Lengthy earlier than Spotify, Winamp was the music participant of selection for tens of millions of music followers. Now, the nostalgic model is getting ready for yet one more comeback. Winamp and Deezer announced a partnership on Wednesday that may see Deezer energy Winamp’s upcoming premium music subscription service. Below the settlement, Winamp will leverage…
AI hasn’t simply modified how startups construct; it’s damaged how they promote, safe their knowledge and clients, and scale it extra quickly than ever earlier than. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is again to dig into the only hottest matter in the neighborhood for the previous few years, introduced by Google for Startups….
In June, Meta entered the enterprise AI market with a new AI agent aimed at businesses, to help with customer service, support, and other daily operations. But the tech giant’s enterprise AI ambitions are much more expansive, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors on Wednesday’s second-quarter earnings call. “We see a large enterprise opportunity to…
Microsoft is in a singular place as AI overtakes the tech trade. It’s one of many world’s largest cloud suppliers and software-as-a-service firms, whereas additionally holding priceless stakes within the two largest AI labs, OpenAI and Anthropic. These incentives are beginning to conflict as Microsoft posts blockbuster monetary outcomes. The corporate just reported an extremely…
When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing. For the quarter, it recorded its investment in Anthropic as a $3.2 billion gain, boosting diluted earnings per share…
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is trying to sell investors on his prediction for the future — one where billions of people will have their own personal AI agents in the next five years. (Let’s hope that future also comes with data centers efficient enough to power all those agents — without triggering a…
Three terms now compete for the same line in AI engineering job descriptions. Prompt engineering is the established one. Loop engineering entered the AI vocabulary in late 2025 and dominated developer discussion through June 2026. Graph engineering followed roughly six weeks later. They get used interchangeably. Should they be? The three are not competing techniques….
Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines, announced this week that she would step down from her role, citing health issues. “I don’t feel I’m able to continue at the pace a startup requires,” she wrote in an internal Slack message, which she also shared on X. “After thinking about it for several months, I ultimately…
Hugging Face on Monday published a technical timeline that walks readers through how an autonomous AI agent, built on OpenAI models and running inside one of OpenAI’s own cybersecurity evaluations, broke into its systems over more than four days earlier this month. It’s the first security incident about which OpenAI CEO Sam Altman “felt very…
I recently got to watch what happens when you jailbreak some of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence models. Don’t worry—this AI manipulation wasn’t used to hack anyone or build a nuclear bomb. I simply got to see firsthand how vulnerable some frontier models are to ditching their safety guardrails. FAR.AI, an AI safety nonprofit…
