundup: Adobe RCE, DNS Wallet Drainer, NVIDIA Container Escape, Self-Healing WordPress Backdoor
A new round of security disclosures covers everything from unauthenticated remote code execution to a WordPress backdoor that repairs itself after removal. Qilin and Settra ransomware operators are...
Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access
METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.
Bluesky expands its AI-powered Attie app to let anyone build websites, games, and more
Bluesky is bringing “social vibe coding” to its experimental Attie platform, allowing users to create interactive experiences like games, quizzes, and websites that can tap into the social network's...
Vercel adds always-on workers to run more of your backend
Vercel is giving developers more options for running their backends on its platform. At its Ship conference in San Francisco on Thursday, the company introduced Daemons, a new service for...
Meta and Apple team up to make Muse AI models run better on Macs
The new Muse Spark Open AI model can work on M5 Ultra Mac Studios. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta announced the Muse Spark Open AI model today , claiming that it's the "most capable...
Last chance to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Founder Summit pass: Early booking ends October 16
Savings of up to $200 end October 16 for TechCrunch Founder Summit. These savings for Founder and Investor Passes vanish after Friday. Join 1,000 founders and investors on November 4 at Boston’s SoWa...
OpenAI promised developers six months’ notice. GPT-4o users got three.
OpenAI is retiring four GPT-4 models from its API on January 14, 2027. The deprecation notice the company sent developers Wednesday covers GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini, GPT-4.1, and GPT-4.1 mini, along with...
Muse Spark Open
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IBM ties intelligent operations to agent safety and business value
Intelligent operations begin with a business question: What should artificial intelligence help an enterprise accomplish? As agents take on more work, organizations need an operating model that...
Meta ships Muse Spark Open, its answer to China’s best open-weight models
Meta has launched Muse Spark Open , a new 816B open model (with 42B active parameters) that the company argues is the “most capable US open-weight model to date.” The new model is available through...
Black Forest Labs' open-weights image model FLUX 3 Image Klein runs on consumer GPUs with just 8 GB of VRAM
Black Forest Labs has released FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6-billion-parameter open-weights image model that supports native 4K generation, pixel-precise editing, and generation with up to ten reference...
Google wants Gemini 4 Argon to be the only AI model robots need
Google's Gemini 4 Argon controls robots, generates simulations from photos or sketches, and evaluates training videos. On Google's own ERQA benchmark, it scores 87 percent. But the published example...
Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents
There's a growing trend in the consumer tech world: gadgets designed to spy on everything and everyone around you , regardless of whether or not anyone else actually consented to it. Now, with the...
Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is an open model built to run enterprise AI agents nonstop
With Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, Nvidia is releasing an open multimodal model with 120 billion parameters for enterprise agents. Two compact Bolt models bring agents to local machines. Dozens of...
Nvidia squeezed a 74B agent model into 24GB so it can run on your laptop
Nvidia on Thursday announced a few new additions to its Nemotron family : Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B vision-language model for enterprise agents and two small Bolt models ( Nemotron 3.5 Bolt...