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Discover what’s next for AI, from the SaaS reckoning to the agent security gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.

Meta Struggles With Limited Returns on Its AI Spending, Social Media Legal Woes

Meta's free cash flow dropped almost $8 billion in a year due to AI.

New from Tapbots: version 3 of their excellent clipboard manager for Mac. There are so many clipboard managers for the Mac. I run two other apps — Keyboard Maestro and LaunchBar — that offer good clipboard managers as ancillary features. But for years now I’ve chosen to use Paste…

Apple Upgrade — New Program With Klarna for Leasing iPhones, Macs, iPads, and More for Near-Zero Interest

Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced Apple Upgrade, a new product leasing program provided by Klarna for iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac, and iPad available on the Apple Store online, in the Apple Store app, and at Apple Store locations in the United States. Apple Upgrade makes it even…

Nimble claims its new, domain-specialized Web Search Agents cut token costs in half while boosting retrieval accuracy

Nimble, a New York City-based tech startup VentureBeat previously covered for its efforts to re-invent web search for enterprises by using multiple AI agents to improve accuracy and depth, is taking another step toward its vision of a world in which agents do most of the web sear…

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Bright Machines says its new hybrid robot cell could help solve a major AI infrastructure bottleneck

Bright Machines wants to solve one of the least glamorous but most consequential problems in the AI buildout: what happens to quality data when a human being has to touch the production line. The San Francisco-based manufacturer announced today the Hybrid BRC (Bright Robotic Cell…

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China reportedly moves to bar blue ADAS lights on newly certified vehicle models

China is reportedly moving to bar newly certified passenger-car models from using blue exterior lights that signal when an assisted-driving system is active. Starting with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s 410th batch of vehicle product applications, testing a…

Chinese Tech Companies Used to Benchmark Against America, but the World Model Field Has Broken That Pattern: WAIC Panel Says China Now Leads Without a US Counterpart to Follow

At WAIC 2026, Muka Robotics, Shengshu Technology, EvoPhys.ai, and Chengwei Capital discuss how Chinas world model startups now operate without US analogs, turning the conventional catch-up narrative.

Tencent WorkBuddy Monthly Active Users Exceed Alibais Entire AI Product Portfolio, Pushing DingTalk CEO to Launch Qianwen Office in Just 46 Days: The Desktop AI Office Battle Heats Up

WorkBuddy 20.97M monthly visits surpass Alibaba QoderWork 7.88M combined portfolio; DingTalk new CEO Chen Yusen launches Qianwen Office from product consolidation in 46 days as competitive response.

SUIND Bags ₹20.5 Cr To Build Autonomous Surveillance Drones

Drone tech startup SUIND has raised ₹20.5 Cr (around $2.1 Mn) in a seed funding round led by Transition VC.…

Dark Horse Muka Robotics Charges WorldArena With Only 32 Zhenwu 810E GPUs: LJM World Model Achieves Global Second Place Defining the Breakthrough From Video Quality to Physical Logic

Muka Robotics LJM Latent Joint-conditional Model achieves WorldArena global #2 at 89.17 Motion Quality with only 32 GPUs, establishing a dual-expert architecture that prioritizes physical understanding over video generation quality.

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 reaches enterprise users through Fireworks on Microsoft Foundry

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is now available through Fireworks AI on Microsoft’s Foundry platform, giving Azure customers a managed route to run the model through OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions and Responses APIs. Fireworks lists Kimi among more than 20 open models served through F…

Negotiating Your Salary Is About More Than Money

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Apple Says iOS 27 ‘Restricted Mode’ Isn’t for Users Who Miss Payments in New Apple Upgrade Program

Last week 9to5Mac reported on code in the latest iOS 27 developer beta seemingly meant to restrict leased devices after the user had missed one or more payments. When engaged, Restricted Mode limits the device to the following apps: Accessibility Reader App Store Health Magnifier…

Enterprise AI agents can't talk to each other, can't be trusted with permissions, and can't be audited — 5 startups are already fixing that

Enterprise AI agents can do the work — but the infrastructure to let them talk to each other, prove they should be trusted, and be audited when something goes wrong is still being built. Here's a look at how five startups are tackling that gap — around orchestration, observabilit…

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Why DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber Eats Integrated LLMs Into Search Three Different Ways

In this article, we will walk through their differing solutions and try to make sense of their choices and understand the pattern behind them.

Using Video Glasses As a Camera Viewfinder Is Harder Than It Looks

[John Dingley] has a Sony ZV-E10 camera that is excellent, but the design lacks a built-in electronic viewfinder. This means it relies entirely on its rear-mounted touchscreen for framing shots. …read more

A Capable KVM Built With The ESP32

[Evgenij Spitsyn] spotted a KVM build on these very pages some time ago. That inspired their own build, leveraging the versatility of the ESP32-P4 microcontroller. The concept is straightforward. Named …read more

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How NVIDIA Builds Open Models for the Age of AI

Bryan Catanzaro, VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, walked us through how his team builds the company’s open models, the reasoning behind their architecture, and why NVIDIA open-sources so much of it.

How ChatGPT Optimizes its Agent Loop: Harness, API, and Inference

To understand what techniques are adopted in frontier labs to make AI applications more efficient, we met with the OpenAI engineers who developed and shipped various efficiency techniques into the systems behind Codex and ChatGPT Work.

Scrap Pinball Parts Become Beautiful Wall Art

[Hans Scharler] came into a neat find recently—the playfield from a 1970s Atari Superman game. It’s the sort of thing that’s too nice to throw away, but isn’t really enough …read more

Use Your Head While Trimming Trees

[Attoparsec] occasionally rides a bicycle for transportation, but with the major downside of doing this in North America, a place where bicycle infrastructure is generally neglected. From snow removal, maintenance, …read more

AI's top startups are barely publishing their research

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